Capcom
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| Founded | 1979 |
| Headquarters | Osaka, Japan |
| Website | capcom.com |
| Other Names | Japan Capsule Computers |
Capcom (株式会社カプコン Kapukon Kabushikigaisha = Capcom Co., Ltd.) is one of the most successful video game companies in history releasing to the arcade, console, and PC markets. They have created several successful franchise like Mega Man, Street Fighter, Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Breath of Fire, and Monster Hunter.
Capcom is short for Japan CAPsule COMputers.
Games
Music Development
NES
The majority of Capcom's NES games use a sound driver written by Yoshihiro Sakaguchi in 6502 assembly to produce sound on the audio processing unit of the CPU of the NES, the RP2A03. Composition required musicians to arrange their music into a custom Music Macro Language using hex values, a very tedious process. Capcom's sound driver was quite robust and yielded an distinctly identifiable sound.
It is unknown if the earliest NES Capcom games used the same driver, as the composers have given differing reports as to whether they used Sakaguchi's driver or one by Micronics programmer Kazuo Yagi, but it is known that the last few games use a sound driver created by Make Software rather than Sakaguchi's driver, possibly because it was easier to work with.
SNES
Yoshihiro Sakaguchi also wrote the sound driver used for most of the company's early SNES releases. His sound driver was later refined by Yasushi Ikeda, with Breath of Fire (SNES) the earliest known game to use the newer version.
Audio Personnel
These composers worked at Capcom:
- Ayako Mori
- Ippo Yamada
- Harumi Fujita
- Hiroshige Tonomura
- Junko Tamiya
- Kumi Yamaga
- Makoto Tomozawa
- Manami Matsumae
- Mari Yamaguchi
- Minae Fujii
- Setsuo Yamamoto
- Shusaku Uchiyama
- Takashi Tateishi
- Tamayo Kawamoto
- Tatsuya Nishimura
- Toshihiko Horiyama
- Toshio Kajino
- Yasuaki Fujita
- Yoko Shimomura
- Yoshihiro Sakaguchi
- Yuki Iwai
- Yuko Takehara
Picture Gallery
Capcom's sound team in the mid 1980s.
Some of the Capcom sound team.
Links
- mobygames.com/company/capcom-co-ltd - MobyGames (Capcom Ltd.).
- mobygames.com/company/capcom-usa-inc - MobyGames (Capcom USA, Inc.).
- gamefaqs.com/features/company/2324.html - GameFAQs.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capcom - Wikipedia.
