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[Maxim]

Just posting some research I did for a recent VGM pack...

GMCL is a Japanese Game Music Composer List website, and it seems to be pretty accurate.

There is some information going around that Takayuki Nakamura is also known as "Jimita". This seems to be wrong, based on several pieces of information, and I I know a possible source of the mistake, as will be explained shortly.

GMCL lists "Jimita" as Hiroshi Kubota (久保田浩 (くぼた ひろし)), with credits for MD ソーサリアン （Sorcerian) and MD マイケルジャクソン ムーンウォーカー (Moonwalker). It lists Takayuki Nakamura (中村隆之 (なかむら たかゆき)) with no nickname, and credits for lots of games, including MD ディックトレイシー (Dick Tracy), SMS バスケットボール (Basketball - probably Great) and SMS ムーンウォーカー (Moonwalker).

Thus, someone might think that the two Moonwalker people are the same, when it seems they're not. Nakamura is profiled here, I didn't find much about Kubota. unless he's now a jazz pianist.

Examing the roms for the games in question to see credits, we have:

SMS Moonwalker: "Sound programmer: T.N."
MD Moonwalker: "Sound composer: Jimita"
SMS and MD Dick Tracy: no credits found

which backs up GMCL. So the relevant forthcoming packs need re-tagging, and another oft-repeated fact needs re-examination.

[CRV]

1. SMS Dick Tracy was done in the US by BlueSky Software, BTW (I really should post that info in the main forum), so Nakamura would have just done the MD version.

2. I read elsewhere that Nakamura didn't join Sega until 1990, so he couldn't have done Great Basketball (oh, I see you already posted that link).

3. Grass-eatin' me said in one of those past threads that Nakamura did Super Real Basketball. The game credits "Seba-Hiko," which is Hikoshi Hashimoto (the game's listed at his site) Unless there's some other version Nakamura might have done. Grass's info really needs to be looked at with a fine-tooth comb.

[Maxim]

I don't know if the music is the same between the two Dick Tracies, I just kind of assumed it would be. I saw the US credit in the SMS version. I didn't actually run the MD version yet.

[CRV]

[Maxim]

I couldn't find anywhere giving free samples of the original film soundtrack (by Danny Elfman) because it seems it's out of print, but a site with MIDIs didn't match. You'd expect that, if they were lifting from the film, they'd at least match the title track, but it's different. Maybe someone with iTunes can see if it's available for previewing on there.

[DukeNukem]