Nicolaas Hamman
From Sega Retro
Playlist Manager for RADIOSEGA. Trusted Editor for VGMdb.
- Country: South Africa
- Date of Birth: 2000-08-21
- First Soundtrack Purchase: SEGA RALLY 2006 ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK
- Playlist Manager since: June 29, 2020
Frequents various SEGA websites for music-related info. Cares deeply about Production Credits. Unnofficially heads the SEGA side of VGMdb's product line. Half the year, I host the weekly podcast/LiVE show Individual on RadioSEGA. It's a Wednesday show in which I go over the histories and sounds of SEGA sound designers (or at the very least, the musicians with substantial ties to SEGA). A lot of edits you see during the second half of the year, it's to do with me researching for Individual.
Contents
Todo list
- Complete Harmony 1994 joins (finished all in development section)
- Rewrite early 90's R&D pages so Management is separate from history, and AM divisions have Management pages.
- Complete UGA staff page (last finished 野田 恵市)
- Complete Hitmaker column profiles (last finished Masaru Kurosawa) (skipped 井上 太郎, 太田 篤史, 村松 梨恵子, 世永 玲生, 大貫 尚紀, 宮内 理恵, 大村 遊, 清水 亜紀)
URL seems to switch by https://web.archive.org/web/20030625075831/http://www.hitmaker.co.jp/top/lounge/corumun/site/corumun_txt107.html
- More info on Reo Yonaga (世永 玲生) https://www.quora.com/profile/%E4%B8%96%E6%B0%B8-%E7%8E%B2%E7%94%9F-Yonaga-Reo https://www.hnut.co.jp/entry/seminor/111 https://akiyoko.hatenablog.jp/category/SEO
- ones I had to skip - 中田 愛澄, 冨松 里絵
- Make PDFs for more albums
- Research CEDEC pages and upload photos 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
- Add references of Westone games listed here.[1]
- Masayoshi Obata? - https://retrocdn.net/images/2/23/BeepMD_JP_1994-08.pdf CG designer on page 91
- Interview sorting on Sonic and Sega Retro - https://discord.com/channels/202859782779043840/1079230522288504942/1147571227993591871
- Look through all Calenders in Beep! Megadrive and Mega Drive Fan for missed release dates and canceled games.
- Look into every Sega Studios USA developer to redescribe its history.
Company pages
- Create Sega AM2 Sound/Sega CS3 Sound. Also link them to the respective confirmed games.
- Change pages linked to Aspect to also include appropriate Sega divisions.
Developer pages worth rewriting
- Hisao Oguchi https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z9ZAK6HQvs_slW5eT2mfi4BXFll6QPi8pq5gabt9GU4/edit
- Yukifumi Makino https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DBHsoOQqyCZrh4wzErEWvazAtO7994VzKLFj89vWocA/edit
- Hiroshi Kawaguchi
- Takenobu Mitsuyoshi
- Nobutaka Arii
- Takayuki Kawagoe - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HMV4YO83bHAyd2PNThHHsC-axo6YEEO80VUrWOKprYM/edit
- related - Sega Sound Team https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XdBolov3-iQmKzx77N0OQPi8Ck3XqpUU4i-IcZKuz2g/edit?usp=sharing
Production credits
- Games in general, with copyable if possible
To fix
- Dynamite Baseball
- Miracle Girls Festival
- Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis
- In progress:
- New Roommania: Porori Seishun (in progress)
- Yakuza 3 (Japanese) (in progress) https://w.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/870.html
- Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan! (in progress) https://w.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/867.html
- Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol.1: Phantasy Star generation:1 http://raido.moe/staff/ps2/ps2_sega_ages_1_phantasy_star_1.html
- Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 3: Fantasy Zone http://raido.moe/staff/ps2/ps2_sega_ages_3_fantasy_zone.html
- Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 17: Phantasy Star Generation: 2 http://raido.moe/staff/ps2/ps2_sega_ages_17_phantasy_star_2.html
- Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 18: Dragon Force
- Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 21: SDI & Quartet: Sega System 16 Collection
- Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 22: Advanced Daisenryaku: Deutsch Dengeki Sakusen
- Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 23: Sega Memorial Selection http://raido.moe/staff/ps2/ps2_sega_ages_23_sega_memorial.html
- Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 32: Phantasy Star Complete Collection http://raido.moe/staff/ps2/ps2_sega_ages_32_phantasy_star_collection.html
- Sega Ages Sonic the Hedgehog
- Sega Ages Thunder Force IV
- Love and Berry: Dress Up and Dance! - Magic of Happiness (needs a page first) Seesaawwiki
- Valkyria Chronicles (Japanese) Seesaawwiki
- Hero Bank
- Hero Bank 2
- Hero Bank (anime) Seesaawwiki
- Yakuza (Japanese)
- Yakuza 2 (Japanese) https://w.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/866.html
- Yakuza 4 (Japanese)
- Kurohyou: Ryu ga Gotoku Shinshou
- Yakuza: Dead Souls
- Yakuza 5
- Kurohyou 2: Ryu ga Gotoku Ashura Hen
- Ryu ga Gotoku: Ishin!
- Yakuza 0
- Yakuza Kiwami
- Yakuza 6: The Song of Life
- Yakuza Kiwami 2
- Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise
- Judgment
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon
- Streets Of Kamurocho
- Lost Judgment
- Like a Dragon: Ishin!
- Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
- Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
- Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA
- Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA 2nd
- Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Extend
- Dororo (Japanese) Atwiki
- Sakura Taisen V Episode 0: Kouya no Samurai Musume raido.moe
- Shin Sakura Taisen MobyGames
- Total War series
- Company of Heroes series
- Football Manager series
- Endless series
Haven't seen yet
- Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Arcade
- Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Arcade Future Tone
- Gekitou Pro Yakyuu: Mizushima Shinji Allstars vs Pro Yakyuu (game has a staff_loop song)
- Initial D Arcade Stage Zero (has a staff credits song)
- Quest of D (has a staff credits song)
- Final Arch
- Harley-Davidson & L.A. Riders (has a code to activate credits on title screen)
Third-party
- Winning Post 3 http://raido.moe/staff/sat/sat_winning_post_3.html (note it includes Koichi Namiki)
- Yuukyuu Gensoukyoku 3: Perpetual Blue http://raido.moe/staff/dc/dc_yuukyuu_gensoukyoku_3.html (note is includes Katsuhiro Hayashi and Koichi Namiki)
- Ninja Jajamaru-kun: Onigiri Ninpouchou Gold http://raido.moe/staff/sat/sat_ninja_jajamaru_kun.html (note it includes Koichi Namiki)
- Eternal Melody http://raido.moe/staff/sat/sat_eternal_melody.html (note it includes Katsuhiro Hayashi and Aki Hata)
And for NEC Retro
- Check ERI in Space Harrier and Fantasy Zone II
- Go through Weekly-AM2 for Production Credits breakdown, e.g. OutRun2
- Music breakdowns for hardware Sega Mega-CD, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast
Magazine articles progress
- Interviews in Beep! Megadrive - maybe finished first year?
- Link games for Beep! Megadrive. Go in reverse order, earlier releases seem better-covered.
- Interviews in Saturn Fan - everything in WAY to the SEGA FAN?
- Interviews in Sega Saturn Magazine (Japan) - up to at least SSM JP 19960223 1996-03.pdf (most recent Yu Suzuki interview)
- Interviews in Dreamcast Magazine (Japan) - complete list todo https://docs.google.com/document/d/15D_B4WH30oMhSdjPe14fJQDnbWFCPcXIzMSI8Rs9ZBI/edit
- Game links for Mega Drive Fan - only Mdfan_JP_1989-11.pdf (issue 2)
- Find that CRI interview with like 10 different people and they all have photos.
Soundtrack sections for games
Alias Speculation
- Sachio Ogawa - Booty, Roge, E.Fugu
- Masafumi Ogata - Galapagos
- Yasuhiro Kawakami - Yamiagari
- Hisato Fukumoto - see Talk:Hisato_Fukumoto
- Kazuo Wakihara - Wahaha
- Chieko Aoki - April Fool
- Yoshihiko Toyoshima - よしくん (Yoshikun), Totoyo
- Takashi Atsu - Atsu
- Ai Kotani - Cotani ?
- Naomi Yamamoto - N.Y, Nao Chan (in SDI), Nao, Nao Nao
- Ryuichi Hattori - Mad Hatter?, Hatter?
- Michikazu Tamamura - Tamamur∀
- Gen Adachi - Geny
- Naoya Ichikawa - Ichiemon, N.Ichikuwa
- Keiichi Matate/Keiichi Yamamoto - K1
- Akihito Wada - Wa-Da
- Mika Okada - Mikarin (Astal graphics were compared to the Illusion series a lot, but no Astal developers are confirmed to have also worked on Illusion)
- R. Fujimura/Ray.F - Raizou/Ray
- Takaaki Kamohara - Angel Kamo (similar names, same roles, both with Sega CS5)
- A.Tezuka - Tez (Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (8-bit)), Tez・Mania (Jurassic Park (8-bit))
- Marsh - Marusan (similar name and roles, works with many of the same people)
- K.Koba - Kamu (progammed Alex Kidd in Shinobi World with Takubon.
- KenKen - K.K. (in Ghostbusters (Mega Drive)). Similar name and same role. Also would make for 2 games programmed with K.Koba.
- Miki Morimoto - Moritan (Phantasy Star III, thanked with many previous series developers), Moririn (OutRunners, was in Sega CS3 at the time and Moririn is a designer) Mike (in Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit, was in Sega CS3 at the time and Mike is a designer)
- Kazuyuki Shibata - Kyz (Phantasy Star III, thanked with many previous series developers)
- Hirokazu Yasuhara - Autumn (in Super League (Mega Drive), Autumn is a translation of Akitsu, like the name Carol Akitsu. They are also both graphic designers and Autumn worked with Naoto Ohshima).
- Daisuke Sato - Ching Sato (in Surging Aura, an RPG Production game)
- Takayuki Iida - Iiyo (both programmers in roughly the same era)
- Hiroyuki Kawaguchi - Hirohih (in Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit, artist, matches CS2 -> CS3 -> CS2 trajectory)
- Takeshi Doi - Doydoy
- Masanori Hara - Haraita (with Katsuhiko Ogikubo in Kenyuu Densetsu Yaiba)
- Koichi Nagata - Sexy Dynamite (apparently both named programmers, both programmers in roughly the same era), Nas Agatan (programmer on Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, it's a reverse of Nagata San), Shoozy (programmer whose surname starts with N)
- Endo Aki - Chameleon Aki (same gender, Endo Aki has an unknown works history)
- Masaru Nakamura - Saku (Programmer with Game Gear history, 卓 can be read as Taku which sound similar)
- Shin Futakawame - Shinchan (fills in missing year, is with CS2 at about the right time)
- Fumiaki Tomura - F.HAMSTER (in Golden Axe III, matching initials, kinda similar sounding names, both manual writers)
- Kenji Sakurai - Ken-San/Kensan (Game Gear programmers, overlap between Sakurai+Yoshihiko Toyoshima and Ken-San/Totoyo)
- Yoshiaki Kitagawa - Will Cane (game designer named Kita)