Naoki Kodaka
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Naoki Kodaka (or Kotaka) is a Japanese music composer. He is known for his numerous works for Sunsoft. He graduated from Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts in 1982. He has been responsible for the creation of many catchy and memorable soundtracks such as Blaster Master, Fester's Quest, Revenge of the Joker and many others. He is also known for the NES version soundtrack to Spy Hunter.
Kodaka joined Sunsoft around 1984. He originally scored music for the company's arcade games, but the company shortly after focused on development for the Famicom, and so it became his primary platform to work on. During his early years with Sunsoft, Kodaka would usually work solo. However, he would sometimes receive credit with Hiroaki Koi.
He also made a DVD titled "Mushi Mushi no Shi: Rainforest Story".
Currently he is a full time university teacher at the Daido University (he worked at Nagoya College Of Music before 2015).
Audio Development
Kodaka would write either sheet music or would send tape recordings of his compositions to Sunsoft, which were then converted into the game to code by their sound team. These sound coders were unknown in the early Sunsoft games due to the lack of credits or the game developers using undecipherable aliases, though it was presumably a/the programmer. However, for the later games, Kodaka would have his compositions arranged by Nobuyuki Hara and Shinichi Seya.
His compositions were converted to a sound driver by Akito Takeuchi, where music was entered in a traditional MML.
Gameography
Picture Gallery
Links
- mobygames.com/person/108684/naoki-kodaka/ - MobyGames.
- gamefaqs.gamespot.com/games/credit/23129-naoki-kodaka - GameFAQs.
- w.atwiki.jp/gamemusicbest100/pages/2803.html - AtWiki (in Japanese).
- vgmdb.net/artist/309 - VGMdb.
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jcaa1970.com/arrangers/konsakka24.htm - Japan Composers and Arrangers Association(archived?). - shmuplations.com/sunsoftmusic/ - Interview from 2022-01-11.
- daido-it.ac.jp/english/about/faculty/index.html - Listed him as "NAOKI KOTAKA" as one of the professors.