This is a list of the staff involved with the game Super Smash Bros. Melee. The game, like its predecessor, features an extended version of its full credit roll in which the credited personnel are matched to their specific roles in the production of the game (for example, the game's voice actors are matched to the characters that they voiced). [1]
Planning
Director
Assistant chief director
Programming director
Programming
System
Characters, stage selection, and effects
Items and special moves
- Isao Takahashi
- Yoshimi Takahashi
- Katsuhiro Sakoda
Devices
- Seiji Otoguro
- Yoshimi Takahashi
- Kazuhiro Mizusawa
Figures
Enemies
- Seiji Otoguro
- Masakazu Ebihara
Event Matches
- Isao Takahashi
- Katsuhiro Sakoda
Playable characters
- Kouichi Watanabe
- Tomokazu Tsuruoka
Pokémon
Database management
Stages and camera work
Player library, dynamics, and AI
Game modes and indication
Menus, cinema scenes, endings, and sprite library
Training and tournaments
Special bonuses
All-Star Mode and staff credits
Design director
Design
Game and data design
Stage design
Item and figure design
Device design
- Tsuyoshi Wakayama
- Atsuko Nakamura
Artwork design
Menu, character, stage selection, and staff credits design
Motion design (HAL Laboratory)
- Masaru Kobayashi
- Dai Suzuki
- Akiko Hayashi
- Mutsuo Ohmiya
- Tatsuhiko Ohi
- Takahashi Ariga
- Masaya Akiyama
- C. Shane Allala
Motion design (Creatures Inc.)
- Kazuo Yazawa
- Mikio Menjo
- Katsura Tabata
- Masahiro Abeki
- Yuji Kawarada
- Jungo Suzuki
- So Yoshimura
Game demo movie and screen shot design
- Takaaki Kawahara
- Kouji Akaike
- Kazuo Yazawa
Opening movie design
- Kei Hoshiba
- Jungo Suzuki
- Ken Ikuji
Playable character modeling (HAL Laboratory)
- Hitoshi Kobayashi
- Hitoshi Kikkawa
- Tetsuya Mochizuki
- Kenichiro Kita
Playable character modeling (Creatures Inc.)
Item modeling
Stage modeling (HAL Laboratory)
- Tsuyoshi Wakayama
- Tadashi Hashikura
- Hitoshi Kikkawa
- Sanae Kubota
- Atsuko Nakamura
- Kunio Watanabe
Stage modeling (Creatures Inc.)
- Yosuke Hirata
- Atsuko Ujiie
- Toru Kurashige
- Ryuta Kusumi
- Keita Komatsu
- Satomi Kokubo
- Hikaru Jinguji
Enemy modeling
- Hitoshi Kikkawa
- Tetsuya Mochizuki
- Atsuko Nakamura
Effect and background modeling
Figure modeling (Creatures Inc.)
- Mikio Menjo
- Katsura Tabata
- Masahiro Abeki
- Yuji Kawarada
- Jungo Suzuki
- So Yoshimura
- Yosuke Hirata
- Atsuko Ujiie
- Toru Kurashige
- Ryuta Kusumi
- Keita Komatsu
- Satomi Kokubo
- Hikaru Jinguji
- Ken Ikuji
Figure modeling (Dice)
Figure modeling assistants
- Hiromichi Sugiyama
- Nachi Sugiyama
- Yoshiyuki Tagawa
- Shinichi Yoshikawa
Figure design support
Stage design support
Opening movie design support
Design support
- Hiroo Takeshita
- Tomomi Minami
- Reiko Iwao
- Teruhiko Suzuki
- Tomoko Nagaya
Sound and music staff
Music composition
- Hirokazu Ando
- Shogo Sakai
Music arrangement
- Hirokazu Ando
- Tadashi Ikegami
- Shogo Sakai
- Takuto Kitsuta
Music coordination
Voice coordination
Sound composition
Librarian
Mixing
Mixing assistant
Pokémon audio planning
Musical performance
- Conducted by Taizo Takemoto
Voice acting
Announcements
Mario, Luigi, Dr. Mario
Link
Yoshi
Kirby, Ness
Fox (vocal effects)
Pikachu
Jigglypuff
- Rachael Lillis
- Mika Kanai (Japanese)
Peach
Captain Falcon
Zelda, Sheik
Marth
Mewtwo
Pichu
Young Link
Roy
Ganondorf
Ice Climbers
Falco (vocal effects)
Peppy, Slippy
Fox (cutscene dialogue)
Falco (cutscene dialogue)
Crowd cheers
- Bill Trinen
- Tim O'Leary
- Nate Bihldorff
"DK Rap" vocals
North American localization
English text editing
- Rich Amtower
- Bill Trinen
- Jeff Miller
English text writing
English translation
- Tim O'Leary
- Nate Bihldorff
Localization management
U.S. text writing support
European localisation
German text
French text
Spanish text
Italian text
Coordination
Localisation management
Original game staff
Producer and director of original games
Mario, Luigi, Link, and Donkey Kong character designs
Star Fox and F-Zero character designs
The Legend of Zelda character illustration
Metroid game design
Samus character design
Super Metroid CG design
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time director
Ice Climber director
Ice Climber character designs
Yoshi character design
Kirby character design
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time character designs
Ganondorf character design
EarthBound producers
Yoshi's Story producer
Miscellaneous Nintendo character designs
Pokémon executive director
Pokémon director
Pokémon graphic director
Pokémon programming
- Shigeki Morimoto
- Tetsuya Watanabe
- Sousuke Tamada
- Tetsuji Ohta
Pokémon planning
Pokémon coordination
Pokémon product supervision
Fire Emblem director
Fire Emblem designer
Fire Emblem scenario
Fire Emblem art director
Fire Emblem supervisor
Super Mario Bros. and Star Fox 64 music composition
The Legend of Zelda music composition
- Koji Kondo
- Akito Nakatsuka
Kirby Super Star music composition
Metroid music composition
EarthBound music composition
Ice Climber music composition
F-Zero X music composition
Donkey Kong Country music composition
Creatures staff management
- Kei Hoshiba
- Ashura Benimaru Itoh
Nintendo character supervisor
Special thanks
Conductor coordination
Voice cast coordination
"DK Stage Rap" vocal coordination
Orchestra coordination
Choir coordination
Pokémon supervisors
- Hiroki Enomoto
- Kazuyuki Terada
- Akihito Tamura
- Ryohei Itakura
Pokémon coordination
- Gakuji Nomoto
- Ai Mashima
- Kunimi Kawamura
- Masayuki Miura
- Yumiko Murai
Proofreading for Pokémon
Marigul Management
- Hisakazu Hirabayashi
- Masachi Uchiyama
- Yuko Yamamoto
- Kazutoshi Iida
- Rikuo Kurebayashi
- Kouji Suzuki
- Shigeo Sasaki
Totakeke rough design
Original game staff
- Satomi Maekawa
- Wataru Yamaguchi
- Hiroaki Takenaka
- Tomoaki Kuroume
- Katsuya Eguchi
- Hisashi Nogami
- Noriko Ikegawa
- Yoshiaki Koizumi
- Hiromu Takemura
- Jin Ikeda
- Junji Morii
- Hiroyuki Kimura
- Takeshi Hosono
- Shinya Takahashi
- Tsuyoshi Watanabe
- Aya Sumimoto
- Tokihiko Toyoda
- Tatsuya Hishida
- Yasuhiro Sakai
- Kenta Usui
- Mitsuhiro Takano
- Masamichi Abe
- Hiroyuki Yamada
- Keisuke Terasaki
- Masashi Goto
- Masanori Sato
- Takehiro Izushi
- Hitoshi Yamagami
- Hiroshi Sato
- Toshiharu Izuno
- Shigeki Yamashiro
- Jun Tsujimoto
- Nintendo Software Technology
Wilcolinks Digiworks
- Hideki Nakano
- Yoshihisa Kato
- Keiichi Abe
- Takeo Niikura
- Masako Ohno
HAL Lab Debug Team
Nintendo Co., Ltd. debug staff
- Tsutomu Kaganezawa
- Masahiro Takeguchi
- Hironobu Kakui
- Super Mario Club
Nintendo of America debug staff
- Michael Kelbaugh
- Kyle Hudson
- Eric Bush
- Randy Shoemake
- Kiyohiko Ando
- Michael Chipman
- Jason Mahaffa
- Chris Needham
- David Hunziker
- Nicko Gonzalez
- NOA Debug Team
Digital Media Lab
- Shinji "Miki & Gaku" Torigoge
- Tadashi Tominaga
- Masaki Sakai
- Nozomi Sanada
- Satoshi Maruyama
- Takayuki Higurashi
- Manabu Takahashi
- Syozi "Okap" Okada
- Kazuhiro Nakatani
- Kensuke Yamamoto
Public relations
- Satoshi Ishida
- Tetsuya Notoya
Buildup
- Nobuya Okabe
- Satoshi Nagaoka
- Tetsuya Amabiki
- Masayuki Gotoh
- Naoto Oonuki
- Takayuki Hayama
- Tomoya Ohata
- Fumihito Saito
- Ryoko Suzuki
- Kazutsugu Kosugi
- Shin Kitada
- Hajime Ishiyama
Sysdolphin
- Chiharu Itoh
- Hidetoshi Seki
- Jun Yamasaki
- Shigeru Hirayama
- Junichi Aoyagi
- Tatsuhiro Tanoue
- Takaaki Kazuno
- Hajime Kojima
- Takashi Matsuda
- Takashi Saito
- Takeshi Shimada
- Hiroshi Yoshino
- Satoshi Kira
Artwork coordination
General coordination
- Yukiko Kishimoto
- Kamon Yoshimura
Nintendo Support Staff
- Koji Uyama
- Takeshi Furuta
- Ryuta Kaimoto
- Kensuke Tanabe
- Shin Hasegawa
Marketing supervision
Package and manual design, editing, and printing
- Ryuji Hagino
- Kazuya Konishi
- Hisatoshi Takeuchi
- Emi Masai
- Tomoko Kitada
- Hiroshi Fujie
- Kaori Nishimura
Project manager
Producers
- Masayoshi Tanimura
- Hiroaki Suga
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- Kenji Miki
Executive producer
- President of Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Copyrights
Nintendo
HAL Laboratory, Inc.
This Game title
"SUPER SMASH BROS. MELEE"
includes many Characters,
Items and Music,
some of which are
used courtesy of the following ;
Creatures Inc.
GAME FREAK Inc.
APE Inc.
Keichi Suzuki
INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
Noise(Marigul)
Saru Brunei(Marigul)
Param
Rare Ltd.
- CERTAIN CHARACTERS AND ITEMS FROM PERFECT DARK AND DONKEY KONG COUNTRY 2.
- DONKEY KONG 64 RAP MUSIC BASED ON ORIGINAL DONKEY KONG 64
- MUSIC COURTESY OF RARE LIMITED
All Rights of this game
"SUPER SMASH BROS. MELEE",
including the copyrights of Game,
Scenario, Music and Program,
but excluding the copyrights
reserved by companies
and person who already shown,
reserved by Nintendo
and/or HAL Laboratories, Inc.
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