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Smash Bros. has many composers from franchise all over the gaming industry
The Smash Bros website listed many of the musicians for the Nintendo 3DS version who composed many world-famous composition. A few examples of these famous works are Tetsuya Shibata of the Devil May Cry series, Yasunori Mitsuda of CHRONO TRIGGER, and Yoko Shimomura of the Kingdom Heart series.
With everyday that passes by, more information trickles out about Super Smash Bros. and with all the content that packed into that little game card, one has to wonder how much content they could possible cram.
Keep in mind that these “main compositions” are just examples of their past work and does not necessary mean unannounced character additions. Here is the current available music in one single video so far courtesy of GameXplain.
Musicians of Nintendo 3DS version
| Artist | Main Compositions |
|---|---|
| ACE (TOMOri Kudo / CHiCO) | Xenoblade Chronicles Music for “ONE PIECE exhibition” under the editorship of Eiichiro Oda |
| Masato Coda (designwave Co., Ltd.) | Monster Hunter series El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron |
| Masashi Hamauzu | Final Fantasy XIII Saga Frontier II |
| Kenji Ito | Romancing SaGa series Puzzle & Dragons |
| Noriyuki Iwadare | Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies GRANDIA |
| Shota Kageyama | Pokémon X and Pokémon Y Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version |
| Yuzo Koshiro (Ancient-corp.) | Etrian Odyssey, Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune Wangan Midnight: Maximum Tune |
| Yasunori Mitsuda (PROCYON STUDIO) | CHRONO TRIGGER Inazuma Eleven |
| Michiko Naruke (Naru2 Co., Ltd.) | Wild Arms Nora to Toki no Kōbō: Kiri no Mori no Majo |
| Keiichi Okabe (MONACA) | NieR Replicant / Gestalt TEKKEN series |
| Hideki Sakamoto (noisycroak Co., Ltd.) | Toukiden TIME TRAVELERS |
| Motoi Sakuraba | Tales of series Dark Souls series |
| Tetsuya Shibata (Unique Note Co., Ltd.) | Devil May Cry 2, 3, 4 Merc Storia |
| Yoko Shimomura | Kingdom Hearts series Mario & Luigi RPG series |
| Masafumi Takada (Sound Prestige LLC) | Danganronpa series Earth Defense Force series |
| Yusuke Takahama (TARGET ENTERTAINMENT INC.) | Digital Pinball: Last Gladiators Super Smash Bros. Brawl |
| Hirokazu Tanaka | Metroid Dr. Mario |
| Kumi Tanioka | FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES series Ragnarok Odyssey series |
| Nobuko Toda (FILM SCORE LLC) | Metal Gear Solid 4 TIME SCOOP HUNTER |
| Shohei Tsuchiya (TAITO / ZUNTATA) | DARIUSBURST series GROOVE COASTER series |
| Atsuko Asahi (Nintendo) | Mario Kart 8 Animal Crossing: New Leaf |
| Daisuke Matsuoka (Nintendo) | StreetPass: Find Mii series Tomodachi Life |
| Toru Minegishi (Nintendo) | The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks Wii Fit |
| Ryo Nagamatsu (Nintendo) | Nintendo Land The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds |
| Mahito Yokota (Nintendo) | Super Mario Galaxy 1&2 Super Mario 3D World |
| Keiki Kobayashi (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) | ACE COMBAT series THE IDOLM@STER series |
| Rio Hamamoto (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) | TEKKEN series THE IDOLM@STER JUPITER |
| Hiroki Hashimoto (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) | TANK! TANK! TANK! PAC-MAN & Galaga DIMENSIONS |
| Yoshinori Hirai (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) | Taiko: Drum Master series THE IDOLM@STER |
| Taku Inoue (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) | TEKKEN series THE IDOLM@STER series |
| Jesahm (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) | Donkey Konga series THE IDOLM@STER series |
| Saki Kasuga (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) | Fire Emblem series Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door |
| Hiroyuki Kawada (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) | Walküre series Shadow Land |
| LindaAI-CUE (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) | Taiko: Drum Master series Tokyo Wars |
| Yuji Masubuchi (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) | Taiko: Drum Master series Klonoa 2: Lunatea’s Veil |
| Junichi Nakatsuru (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) | SOULCALIBUR series ACE COMBAT series |
| Katsuro Tajima (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) | SPLATTERHOUSE Katamari Damacy |
| Torine (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) | Taiko:Drum Master series THE IDOLM@STER |
| Ryo Watanabe (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) | RIDGE RACER series THE IDOLM@STER series |
| Yoshihito Yano (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) | Katamari Damacy series SOULCALIBUR series |
Sakurai went into much detail about the musical feature of Smash Bros such as being able to listen to the many musical pieces when your Nintendo 3DS is closed while listening to your tracks though your headphones. You’ll also choose from the large assortment of tracks and create a custom music list in Smash Run.
“Choose your songs and play with features on the bottom screen. You can listen to character voices, too. One of the new highlights for this feature is the “Play in Sleep Mode” option in the upper right. If you turn this on, you can listen to the tracks with your headphones even when your Nintendo 3DS is closed. The L and R Buttons will let you skip tracks. This means you can use it as a portable music player. Enjoy listening to the tracks you love by putting all songs in loop, shuffle, or selecting your favorite tracks!!”
“In Smash Run, the background music plays randomly from the songs you select from the track list. This means you can customize your own song lineup!! Usually each stage has two tracks-which makes for a lot of songs on its own-but as a bonus, we’ve added more songs for you to enjoy in Smash Run and in the Sounds area.”
Lastly, Sakurai explained that more music will be announced as well as praised the design of the sound test screen.
“By the way, here’s another music announcement!! You can now listen to some of the tracks on the official website. We’re planning to add more tracks a little at a time, so stay tuned. http://www.smashbros.com”
“…The 3DS version has an excellent Sounds collection! The design looks nice for a sound test screen, doesn’t it? The font color for the “Remix” text on remixed songs comes in pink or white. The pink ones are songs arranged for this version of Super Smash Bros., while the white ones are remixes made in earlier Smash Bros. games. This means there are reoccurring songs from past releases.”
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