Naoki Kodaka

Naoki Kodaka

Local	小高直樹 (こだかなおき)
Born	1957
Birth Place	Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Aliases	N-Kodaka, Kodaka San, Kodaka Naoki and Guys, New, Naoki Kotaka, Chokkun

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 Kai.

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).

Music 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

Released	Title	Notes
1984-??-??	Banbam (ARC) (Pettan Pyu)	With Hiroaki Koi
1985-07-25	Super Arabian (FC) (スーパーアラビアン)	With Hiroaki Koi.
1985-10-04	Route-16 Turbo (FC) (ルート１６ターボ)	Composer?
1985-11-28	Ikki (FC) (いっき)	With Hiroaki Koi.
1985-??-??	Ikki (ARC) (いっき)	With Hiroaki Koi.
1986-04-17	Atlantis no Nazo (FC) (アトランチスの謎)
1986-11-20	Dead Zone (FDS) (デッドゾーン)
1986-12-12	Adian no Tsue (FDS) (アディアンの杖)
1986-12-18	Madoola no Tsubasa (FC) (マドゥーラの翼)
1987-02-06	Nazoler Land Soukangou (FDS) (ナゾラーランド創刊号)
1987-03-27	Chisoko Tairiku Orudoora (FDS) (地底大陸オルドーラ)
1987-03-27	Super Boy Allan (FDS) (スーパーボーイ・アラン)
1987-06-12	Nazoler Land Dai 2 Gou (FDS) (ナゾラーランド第２号)
1987-09-??	Spy Hunter (NES)	Arranged Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn Theme.
1987-12-04	Shanghai (FC) (上海)	With Naohisa Morota.
1988-01-23	Ripple Island (FC) (リップルアイランド)	With "Ryu".
1988-04-??	Freedom Force (NES)
1988-06-17	Blaster Master (NES)
1988-12-??	Platoon (NES)	Arranged Jonathan Dunn's music.
1988-12-09	Nankin no Adventure (FDS) (なんきんのアドベンチア)	With Nobuyuki Hara.
1989-02-10	Sekiryuuou (FC) (赤龍王)	With Nobuyuki Hara.
1989-03-30	After Burner (FC) (アフターバーナー)	Arranged Hiroshi Kawaguchi's music.
1989-09-??	Fester's Quest (NES)
1989-12-22	Batman (NES)	With Nobuyuki Hara.
1990-03-02	City Hunter (PCE) (シティーハンター)	Composer?
1990-07-19	Batman (GEN)
1990-??-??	Batman: The Video Game (GB)	With Nobuyuki Hara and Shinichi Seya.
1990-08-10	Journey to Silius (NES) (ラフワールド)	With Nobuyuki Hara, Naohisa Morota, Shinichi Seya, and Manabu Sakota.
1990-10-26	Nantettatte!! Baseball (FC) (なんてったって！！ベースボール)	With other unidentified composers.
1990-12-14	Gremlins II: The New Batch (NES) (グレムリン２：新種誕生)	With Nobuyuki Hara and Shinichi Seya.
1991-09-20	U-four-ia: The New Saga (NES) (へべれけ)	With Nobuyuki Hara and Shinichi Seya.
1991-09-27	Super Spy Hunter (NES) (バトルフォーミュラ)	With Nobuyuki Hara and Shinichi Seya.
1991-12-20	Batman: Return of the Joker (NES) (ダイナマイトバットマン)	With Nobuyuki Hara and Shinichi Seya.
1992-??-??	Batman: Revenge of the Joker (GEN)	Arranged by Tommy Tallarico.
1992-01-14	Super Fantasy Zone (GEN) (スーパーファンタジーゾーン)	With Shinichi Seya and Nobuyuki Hara.
1993-03-05	Albert Odyssey (SNES) (アルバートオデッセイ)
1991-??-??	Gremlins 2: The New Batch (GB)	With Nobuyuki Hara and Shinichi Seya.
1994-03-11	Sugoi Hebereke (SFC)
1994-12-22	Albert Odyssey II (SNES)
1996-08-09	Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean (SAT)
1997-07-24	Out Live: Be Eliminate Yesterday (PS1)
Unreleased	Batman: Revenge of the Joker (SNES)	Arranged by David Whittaker.