Tecmo

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Tecmo
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Founded 1967
Headquarters Japan
Other Names
  • Tekhan
    Salio

Tecmo (テクモ株式会社) is a Japanese game developer that has produced many known titles, including the Tecmo Bowl and Ninja Gaiden series.

The company later merged with Koei to create Koei Tecmo Games.

Games

Audio Development

NES

The original driver was programmed by Tecmo programmer Yoshiaki Inose and used in only a handful of games. This driver was tuned to approximately A=445Hz. According to Mikio Saito who used the driver, music was entered in 6502 assembly and was connected to a Famicom for music playback.

In an interview with Keiji Yamagishi, he explained that at the behest of management, he was required to use his own sound driver. The Japanese version of Tecmo World Wrestling (NES) gives credit to "Super Sound Machine No. 2" (スーパーサウンドマシン２ごう). Atwiki.jp attributes this as an alias for Yamagishi himself, but it could have also been the name of the sound driver. However, Inose said that his driver did not have a name, and it appears Yamagishi's driver is based off of Inose's. Also, the US version of the game credits Yamagishi, while the Japanese version doesn't.

A third driver was made by Michiharu Hasuya, again, based on Inose's driver. He started off using a driver in normal tuning, but it later reverted to approximately A=445Hz. Hasuya also said music was entered in 6502 assembly.

A code comparison made by MrNorbert1994 revealed that despite Tecmo using many drivers, they are descendants of Inose's.

SNES

The composers used Tecmo's own variant of Nintendo's Kankichi-kun software. According to Masatoshi Arai and Ryuichi Nitta, music was written on a Sony NEWS computer using a piece of software that functioned like a MIDI editor.

Audio Personnel

These composers worked at Tecmo:

Links

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