List of staff (SSBM): Difference between revisions

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This is a list of the staff involved with the game Super Smash Bros. Melee. like its predecessor, Melee 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] Some names won't appear until the content relevant to them is unlocked.

Planning

Masahiro Sakurai
Yoichi Sukino
Ryuichi Noguchi

Director

Masahiro Sakurai

Assistant chief director

Yoichi Sukino

Programming director

Yoshiki Suzuki

Programming

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

Hitoshi Kobayashi

Design

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

Music composition

Hirokazu Ando
Shogo Sakai

Music arrangement

Hirokazu Ando
Tadashi Ikegami
Shogo Sakai
Takuto Kitsuta

Drums (Mute City theme)

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

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

Dean Harrington: Announcements, Master Hand (uncredited), Crazy Hand (uncredited)
Charles Martinet: Mario, Luigi, Dr. Mario
Nobuyuki Hiyama (Arts Vision): Link
Kazumi Totaka (Nintendo): Yoshi
Makiko Ohmoto (Aoni Prod.): Kirby, Ness
Shinobu Satouchi (Aoni Prod.): Fox (in-game vocal effects, Japanese cutscene dialogue)
Ikue Ohtani (Ezaki Prod.): Pikachu, Goldeen (Japanese, uncredited)
Mika Kanai^{[n 1]}^{[n 2]} (Arts Vision): Jigglypuff (Japanese), Chikorita, Marill (uncredited)
Rachael Lillis^{[n 1]}^{[n 3]}: Jigglypuff (English), Chansey (English, uncredited), Goldeen (English, uncredited)
Jen Taylor: Peach
Ryo Horikawa (Aoni Prod.): Captain Falcon
Jun Mizusawa (Arts Vision): Zelda, Sheik
Hikaru Midorikawa^{[n 4]} (Aoni Prod.): Marth
Masachika Ichimura^{[n 1]}: Mewtwo
Satomi Kohrogi^{[n 1]} (Prod.BAOBAB): Pichu, Togepi (uncredited)
Fujiko Takimoto^{[n 1]} (Arts Vision): Young Link
Jun Fukuyama^{[n 1]} (Prod.BAOBAB): Roy
Takashi Nagasako^{[n 5]} (Arts Vision): Ganondorf
Sanae Kobayashi (Prod.BAOBAB): Popo, Nana (uncredited)
Hisao Egawa (Aoni Prod.): Falco (in-game vocal effects, Japanese cutscene dialogue)
Tomohisa Aso^{[n 2]} (Aoni Prod.): Peppy (Japanese)
Kyoko Tongu^{[n 2]} (Aoni Prod.): Slippy (Japanese)
Chris Seavor^{[n 3]}: Peppy (English), Slippy (English)
Ben Cullum^{[n 3]}: Falco (English cutscene dialogue)
Steve Malpass^{[n 3]}: Fox (English cutscene dialogue)
Yuji Ueda^{[n 2]} (Arts Vision): Cyndaquil, Wobbuffet (Japanese)
Shin'ichiro Miki^{[n 2]} (81 Produce): Scizor (Japanese), Charizard (uncredited), Staryu (uncredited)
James W. Norwood, Jr. (MRG Enterprises): "DK Rap" vocals

Crowd cheers

Bill Trinen
Tim O'Leary
Nate Bihldorff

Uncredited

Koichi Yamadera: Mew
Mayumi Iizuka: Bellossom (Japanese), Chansey (Japanese), Clefairy (Japanese)
Unsho Ishizuka: Blastoise (Japanese), Weezing (Japanese)
Katsuyuki Konishi: Snorlax (Japanese)
Ryuzaburo Otomo: Venusaur (Japanese)
Eric Stuart: Blastoise (English), Venusaur (English), Scizor (English)
Michael J. Haigney: Snorlax (English), Weezing (English)
Kayzie Rogers Bellossom (English), Wobbuffet (English)
Tara Sands: Clefairy (English)

North American localization

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

German text

Daniel Schäfers^{[n 6]}

French text

Pierre Sanchez^{[n 6]}

Spanish text

Palma Sánchez de Moya^{[n 6]}

Italian text

Massimo Maietti^{[n 6]}

Coordination

Hiroyuki Uesugi^{[n 6]}

Localisation management

Kai Zeh^{[n 6]}
Tanja Baar^{[n 6]}

Original game staff

Producer and director of original games

Shigeru Miyamoto

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^{[n 5]}

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^{[n 4]}

Fire Emblem designer

Masahiro Higuchi^{[n 4]}

Fire Emblem scenario

Masayuki Horikawa^{[n 4]}

Fire Emblem art director

Taeko Kaneda^{[n 4]}

Fire Emblem supervisor

Kentaro Nichimura^{[n 4]}

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

Kei Hoshiba
Ashura Benimaru Itoh

Nintendo character supervisor

Yoichi Kotabe

Special thanks

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^{[n 7]}

Michael Kelbaugh
Kyle Hudson
Eric Bush
Randy Shoemake
Kiyohiko Ando
Michael Chipman
Jason Mahaffa
Chris Needham
David Hunziker
Nicko Gonzalez
NOA Debug Team

Nintendo of Europe debug staff^{[n 6]}

Maurice Tisdale
Nick Hooijer
Ángel Victoria
NOE 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^{[n 7]}

General coordination

Yukiko Kishimoto
Kamon Yoshimura^{[n 7]}

Nintendo Support Staff^{[n 7]}

Koji Uyama
Takeshi Furuta
Ryuta Kaimoto
Kensuke Tanabe
Shin Hasegawa

Marketing supervision

Satoru Iwata
Minoru Arakawa^{[n 7]}
Manabu "Mike" Fukuda^{[n 7]}

Package and manual design, editing, and printing

Ryuji Hagino
Kazuya Konishi
Hisatoshi Takeuchi
Emi Masai
Tomoko Kitada
Hiroshi Fujie
Kaori Nishimura

Project manager

Ryuki Kuraoka

Producers

Masayoshi Tanimura
Hiroaki Suga
Shigeru Miyamoto
Kenji Miki

Executive producer

Hiroshi Yamauchi

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.

Pokémon

GAME FREAK Inc.

Pokémon

APE Inc.

Earthbound

Keichi Suzuki

Earthbound

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS^{[n 4]}

Fire Emblem series (Japan only), etc.

Noise(Marigul)^{[n 8]}

Custom Robo V2 (Japan only)

Saru Brunei(Marigul)^{[n 8]}

DOBUTSU BANCHO (TBD)

Param^{[n 8]}

DOSHIN THE GIANT (TBD)

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.

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Only appears if the relevant fighter is unlocked.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Only appears in the Japanese versions.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Only appears in the non-Japanese versions.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Only appears if Marth is unlocked.
^ ^a ^b Only appears if Ganondorf is unlocked.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Only appears in the PAL version.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Only appears in the NTSC versions.
^ ^a ^b ^c Only appears if the relevant trophy is unlocked.

References

^ http://themushroomkingdom.net/ssbm_credits-full.shtml

[unlf-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Only appears if the relevant fighter is unlocked.

[jpcr-3] Only appears in the Japanese versions.

[intcr-4] Only appears in the non-Japanese versions.

[unlm-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Only appears if Marth is unlocked.

[unlg-6] Only appears if Ganondorf is unlocked.

[palcr-7] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Only appears in the PAL version.

[ntsccr-8] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Only appears in the NTSC versions.

[unlt-9] Only appears if the relevant trophy is unlocked.

[1] ttp://themushroomkingdom.net/ssbm_credits-full.shtml

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 *Steve Malpass<ref group="n" name="intcr"/>: {{SSBM|Fox}} (English cutscene dialogue)
 *Yuji Ueda<ref group="n" name="jpcr"/> <span style=color:#B100BF>(Arts Vision)</span>: [[Cyndaquil]], [[Wobbuffet]] (Japanese)
-*Shin'ichiro Miki<ref group="n" name="jpcr"/> <span style=color:#B100BF>(81 Produce)</span>: [[Charizard]], [[Staryu]], [[Scizor]] (Japanese)
+*Shin'ichiro Miki<ref group="n" name="jpcr"/> <span style=color:#B100BF>(81 Produce)</span>: [[Scizor]] (Japanese), [[Charizard]] (uncredited), [[Staryu]] (uncredited)
 *James W. Norwood, Jr. <span style=color:#B100BF>(MRG Enterprises)</span>: "{{SSBMMusicLink|DK Rap}}" vocals
 ;[[Crowd]] cheers