Eurythm
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Eurythm (also spelled Eurhythm) was the name of the in-house audio team at Home Data. Unfortunately, because Home Data rarely put credits in their games, the sound team was rarely credited. The name may have been inspired by the English band Eurythmics.
It appears the company broke away from Home Data around the mid 90s. They would end up contributing music to Home Data's rebranding Magical Company, as well as Gaps, a company consisting of former Home Data/Magical Company employees.
Contents
Audio Personnel
- Hiroshi Endo - Audio director, sound designer.
- Junichi Ueda - Composer and arranger.
- Kenichi Fujii - Composer and arranger.
- Murata - Credited for "Delta Driver" in Tetra Star: The Fighter (FC).
- Takashi Nakajima - Composer and arranger.
- Yoshihiko Atarashi - Composer for Dragon's Eye Plus: Shanghai III (SMD).
Audio Development
Mega Drive
The company used Sega's SMPS for their two Mega Drive games. Shougi no Hoshi uses the Z80 version while Dragon's Eye Plus: Shanghai III uses the 68000 version. Both games were arranged by Junichi Ueda, who converted the composers' songs into the sound engine.
Shougi no Hoshi features music by Novko Hasebe, who, while a member of Home Data, was not a part of their Eurythm sound team. She wrote her music on a Kawai Q-80 sequencer.
NES
Eurythm's sound driver was programmed by Toshiyuki Hirota, based on the credits on Tetra Star. Looking at the data, the music was written in Music Macro Language; two sets of numbers were entered, one for pitch, the second for length. It is possible the composers used letters for notation originally before the conversion into data.
All games that use the driver were only released in Japan.
SNES
The company used their own version of the SQ & DBOOT driver by Opus. The Magical Company games seem to use a variant of Kankichi-kun.
Gameography
Note: This lists all of the games that credit Eurythm, as well as games that credit composers from the Eurythm sound team. For specific composer credits, see each person in the Audio Personnel page.
| Released | Title | Sample | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990-??-?? | Mahjong Lemon Angel (ARC) (麻雀レモンアンジェル) | Not credited, but credits sound team members Hiroshi Endo, Kenichi Fujii, and T. Nakajima. | |
| 1991-02-15 | Famicom Shougi: Ryuuousen (FC) (ファミコン将棋竜王戦) | |
Not credited, but uses their sound driver. |
| 1991-03-15 | Marble Madness (X68) (マーブル・マッドネス) | Members: Hiroshi Endo and Kenichi Fujii. | |
| 1991-05-04 | Tetra Star: The Fighter (FC) (テトラ・スター) | Team and multiple sound team members credited. | |
| 1991-11-02 | Dragon's Eye Plus: Shanghai III (SMD) (ドラゴンズアイ プラス 上海Ⅲ) | |
Credited in ROM text. Members: Hiroshi Endo, Yoshihiko Atarashi, and Junichi Ueda. |
| 1991-11-29 | Famicom Igo Nyuumon (FC) (ファミコン囲碁入門) | Not credited, but uses their sound driver. | |
| 1991-11-29 | Shougi: Shoshinsha Muyou (PCE) (将棋 初心者無用) | |
Not credited, but credits sound team members: Hiroshi Endo, Kenichi Fujii, and Takashi Nakajima. |
| 1994-09-22 | TNN Bass Tournament of Champions (SFC) (ラリー・ニクソン スーパー・バス・フィッシング) | Members: Kenichi Fujii. | |
| 1994-09-23 | Mahjong Sengoku Monogatari (SFC) (麻雀戦国物語) | Not credited, but credits sound team members: Toshiyuki Takine and Kenichi Fujii. | |
| 1994-10-21 | Honkaku Mahjong: Tetsuman II (SFC) (本格麻雀 徹萬Ⅱ) | Members: Kenichi Fujii. | |
| 1995-04-28 | Shodankurai Nintei: Shodan Pro Mahjong (SFC) (初段位認定 初段プロ麻雀) | Members: Kenichi Fujii. | |
| 1995-07-21 | Take Yutaka G1 Memory (SFC) (武豊 G1メモリー) | Members: Kenichi Fujii. | |
| 1995-12-15 | JB: The Super Bass (SFC) (ＪＢ・ザ・スーパー・バス) | ||
| 1997-03-07 | Planet Joker (SAT) (プラネット・ジョーカー) | Members: Hiroshi Endo, Kenichi Fujii, and Mitsuhiko Takano. |
