Created by Sonic Team |
| Game Director |
Toshiyuki Nagahara |
| Art Director |
Hideaki Moriya |
| Day Level Lead Designer |
Masaaki Yamagiwa |
| Day Level Designers |
Mai Kikuchi, Shōhei Shimokawa, Masanosuke Shimizu, Yuka Kobayashi |
| Night Level Lead Designer |
Minoru Yamazaki |
| Night Level Designers |
Tatsuro Tsumori, Yoshihito Okuno, Kentarou Kiyono, Kyōko Kataoka, Atsushi Kanno, Emiko Sunaga |
| Lead Scripter |
Sayaka Yamato |
| Scripters |
Kohei Iwamoto, Toshihiro Nakagawa, Kuninori Dohno, Hiroaki Yamasaki |
| Additional Production Support |
Hideaki Hamachi, Yukihiro Higashi |
| Lead Programmer |
Naoki Takishita |
| Lead Conversion Programmer |
Hidehiro Bushisue |
| Programmers |
Yohei Okai, Ryusuke Watanabe, Masahiko Hidaka, Fujio Tani, Hitoshi Yamashina, Atsushi Nakano, Hiroki Horiguchi, Mitsutaka Fukuhara, Toru Inoue, Hiroya Hasegawa, Ryosuke Ihara, Kyohei Kakimoto, Yukio Kaneda, Kenichi Koshida, Takaaki Leki, Hiroki Hayami, Shinya Hironaka, Yuzuru Nakamura, Masatoshi Nakane, Takashi Miyahara, Naohisa Tanimoto |
| Technical Support |
Hiroto Hayashi, Kazuhiro Fumoto, Mito Yoshida, Akira Kanasugi, Noriyuki Tarumi, Toshikazu Kawada, Osamu Ogata, Takashi Ando, Makoto Suzuki |
| Additional Programming Support |
Katsuya Kuramoto |
| Lead Artist |
Daisuke Miyahara |
| Artists |
Seiichi Fudo, Shintaro Washino, Naoki Matsue, Satoshi Takemura, Yuki Yamamoto, Motoki Uehara, Kazuhiro Kohata, Tomomi Kobayashi, Erika Baba, Junji Ihara, Eriko Sato, Masaki Yasumitsu, Tatsumi Harada, Shiho Yabe, Ramu Kato, Yuji Wada, Kumiko Yagura, Takeshi Mitsumoto, Mitsuhiro Sasatani, Tetsuya Mitomi, Masaya Etou, Takahito Kojima, Aki Kise, Nao Okinaka, Ichiro Yamana |
| Character Artists |
Noriyuki Kitazawa, Megumi Yamashita, Mikio Ohkubo, Hirotaka Ijichi |
| Lead Animator |
Nobuyuki Kuroki |
| Animators |
Kazuhito Takahashi, Akira Kawanari, Keisuke Iwano, Keisuke Tochio |
| Lead Visual Effects Artist |
Miho Hayashi |
| Visual Effects Artists |
Waka Matsuo, Yuichi Tokuda, Naoki Nakashiba |
| Lead User Interface Artist |
Shikana Kimura |
| User Interface Artists |
Haruka Kimoto, Sawa Onishi |
| Additional Art Support |
Kazuhiko Yamamoto |
SEGA Development Support |
| Game Director |
Yoshihisa Hashimoto |
| Art Director |
Sachiko Kawamura |
| Artists |
Tamotsu Kushibe, Makoto Yonezu, Shinkichi Tanahashi, Keisuke Watanabe, Hideki Yano, Hiromasa Yoshida, Kentaro Niina |
| Lead Designer |
Takao Hirabayashi |
| Designers |
Takako Nagase, Masayuki Inoue |
| Lead Programmer |
Takaaki Saito |
| Programmers |
Hiroshi Iwasaki, Kentarou Tomii, Nobuo Nakagawa, Yusuke Ichiyama |
| In-game and Opening Movie Concept Art |
AOKI Prod., Massive Black Inc., Gentle Giant Studios |
| Scenario Writer |
Kiyoko Yoshimura (as Sayako Yoshimura) |
| Game Character Design |
Illustrators unit Gurihiru |
| Special Thanks |
Koichi Sakita, Kazuhiro Kawakami, Yuji Nakayama, Makiko Nishimura, Kenjiro Morimoto, Tetsu Katano, Yōjirō Ogawa, Masatoshi Nakamura, Yuichiro Yamamoto, Tatsuya Kumagai, Shinobu Yokota, Yoko Araki, Randy J. Miller (Rainmaker Artists), Jeannette Perez (BMG Label Group), Kevin Wong (Universal Music Publishing Group), Frank Laehnemann (Marina Records), Yutaka Yamamoto (Attic Arcade Inc.), Clinton Strother, Motoko Minagawa, Kazuo Koizumi (wavemaster Inc.), Teruhiko Nakagawa, Naofumi Hataya, Ai Miura |
| Sound Producer |
Tomoya Ohtani |
| Lead Music Composer |
Tomoya Ohtani |
| Music Composers |
Kenichi Tokoi, Fumie Kumatani, Hideaki Kobayashi, Takahito Eguchi, Mariko Nanba |
| Sound & Music Scripter |
Kenji Kojima |
| Musicians |
Hideo Yamaki (Drums), Masayuki Muraishi (Drums), Yuki Sugawara (Percussion), Ichiro Fujiya (Electric Bass), Takeshi Taneda (Electric Bass), Takumi Matsuda (''FIRE''; Electric Bass), Makoto Saito (Wood Bass), Naomi Nakamura (CafeManouche; Wood Bass), Chewtaro Moritake (Electric Guitars), Shinji Kawase (CafeManouche; Maccaferri Guitars), Yoshifumi Yamamoto (CafeManouche; Maccaferri Guitars), Takahito Eguchi (Piano), Yutaka Minobe (Piano), Tadashi Ohtsubo (Keyboard), Yoshiaki Sato (Accordion), Marie Ōishi (Vibraphone), Masatsugu Shinozaki (1st Violin), Yasunao Ishida (2nd Violin), Kiyo Kido (3rd Violin), Yuriko Mori (4th Violin), Masami Horisawa (Cello), Yasurou Choumei (Cello), Koji Nishimura (1st Trumpet), Masahiro Kobayashi (2nd Trumpet & Brass Arrangement), Kanade Shishiuchi (Trembone), Yoshinari Takegami (Saxophone {Bariton; Tenor; Alto; Soprano}), Hideyo Takakuwa (Flute & Alto Flute & Bamboo Flute), Kanae Nozawa (Erhu), Nobuo Yagi (Blues Harp), Koichi Minagawa (Tokyo Gamelan; Gamelan), Kohey Kawamura (Topyo Gamelan; Gamelan), Tomoyuki Hamamoto (Tokyo Gamelan; Gamelan) |
| Orchestra |
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Recording Directors |
Tadashi Ohtsubo (Sega Digital Studio Session), Atsushi Kosugi (''SUSHI''; Beat On Beat Inc.; New York Session) |
| Recording Engineers |
Daiei Matsumoto, Dave Darlington, Masahiro Fukuhara, Stan Katayama, Toshiyuki Yoshida, Yoshikazu Sasahara, Yoshitada Miya |
| Mixing Engineers |
Daiei Matsumoto, Dave Darlington, Masahiro Fukuhara, Stan Katayama, Toshiyuki Yoshida, Yoshikazu Sasahara, Yoshitada Miya |
| Assistant Engineers |
Kazuya Kikkai (Sound Crew Studio), Rie Mimoto (Towerside Studio), Shigeharu Nakauchi (Onkio Haus Studio), Shohei Kasuya (Victor Studio), Takahiro Suzuki (Towerside Studio), Takehiko Naito (Sound City Studio), Takuya Komiyama (Onkio Haus Studio), Tōru Kumade (Studio Blan) |
| Recorded & Mixed at |
Attic Arcade Studio, Jungle Room Studio [Los Angeles; U.S.A.], Onkio Haus Studio, Sega Digital Studio, Sound City Studio, Sound Crew Studio, Studio Blan, The Del-Ray Studio [Los Angeles; U.S.A.], Towerside Studio, Victor Studio |
| Recording Coordinators |
Hidetaka Shibata (''Carl''; Power House Studio), Kazuyuki Doki (Re-Birth), Kiyoshi Yoshida (Attic Arcade inc.), Yoji Sugiyama (Witchcraft) |
| Vocal Tracks Corodinator |
Jun Senoue |
| Legal Staff |
Adam Pendlebury |
| Mastering Engineer |
Tetsuya Yamamoto |
| Mastering at |
avex Studio |
| Game Sound Department: Supervisor Sound Editor |
Tatsuya Kōzaki |
| Game Sound Department: Sound Editors |
Masaru Setsumaru, Tatsuyuki Maeda, Hideki Abe |
| Movie Sound Department: |
RedAJ Sound |
| Movie Sound Department: Supervisor Sound Editor |
Eiji Nakamura (''AJ'') |
| Movie Sound Department: Sound Editors |
Chiharu Minekawa ('Michi''), Kenichi Saito (''KEN''), Yoshihiro Maeda (''PIRO'') |
| Sound Plant: Mixing Engineer |
Kazutaka Someya |
| Sound Plant: Sound Design |
Kazutaka Someya |
| Sound Plant: Assistant Engineers |
Kazushige Sato, Tomohiro Fuchikami |
| Unknown |
DiMAGIC Co. Ltd |
| English Character Voices |
Jason Adam Griffith, Tony Salerno, James Hadley Snyder, Amy Palant, Mike Pollock, Lisa Ortiz, Christopher Collet |
| Kids Productions, Inc. |
Sal Oppedisano, Christopher Collet |
| Japanese Character Voices |
Junichi Kanemaru, Ryō Hirohashi, Taeko Kawata, Chikao Otsuka, Chō (credited as ''Cho''), Tomokazu Seki, Ryōko Shiraishi, Tamotsu Nishiwaki, Yoshiyuki Kaneko, Noboru Yamaguchi, Eisuke Asakura, Etsuko Kato, Go Shinomiya, Tomo Adachi, Miho Hino |
| Tohokushinsha Film Corporation |
Keiichiro Miyoshi, Takuya Ōno |
| Sales Promotion |
Mitsuru Takahashi, Takafumi Ueoro, Yusuke Watanabe, Yasushi Nagumo, Reiko Chiba |
| Project Management |
Seijirou Sannabe, Yasushi Yamashita, Takeshi Shimizu, Toshirou Nakayama, Hideki Yokaichiya |
| Sales |
Akira Nomoto, Kōji Nagata, Takayuki Murata |
| Special Thanks |
Yoshiharu Honda, Kazunori Yagi, Naoki Kondo, Yukihiro Taguchi |
| Oversees Consumer Business |
Tatsuya Shikata, Aya Takeuchi, Ryo Urushibata |
| Quality Assurance |
Seiji Hasegawa, Mikio Kume, Go Sudou, Ryouichi Katou, Masayoshi Iwakiri, Toshihiro Yuda, Kenta Takeda |
| Product Test |
Junichi Shimizu, Akira Nishikawa, Osamu Satou, Hiroyuki Miyano, Yuuki Takahashi, Daisuke Suzuki, Hitoshi Abe, Rintarō Furukawa, Norio Akimoto, Kouji Nakagawa, Keiichi Kigawa, Yusuke Asano, Shunichi Senda, Tomoyo Hirakawa, Tomoko Sekiguchi, Nobuyuki Satou, Mai Yoshizaki, Muneyoshi Sasaki |
| Package Production |
Yoshihiro Sakuta, Masaru Kobayashi, Ayako Sakai |
| Manual Production |
Yoshihiro Sakuta, Masaru Kobayashi, Ayako Sakai |
| Software Manual Production |
Yoshihiro Sakuta, Makoto Nishino |
"Dear My Friend" |
| Performed by |
Brent Cash |
| Music by |
Mariko Nanba |
| Lyrics by |
Candie Y |
| Arranged by |
Takahito Eguchi |
| Co-Arranged by |
Mariko Nanba |
| Vocals |
Brent Cash |
| Chrosu |
Yoshihiko Chino, marhy |
| Accustic Piano |
Takahito Eguchi |
| Programming |
Takahito Eguchi |
| Accustuc Guitar |
Naganori Sakakibara |
| Strings |
Koichiro Muroya (''Daisensei'' Muroya Strings) |
| Vocal Tracks recorded by |
Stan Katayama (at The Del-Rey Studio in Los Angeles) |
| Recorded by |
Daiei Matsumoto (at Onkio Haus Studio Tokyo) |
| Mixed by |
Daiei Matsumoto (at Studio Blan Tokyo) |
| Brent Cash Appears Courtesy of |
Marina Records |
SEGA of America |
| President |
Simon Jeffery |
| COO |
Simon Jeffery |
| VP of Sales |
Susan Hughes-Taigen |
| VP of Product Development |
David Cobb |
| Producers |
Patrick Riley, Jason Kuo |
| Assistant Producer |
Kevin Frane |
| VP of Content |
John Whitmore |
| Senior Publishing Manager |
Klayton Vorlick |
| VP of Marketing |
Sean Ratcliffe |
| Senior Director of Marketing |
Rick Naylor |
| Director of Marketing |
Don Mesa |
| Product Marketing Manager |
Judy Gilbertson |
| Assistant Product Marketing Manager |
Ken Balough |
| Narketing Consultant |
Marcella Churchill |
| Senior Public Relations Manager |
Tali Fischer |
| Senior Creative Manager |
Jenifer Groeling |
| Creative Services |
Heather Lucchetti, Mary Disbrow, Marco Garcia, Bridget Oates, Teri A. Higgins, Carl Smolka, Greg Ammen |
| Development Services Director |
John Merlino |
| QA Supervisor |
Mark Cartwright |
| Mastering Lab Coordinator |
Rey Casto Buzon |
| Mastering Lab Technicians |
Keith Alloro, Christopher Rilles, Kenneth Nacua |
| Senior QA Leads |
Demetrius Griffin, Shawn Dobbins |
| Test Lead |
Reese Wright |
| Assistant Test Lead |
Dane Day |
| Standards Supervisor |
Stephen Akana |
| Standards Lead |
Rodolfo Junior Sison, Eduardo Camacho |
| Standards Assistant Lead |
Christine Letheby, Marta Khosraw |
| Standards Testers |
Niroth Keo, Anthony Williams, John Stafford, Benjamin Hand, Timothy Erbil, Dennis De Bernardi, Jonathan Lalas, Tamara A. Williamson, John Belcher |
| Testers |
Luke Hoppel, Justin Edwards, Tony Lo, Dennis Constantino, Joanna Ralston, Johnson Tang, Camden Tayler |
| Hardware Technician |
Matthew Ellison |
| Web Producer |
Marjorie Puruganan |
| Flash Developer |
Michael Dobbins |
| Special Thanks |
Osamu Shibamiya (at Inbound Games), One PR, Keith Palmer, Keith Dwyer, Omar Woodley, Christopher Kaminski, Andy Alamano, Brody Phillips |
SEGA Europe Ltd. |
| President |
Michael Hayes |
| COO |
Michael Hayes |
| Development Director |
Gary Dunn |
| Director of European Marketing |
Gary Knight |
| Head of Studio, Localization |
Kuniyo Matsumoto |
| Senior Producer, Localization |
Akiko O'Driscoll |
| Publishing Manager |
Nathalie Ranson |
| Senior Brand Manager |
Helen Lawson |
| European PR |
Kerry Martyn |
| Creative Services |
Alison Peat-Borrelli, Morgan Gibbons, Akane Hiraoka, Arnoud Tempelaere |
| Head of Operations |
Mark Simmons |
| Purchasing Manager |
Caroline van Venrooij |
| Operations |
Natalie Cooke |
| Online Marketing Team |
Mike Evans, Charlotte Mills, Kevin Eva, James Carsen |
| Legal Counsel |
Nicky Boxall, Mark Bennett |
| Licensing Manager |
Nivine Emeran |
| Head of Development Services |
Mark Le Breton |
| Localization Manager |
Marta Lois González |
| Localization Coordinator |
Giuseppe Rizzo |
| Translators |
Antonella Marras, Antonio Catanese, Carole Kunzelmann, Brigitte Nadesan, Jean-Loup Lansac, Jesús Álvarez Sánchez, Marco Borrelli, Nicole Thomer, Daniela Kaynert, Jay S. Bannmüller, Sebastián Pérez Salguero, Luis J. Paredes López |
| Mastering Team |
John Hegarty, Jigar Patel, Roy Boateng |
| QA Senior Team Leads |
Julie Metior, Renée Teloka |
| QA Team Leads |
David Tyler, Samuel Morgan, Tony Langan, Yusuf Ibrahim |
| QA Assistant Team Leads |
Natasha Sandars, Paul Sedgmore, Simon Chang |
| Functionality Testers |
Ben Hunt, Cara Gifford-Pitcher, Dan O'Callaghan, Deanne Anderson, Elwaleed Suliman, Errol Burke, Jamie Carpen, Jamal Ibrahim, Jasmine Lillywhite, Michael Drinkwater, Michael Veness, Nadine Bieshaar, Paul Hann, Stephen Etheridge |
| QA Language Senior Team Leads |
Alessandro Irranca, Stephan Wolschon |
| QA Language Assistant Team Leads |
Goffredo Pagliei, Ilja Klemm, Ruggero Varisco |
| QA Language Senior Testers |
Julien Grelet, Stéphane Ramaël |
| QA Language Testers |
Alessio Nesi, Alexis Baudon, Antoine Fourmond, Antoine Pineau, Carolina Vidal, Christoph Masius, Edoardo Levanti, Gian Maria Angelucci, Ilaria Pizzilli, Ivan Palma, Jan Domke, Jorge Vilches, Krystiana Maria Gutbub, Marcus Laqua, Mario Horky, Michael Willenborg, Pedro González Gala, Piero Albertini, Rafael Bermúdez Calvar, Ricardo Oyón Rodríguez, Tiziano Loi |
| QA Standards Co-ordinator |
Mohammed Ajaib |
| QA Assistant Standards Co-ordinators |
Justin Amore, Michael Hanley |
| Standards Technicians |
Aaron Wright, Alexander Maw, Anthony Phillips, Cornell Walker, David Skilton, Hiroki Saito, James Beaton, Sameer Malik, Shiva Allari |
Visual Entertainment R&D Dept. |
| Producer |
Takeshi Ito |
| Director |
Shinji Aramaki |
| Art Director |
Tomokazu Takahashi |
| Head of layout |
Kengo Takeuchi, Manabu Himukai |
| Character Modelling Supervisor |
Jun Masuda |
| Sets & Props Supervisor |
Hideyuki Higashi |
| Character Setup Supervisor |
Kei Miyamoto |
| Production Manager |
Kei Miyamoto |
| Animation Supervisor |
Jiro Yamagishi |
| Effect Supervisor |
Masayuki Tanaka |
| Sequence Supervisor |
Takuya Hada |
| Director of R&D |
Jun Saito |
| Tools Development Supervisor |
Seymour Wakisaka |
| Project Managers |
Chikako Tanaka, Rumi Osagawa, Akira Ito, Tomohiro Mitsui, Ayano Fukuda |
| Preproduction Artists |
Minoru Kusakabe, Naomi Tsujishita |
| Lead Concept Artist |
Shinji Usui, JP Target |
| Concept Artists |
Noriaki Hashimoto, Hiroaki Ueno, Hiroyuki Kinoshita |
| Art Department Artist |
Naomi Tsujishita |
| Lead Character Modelling Artist |
Kenichi Nishida |
| Character Modelling Artists |
Toshiya Umeda, Satoshi Kounosu, Satoshi Takahashi, Hiroaki Ota, Takayuki Hayama, Emiri Minagawa, Yang Simin |
| Lead Sets & Props Modelling Artist |
Yoshihiro Hanada |
| Sets & Props Modelling Artists |
Kazushige Hayakawa, Hideaki Makinouchi, Yoshihiko Suzuki, Yutaka Yamaki, Naoto Kawaguchi |
| Lead Character Setup Artist |
Kiminori Kusano |
| Character Setup Artists |
Kenou Hakamaya, Tatsuya Akagi, Kengou Nukizono, Ayako Sakurai, Tomohiro Hanawa |
| Animation Artists |
Yusuke Sakai, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Takaaki Kise, Tatsunori Tomiyama, Yoshimasa Kimura, Hideyuki Kinoshita, Tomokazu Sakamoto |
| Effects Artists |
Shuntarō Furukawa, Yoshihisa Inoue, Takeyuki Suzuki, Wataru Kitamura |
| Lighting Artists |
Kohei Kajisa, Satoshi Tomatsu, Keisuke Takahashi, Tsubasa Nakai, Hirokazu Ayukawa, Takuto Yamamori, Tomoya Kowase |
| Software Engineers |
Tomoaki Saito, Gaetan Guidet, Tatsuya Syuzui (''Cap''), Yoko Sano, Tomoya Matsumura, Takamasa Matsunari, Shoma Hosaka, Toshifumi Sato (Centro System), Atsushi Shibata (Webcore Corporation) |
| Technical Researcher |
Mio Tagiri |
| Lead System Administrator |
Yuji Umeki |
| System Administrators |
Toru Iwata, Yusuke Yanagisawa, Yukari Oikawa, Yoko Washino |
| Matte Painting Artist |
Kazumasa Uchio |
| VP Digital Concept Art |
Brian Sunderlin |
| Concept Art Director |
Scott Spencer |
| Concept Artist |
Ben Roman |
| Coiza Design Artists |
Rieko Nohara, Ayako Kawawa |
"Endless Possibility" |
| Performed by |
Jaret Reddick (of Bowling For Soup) |
| Music by |
Tomoya Ohtani |
| Arranges by |
Tomoya Ohtani |
| Lyrics by |
Jaret Reddick |
| Vocals |
Jaret Reddick |
| Chorus |
Erik Chandler |
| Guitars |
Chewtaro Moritake |
| Bass |
Takeshi Taneda |
| Drums |
Masayuki Muraishi |
| Programming |
Tomoya Ohtani |
| Drums & Bass recorded by |
Masahiro Fukuhara (at Towerside Studio Tokyo) |
| Guitars recorded by |
Masahiro Fukuhara (at Sound Crew Studio Tokyo) |
| Vocal Tracks recorded by |
Stan Katayama (at Jungle Room Studio in Los Angeles) |
| Mixed by |
Yoshitada Miya (at Sega Digital Studios Tokyo) |
| Jaret Reddick & Erik Changler appear courtesy of |
Jive Records |
"The World Adventure" |
| Performed by |
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Music by |
Tomoya Ohtani |
| Orchestrated by |
Takahito Eguchi |
| Orchestra |
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Condurctor |
Koji Haishima |
| Music Preparation |
Kaoruko Iwase |
| Orchestra Production Manager |
Iori Iwasaki |
| Recorded by |
Toshiyuki Yoshida (at Sound City Studio Tokyo) |
| Mixed by |
Toshiyuki Yoshida (at Victor Studio Tokyo) |
Additional Credits |
| Uses |
Havok |
| Havok (C) Copyright 1999-2008 |
Havok.com Inc. |
| Creative Producer |
Akinori Nishiyama |
| Chief Producers |
Hiroyuki Miyazaki, Toshihiro Nagoshi |
| Executive Supervisors |
Takayuki Kawagoe, Naoya Tsurumi, Masanao Maeda |
| Executive Producer |
Okitane Usui |