'Composers who are definitely credited for Nintendo Music' a list of games by PitSolitayrh | Backloggd (2024)

YUKIO KANEOKA (1981 - 1991)

Nintendo's very first composer. Although he is more of a sound engineer, but that was same thing on some poor little arcade.

He has has worked on the music for Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr. and Mario Bros. most notably. That man is alive hopefully.

HIROKAZU TANAKA. EX (1981 - 1999)

One of the key figures in chiptune music during the early VGM days, he was sadly forced to leave the company to make the... japanese Pokémon openings and become CEO at Creatures, Inc. Okk

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Highlights:

⚫ Sole composer of Duck Hunt, Balloon Fight, Wrecking Crew, Kid Icarus, Metroid, Tetris, Super Mario Land, Dr. Mario, etc.

⚫ Worked on Mother "EarthBound Beginnings":

-Battle with a Flippant Foe, Battle with a Dangerous Foe, New Age Retro Hippie, Flying Man, etc.

-Mother Earth, TWINKLE Elementary School, Humoresque of a Little Dog, Magicant, Fallin' Love And, etc.

-He also transcribed Keiichi Suzuki's music into chiptune.

⚫Worked on Mother 2 "EarthBound":

-All battle themes (Sanctuary Guardian, Battle Against a Machine, Kracken of the Sea, Pokey Means Business, Giygas, etc.).

-Opening Credits (unconfirmed), Song Played for Travelers, Smiles and Tears, Sea of Eden, etc. Mostly weird ass songs.

⚫ Worked on Mario Paint:

-Gnat Attack (unconfirmed), Main Theme (unconfirmed).

AKITO NAKATSUKA (1984 - 2012)

He made some of the early music, but stopped composing during the 90s onward.

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Highlights:

⚫ Sole composer for Clu Clu Land, Ice Climbers, Excitebike, Zelda II and NES Open Tournament Golf.

SHINOBU AMAYAKE (1990 - 1994)

She only worked for a short time.

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Highlights:

⚫ Worked on the music for the japanese release of NES Open Tournament Golf, where she may be responsible for the Japan and UK courses (unconfirmed).

⚫Sole composer for Stunt Race FX.

⚫After she left Nintendo, she worked on Pokémon Ranger 2, where she did a few tracks only.

YUMIKO KANKI

Unfamously, her last two works, Star Fox 2 and Special Tee Shot were both scrapped from their intended release.

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Highlights:

⚫First work for Family Computer Golf for both courses:

-Japan course for Japan version (Unconfirmed) and US course for US version (unconfirmed).

⚫Worked as main composer for F-Zero, in charge of all the music except Big Blue and Ending.

⚫Arranged some music for the SNES remake compilation Tetris & Dr. Mario.

⚫ Worked on Star Fox 2, composing all the level themes: Titania, Macbeth, etc (all unconfirmed).

⚫ Sole composer for Special Tee Shot.

KOJI KONDO (1984 - Present)

Koji Kondo may have made the Mario theme LOL. Ok no joke what about this behemoth? As one of Nintendo's first in-house composers, during the NES era he was juggled between Akito Nakatsuka and Hirokazu Tanaka. ex between the smaller titles. Of course that was on the side, as he was in charge of Nintendo's flagship titles. After Mario Sunshine / Majora's Mask, his contribution to soundtracks was reduced to a dozen tracks at most per title; the Mario Maker series seems to break mold, his number of tracks reach as far as 2 digits! Mario Wonder might be another.

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Highlights:

⚫20th century notable solo (except Majora's Mask) works include:

-Super Mario Bros. 1 / 2 / 3 / World / World 2 / 64

-Zelda 1 / A Link to the Past / OoT / Majora's Mask (Battle themes by Toru Minegishi, but he did the Majora battle tracks)

⚫ He laid the groundwork for Star Fox 64 with the "basic" music:

-Main Theme

-Menus and Fanfares (Versus Selection, Game Over, Staff Roll, etc.)

While uncredited, he did a similar thing in Pilotwings, composing the Helicopter theme for the main composer to base her work on. While unconfirmed, he probably did the same with Star Fox on SNES (BOSS CORNERIA, ASTEROID BELT are my guesses)

⚫Mario Sunshine onwards, his couple of compositions seem popular. Exemples include:

-Delfino Plaza, Bianco Hills, Gelato Beach, Ricco Harbor (Super Mario Sunshine)

-Overworld (New Super Mario Bros.) & Athletic (unconfirmed)

-Good Egg Galaxy, Rosalina in the Observatory (Super Mario Galaxy) rest of OST by Mahito Yokota

-Starship Mario, Yoshi Star Galaxy (Super Mario Galaxy 2)

-Chain-Link Charge, Sunshine Seaside (Super Mario 3D World)

-Title (Super Mario Maker). He also made the new Underground arrangement for SMB1 maps, he likely made Edit arrangements for the majority of styles

-Steam Gardens, Forgotten Isle, Bowser Castle (Super Mario Odyssey)

⚫For Super Mario Bros. Wonder, he likely made the Overworld/Athletic/Underground trio. There's the final boss and some Wonder Flower music though I'm not completely sure about those. He goes uncredited for music composition btw but he said he made music.

⚫He made no more than 5 music tracks for Zelda after Majora's Mask

-The Legendary Hero, Grandma (Zelda: Wind Waker)

-A Tale of Old (Zelda: Skyward Sword)

-Ending (Zelda: Spirit Tracks), he hasn't composed Zelda music since.

⚫"it's Smash P.M. time for my one contribution"

-SMB Ground Theme (Smash Brawl)

-SMB Medley (Smash 4)

-SMB3 King Bowser (Smash Ultimate)

SOYO OKA (1987 - 1995)

Nowadays she 60 yrs old and chill af check out her soundcloud 16 bit stuff https://soundcloud.com/soyooka

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Highlights:

⚫ Sole composer of Ice Hockey, VS. Excitebike, Yuyuki, SimCity SNES, Super Mario Kart and Super Mario All-Stars.

⚫Worked on Famicom Grand Prix II: Hot Rally, where she brought in to help by composing Monster Dance only.

⚫She composed all the music from Pilotwings except "Helicopter", where this time she brought Koji Kondo in to help with one track.

KENJI YAMAMOTO (1987 - Present)

Like Koji Kondo, his first work was Punch-Out, but its more popular release, the one with actual music and not short fanfares. He certainly hasn't been active in recent years either; actually he hasn't made a lot of music in general. But what he did fucked.

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Highlights:

⚫Worked on Punch-Out and made hit song "n-word stole my bike" that one early 2000s internet hit, very simple days

⚫Did all the music for Famicom Detective Club 2.

⚫Worked on Super Metroid:

-Theme of Super Metroid, Galactic Warrior, etc.

-Brinstar, Crateria & Norfair areas

⚫ Did all the music in Metroid Prime 1 & 2

⚫Made the Menu music for the GameCube system. May have also done the soft e-catalogue BGM (unconfirmed)

⚫ also worked on the music for the DS, 3DS and Wii U systems:

-Game & Watch theme for DSi (unconfirmed)

-Mii Maker music for 3DS (NOT TOTAKA!)

-AR Games soundtrack for 3DS

-Wii U Chat soundtrack

-Mii Maker music for Wii U (unconfirmed)

⚫Main composer for Donkey Kong Country Returns.

-Confirmed songs: Main Theme, Gear Getaway (David Wise confirmed the latter on Twitter ahah)

-A few other compositions unconfirmed: Mole Patrol, Bobbing Basalt, Mangoruby Rush, Mast Blast, Quiet Quarry.

-and arrangements unconfirmed: Jungle Hijinxs, Whale Waters, Slammin' Steel.

⚫He... technically made Smash Bros music, but...

-Brinstar (Smash Brawl) is the same track from Metroid Pinball on DS with vocals

-Metroid Prime Menu (Smash Brawl) adds a background guitar at certain points but it's the same track

-DK:CR Main Theme (Smash 4) is the same track with vocals

So, he hasn't made game music since Donkey Kong Country Returns seemingly. He might return for Prime 4?

RYOJI YOSHITOMI (1989 - Present)

Much more in the role of supervising sound than actually making it. He's the guy that gave Wario's its most iconic musical identity imo. His music wasn't especially complex or catchy, but they always work very well in the context of the game. You may see what I mean with a few exemples.

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Highlights:

⚫ F-1 Race on Game Boy is presumably his first work. He's listed in the canadian copyright database with Kazumi Totaka, but he might have just assisted with sounds. I think he may have made the music for the menu and races. He solo composed Game Boy Wars shortly afterwards.

⚫Sole composer of Metroid II: Return of Samus (real atmospheric for the game boy sound chip)

⚫Small contribution to Mario Paint: Data Robot? (unconfirmed)

⚫Sole composer of Wario Land 4, very wacky. He also helped with some music in the first Wario Land.

⚫Main composer for the first WarioWare

-Drifting Away A.K.A Dribble's Highway Jazz, Wario's Everything Company

-WarioWare Medley (Super Smash Bros. Brawl), he hasn't composed music since.

NAOTO ISHIDA (1990 - ????)

He has not done any music, as he is sound engineer... Ah yes, he's done Big Blue and the Ending music from F-Zero. He's now working a suit job elsewhere but he has enough material to brag until retirement.

KAZUMI TOTAKA (1990 - Present)

Quirky little character who voices Yoshi, Birdo, E. Gadd, Captain Olimar and K.K. from Animal Crossing. He also inserts a short leitmotif aptly called Totaka's Song into various games he's involved in. But that's just the tip of the iceberg

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Highlights:

⚫His first work is as the sole composer of Game Boy product "X" (i picked Mario Paint to type allat on since I didn't want to bother finding it lol)

⚫He worked on Mario Paint and made brainrot music

-Creative Exercise (unconfirmed), Monkey's Song (unconfirmed), etc.

⚫Sole composer of Mario Land 2. It tends to reutilize the same leitmotif in various ways

⚫Worked on Zelda for one nanosecond to do some of the music for Link's Awakening:

-Arranged Minako Hamano's Ballad of the Wind Fish (Instruments, Ocarina versions)

-Christine's House, Cucco House, Mr's Write's House, Richard's Villa

-Mini Boss & Turtle Rock Battle

⚫ Sole composer of Yoshi's Story. That's also some solid brainrot (which means he did the vocals for the ending theme Yoshi's Tale)

"It's So Windy!" Mountain Area theme in Yoshi Touch & Go (unconfirmed)

He also made the Main Theme in Yoshi's Woolly World, to give a framework to its main composer Tomoya Tomita.

⚫Sole composer for Virtual Boy Wario Land, Wave Race 64, Mario Artist: Polygon Studio (not much to say)

⚫Composed the K.K. music heard in Animal Crossing 1 and K.K. Disco (New Leaf), other K.K. music after the first game are composed by other composers.

Bar a dozen K.K. songs from New Leaf and City World, he does the Live version for every game, including New Horizons. He never did the "Aircheck" versions.

⚫ Some of his Animal Crossing music:

Animal Crossing N64:

-Some festival music: Meteor Shower, New Year's Wish, Harvest Festival (unconfirmed),
-Happy Birthday song :))
-Load Your Game (unconfirmed)

Wild World:

-Title
-All hourly themes.
-The Roost

City Folk:

-City Square music.

Happy Home Designer:

-All the music.

New Horizons:

-Some hourly music (7. AM, 2 PM, 5 PM, etc.)
-Harv's Island (Update 2.0)

⚫Main composer for Luigi's Mansion on GC

-Main Theme, E. Gadd's Lab, Staff Roll (unconfirmed)

⚫Helped Hajime Wakai with music on Pikmin 2

-Emergence Cave, Citadel of Spiders, Burnt Burrow, Jellyfloat Pool, etc.

-2-Player Mode

-Rest Area, this song is procedurally generated like some of the cave themes. Some of Wakai's music is also randomized

-Submerged Castle, infamous for been creepy asf brrrrr and doesn't feature randomization.

⚫ Worked on music for the DS and Wii system. I don't think he did any eShop themes but we'll never know ahah xd.

-Main Menu BGM and eShop for the DS (unconfirmed).

-Mii Channel, Wii Shop Channel, Check Mii Out Channel for the Wii. He also did the Main Menu BGM.

⚫ Made all the music for Wii Sports / Wii Sports Club. Also the two Wii Sports Resort arrangements in Smash 4 (not the Medley).

⚫Other than those two, he also arranged Animal Crossing music in Smash:

-Title from Wild World (Smash Brawl)

-The Roost (Smash Brawl) the track that made Sakurai decide that Ultimate would only have guitars smh

-Title from Happy Home Designer (Smash Ultimate)

TARO BANDO (1992 - Present)

He did all the music for Mole Mania and did every song in F-Zero X except for 4 of them. Like, he did Climb Up and Get the Last Chance and a guitar arrangement of Rainbow Road and that's cool but then he stopped making music. He's still doing sound production like SFX and supervision.

KOZUE ISHIKAWA (1993 - 2000)

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Highlights:

⚫First work on Link's Awakening:

-Various areas: Mabe Village, Shop, Telephone Booth, Mysterious Forest, Animal Village, etc.

-Koholint Island Overworld, Tal Tal Height, Rapids Ride, etc.

⚫Worked as main composer for the first Wario Land, and the sole composer of Wario Land 2 and 3.

⚫Worked on Star Fox 2, where she may have done the music outside of levels and battle themes (unconfirmed).

MINAKO HAMANO (1993 - Present)

Another composer that barely gets mentioned by the public. I think you're cooking ma'am. Her last work was 12 years ago for the Wii U system.

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Highlights:

⚫Her first work was Link's Awakening.

-Ballad of the Wind Fish

-Every dungeon theme.

-Boss Battle, Cave Ambience, Sword Search, etc.

⚫She probably made the creepy Game Boy Camera music

⚫Co-composed Super Metroid:

-Every battle music (Ridley included)

-Maridia, Wrecked Ship, Staff Roll, etc.

and Metroid Fusion:

-Music for all sectors

-Some unconfirmed battle themes: Nightmare, Serris, Mother Plant, etc.

-Sector 1 arrangement in Smash Brawl

⚫Sole composer of Pokémon Puzzle Challenge. Yes it is worth mentioning it fucks. Also Brain Age 2.

⚫Worked on both Donkey Kong Country Returns and Tropical Freeze:

-DKCR: Feather Fiend (unconfirmed), Palm Tree Groove (unconfirmed)

-DKTF: K-Stage Results (unconfirmed), Secret Seclusion (unconfirmed), Triple Trouble (unconfirmed)

as you can see we dont know shit

⚫Made all the Miiverse music for the 3DS and Wii U systems.

⚫Brought into two project for framework songs:

-Mario Kart Super Circuit for Intelligent Systems sound team: Shy Guy Beach (unconfirmed), Bowser's Castle, Rainbow Road (unconfirmed), etc.

-Wario Land Shake It for Tomoya Tomita of Good-Feel: Main Menu, Stonecarving City.

YUICHI OZAKI (1994 - Present)

While mostly in charge of SFX, he occasionally made real ass music.

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Highlights:

⚫He designed the sound for the Satellaview add-on. Idk if they had new music but that's important.

⚫He was the sole composer of Marvelous: Another Treasure Island, the first game Eiji Aonuma worked on.

⚫Brought in Link's Awakening DX to make the music for Color Dungeon.

⚫Made some music in ports, like Super Mario Bros. Deluxe.

⚫Worked on Kirby: Tilt 'N' Tumble. May have mostly done arrangements of past music and some of the basic music like the World Map (unconfirmed)

He hasn't made music after kilt & fumble

MASARU TAJIMA (1995 - Present)

Mostly brought in as sole composer for a few small games.

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Highlights:

⚫ Sole composer of titles including Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone, Dr. Luigi (gyatt), Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition (2024 game so this man is still alive)

⚫Worked on WarioWare: Touched, where he also does voice acting. He made Ashley's Song and Mike's Song. Maybe as a framework for Intelligent Systems composers? Did he voice act japanese Mike? I don't know.

⚫Made some of the music in Prime 3 and Style Savvy: Fashion Forward. I'll have to look into it.....

⚫Might have done the music for the now discontinued Dr. Mario World.

⚫Worked on Donkey Kong Country Returns.

-The Mole Train (unconfirmed), Muncher Marathon (unconfirmed).

MASAMI YONE (1996 - Present)

This guy started as a composer but ended up as audio director, voice actor and game designer of Rhythm Heaven. He's the game director of Megamix, where he did not make music.

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Highlights:

⚫ Worked on Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. No confirmed tracks. Seems he worked on extra original music only, except for the Credits Roll that famously arranges Starman to be a minute long. It does sound Rhythm Heaven-esque even though I don't know the music from that series well

⚫ Worked on Kirby Tilt 'N' Tumble, it seems he made most of the original music including Stage themes (unconfirmed).

⚫ Sole composer (arranger) for Super Mario Advance... just the first one, they said fuck it afterwards

⚫ Made around half of the music in Rhythm Tengoku, and Rhythm Heaven as well. Other half by an idol producer.

-Rap Machine, Bunny Hop, Samurai Slice (Rhythm Tengoku)

-Remix 1, Remix 6 to Remix 10, Blue Birds (Rhythm Heaven)

⚫ He made SFX for Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition after 13 years of no music. It's not really music but, well it's worth noting I thunk

KENTA NAGATA (1996 - Present)

He's someone who doesn't really have a strong style imo but he always brings quality to the table. At the age of 25 he made MK64 Rainbow Road and that is feel like mario rn!

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Highlights:

⚫ Worked as the sole composer for Mario Kart 64 and 1080° Snowboarding.

He returned in Double Dash to provide a few songs to his soon-to-be wife Shinobu Nagata: Rainbow Road, Bowser's Castle (unconfirmed), Wario Colosseum (unconfirmed) and the Staff Roll. Probably brought in due to an approaching deadline.

⚫ He properly returned for Mario Kart 7, incorporating the idea of frontrunning beats as well as a few songs:

-All menus and fanfares (unconfirmed), title music.

-Some courses: Toad Circuit (unconfirmed), Neo Bowser City, Rock Rock Mountain (unconfirmed), Rainbow Road (unconfirmed), Wuhu Loop (unconfirmed) (yeah MK7 doesnt have a good crediting record)

⚫ He returned as sound director of Mario Kart 8, choosing a big band approach. He only made some of the arrangements: Wii Wario's Gold Mine, 3DS Neo Bowser City, Big Blue, GCN Baby Park, GBA Ribbon Road. It's unknown what he made for the Booster Course Pass.

Mario Kart Tour reuses some of his music from MK7 for its menus. He's the only person known to have worked on the game. Some courses that sound like his are Tokyo Blur, London Loop, Los Angeles Laps, Berlin Byways and Ninja Hideaway, all unconfirmed.

⚫ Made the credits tracks for Pokémon Stadium. He was also involved in the predecessor Pocket Monsters Stadium, he may have done the Mini Game song (unconfirmed)

He was the sole composer of Pokémon Box: Ruby & Sapphire later on.

⚫ Worked on Animal Crossing N64:

-Title music

-All hourly themes

-Credited as "Field BGM". Likely made songs like Animal Island and Rainy Day (unconfirmed)

⚫ Main composer of Zelda: Wind Waker:

-All "settlements" (Outset Island, Windfall Island, Forest Heaven)

-Title, Pirates theme, The Great Sea, Dragon Roost Island, etc.

-He also did the demo music that ended up the Main Menu theme for non-japanese copies of Zelda: Collector's Edition. He did do the japanese menu theme btw

He also worked on Phantom Hourglass some time after. His "Zelda" style is similar to Minegishi who co-composed with him, he certainly made the new Great Sea (unconfirmed), possibly, Mercay Island (unconfirmed), Oshus Theme (unconfirmed)

⚫ After a bit experience on mainline Mario games with providing the music for Super Mario 64 DS minigames, he worked on New Super Mario Bros. Wii.

-New overworld, Volcano Overworld, World 1

-Tower, Castle Boss Battle, etc.

He was also the sole composer of New Super Mario Bros. 2. Data files from the Super Mario Run website also reveals he made the Remix 10 related music, but it's unlikely he made the rest of the soundtrack.

⚫ Worked on the GC and Wii system, though we can only confirm the music for the Nintendo Channel.

He was part of Wii Music, and he probably made the Mii Maestro variations (unconfirmed) and music for CD Jacket (confirmed)

⚫ He is seemingly main composer of Pikmin 4. Pop off! idk that soundtrack tbh

HAJIME WAKAI (1996 - Present)

Highly recognizable even through the midiest of orchestras that someone sounds just like his real orchestral work (compliment), even his techno work sounds like his orchestra, wtf!

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Highlights:

⚫ His first work was Star Fox 64, where he made the music for every levels and then some. Also made the music for bosses (Andross, Star Wolf, etc.)

⚫ He provided some tracks for F-Zero X and never used a guitar again

The list of songs is: All Need is 30 Deaths, Course Edit (unconfirmed), Create Machine (unconfirmed) and Staff Roll.

⚫ Made the music for the Pika Cup (confirmed) and Poké Cup (unconfirmed) of Pokémon Stadium 1.

He returns in Pokémon Stadium 2 as the sole composer.

⚫ Sole composer for Pikmin 1.

He return to work for Pikmin 2:

-All menus, cutscenes, fanfares

-Level music: Awakening Wood, Hole of Beasts, Perplexing Pool, etc.

-Boss Battle, Final Boss Battle.

He did not compose music for 3 and 4.

⚫ Worked on Wind Waker:

-Most of the battle themes (Normal Battle, Maritime Battle, Mini-Boss, Gohma, Jalhalla, Gohdan, Molgera, Helmaroc King, all Puppet Ganon phases)

-Earth & Wind Temples (unconfirmed)

-Some cutscenes, including Boss Clear Fanfare.

⚫ Worked on Skyward Sword:

-Some dungeons: Sky Keep, Earth Temple, etc.

-Normal Battle, Scaldera Battle, Levias Battle, the Imprisoned, etc.

-Bazaar, Lake Floria, Eldin Volcano, etc.

⚫ Worked on Breath of the Wild;

-Some cutscene music

-Hinox Battle & Molduga Battle

-Wetlands, Kakariko Village, Sand-Seal Rally, Akkala & Hateno Tech Labs, etc.

⚫ Worked on Tears of the Kingdom:

-Frox Battle, Hateno School, new Hateno Ancient Tech Lab, etc. Did not make the Colgera music.

⚫ While Clubhouse Games has no credits, I think he's one of the likeliest candidate I know of to have made that soundtrack. I sent machine translated emails that yielded me no answers to someone that may have known information about it

⚫ ... Anways he's also the sole composer of Nintendogs and Star Fox Command on the DS. He also did the minigame themes from New Super Mario Bros.

⚫ Worked on Wii Music, presumably as the main composer for music during Jam Mode (unconfirmed). We only know he did the tutorial music.

⚫ He participated in Super Smash Bros.

-Area 6 / Area 6 Ver. 2 (Smash Brawl)

-Tour from New Leaf (Smash 4)

TORU MINEGISHI (1998 - Present)

Employeed a bit after the wave of new blood for the N64 era in 1996. While he wanted to be Kondo's protegee and started of as such, he went on to have his own style, shaping the Splatoon series to be the most modern of Nintendo sounds as of now. I guess he also voices Petey Piranha? It's funny how many composers voice the recurring Mario characters that don't speak.

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Highlights:

⚫ First work is for Pocket Monsters' Stadium, to a small degree. For the fully realized Pokémon Stadium, he also... didn't do much, as far I can know.

⚫ Worked on Majora's Mask, composing three pieces of battle music: Battle, Mid-Boss Battle, Boss Battle.

⚫ Worked on Wind Waker:

-Big Octo Battle (unconfirmed), Ganon Battle.

-Hero of Wind, Sage Laruto / Sage Fado, etc.

⚫ Worked on Twilight Princess, likely most of the soundtrack:

-Ordon Village, Malo Mart, Hidden Village, Ganondorf Showdown, etc.

⚫ Worked on both Phantom Hourglass & Spirit Tracks:

-Linebeck's Theme, House (unconfirmed), Boss Battle (Unconfirmed), Bellum Battle (unconfirmed) etc. for Phantom Hourglass.

-Opening, Aboda Village, Full Steam Ahead, Tower of Spirits for Spirit Tracks.

⚫ Arranged the K.K. songs into Aircheck versions for Animal Crossing on N64.

He is also credited for "Indoor BGM" on staff roll, it's likely he made songs such as Nook's place, Museum, Post Office etc. (all unconfirmed)

⚫ Worked as the main composer of Wii Fit:

-Plaza, Activity Selection (unconfirmed), Hula Hoop, Advanced Step, Credits, etc.

⚫ Worked on Wii Music:

-Might have done the "Handbells" variations (unconfirmed)

-Title (unconfirmed), Menu

⚫ Out of nowhere, he worked on Super Mario 3D World and did bangers:

-Fuzzy Time Mine, Hisstocrat, Sprawling Savannah, Beep Block Skyway, Piranha Creeper Creek, WORLD BOWSER!!..., etc.

⚫ Actually he's back in Mario Maker 2 to do.. Endless Challenge and Yamamura Dojo tracks? (unconfirmed)

⚫ Worked as main composer of Splatoon:

-Squid Squad tracks (Splattack, Ink or Sink, Seaskape, etc.). He rearranged Splattack and Now Or Never in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (unconfirmed).

-Turquoise October tracks (Cephaloparade, Tentacular Circus, etc.)

-Hightide Era tracks (Hooked, Sucker Punch)

-Dubble Bath, Octo Valley, I Am Octavio, etc.

⚫ Worked as main composer of Splatoon 2:

-Wet Floor tracks (Inkoming, Rip Entry, Don't Slip, etc.)

-Off the Hook tracks (Acid Hues, Ebb & Flow, Color Pulse, etc.)

-Turquoise October tracks (The Girl from Inkopolis, Shooting Starfish, etc.)

-Diss-Pair tracks (Seasick, Kinetosis)

-Into the Light, #1 progress, Fly Octo Fly, etc. for Octo Expansion

⚫ Worked on Splatoon 3:

-Octoplush tracks (Underwater Neon, Flop to It, Ride or Fry, etc.)

-Front Roe tracks (Sea Me Now, Sandy Side Up)

-Crater Eighters Routine, I'm Octavio F34RME Remix, Gilded Cage, etc.

⚫ Worked on the Smash Bros. series:

-Title for Big Brain Academy (Smash Brawl)

-Smiles & Tears (Smash 4)

⚫ Made the boot-up jingle for the GameCube. He also worked on Wii U music, composing the Wii U Home Menu.

MITSUHIRO HIKINO (1998 - 2018)

While he wasn't in charge of composition, he made the Professor Oak's Laboratory track in Pocket Monsters Stadium. He also composed for Petit Cup (confirmed) and Prime Cup (unconfirmed) for Pokémon Stadium.

SHINOBU NAGATA (2000 - Present)

Presumably Kenta Nagata's wife... but also very good at this composing thing. But it turns out she's inconsistent in when she'll do something. Well, at least she's still semi-active.

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Highlights:

⚫Her first work is the first Animal Crossing. She's in charge of "Event BGM". That tracks with her known work: Aerobic Exercises, Toy Day, Bees theme, Mr. Resetti, etc.

⚫Worked on Luigi's Mansion, taking care of music for bosses like Bogmire (unconfirmed) and Chauncey (unconfirmed). May have also done King Boo's theme (unconfirmed) none of that is confirmed as you can see!

⚫Worked on Super Mario Sunshine, marking Koji Kondo's lesser involvement in composing.

She handled a large portion of the music, Pinna Park, Hotel Delfino, Gooper Blooper, Corona Mountain, etc.

⚫She also handled most of Mario Kart: Double Dash. She kept a similar style in DS where she did all the soundtrack.

-Luigi Circuit (unconfirmed), Peach Beach, Mushroom Bridge (unconfirmed), Baby Park (unconfirmed), etc.

⚫Worked on Wii Play:

-Title, Table Tennis (unconfirmed), Fishing, etc.

⚫She returned for Animal Crossing: New Leaf and New Horizons to do music for updates:

-Provided music for the Welcome Amiibo update for New Leaf.

-The Roost, Group Stretching, Katrina's Fortune-Telling, etc. (New Horizons)

-Composed some K.K. songs: Chillwave, K.K. Hop (Mario Kart DS.), K.K. Bashment, etc.

⚫Worked on music for the DS, 3DS and Wii U systems:

-DSi Camera + Slideshows (unconfirmed) I love how Whistle is just a Mario Kart DS song

-3DS eShop music, like for options and wishlist and stuff, alongside the first June 2011 eShop theme (unconfirmed)

-For the Wii U, likely handled eShop related music alongside the November 2012 and September 2013 themes (unconfirmed)

AKIRA FUJIWARA (2002 - 2006)

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Highlights:

⚫In his short time, Mr. Akira Fujiwara was the sole composer of Super Princess Peach and Master Of Illusion.

⚫His first work was Metroid Fusion:

-Navigation Room (unconfirmed), SA-X Chase (unconfirmed).

-He likely handled some of the battle music: Arachnus, B.O.X., Cyclops, Fake Chozo Statue, SA-X (all unconfirmed).

MAHITO YOKOTA (2003 - Present)

Excellent orchestrator, responsible for the magical Mario Galaxy series, but also voices Cap'n Cuttlefish in Splatoon. He's stopped being credited for music since Captain Toad, that little mushroom gremlin is still being investigated for a possible crime commited idk

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Highlights:

⚫His first work is for Donkey Kong: Jungle beat, as the sole composer. He joined Nintendo begging to do music which he wasn't doing much of at Koei Tecmo but they let him cook the whole soundtrack

⚫Worked on Super Mario Galaxy as its primary composer, switching between his usual midi composition style (Course Select, Space Athletic, etc) and grandiose orchestra (Gusty Garden, Battlerock Galaxy), which he arranged himself. Some tracks like Space Junk and Final Battle with Bowser combine both midi and orchestra. He also did orchestral arrangement for the two tracks from Koji Kondo, so he produced all the music.

Following with Galaxy 2, he made around 80% of the music this time. His tracks include Sky Station, Spin-Dig, Bowser's Galaxy Generator, Starshine Beach, etc.

⚫ Continued working on mainline Mario until the Switch era where he had stopped composing music:

-Beach, Boom Boom, Bowser's Lava Lake Keep, etc. (Super Mario 3D Land)

-Cutscene music (New Super Mario Bros. U)

Super Mario 3D World was his last time leading a soundtrack. He did more than 50% of the music, including Super Bell Hill, Double Cherry Pass, Shifty Boo Mansion, Motley Bossblob, Simmering Lava Lake, The Great Tower Showdown, etc.

⚫ For Captain Toad, he composed the Main Theme as a framework for Naoto Kubo (confirmed). He also arranged some music from 3D Land and 3D World (unconfirmed).

⚫Worked on Wii Music, but not much.

Intro and Handbell Harmony are his confirmed works, I don't think any unconfirmed song is his.

⚫After providing music for the 2nd trailer of Twilight Princess and a new Credits song for Ocarina of Time 3D, he got to work on a single game, Skyward Sword. Though he didn't do a lot.

-Cutscene music + 7 minutes long orchestra Staff Roll

-Battle songs for Koloktos and Bilocyte, Sandship BGM, File Selection BGM, etc.

⚫ He worked on Smash 4, arranging the Star Wolf theme beautifully. He was the recording manager for Ultimate's main theme Lifelight, but did not contribute music.

⚫ I could end there, but side note: while Super Mario Run has no credits, the Underground arrangement sounds like his work. Hm. Who knows.

ASUKA HAYAZAKI (2003 - Present)

That's the goat. She's known for her zany style, mixing chiptune, unique use of percussions

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Highlights:

⚫ Her first work is for Four Swords Adventure. A test of sorts I suppose. She mostly emulated past Zeldas' style with her own touch: Village of the Blue Maiden, The Field, Staff Roll, etc.

⚫Worked as main composer for Yoshi Touch & Go. That's where her style starts to show itself: Flower Field, Big Evening Walks (unconfirmed), Rankings (unconfirmed)

⚫Worked for Twilight Princess to assist with cutscenes and mini games tracks: Fish On (unconfirmed), Goat Herding (unconfirmed), Snow-Sliding (unconfirmed). May have crazified Zant Battle (unconfirmed too)

She returned in Spirit Tracks to handle the battle mode music.

⚫Not that important, but she remastered some of the music in Wind Waker HD.

⚫Worked as main composer of New Super Mario Bros., likely doing all the music outside of the Overworld and Athletic themes. The title and mega mushroom tracks are confirmed at the very least.

⚫Worked in Super Mario 3D Land to a lesser degree. She did Snowball Park & Rainbow Park, the Pom-Pom fight music, the final battle. Other than those confirmed works, a few cutscene tracks, the first three world maps (unconfirmed), etc.

⚫Worked as the main composer of Mario Kart Wii, doing half the courses and music for the different menus.

-Circuit, Coconut Mall, DK Summit, Wario's Gold Mine, Daisy Circuit, Koopa Cape, Grumble Volcano and Rainbow Road.

-Title, Main Menu, Staff Credits A, etc.

She is also credited in Mario Kart 8's booster course pass. Sky-High Sundae sounds like one of her creations (unconfirmed). Maybe remixed one of her own music from Mario Kart Wii.

⚫Sole composer for Wii Fit Plus and Nintendogs + Cats.

She also worked on Ring Fit Adventure, doing a small amount of music: Smoothie (unconfirmed), Minigame 1 (unconfirmed), Treasure Pass 2 (unconfirmed), etc.

⚫Worked as main composer for Pikmin 3, new sound direction after Wakai's work in previous games. She did the music for all the levels, mini-boss (unconfirmed) & boss music, and the music for Mission Mode (unconfirmed).

Idk if Pikmin 4 has the same sound direction as 3? If it does she probably made the music for levels again.

⚫Worked on Super Mario Maker, may have done Gnat Attack arrangements (unconfirmed).

⚫She makes the music for Splatoon's fictional group SashiMori:

-Chopscrewey, Entropical (Splatoon 2)

-Amalgamania, Seasource (Splatoon 3)

⚫Worked on the Smash series:

-Flower Field from Touch & Go (Smash Brawl)

-Onett / Winters (Smash 4)

⚫I don't think she worked on the music for any Nintendo system, but it's possible she did the September 2015 eShop theme (unconfirmed)

TOSHIYUKI SUDO (2004 - Present)

One of my favorites at the big N's, but he didn't handle many of the big franchies until recently. Once I started to understand his style, I started to recognize his songs instantly.

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Highlights:

⚫Worked on Wii Play: Motion. He handled the title, main menu music among others (unconfirmed), and made the music for Jump Park (unconfirmed).

⚫He also certainly made the map music in Style Savvy: Trendsetters (unconfirmed).

⚫Sole composer for NES Remix and NES Remix 2. Thank the canadian copyright database for this piece of info egads

⚫Worked on Miitopia:

-Most of the "Map:" and "Stage:" themes (unconfirmed)

-Battle: The Sky Scraper (unconfirmed), Boss Battle II (unconfirmed)

-All music for outings on the Switch version.

-Questionnaire, Catalogue Orders, Quiz: Congratulations, etc. (all unconfirmed)

⚫Worked as main composer of Splatoon 3:

-Deep Cut songs (Anarchy Rainbow, Till Depth Do Us Part, Smeared Canvas, etc.)

-Alterna Citizen Program tracks.

-Nine out of Tension, Calamari Inkantation 3Mix, Slick Moves, etc.

⚫He also worked on the Smash series:

-Ice Climbers song (Smash Brawl) wtf are the vocals saying

-Cooking Navi song (Smash Brawl) he was also the sole composer of the game this song comes from.

-Boss 1: Sakura Samurai (Smash 4)

⚫He worked on the Wii system, where he did music for the Everybody Votes Channel (unconfirmed) imagine you could be voting rn with his music anyways also Food Delivery Channel (unconfirmed) and Today&Tomorrow Channel (unconfirmed).

He worked on music for two StreetPass titles:

-Garden Grace, Flower Power, Shopping Mall [Flower Town]

-Fishing Log, Let's Catch Some Fish, Cosmic Tank [Ultimate Angler]

He might have also done some eShop themes:

-January 2014
-July 2014
-June 2015
-December 2015
-May 2019

⚫He made the music for the Nintendo Labo thingie.

MEGUMI INOUE (2005 - Present)

She has style, she has grace. She hasn't really done anything standout, keeping it cosy. She has started sound supervision work since the Switch era and hasn't composed since.

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Highlights:

⚫She has made some music for StreetPass apps:

-Watering Time, Plot, Poppy's Seeds, etc (all unconfirmed) for Flower Town.

-Yunali Reef, Sylvana Rivver, Emberwood River, etc (all unconfirmed) for Ultimate Angler.

⚫Worked on Rhythm Heaven Megamix, but I don't know what she did there.

⚫Worked on Miitopia:

-Character themes: Dark Lord, Divine, King, Princess, etc (all unconfirmed).

-Choose a Mii, Bon Appétit, Greenhorne Castle, Stage: Midland Marsh, etc (all unconfirmed).

DAISUKE SHIIBA (2005 - 2013)

I won't lie, he's one of my favorites. But he has not done nearly enough. Most have probably not heard his music unless they actually used the Wii channels. Nowadays, he's managed to make regular battle music for the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters.

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Highlights:

⚫ Worked as main composer for Tomodachi Collection:

-Friend Registration, Mii Apartments, Island theme, Clothing Store, Interior Shop, JPOP, Kyoto Travel, Staff Credits, etc (all confirmed).

-Food Shop, Idol Tokimeki Days, travel music (Okinawa, Hong Kong, Hawaii, Spain), etc (all unconfirmed).

⚫ Sole composed for Excitebike: World Rally.

⚫ Worked as main composer for Kiki Trick.

⚫Some music for Style Savvy Trendsetters:

-Fashion Plaza, Hair Salon, Make-Up Shopping, Style Trial, etc (all unconfirmed).

⚫ Composed music for the Wii, 3DS and Wii U systems:

-Photo Channel, Weather Forecast Channel, News Channel, Wii Speak Channel, Digicam Print Channel, TV Channel (all unconfirmed).

-Most music for the 3DS system, plus camera (unconfirmed), Swapnote & Swapdoodle, 3D Classics (unconfirmed), custom themes (unconfirmed), Flipnote (unconfirmed), etc.

-Some of the system music for Wii U: System Settings, Daily Log, Parental Controls, etc (all unconfirmed).

RYO NAGAMATSU (2006 - 2023)

the 9/11 of nintendo sound team. Have mercy on us. On the flipside maybe he'll be hired to do Fire Emblem music or something.

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Highlights:

⚫ Worked on Wii Play as main composer:

-Find Mii (confirmed), Charge (unconfirmed), Pose Mii (unconfirmed), Laser Hockey (unconfirmed), Billiards (unconfirmed), Tanks (unconfirmed).

⚫ Sole composer for Big Brain Academy Wii Degree, Wii Sports Resort, Nintendo Land.

⚫ Worked on Mario Kart Wii:

-Some courses: Moo Moo Meadows, Mushroom Gorge, Toad's Factory, Maple Treeway, Dry Dry Ruins, Moonview Highway, Bowser's Castle.

-All battle mode courses including arrangements (unconfirmed).

⚫ Worked on Mario Kart 8

-Only Mount Wario and Mute City for new courses, Staff Credits music.

-Arrangement for retro tracks: DS Tick-Tock Clock, N64 Rainbow Road, 3DS Piranha Plant Slide, etc.

Might have also worked on Mario Kart Tour, I think Sydney Sprint, Athens Dash and Madrid Drive are his tracks.

He was also the sole composer for Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit.

⚫ Worked on New Super Mario Bros. Wii:

-Bowser Boss Battle, Jungle Overworld, Title Screen, Staff Roll, etc.

⚫ Worked on Super Mario Galaxy 2:

-Final Boss music, Digga-Leg, etc.

-Some galaxies: Puzzle Plank, Melty Monster, Fleet Glide, Slimy Spring.

⚫ Sole composer of some Zelda titles on handheld:

-A Link Between Worlds
-Tri Force Heroes
-Link's Awakening on Switch

⚫Worked on Splatoon 2:

-Salmon Run music (Happy Little Workers, Deluge Dirge, Frantic Aspic, etc).

-New You, Octarmaments, Spicy Calamari Inkantation, etc.

-Bottom Feeders tracks (Shipwreckin', Fins & Fiddles, Seafoam Shanty).

-Ink Theory tracks (Broken Coral, Riptide Rupture).

He also worked as main composer for the Octo Expansion: Nasty Majesty, Shark Bytes, #5 thirsty, etc.

⚫Worked on Splatoon 3:

-Salmon Run music (Toxic Anoxic, Frothy Waters, etc).

-C-Side tracks (Clickbait, Paintscraper, Triple Dip, etc).

-Damp Socks tracks (Candy Coated Rocks, Tentacle to the Metal)

-#35 caught, Belly Flop, In Filtration, etc.

⚫Worked on the Smash series:

-Ballad of the Goddess (Smash 4)
-Smash 64 credits (Smash 4)
-BOTW Trailer (Smash Ultimate)
-Find Mii Medley (Smash Ultimate)

ASUKA ITO (2006 - 2014)

She studied music in Paris, made music for Japanese video games and now scores for American movies. Lot of great Mii-core music.

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Highlights:

⚫Worked on Tomodachi Collection:

-City Hall (unconfirmed), Mii News (unconfirmed), Separation of Lovers, Majority Rule Hall (unconfirmed), Save Screen (unconfirmed), etc.

-Some travel music: Thailand, Italy, France (all unconfirmed)

-Ranking System, all ranking tracks (all unconfirmed).

⚫ Sole composer for Pilotwings Resort, arranged two tracks for that game for Super Smash Bros. 4.

⚫Main composer for Style Savvy: Trendsetters. Around 90% of the music (one confirmed song: Fashion Contest Menu)

⚫Worked as main composer for Tomodachi Life, around 75% of the music:

- Techno, Musical, Ballad songs for concert hall.

-Mii Editor, Mii Apartments, Afternoon on the Island, all shops, all rankings, all mii moods music, most vacations (all unconfirmed).

⚫Worked on some of the music for the Wii U system, maybe the music for data transfer (unconfirmed).

May have also done the eShop theme for April 2014.

MANAKA KATAOKA (2006 - Present)

Minimalist music lady. The Game Awards do not want to say her name.

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Highlights:

⚫First work is for Wii Fit, like Shiho Fujii. She does the music for the Penguin Slide minigame. She may have also done Yoga and Table Tilt (unconfirmed).

⚫Made some K.K. songs for City Folk: K.K. Sonata, Hypno K.K.

Also worked on the music for City Folk and New Leaf. She might have done the hourly themes in New Leaf (unconfirmed)

⚫Worked on Spirit Tracks:

-Castle Town, Mini-Boss, In the Fields, etc (all confirmed).
-Papuchia Village, Lost Woods, Facing the Demon Train, all temple themes, etc (all unconfirmed).

⚫Worked as main composer for Breath of the Wild:

-Main Theme, the melody was provided by Koji Kondo.

-Battle themes: Field, Shrine, Guardian, Kohga & Monk Maz Koshia, Talus, Dark Beast Ganon.

-All the open world music (not points of interests like villages), music for riding horses, Lost Woods, Sheikah Tower, Yiga Clan Hideout, etc..

-Some mini-game music: Snowball Bowling, Test of Will, Horseback Archery.

⚫Worked for Tears of the Kingdom:

-Main Theme, the melody was provided again by Koji Kondo.

-Battle music in field & depths, new Kohga music.

-Open world music for field, lava areas, high sky + diving, hyrule castle surface, etc.

⚫Made two tracks for Super Smash Bros. Wii U: 7 PM and Champion Cynthia.

SHIGETOSHI GOHARA (2007 - Present)

While he made the sound effects for games such as Mario Galaxy and Mario Odyssey, he also arranged the Throwback Fortress Galaxy tune for Super Mario Galaxy 2. He also made some composition for ambience in Super Mario Odyssey, like the tune before fighting the Broodals, and the music in Tostarena and Shiveria before you fix them up.

SHINJI USHIRODA (2008 - Present)

He has not been credited since 2019, so he may have left. Former Konami composer for mainly rhythm games.

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Highlights:

⚫Worked on Donkey Kong Country Returns:

-Savory Stu, Furious Fire, etc (all unconfirmed).

⚫Worked on Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze:

-Fugu Face-Off, Mountaintop Tussle possibly (unconfirmed).

⚫Worked on Miitopia:

-Possible battle music: Neksdor, Karkaton, Powdered Peaks, Boss Battle III, Darkest Lord Final Form, Evil Sage (all unconfirmed).

-Browsing the Journal, Fab Fairies Dance, Genie & Desert Prince themes, etc (all unconfirmed).

⚫Worked on Ring Fit Adventure:

-VS. Dragaux, VS. Dark Dragaux, VS. Four Masters, Battle, Boss Battle (all unconfirmed).

-Levels: Nation of Sporda, Dojo/Temple, Battle Gym (all unconfirmed).

-Battle Gym, General Store, Ring Change, etc (all unconfirmed).

⚫Provided the Vampire Killer arrangement for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

SHIHO FUJII (2007 - Present)

More lowkey composer, but consistently improving the soundtracks she participates in. She typically does midi music on home consoles, with exceptions like Skyward Sword and Mario Kart 8.

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Highlights:

⚫Her first work is on Wii Fit, brought in to provide a few songs.

-Balance Bubble (unconfirmed), Results Training (unconfirmed), etc.

⚫She made some K.K. songs for City Folk, namely K.K. House and K.K. Stroll.

⚫Worked for New Super Mario Bros. Wii as her first major work:

-Desert, Beach, Underwater, Ghost House and Castle levels, etc.

-World 5, 7 and 8.

-Boss Battle Tower & Boss Battle Airship.

She returned as main composer for New Super Mario Bros. U, in charge of around 90% of the music. She made a new credit song for the Switch port. She may also have done most of the music in Super Mario Run due to its similarities and songs lifted from U.

⚫Worked on Super Mario Odyssey, mixing her traditional music using sound libraries with orchestral recording.

-Some evels: Bonneton, Lake Lamode, Peronza Plaza, Shiveria Town, etc.

-Bonus areas & minigames: Another World Stage, Top-Hat Tower, Koopa Trace-Walking, RC Car Challenge, etc.

-Ruined Dragon Battle, Nimbus Arena Showdown, etc.

⚫Worked on Super Mario Bros. Wonder, mainly doing music for levels:

-Levels: Forest, Beach, Snow, Lava, Oriental Lake, etc (all unconfirmed).

-Some musicals: Piranha Plants on Parade, Spikey Dance Number, Pumpkin Party, etc (all unconfirmed).

-Wonder Effects: Strange & Funny (all unconfirmed).

-Wiggler Race, Special World, World 2, etc.

⚫Worked on Skyward Sword, mixing her traditional music using sound libraries with orchestral recording.

-Skyloft, Sealed Temple, Lanayru Desert, Flooded Woods, etc.

-Ghirahim's theme + his battle tracks.

-the Silent Realms (except Din's).

⚫Worked on Mario Kart 8, composing most of the courses for the base game:

-Water Park, Sweet Sweet Canyon, Mario Circuit, Toad Harbor, Twisted Mansion, Shy Guy Falls, Electrodrome, Bone-Dry Dunes, Rainbow Road and Excitebike Arena.

-Curiously, she didn't return for the booster course pass.

⚫Possibly worked on Mario Kart Tour. I think Vancouver Velocity, Singapore Speedway, Amsterdam Drift, Piranha Plant Cove and Yoshi's Island are her tracks (unconfirmed).

⚫Worked on Splatoon and its sequels:

-Squid Sisters songs in 1 (Calamari Inkantation, Ink Me Up, City of Color, etc.)

-Staff Roll in all three games (expansions not counted).

-Chirpy Chips tracks (Shellfie, Split and Splat in Splatoon 1; Blitz It, Wave Prism in Splatoon 2; No Quarters, Slopping Spree in Splatoon 3)

-H2Whoa tracks (unconfirmed)

-Octoling Rendezvous, Bomb Rush Blush & Tide Goes Out, etc. (Splatoon 1)

⚫Worked on Ring Fit Adventure:

-World Map, Fitness Gym, Squattery Wheel minigame, Static Stretches, etc (all unconfirmed).

YUYA TAKEZAWA (2008 - Present)

Sound engineer. He made the music and sfx for Flipnote. I can't do the frog's noise justice through text. He voices the Lumas.

DAISUKE MATSUOKA (2008 - Present)

Used inconsistenly, mainly active during the 3DS era.

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Highlights:

⚫First work for Donkey Kong Country Returns:

-Likely handled the Map music and its variations (unconfirmed).

-Blowhole Bound (unconfirmed), Banana Temple (unconfirmed), etc.

⚫Returned for Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze:

-Big Top Bop, Punch Bowl, Volcano Dome, etc (all unconfirmed).

⚫He was also a composer in Wii Play Motion, where he made music for one of the games. Teeter Targets is probably that game (unconfirmed).

⚫Worked as main composer for StreetPass, handling Find Mii / Find Mii II, Puzzle Swap and Nintendo Badge Arcade music. He later arranged two Find Mii tracks for Super Smash Bros. 3DS.

He may also have done eShop music for December 2013, January 2016 and May 2016 (unconfirmed).

⚫Worked for Tomodachi Life:

-Some cutscenes: Date, Wedding, Traveler's Story, Kid-o-Matic Experience, etc (all unconfirmed).

-Music for Tomodachi Quest (unconfirmed).

-Enka Song, docks music, news flash music, Vacation in Germany & Italy & Space, etc (all unconfirmed).

⚫Either uncredited for Miitomo, or Maasa Miyoshi completely copied this man's swag. Well, she may have

⚫Sole composer for Metroid: Samus Returns (a remake) and Bowser's Fury (a Switch port).

YUKI TSUJI (2008 - Present)

He made some music, but his main claim to fame is designing the SFX for Splatoon including a healthy dose of woomy!

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Highlights:

⚫He made music box versions of Jump Up Super Star and Fossil Falls in Mario Odyssey. Thanks for reading

TAKESHI HAMA (2010 - 2012)

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Highlights:

⚫Worked on Super Mario 3D Land:

-Overworld, Clock Tower, Desert Ruins, The Great Koopa King, Special World 8 (confirmed)

-Title, World 4/5/6/7, Staff Roll, etc (all unconfirmed).

⚫Worked on Skyward Sword:

-Ballad of the Goddess, Groose theme, Fi's theme, Skyview Temple, all minigame music, Attack of the Hordes, Bamboo Island, etc.

SATOMI TERUI (2010 - 2011)

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Highlights:

⚫ She was in charge of retouching the music for Star Fox 64 3D.

⚫ Worked on Mario Kart 7:

-Courses: Daisy Hills, Cheep Cheep Lagoon, Shy Guy Bazaar, Music Park, Piranha Plant Slide, Wario Shipyard, DK Jungle, Rosalina's Ice World, Bowser's Castle (all unconfirmed except DK Jungle).

-Battle mode tracks (unconfirmed).

ATSUKO ASAHI (2011 - Present)

After a 2007 seminar, she gets to have her own music in a game after 4 years. She feels like a legacy composer in a good way.

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Highlights:

⚫Worked for Animal Crossing New Leaf:

-Her only known composition rn is Re-Tail.

-Provided K.K. tracks: Bubblegum K.K., Drivin'.

⚫Worked on Pikmin 3:

-Music for Bingo Battle mode.

-Plasma Wraith Battle, Captain Charlie's Rap 💀 etc.

⚫Worked on Wind Waker HD, where she remade some tracks including Gohma and Molgera.

⚫Worked on Mario Kart 8:

-Courses: Thwomp Ruins, Sunshine Airport, Dolphin Shoals, Cloudtop Cruise, Bowser's Castle, Dragon Driftway, Hyrule Circuit, Wild Woods, Animal Crossing, Super Bell Subway.

-Main Theme, Menu, course result tracks, etc.

She also presumably worked on Mario Kart Tour. I think New York Minute, Paris Promenade, Merry Mountain, Bangkok Rush and Rome Avanti might be her tracks (all unconfirmed).

⚫Worked as main composer for ARMS:

-Main Theme, Spring Stadium (unconfirmed), Ninja College (unconfirmed), Ramen Bowl, Buster Beach (unconfirmed), Cinema Deux (unconfirmed), etc.

⚫Worked on Super Mario Maker 2: Network Play and Super Worlds? (unconfirmed) not much work there

⚫Worked on the Smash series:

-Cloudtop Cruise (Smash 4)
-Reshiram / Zekrom (Smash 4)
-Bubblegum K.K. (Smash 4)

-Two ARMS arrangements for the Min Min DLC.

YASUAKI IWATA (2013 - 2023)

Plain to see he is skilled, the sound veterans at Nintendo trusted him with major releases without worry. Despite this, he left in 2023 around the end of the Booster Course Pass, maybe a bit after.

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Highlights:

⚫First work for Super Mario 3D World: where he composed three tracks: WORLD 5, Conkdor Canyon and Sprixie Kingdom.

⚫Worked on Mario Kart 8:

-Composed Mario Kart Stadium and Ice Ice Outpost.

-GBA Mario Circuit, N64 Toad's Turnpike, SNES Donut Plains, etc.

-Spectating, Mario Kart TV, Starman, etc.

⚫Worked on ARMS:

-Ribbon Ring (unconfirmed), Scrapyard (unconfirmed), Via Dolce (unconfirmed), DNA Lab (unconfirmed). I realize these are also the tracks that use the main theme leitmotif most sparingly.

⚫Worked on Breath of the Wild:

-Blight Ganons Battle, Calamity Ganon Battle, Divine Beasts Battle + Dungeon music, Battle inside Divine Beast,

-Most points of interests: Shrines, Ruins, Stables, Kass Theme, Death Mountain, Flight Range, Kara Kara Bazaar, etc.

-Settlements: Hateno Village, Lurelin Village, Tarrey Town, Rito Village, Zora's Domain, Goron City, Gerudo Town, Korok Forest, etc.

-Mini-games: Bird-Man Research Studies, Flight Training.

He did not come back for Tears of the Kingdom.

⚫Worked as main composer for Animal Crossing New Horizons:

-Main Theme

-Hourly themes: 12 AM, 6 AM, 6 PM, etc.

-Events: Bunny Day, Halloween, Toy Day, New Year's, etc.

⚫Arranged the Island Kahuna theme for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

NAOTO KUBO (2013 - Present)

Despite making the first vocal Mario track and leading the latest 3D mainline, he may have left as he's not been credited since outside of Smash Bros. Would be kinda funny though

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Highlights:

⚫First work as main composer for Captain Toad Treasure Tracker:

-Credited for 90% of tracks: Draggadon's Disastrous Detriment, Spooky Specters, Bohemian Beat Box, Ye 'Old Mountain Trail, Orientoad, etc.

⚫Worked on Super Mario Maker:

-new SMB Ghost House (unconfirmed), new SMB Airship, etc.

⚫Worked as main composer for Super Mario Odyssey:

-Two vocal tracks: Jump Up Super Star & Break Free.

-Fossil Falls, Tostarena Town & Ruins, Bubblaine, New Donk City, etc.

-Broodals Battle, Final Battlefield, Underground Moon Caverns, etc.

⚫Provided the Napalm Man arrangement for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

YUMI TAKAHASHI (2014 - Present)

Protegee of Toshiyuki Sudo, he was the last new recruit before the Switch era.

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Highlights:

⚫First work on Style Savy: Fashion Forward, then Rhythm Heaven Megamix.

⚫Worked as main composer for Miitopia:

-Most battle themes: Greenhorne, Boss Battle, Peculia, Nimbus, New Lumos, The Darkest Lord, etc (all unconfirmed).

-Some stage themes: Peculia, New Lumos, Galados Isle, Eerie Road, etc (all unconfirmed).

-A Lively Inn, People's Profiles, Look What I Bought, Greenhorne Village, etc (all unconfirmed).

⚫Worked on Animal Crossing New Horizons:

-Some hourly themes: 1 AM, 10 AM, 4 PM, etc.

-Buildings: Museum, Nook's Cranny, Mystery Island Tour, Airport Lobby, etc.

⚫Worked on Splatoon 3:

-Squid Sisters tracks (Liquid Sunshine, City of Color 2023, Tomorrow's Nostalgia Today, etc.)
-Soak & Stomp, Dripping with Style, Dressed to Krill, etc.

⚫Arranged Gravity Man for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Miitopia INTENSIFIES)

MAASA MIYOSHI (2015 - Present)

She hasn't done much yet since Tears of the Kingdom was in development for so long, but we'll see her cooking soon.

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Highlights

⚫ First worked for Miitomo, where she's the only credited composer, tough Daisuke Matsuoka may have been involved to either help her out or composed most of it.

⚫ Sole composer for 1-2 Switch.

⚫Worked as main composer on Ring Fit Adventure:

-Main Theme, fanfares, all music for Dragaux Stadium (unconfirmed).

-"Otherside" variants for stage themes (unconfirmed).

-Begginia (unconfirmed), Treasure Pass (unconfirmed).

⚫Worked on Tears of the Kingdom:

-Gerudo Shelter, Lightning Temple + Riju's theme, Construct Factory + Mineru's theme, Shrine music, Temple of Time, Depths exploration + Lightroot, Hyrule Castle Sky, etc.

-Gloom Battle, Kara Kara Bazaar Defense, Queen Gibdo Battle, Demon Dragon Battle, etc.

⚫ Worked on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, arranging the main theme from Luigi's Mansion.

SOSHI ABE (2017 - Present)

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Highlights:

⚫Worked on Breath of the Wild DLC music, including Champion Shrine, as his first work.

⚫Added new music on Pikmin 3's switch port:

-Retry Mission, Side Story Select & Results, Golden Arachnob Battle, etc.

⚫Worked on Metroid Dread and Pikmin 4.

⚫Worked on Smash Ultimate, arranging Crocodile Cacophony and Champion Steven.

SAYAKO DOI (2019 - Present)

Most active of the new Switch era composers.

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Highlights:

⚫First work for Super Mario Maker 2:

-"Field" themes, story mode cutscenes (all unconfirmed).

⚫Provided three K.K. songs for New Horizons: K.K. Khoomei, K.K. Robot Synth, K.K. Break.

⚫Worked as main composer for Metroid Dread.

⚫Worked on Splatoon 3:

-Music for all singleplayer hubs (Whirlpool Tune, Hyper Diver, etc.)

-All music for Tableturf.

-The Shoal, Thrilling Corporate News, etc.

⚫Worked on Super Mario Bros. Wonder:

-Break Time levels, Dark Forest, Swamp, etc (all unconfirmed).

-Bowser Jr. Battle, K.O. Arena, some wonder flower themes (Serious, Walkin' on Air, Slime), etc (all unconfirmed).

⚫Composed music for the basketball update of Nintendo Switch Sports (she wasn't involved until that point).

MASATO OHASHI (2019 - Present)

⚫First work is Animal Crossing New Horizons, where he composed the radio jingles.

⚫Next work is main composer for Tears of the Kingdom. Ok this is a leap fellow gamers let's see what he did:

-Music for Wind, Fire, Water Temples & its corresponding sages.

-Battle music: Colgera, Yunobo, Moragia, Marbled Gohma, Sludge Like, Mucktorok, Demon King Army, Demon King Ganondorf.

-Lookout Landing, YunoboCo HQ, Skyview Tower, sky islands, rocky area & plains, Gloom's Lair, etc.

CHISAKI SHIMAZU (2023 - Present)

⚫First work for Super Mario Bros. Wonder:

-Some levels: Desert, Savanna, Palace, Airship, Castle Bowser, etc (all unconfirmed).

-Title Screen, Badge Challenge, Jump Jump Jump, Credits, etc (all unconfirmed).

-World maps: World 3, 4, 5, 6 (all unconfirmed).

HARUKO TORII & TAKUHIRO HONDA (2021 - Present)

Joined together, she was a Mii girl, he was a Mii boy (hold on...)

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Highlights:

⚫Worked together on new music for Miitopia's switch port.

⚫Worked together on Nintendo Switch Sports.

One of them made the music for menus and the other made fanfares, and they split the work on the sports going off style. I just can't assign names right now unless they post a confession like poor Mr. White.

TSUKASA USUI (2022 - Present)

While he was hired along with a few other composers, he was immediately assigned to the ongoing staff list for Tears of the Kingdom.

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Highlights:

⚫Worked on Booster Course Pass along with other fresh recruits.

⚫Worked on Tears of the Kingdom:

-All music for geoglyphs. All mini-game music. Some cutscenes.

-Flux Construct Battle, Gleeok Battle, Seized Construct Battle, Phantom Ganon Battle, etc.

-Mipha Court, Yiga Clan Hideout, Forgotten Temple + Spirit Temple, Dragonhead Island, Thunderhead Isles, etc.

YUTARO TAKAKUWA - KAIRI HAMADA - CHISAKI HOSAKA - REIKA NAKAI (2022 - Present)

The next generation of Nintendo composers for the Switch 2. I am grouping them together to show friendship is magic.

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Highlights:

⚫They all worked on Booster Course Pass arrangements, they couldn't pass up a convenient excuse to ease them into the job. They did good job.

⚫Two of the ladies, Reika Nakai and Chisaki Hosaka, did music on Echoes of Wisdom.

⚫Ms. Kairi Hamada worked on Splatoon 3: Side Order. If she did the breakcore tracks she's goated.