Takayuki Nakamura
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Takayuki Nakamura is a Japanese composer, sound designer, and sound programmer. He started off in September 1989 working for Sega's Sound Team as a part-time job. His first work was ESWAT on the Mega Drive, which he composed with Dolphin / Y.T. In April 1990, he joined Sega Corporation and learned and produced sound programming, and Hiroshi Kubota was his teacher at the time. In August of 1996, he left Sega, only to join Dream Factory in September.
In August 1999, Nakamura left Dream Factory to start his own music business Brainstorm, which he still operates to this day.
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Music Composition
Arcade
For his work on Wally wo Sagase!, Nakamura used two YM2612 chips with an RF5C68 for PCM audio.
GEN
Nakamura used 68 000 version of SMPS.
SMS
Nakamura wrote the music in assembly and converted his music to 8-bit version of SMPS.
Later, he used Z80 version.
GBA
Nakamura initially used BrainStorm's custom sound driver, which possibly developed by himself.
On his later works, he used Nintendo's MP2K sound engine.
GBC/WS
Nakamura used BrainStorm's custom sound driver, which possibly developed by himself.
NDS
Nakamura used Intelligent Systems' Nitro Composer sound driver.
Gameography
These games have been verified to have been composed/programmed by Takayuki-san via his website.
Aliases
In Michael Jackson's Moonwalker for the Genesis, he is credited as Middle Village, which is simply a translation of his last name Naka and Mura, respectively. The Sega Master System simply lists his initials TN.
Nakataka is simply the first kanji of his last name and first name, respectively.
Picture Gallery
Facebook Profile Picture
Staff photo from Wally wo Sagase! (ARC).
Links
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takayuki_Nakamura - Wikipedia.
- youtube.com/user/takayukina/videos - YouTube.
- youtube.com/watch?v=75jA7F8AXC4 - Promo Video.
- w.atwiki.jp/gamemusicbest100/pages/5336.html - Atwiki.jp (Japanese).
