List of staff (SSBM)
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[edit]
- Masahiro Sakurai
- Yoichi Sukino
- Ryuichi Noguchi
Director[edit]
- Masahiro Sakurai
Assistant chief director[edit]
- Yoichi Sukino
Programming director[edit]
- Yoshiki Suzuki
Programming[edit]
System
- Yoshiki Suzuki
Characters, stage selection, and effects
- Akio Hanyu
Items and special moves
- Isao Takahashi
- Yoshimi Takahashi
- Katsuhiro Sakoda
Devices
- Seiji Otoguro
- Yoshimi Takahashi
- Kazuhiro Mizusawa
Figures
- Seiji Otoguro
Enemies
- Seiji Otoguro
- Masakazu Ebihara
Event Matches
- Isao Takahashi
- Katsuhiro Sakoda
Playable characters
- Kouichi Watanabe
- Tomokazu Tsuruoka
Pokémon
- Masakazu Ebihara
Database management
- Masakazu Ebihara
Stages and camera work
- Kazuhiro Misuzawa
Player library, dynamics, and AI
- Masashi Yamane
Game modes and indication
- Yoshiya Taniguchi
Menus, cinema scenes, endings, and sprite library
- Yasuyuki Nagashima
Training and tournaments
- Kim Sung-Kwen
Special bonuses
- Tomokazu Tsuruoka
All-Star Mode and staff credits
- Takayuki Sugano
Design director[edit]
- Hitoshi Kobayashi
Design[edit]
Game and data design
- Masahiro Sakurai
Stage design
- Yoichi Sukino
Item and figure design
- Hitoshi Kobayashi
Device design
- Tsuyoshi Wakayama
- Atsuko Nakamura
Artwork design
- Kenichiro Kita
Menu, character, stage selection, and staff credits design
- Michiko Takahashi
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.)
- Kei Hoshiba
Item modeling
- Tsuyoshi Wakayama
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
- Kunio Watanabe
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)
- Tomohiro Sato
Figure modeling assistants
- Hiromichi Sugiyama
- Nachi Sugiyama
- Yoshiyuki Tagawa
- Shinichi Yoshikawa
Figure design support
- Tsuyoshi Wakayama
Stage design support
- Ryuichi Noguchi
Opening movie design support
- Atsuko Nakamura
Design support
- Hiroo Takeshita
- Tomomi Minami
- Reiko Iwao
- Teruhiko Suzuki
- Tomoko Nagaya
Sound and music staff[edit]
Music composition
- Hirokazu Ando
- Shogo Sakai
Music arrangement
- Hirokazu Ando
- Tadashi Ikegami
- Shogo Sakai
- Takuto Kitsuta
Music coordination
- Hirokazu Ando
Voice coordination
- Tadashi Ikegami
Sound composition
- Tadashi Ikegami
Librarian
- Shogo Sakai
Mixing
- Hirofumi Sato (Power House Studio)
Mixing assistant
- Yuichi Kaneko (Avaco Creative Sound)
Pokémon audio planning
- Masafumi Mima (Techno Sound)
Musical performance[edit]
- Orchestra "Melee"
- Conducted by Taizo Takemoto (Company AZA)
- Flute, Piccolo (2), Oboe, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Horn (3), Trumpet (3), Trombone (2), Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (3), Harp, Violin (14), Viola (4), Violoncello (4), Contrabass (2)
Voice acting[edit]
Announcements, Master Hand (uncredited), Crazy Hand (uncredited)
- Nobuyuki Hiyama (Arts Vision)
- Kazumi Totaka (Nintendo)
- Makiko Ohmoto (Aoni Prod.)
- Shinobu Satouchi (Aoni Prod.) (in-game vocal effects, Japanese cutscene dialogue)
- Steve Malpass (English cutscene dialogue)
- Ikue Ohtani (Ezaki Prod.)
- Rachael Lillis (English)
- Mika Kanai (Arts Vision) (Japanese)
- Jen Taylor
- Ryo Horikawa (Aoni Prod.)
- Jun Misuzawa (Arts Vision)
- Hikaru Midorikawa (Aoni Prod.)
- Masachika Ichimura
- Satomi Kohrogi (Prod.BAOBAB)
- Fujiko Takimoto (Arts Vision)
- Jun Fukuyama (Prod.BAOBAB)
- Takashi Nagasako (Arts Vision)
Popo, Nana (uncredited)
- Sanae Kobayashi (Prod.BAOBAB)
- Hisao Egawa (Aoni Prod.) (in-game vocal effects, Japanese cutscene dialogue)
- Ben Cullum (English cutscene dialogue)
- Chris Seavor (English)
- Tomohisa Aso (Aoni Prod.) (Japanese)
- Chris Seavor (English)
- Kyoko Tongu (Aoni Prod.) (Japanese)
Venusaur (uncredited)
- Eric Stuart (English)
- Ryuzaburo Otomo (81 Produce) (Japanese)
- Shin'ichiro Miki (81 Produce)
Blastoise (uncredited)
- Eric Stuart (English)
- Unsho Ishizuka (Aoni Prod.) (Japanese)
Clefairy (uncredited)
- Tara Sands (English)
- Mayumi Iizuka (Yaegaki Office) (Japanese)
Weezing (uncredited)
- Michael J. Haigney (English)
- Unsho Ishizuka (Aoni Prod.) (Japanese)
Chansey (uncredited)
- Rachael Lillis (English)
- Mayumi Iizuka (Yaegaki Office) (Japanese)
Goldeen (uncredited)
- Rachael Lillis (English)
- Ikue Ohtani (Ezaki Prod.) (Japanese)
Snorlax (uncredited)
- Michael J. Haigney (English)
- Katsuyuki Konishi (Ken Prod.) (Japanese)
Mew (uncredited)
- Koichi Yamadera (Haikyo)
- Mika Kanai (Arts Vision)
- Yuji Ueda (Arts Vision)
- Kayzie Rodgers (English, uncredited)
- Yuji Ueda (Arts Vision) (Japanese)
- Kayzie Rogers (English, uncredited)
- Mayumi Iizuka (Yaegaki Office) (Japanese, uncredited)
- Eric Stuart (English, uncredited)
- Shin'ichiro Miki (81 Produce) (Japanese)
Crowd cheers
- Bill Trinen
- Tim O'Leary
- Nate Bihldorff
"DK Rap" vocals
- James W. Norwood, Jr. (MRG Enterprises)
North American localization[edit]
English text editing
- Rich Amtower
- Bill Trinen
- Jeff Miller
English text writing
- Bill Trinen
English translation
- Tim O'Leary
- Nate Bihldorff
Localization management
- Jeff Miller
- Leslie Swan
U.S. text writing support
- Norimasa Tanikawa
European localisation[edit]
German text
- Daniel Schäfers
French text
- Pierre Sanchez
Spanish text
- Palma Sánchez de Moya
Italian text
- Massimo Maietti
Coordination
- Hiroyuki Uesugi
Localisation management
- Kai Zeh
- Tanja Baar
Original game staff[edit]
Producer and director of original games
Mario, Luigi, Link, and Donkey Kong character designs
- Shigeru Miyamoto
Star Fox and F-Zero character designs
- Takaya Imamura
The Legend of Zelda character illustration
- Yusuke Nakano
Metroid game design
- Yoshio Sakamoto
Samus character design
- Hiroji Kiyotake
Super Metroid CG design
- Tomoyoshi Yamane
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time director
- Eiji Aonuma
Ice Climber director
- Kenji Miki
Ice Climber character designs
- Tadashi Sugiyama
Yoshi character design
- Shigefumi Hino
Kirby character design
- Masahiro Sakurai
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time character designs
- Yoshiki Haruhana
Ganondorf character design
- Satoshi Takizawa
EarthBound producers
- Shigesato Itoi
- Tsunekazu Ishihara
Yoshi's Story producer
- Takashi Tezuka
Miscellaneous Nintendo character designs
- Makoto Kano
- Toru Osawa
Pokémon executive director
- Satoshi Tajiri
Pokémon director
- Junichi Masuda
Pokémon graphic director
- Ken Sugimori
Pokémon programming
- Shigeki Morimoto
- Tetsuya Watanabe
- Sousuke Tamada
- Tetsuji Ohta
Pokémon planning
- Kouji Nishino
Pokémon coordination
- Hiroyuki Jinnai
Pokémon product supervision
- Tsunekazu Ishihara
Fire Emblem director
- Tohru Narihiro
Fire Emblem designer
- Masahiro Higuchi
Fire Emblem scenario
- Masayuki Horikawa
Fire Emblem art director
- Taeko Kaneda
Fire Emblem supervisor
- Kentaro Nichimura
Super Mario Bros. and Star Fox 64 music composition
- Koji Kondo
The Legend of Zelda music composition
- Koji Kondo
- Akito Nakatsuka
Kirby Super Star music composition
- Jun Ishikawa
Metroid music composition
- Hirokazu Tanaka
EarthBound music composition
- Keiichi Suzuki
Ice Climber music composition
- Akito Nakatsuka
F-Zero X music composition
- Taro Bando
Donkey Kong Country music composition
- David Wise
Creatures staff management[edit]
- Kei Hoshiba
- Ashura Benimaru Itoh
Nintendo character supervisor[edit]
- Yoichi Kotabe
Special thanks[edit]
Conductor coordination
- Yuji Yasuda
Voice cast coordination
- Noriyoshi Matsuura
"DK Stage Rap" vocal coordination
- Steve "Bang" Pang
Orchestra coordination
- Reiko Yanami
Choir coordination
- Suehiro Endo
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
- Takemoto Mori
Marigul Management
- Hisakazu Hirabayashi
- Masachi Uchiyama
- Yuko Yamamoto
- Kazutoshi Iida
- Rikuo Kurebayashi
- Kouji Suzuki
- Shigeo Sasaki
Totakeke rough design
- Yumi Yoshimi
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
- Senji Hirose et al.
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
- Masao Kamada
General coordination
- Yukiko Kishimoto
- Kamon Yoshimura
Nintendo Support Staff
- Koji Uyama
- Takeshi Furuta
- Ryuta Kaimoto
- Kensuke Tanabe
- Shin Hasegawa
Marketing supervision
- Satoru Iwata
- Minoru Arakawa
- Manabu "Mike" Fukuda
Package and manual design, editing, and printing
- Ryuji Hagino
- Kazuya Konishi
- Hisatoshi Takeuchi
- Emi Masai
- Tomoko Kitada
- Hiroshi Fujie
- Kaori Nishimura
Project manager[edit]
- Ryuki Kuraoka
Producers[edit]
- Masayoshi Tanimura
- Hiroaki Suga
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- Kenji Miki
Executive producer[edit]
- Hiroshi Yamauchi
- President of Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Copyrights[edit]
- http://www.nintendo.co.jp
- http://www.nintendo.co.jp/smash
- http://www.nintendo.com
- http://www.supersmashbrosmelee.com
This Game title "SUPER SMASH BROS. MELEE" includes many Characters, Items and Music, some of which are used courtesy of the following ;
- Pokémon
APE Inc.
Keichi Suzuki
- Earthbound
- Fire Emblem series (Japan only), etc.
Noise(Marigul)
- Custom Robo V2 (Japan only)
Saru Brunei(Marigul)
- DOBUTSU BANCHO (TBD)
Param
- DOSHIN THE GIANT (TBD)
- 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.
