List of Super Smash Bros. Melee staff

This is a list of the staff involved with the game Super Smash Bros. Melee. Data from this list is sourced from this page.

Planning

 * Masahiro Sakurai
 * Yoichi Sukino
 * Ryuichi Noguchi

Chief director

 * Masahiro Sakurai

Assistant chief director

 * Yoichi Sukino

Programming director

 * Yoshiki Suzuki

Programming
System:
 * Yoshiki Suzuki

Player collision; motion transportation:
 * Yoichi Sukino

Characters, stage selection, and effects:
 * Akio Hanyu

Items and special moves:
 * Isao Takahashi
 * Yoshimi Takahashi
 * Katsuhiro Sakoda

Devices:
 * Seiji Otoguro
 * Yoshimi Takahashi
 * Kazuhiro Mizusawa

Figures:
 * Seiji Otoguro

Enemies:
 * Seiji Otoguro
 * Masakazu Ebihara

Event Matches:
 * Isao Takahashi
 * Katsuhiro Sakoda

Playable characters:
 * Kouichi Watanabe
 * Tomokazu Tsuruoka

Pokémon:
 * Masakazu Ebihara

Database management:
 * Masakazu Ebihara

Stages and camera work:
 * Kazuhiro Misuzawa

Player library, dynamics, and AI:
 * Masashi Yamane

Figure explanations:
 * Masahiro Sakurai

Game modes and indication:
 * Yoshiya Taniguchi

Menus, cinema scenes, endings, and sprite library:
 * Yasuyuki Nagashima

Training and tournaments:
 * Kim Sung-Kwen

Special bonuses:
 * Tomokazu Tsuruoka

All-Star Mode and staff credits:
 * Takayuki Sugano

Design director

 * Hitoshi Kobayashi

Design work
Game and data design:
 * Masahiro Sakurai

Stage design:
 * Yoichi Sukino

Item and figure design:
 * Hitoshi Kobayashi

Device design:
 * Tsuyoshi Wakayama
 * Atsuko Nakamura

Artwork design:
 * Kenichiro Kita

Menu, character, stage selection, and staff credits design:
 * Michiko Takahashi

Motion design (HAL Laboratory):
 * Masaru Kobayashi
 * Dai Suzuki
 * Akiko Hayashi
 * Mutsuo Ohmiya
 * Tatsuhiko Ohi
 * Takahashi Ariga
 * Masaya Akiyama
 * C. Shane Allala

Motion design (Creatures Inc.)
 * Kazuo Yazawa
 * Mikio Menjo
 * Katsura Tabata
 * Masahiro Abeki
 * Yuji Kawarada
 * Jungo Suzuki
 * So Yoshimura

Game demo movie and screen shot design:
 * Kouji Akaike
 * Kazuo Yazawa

Opening movie design:
 * Kei Hoshiba
 * Jungo Suzuki
 * Ken Ikuji

Playable character modeling (HAL Laboratory):
 * Hitoshi Kobayashi
 * Hitoshi Kikkawa
 * Tetsuya Mochizuki
 * Kenichiro Kita

Playable character modeling (Creatures Inc.)
 * Kei Hoshiba

Item modeling:
 * Tsuyoshi Wakayama

Stage modeling (HAL Laboratory):
 * Tsuyoshi Wakayama
 * Tadashi Hashikura
 * Hitoshi Kikkawa
 * Sanae Kubota
 * Atsuko Nakamura
 * Kunio Watanabe

Stage modeling (Creatures Inc.)
 * Yousuke Hirata
 * Atsuko Ujiie
 * Toru Kurashige
 * Ryuta Kusumi
 * Keita Komatsu
 * Satomi Kokubo
 * Hikaru Jinguji

Enemy modeling:
 * Hitoshi Kikkawa
 * Tetsuya Mochizuki
 * Atsuko Nakamura

Effect and background modeling:
 * Kunio Watanabe

Figure modeling (Creatures Inc.):
 * Mikio Menjo
 * Katsura Tabata
 * Masahiro Abeki
 * Yuji Kawarada
 * Jungo Suzuki
 * So Yoshimura
 * Yousuke Hirata
 * Atsuko Ujiie
 * Toru Kurashige
 * Ryuta Kusumi
 * Keita Komatsu
 * Satomi Kokubo
 * Hikaru Jinguji
 * Ken Ikuji

Figure modeling (Dice):
 * Tomohiro Sato

Figure modeling assistants:
 * Hiromichi Sugiyama
 * Nachi Sugiyama
 * Yoshiyuki Tagawa
 * Shinichi Yoshikawa

Figure design support:
 * Tsuyoshi Wakayama

Stage design support:
 * Ryuichi Noguchi

Opening movie design support:
 * Atsuko Nakamura

Design support:
 * Hiroo Takeshita
 * Tomomi Minami
 * Reiko Iwao
 * Teruhiko Suzuki
 * Tomoko Nagaya

Sound and music staff
Music composition:
 * Hirokazu Ando
 * Shogo Sakai

Music arrangement:
 * Hirokazu Ando
 * Tadashi Ikegami
 * Shogo Sakai
 * Takuto Kisuta

Music coordination:
 * Hirokazu Ando

Voice coordination:
 * Tadashi Ikegami

Sound composition:
 * Tadashi Ikegami

Librarian:
 * Shogo Sakai

Mixing:
 * Hirofumi Sato

Mixing assistant:
 * Yuuichi Kaneko

Pokémon audio planning:
 * Masafumi Mima

Musical performance

 * Orchestra "Melee"
 * Conducted by Taizo Takemoto

Character Voices

 * Dean Harrington (Narrator, Master Hand and Crazy Hand)
 * Charles Martinet (Mario, Luigi and Dr. Mario)
 * Nobuyuki Hiyama (Link)
 * Kazumi Totaka (Yoshi)
 * Makiko Ōmoto (Kirby and Ness)
 * Shinobu Satouchi (Fox McCloud)
 * Steve Malpass (Fox McCloud (in his ship))
 * Ikue Ōtani (Pikachu)
 * Rachel Lillis (Jigglypuff)
 * Jen Taylor (Princess Peach)
 * Ryō Horikawa (Captain Falcon)
 * Jun Misuzawa (Princess Zelda and Sheik)
 * Hikaru Midorikawa (Marth)
 * Masachika Ichimura (Mewtwo)
 * Satomi Kohrogi (Pichu)
 * Fujiko Takimoto (Young Link)
 * Jun Fukuyama (Roy)
 * Takashi Nagasako (Ganondorf)
 * Sanae Kobayashi (Ice Climbers)
 * Hisao Egawa (Falco Lombardi)
 * Ben Cullum (Falco Lombardi (in his ship))
 * Chris Seavor (Peppy and Slippy)

Crowd cheers

 * Bill Trinen
 * Tim O'Leary
 * Nate Bihldorff

DK Rap, vocals

 * James W. Norwood, Jr.

North American localization
English text editing:
 * Rich Amtower
 * Bill Trinen
 * Jeff Miller

English text writing:
 * Bill Trinen

English translation:
 * Tim O'Leary
 * Nate Bihldorff

Localization management:
 * Jeff Miller
 * Leslie Swan

U.S. text writing support:
 * Norimasa Tanikawa

Original game staff
Producer and director of original games:
 * Shigeru Miyamoto

Mario, Luigi, Link, and Donkey Kong character designs:
 * Shigeru Miyamoto

Star Fox and F-Zero character designs:
 * Takaya Imamura

The Legend of Zelda character illustration:
 * Yusuke Nakano

Metroid game design:
 * Yoshio Sakamoto

Samus character design:
 * Hiroji Kiyotake

Super Metroid CG design:
 * Tomoyoshi Yamane

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time director:
 * Eiji Aonuma

Ice Climber character designs:
 * Tadashi Sugiyama

Yoshi character design:
 * Shigefumi Hino

Kirby character design:
 * Masahiro Sakurai

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time character designs:
 * Yoshiki Haruhana

Ganondorf character design:
 * Satoshi Takizawa

EarthBound producers:
 * Shigesato Itoi
 * Tsunekazu Ishihara

Yoshi's Story producer:
 * Takashi Tezuka

Miscellaneous Nintendo character designs:
 * Makoto Kano
 * Toru Osawa

Pokémon executive director:
 * Satoshi Tajiri

Pokémon director:
 * Junichi Masuda

Pokémon graphic director:
 * Ken Sugimori

Pokémon programming:
 * Shigeki Morimoto
 * Tetsuya Watanabe
 * Sousuke Tamada
 * Tetsuji Ohta

Pokémon planning:
 * Kouji Nishino

Pokémon coordination:
 * Hiroyuki Jinnai

Pokémon product supervision:
 * Tsunekazu Ishihara

Fire Emblem director:
 * Tohru Narihiro

Fire Emblem designer:
 * Masahiro Higuchi

Fire Emblem scenario:
 * Masayuki Horikawa

Fire Emblem art director:
 * Taeko Kaneda

Fire Emblem supervisor:
 * Kentaro Nichimura

Super Mario Bros. and Star Fox 64 music composition:
 * Koji Kondo

The Legend of Zelda music composition:
 * Koji Kondo
 * Akito Nakatsuka

Yoshi's Story music composition:
 * Kazumi Totaka

Kirby Super Deluxe music composition:
 * Jun Ishikawa

Metroid music composition:
 * Hirokazu Tanaka

EarthBound music composition:
 * Keiichi Suzuki

Ice Climber music composition:
 * Akito Nakatsuka

F-Zero X music composition:
 * Taro Bando

Donkey Kong Country music composition:
 * David Wise

Creatures staff management

 * Kei Hoshiba
 * Ashura Benimaru Itoh

Nintendo character supervisor

 * Youichi Kotabe

Special thanks
Conductor coordination:
 * Yuji Yasuda

Voice cast coordination:
 * Noriyoshi Matsuura

"DK Stage Rap" vocal coordination:
 * Steve "Bang" Pang

Orchestra coordination:
 * Reiko Yanami

Choir coordination:
 * Suehiro Endo

Pokémon supervisors:
 * Hiroki Enomoto
 * Kazuyuki Terada
 * Akihito Tamura
 * Ryohei Itakura

Pokémon coordination:
 * Gakuji Nomoto
 * Ai Mashima
 * Kunimi Kawamura
 * Masayuki Miura
 * Yumiko Murai

Proofreading for Pokémon:
 * Takemoto Mori

Marigul Management:
 * Hisakazu Hirabayashi
 * Masachi Uchiyama
 * Yuko Yamamoto
 * Kazutoshi Iida
 * Rikuo Kurebayashi
 * Kouji Suzuki
 * Shigeo Sasaki

Totakeke rough design:
 * Yumi Yoshimi

Original Nintendo game staff:
 * Satomi Maekawa
 * Wataru Yamaguchi
 * Hiroaki Takenaka
 * Tomoaki Kuroume
 * Katsuya Eguchi
 * Hisashi Nogami
 * Noriko Ikegawa
 * Yoshiaki Koizumi
 * Hiromu Takemura
 * Jin Ikeda
 * Junji Morii
 * Hiroyuki Kimura
 * Takeshi Hosono
 * Shinya Takahashi
 * Tsuyoshi Watanabe
 * Aya Sumimoto
 * Tokihiko Toyoda
 * Tatsuya Hishida
 * Yasuhiro Sakai
 * Kenta Usui
 * Mitsuhiro Takano
 * Masamichi Abe
 * Hiroyuki Yamada
 * Keisuke Terasaki
 * Masashi Goto
 * Masanori Sato
 * Takehiro Izushi
 * Hitoshi Yamagami
 * Hiroshi Sato
 * Toshiharu Izuno
 * Shigeki Yamashiro
 * Jun Tsujimoto
 * Nintendo Software Technology

Wilcolinks Digiworks:
 * Hideki Nakano
 * Yoshihisa Kato
 * Keiichi Abe
 * Takeo Niikura
 * Masako Ohno

HAL Lab Debug Team:
 * Senji Hirose et al.

Nintendo Co., Ltd. debug staff:
 * Tsutomu Kaganezawa
 * Masahiro Takeguchi
 * Hironobu Kakui
 * Super Mario Club

Nintendo of America debug staff:
 * Michael Kelbaugh
 * Kyle Hudson
 * Eric Bush
 * Randy Shoemake
 * Kiyohiko Ando
 * Michael Chipman
 * Jason Mahaffa
 * Chris Needham
 * David Hunziker
 * Nicko Gonzalez
 * NOA Debug Team

Digital Media Lab:
 * Shinji "Miki & Gaku" Torigoge
 * Tadashi Tominaga
 * Masaki Sakai
 * Nozomi Sanada
 * Satoshi Maruyama
 * Takayuki Higurashi
 * Manabu Takahashi
 * Syozi "Okap" Okada
 * Kazuhiro Nakatani
 * Kensuke Yamamoto

Public relations:
 * Satoshi Ishida
 * Tetsuya Notoya

Buildup:
 * Nobuya Okabe
 * Satoshi Nagaoka
 * Tetsuya Amabiki
 * Masayuki Gotoh
 * Naoto Oonuki
 * Takayuki Hayama
 * Tomoya Ohata
 * Fumihito Saito
 * Ryoko Suzuki
 * Kazutsugu Kosugi
 * Shin Kitada
 * Hajime Ishiyama

Sysdolphin:
 * Chiharu Itoh
 * Hidetoshi Seki
 * Jun Yamasaki
 * Shigeru Hirayama
 * Junichi Aoyagi
 * Tatsuhiro Tanoue
 * Takaaki Kazuno
 * Hajime Kojima
 * Takashi Matsuda
 * Takashi Saito
 * Takeshi Shimada
 * Hiroshi Yoshino
 * Satoshi Kira

Artwork coordination:
 * Masao Kamada

General coordination:
 * Yukiko Kishimoto
 * Kamon Yoshimura

Nintendo Support Staff:
 * Koji Uyama
 * Takeshi Furuta
 * Ryuta Kaimoto
 * Kensuke Tanabe
 * Shin Hasegawa

Marketing supervision:
 * Satoru Iwata
 * Minoru Arakawa
 * Manabu "Mike" Fukuda

Package and manual design, editing, and printing:
 * Ryuji Hagino
 * Kazuya Konishi
 * Hisatoshi Takeuchi
 * Emi Masai
 * Tomoko Kitada
 * Hiroshi Fujie
 * Kaori Nishimura

Project manager

 * Ryuki Kuraoka

Producers

 * Masayoshi Tanimura
 * Hiroaki Suga
 * Shigeru Miyamoto
 * Kenji Miki

Executive producer

 * Hiroshi Yamauchi