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Final Fantasy IX

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Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.

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Perspective

3rd-Person Perspective

Non-Sport

Anime / Manga, Medieval / Fantasy, Turn-based

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Square Soft, Inc.
Localization Specialists	Ryosuke Taketomi, Maki Yamane, Brody Phillips
Editors	Richard Amtower IV, Matthew B. Rhoades
Localization Assistant	Rika Maruya
Localization Manager	Yutaka Sono
QA Senior Manager	Jonathan Williams
Senior Lead Analyst	David Carrillo
Lead Analyst	Jaime J. Bencia
Assistant Lead Analysts	Jeff J. Love, Chris Manprin
QA Translators	Dana J. Kwon, Kenji Nakamura, Rintaro Yoshida
Analysts	Aaron J. Adams, John W. Carroll, Bryan D. Chen, Kelly Chun, Mathew A. Clift, Michelle Elbert, Michael Alan Erickson, Aron Brent Gutierrez, Eric Lee, Jonathan A. Mankin, Greg Melancon, Jennifer L. Mukai, Michelle Ng, Tam Nguyen, Nicholas M. Pisani, Terry R. Stone, Dan Vanderputt, Stephen C. Wong, Hugo Yeh
Square Electronic Arts L.L.C.
Senior Customer Service Manager	Rick Thompson
Customer Service Manager	Fernando Bustamante
Assistant Customer Service Manager	Alaine C. DeLeon
Senior Customer Support Representatives	John Montes, Caroline Liu
Customer Support Representatives	Mark Abarca, Ryan Riley, Anthony Montana, Arec Nevers
Marketing Communications Manager	Kyoko Yamashita
Assistant Marketing Communications Manager	Francine DeMore
Product Coordinator	Ken Berry
Sales Coordinator	Sean Montgomery
Creative Services Manager	Keiko Kato
Creative Services Associate	Patrick H. Cervantes
Product Associates	Andy Hsu, Troy A. Boren
Product Administrative Assistant	Mari Takashima
Assistant Product Manager	Irene Sam
Product Manager	Andrew Shiozaki
Marketing Manager	Kenji Mimura
Vice Chairman	Yoshihiro Maruyama
Senior Vice President and CFO	Kenzo Nogimura
President	Jun Iwasaki
Packaging/Manual Design	Beeline Group Inc.
Special Thanks To	Beeline Group Inc., BradyGAMES, C.H.E.N. PR, The Kenwood Group, Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles, Virtual InterActive Inc., Kristopher Byrne, Charles Callistro, Jesse Cheek, Michael D. Christoffers, Scott Coventon, Roberta D'Aprea, Justin Dornan, Jared Ellott, Reiko Fukuen, Ryan J. Gibson, Jason Haderlie, Natsu Ishigami, Takuya Ito, Drew Jennings, Terry Y. Jung, Sonoko Kanayama, John S. Kim, Yoko Kondo, Yoshinobu Matsuo, Shigeto Matsushima, Hideaki Morishita, Haruko Nagata, Camille Ortiz, Mayuu Salazar, Susan Stayer, Junko Takasawa, Mohammed A. C. Wright, Junichi Yanagihara, Hideo Yotsuya
Credits
Art Director	Hideo Minaba
Image Illustration	Yoshitaka Amano
Original Score & Music	Nobuo Uematsu
Event Design	Kazuhiko Aoki
Real‑Time Graphics	Akira Fujii
Battle Design	Yasushi Kurosawa
Battle Program	Takayuki Niwa
World Map Program	Tatsuya Yoshinari
World Map Graphics	Masahide Tanaka
Field Design	Nozomu Yamagishi, Takeshi Endo
Field Data	Hidetoshi Kezuka
Field Graphics	Shinichiro Okaniwa, Jun Sakurai, Kazuyuki Ikumori
Character Design	Shukou Murase, Toshiyuki Itahana, Shin Nagasawa
Character Modeling	Hiroshi Arai, Tomohiro Kayano
Character Animation	Jun Uriu, Tatsuya Kando
Storyboard	Toshiyuki Momose
Computer Graphics Movie	Hiroshi Kuwabara
Sound effects	Teruaki Sugawara, Eiji Nakamura
Sound Program	Minoru Akao
Battle Section
Battle Planners	Ryutaro Kanno, Satoshi Shiozaki, Manabu Washio
Background Designers	Norifumi Nagaoka, Junnosuke Kanazawa, Junichi Murata, Takehito Suzuki
Battle Programmers	Tadamichi Obinata, Nobuhiro Fujii, Soichiro Yasui
Effects Designers	Hiroyuki Ikeda, Hirokatsu Sasaki, Yuichiro Suzuki, Takenobu Tomita
Effects Programmers	Tsuyoshi Sonoda, Makoto Hasegawa, Tomonori Hiraishi
Effects Support	Shinichiro Okaniwa, Tatsuo Heianzan, Shin Nagasawa, Jun Sakurai, Kaname Shindoh, Ryotaro Takahashi
Character Section
Additional Character Designers	Fumiyasu Sasaki, Yasuhisa Izumisawa, Yuichirou Kojima, Takuji Sasaki, Kasuko Shibuya, Kaname Shindoh, Yuichi Shiota, Kuniharu Takeuchi, Sanae Tsuji
Field Section
Event Planners	Masahiro Kataoka, Naoya Kawahira, Nobuaki Komoto, Akihiko Maeda, Motoharu Tanaka, Ryota Toyama
Map Planners	Minori Hisamatsu, Tomoko Iemura, Hidetoshi Kezuka, Nobuhiro Nakajima, Kiminori Ono, Charles Pinady, Hiroshi Takahashi, Sanae Tsuji
Field Map Graphics	Gen Arai, Brian Beppu, Wesley Cann, Francisco Cortina, Karl Coyner, Manabu Daishima, Rei Fukuzawa, Véronique Garcia, Masataka Hayakawa, Takehiko Hoashi, Sangwoo Peter Hong, Hiroyuki Hoshino, Shin Ienaka, Hiroki Inohara, Akira Iwata, Yasuhiko Kamata, Insun Kang, Koji Kawamura, Cecil Hong-Sik Kim, Atsushi Kimura, Motoko Kitamura, Thomas Lee, Greg Lev, Toshitaka Matsuda, Hideyuki Matsumoto, Takaharu Matsuo, Hiroki Mitsushima, Takako Miyake, Kimihiko Miyamae, Hideaki Morita, Paul Moya, Koki Nara, Mathisha Nihalsingha, Tatsuhiro Okamoto, Sho Okamura, Eric Pavey, Behrooz Roozbeh, Jacob Rowell, Christian Scheurer, Richard Simple, Shinobu Shinagawa, Kazuya Takahashi, Shiho Tamura, Yukihiro Taniguchi, Donald Taylor, Akihiro Tokunaga, Takuji Tomooka, Misako Tsutsui, Kazushi Urata, Chris Voy, Mitsuhiro Yamada, Kana Yamazaki, Masaki Yasuda, Megumi Yasue, Ikuyo Yoshida, Airi Yoshioka, Masahito Yoshioka
Particle Designers	Mio Kokami, Shinichiro Okaniwa, Ryotaro Takahashi, Makoto Yagishita
Particle Management	Hiroshi Takahashi
Event Programmer	Yasuo Kuwahara
Field Map Programmer	Shawn Taras
Menu Section
Planner	Manabu Washio
Programmer	Soichiro Yasui
Card Game Section
Card Designer	Toshiyuki Itahana
Programmer	Nobuhiro Fujii
Modeling Section
Character Modeling	Tatsuo Heianzan, Brandon Idol, Satoshi Ito, Naho Kodama, Mari Miyamoto, Yoshitsugu Sato, Ryotaro Takahashi, Makoto Yagishita
Monster Modeling	Koichi Ebe, Miwa Hashimoto, Yoshifusa Hayama, Koji Ida, Hideo Kubota, Hiromichi Morita, Kazumi Seki, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Takanari Tajima
Animation Staff
Battle Character Animation	Reina Ikeda, Manabu Inokuchi, Go Kikuchi, Yusuke Tanaka
Field Character Animation	Hiroyuki Hamada, Timothy Kyle Harrison, Brandon Idol, Satoshi Ito, Manabu Inokuchi, Naho Kodama, Mari Miyamoto, Kenji Nomura, Yoshitsugu Sato, Masateru Suzuki, Kuniharu Takeuchi
Monster Animation	Hiroyuki Hamada, Sam Heine, Shinya Ichida, Reina Ikeda, Manabu Inokuchi, Atsushi Inuzuka, Ryoma Itoh, Takuya Iwasaki, Kenji Kadonishi, Go Kikuchi, Mieko Kinoshita, Shinji Koide, Kyoko Muramatsu, Yoko Nagare, Kenji Nomura, Mitsuki Sato, Tomoyuki Sato, Koichiro Soeda, Yoshiyuki Souma, Masateru Suzuki, Kayoe Takagi, Shintaro Tamai, Youichi Tanaka, Yusuke Tanaka
3D Character Programmer	Thomas Shih-Ta Peng
Texture Section
Texture Artists	Takeshi Arakawa, Tomohiro Arakawa, Ryotaro Hashimoto, Haruya Ishii, Masaaki Kazeno, Daiju Komatsu, Tatsuru Nakaza, Kazuhiko Okawa, Takuji Sasaki, Makato Sawano, Tetsu Tsukamoto
World Map Section
Planner	Shoji Shiromoto
Graphics	Tatsuo Heianzan, Kumi Kanai, Emi Komine
Management
Coordinators	Hiroshi Tanaka, Mayumi Clark, David Mantzel
Production Manager	Akira Kashiwagi
Project Manager	Akira Kashiwagi
Production Assistants	Nobuyuki Ueda, Eri Morimoto
Technical Support	Ryoji Sugiyama
Publicity
Publicity	Rieko Katayama, Katsumi Miyazaki, Yuka Naito, Tadashi Nomura, Kakuko Obinata, Akio Ohfuji
Producer	Michio Okamiya
Movie Section
Full Motion Video	Square Visual Works Co. Ltd.
Supervisor	Satoshi Tsukamoto
Director	Hiroshi Kuwabara
Technical Coordinator	Yoshinori Moriizumi
CG Designers	Hiroshi Fujiwara, Shuntarou Furukawa, Takuya Hada, Hiroyuki Honda, Keiko Imamura, Masaharu Inoue, Tadahiro Inoue, Takayuki Katagi, Koji Kobayashi, Ayako Kuroda, Toshiaki Matsumura, Kei Miyamoto, Takaomi Moto, Sanae Nakanishi, Satoshi Naito, Motohito Nasu, Takeshi Nozue, Mitsunobu Ochi, Tomohiko Osugi, Kaori Sato, Shinya Senzaki, Koichiro Shiratori, Kenichi Someya, Eiji Takahashi, Koichi Takahashi, Eishu Takamura, Hideaki Takeda, Kengo Takeuchi, Masayo Tateishi, Takashi Tateishi, Takuji Tomooka, Akihiro Tsuchiya, Kimitoshi Tsumura, Kazuhito Yamamoto, Takuji Yasuda, Masanori Yoshida
Engineers	Takayuki Hirayama, Keisuke Miyazaki, Masashi Nakata, Ryusuke Sasaki, Teruaki Shiraishi, Keita Takagi
Manager	Norimichi Kurosawa
Coordinators	Noriko Abe, Hisako Sakurai, Miho Takagi, Makiko Yasuda
Motion BG
CG Designers	Francisco Cortina, Karl Coyner, Takehiko Hoashi, Kazuyuki Ikumori, Hiroki Inohara, Akira Iwata, Yasuhiko Kamata, Koji Kawamura, Atsushi Kimura, Greg Lev, Hideyuki Matsumoto, Takako Miyake, Hideaki Morita, Koki Nara, Tatsuhiro Okamoto, Sho Okamura, Eric Pavey, Behrooz Roozbeh, Jacob Rowell, Kazuya Takahashi, Mitsuhiro Yamada, Kana Yamazaki, Masaki Yasuda, Masahito Yoshioka
Motion BG Support	Manabu Daishima, Takeshi Endo, Hidetoshi Kezuka, Kiminori Ono
Character Modeling	Francisco Cortina, Takehiko Hoashi, Toshiaki Matsumura, Eric Pavey, Eishu Takamura, Hideaki Takeda, Yoshio Yamakawa
Storyboard	Hiroyuki Shimazu, Koji Kawamura, Tatsuya Yabuta, Masahito Yoshioka
Movie Programmer	Shawn Taras
Music & Sound - Square Sounds Co., Ltd.
Music	Nobuo Uematsu
Sound Programmer	Minoru Akao
Game Sound Editors	Teruaki Sugawara, Makoto Ise
Movie Sound Editors	Eiji Nakamura, Yoshitaka Fujita
Game Sound Effect Editors	Ryo Inakura, Tomohiro Kamiya, Masayuki Nakajima, Natsuko Sugiyama, Masataka Saito, Kyouji Umakoshi
Synthesizer Programmer	Keiji Kawamori
Production Manager	Kensuke Matsushita
Production Coordinator	Naoto Echizen
Production Assistant	Megumi Fukuda
Orchestration	Shirou Hamaguchi
Conductor	Koji Haijima
Recording Engineer	Toshiyuki Yoshida
Mixing Engineer	Kenji Nakai
Recording Coordinator	Yuji Saitou
"Melodies of Life"
Vocals	Emiko Shiratori
Composer	Nobuo Uematsu
Lyrics	Ciomi
English Translation	Kako Someya, Alexander O. Smith
Arranger	Shirou Hamaguchi
Producer	Nobuo Uematsu
"Ancient Music version of FU-RU-SA-TO"
Composer	Nobuo Uematsu
Sound Producer	Kenichi Funayama
Manipulator	Hidenobu Ohtsuki (Kalta)
Recording Engineer	Hidenobu Ohtsuki (Kalta)
Arranger	Kunihiko Kurosawa
Performers	Kunihiko Kurosawa, Haruo Kondo
Quality Assurance - Squartz Co., Ltd.
Executive Director	Hiromi Masuda
Rating and Legal Adviser	Reiko Kondo
Q.A. Supervisors (Tokyo)	Yoshia Shibano, Hideki Matsuoka
Q.A. Assistant Coordinators	Koji Shirasugi, Tetsuya Hiraoka, Ryoichi Norinaga, Shintaro Kamiyama, Yoshio Kishi, Tomoki Matsumoto
Q.A. Supervisor (Honolulu)	Takashi Sannohe
Analysts	Hirotsugu Yamamoto, Kensuke Matsuura, Masamichi Takano, Keisuke Takeda, Kenzo Takeda, Tadashi Miyokawa
Customer Support Supervisors	Emiko Nakamura, Takeshi Ogura, Yui Suzuki, Misako Ishikawa, Kenta Takeuchi, Megumi Wakuta
Localisation - Square Europe Ltd.
Managing Director	Yuji Shibata
Chief of Product Management	Ed Valiente
Assistant Manager Marketing/PR	Stéphanie Journau
Production Coordinator	Lara Sweeney
QA Supervisor	Mark Smikle
Localisation Coordinator	Alison Lau
Technical Support	Alex Moresby
French QA Coordinator	Katrin Darolle
QA Team	Alexis Tolle, Seb Ohsan Berthelsen, Julien Castel, David Dicembre, Yasmine Bensabri, Thomas Bourgault, Genevieve Marier, Antoine Bousquet
Square Co., Ltd. Localisation Team
General Manager	Koji Yamashita
Deputy General Manager	Akira Kashiwagi
Localisation Director	Kazuyoshi Tashiro
Localisation Engineers	Yoshinori Uenishi, Richard Mark Honeywood
Translators	Nobuhiro Uchiyama, Vincent Zouzoulkovsky
Localisation Assistants	Nathalie Ishida (Akira), Tomoko Sekii
TYO / Digital Frontier
Producer	Ken Kobayashi
Assistant Producer	Kuni Fujiwara
Designers	Atsushi Doi, Hiroshi Yagishita, Sachiko Okada
Assistant Designers	Jitsuhisa Shibata, Chikako Tanaka
Kusanagi Co., Ltd.
Designers	Nobuhito Sue, Hideyasu Narita, Tadashi Iwasa, Ken Arai
Management	Yoji Nakaza, Haruko Nakao
D.A.A.C. Corporation
Producer	Yutaka Matsuura
CG Designers	Keiichi Suda, Norifumi Kojima, Jun Terai, Kouichi Okawara, Tomoya Hiroshi
Bihou, Inc. - CG Department
Supervisor	Kouji Iwamoto
Chief Creator	Satoru Fujiyo
Creators	Norihiro Kashima, Nobuhiro Hatori
Bihou, Inc. - Art Department
Designers	Jun Okabe, Tatsuya Kushida
Spice Inc. Computer Graphic Room
CG Director	Joji Hayashi
CG Designers	Tetsuichiro Kitagawa, Yasuhiro Kawada, Takashi Yakushiji, Atsushi Yasuoka, Eriko Yamada, Kyo Shitsu
Digital Media Lab, Inc.
Producer	Keisuke Toyoshima
Director	Junichi Kanzaki
Production Manager	Masatoshi Kobayashi
Visual Effects	Yoichi Iwata, Saori Yoshimoto, Kenji Isobe, Tomoaki Morizumi, Takafumi Sasaki
CG Animators	Yukiko Isobe, Hiroki Morikawa, Hiroshi Imai
Exmachina
Director	Marc Bellan
Director Assistant	Ileana Altmann
Project Managers	Alain Grach, Jean-Jacques Benhamou
Lines Producers	Pierrick Brault, Marco Villamizar, Caroline Huchet
Database	Jerome Gordon, Loic Adam, Jérôme Desvignes, Oliver Moschetto, Patric Pestel, Stephane Paris
Rendering	Jean-Baptiste Lere, Emmanuel Jarry, Gael Seydoux, Franck Dorat, Philippe Billon
Animation	Malek Touzani, Matthieu Royer, Laurent Delachapele, Valerie Ede
Camera	Philippe Tastet
Mapping and Texturing	Fred Mattalas, Isabelle Ramnou, Jullia Andre, Jerome Fournier
Special Effects	Philippe Leprince, Nicolas Bruneau
Storyboard	Gilles Cornu
Sculptor	Charles-Eric Gogny
Computing	Habib Ouadah, Eric Devaux, Christophe Barbotin
Engineers	Bruno Lelevier, Celine Burlet
Layers	Eric Krebs
Videos	Sebastien Martin
From Alias Wavefront	Bert van Brande
From Keyframe	Patrice Vila, Olivier Modr, Olivier Sarecot
Financial Director	Philippe Jeannerot
Production	Oliver Prigent, Anne Romefort
Producer	Shinji Santoh
Executive Producer	Xavier Nicolas
Menfond Electronic Art & Computer Design Co., Ltd.
Chief Supervisor	Eddy Wong
Supervisors	Victor Wong, Randy Tse, Eugene Lau, Kelvin Hou
Animators	Gladys Chan, Barane Chan, Eddie Cheng, Raymond Chiu, Alvin Fung, Francis Fung, Brian Ho, Naveen Moti, Anthea Lam, Pion Lee, Ross Leung, Galan Pang, Anthony Tam, Man Tang, Raymond Wong, Darkus Yu
Tommy & Co., Ltd.
Tommy & Co., Ltd.	Kusutomo Kaga
Sony PCL Inc.
Editors	Hitoshi Takatsuji, Masanori Yamaguchi
Image Studio 109, Inc.
Editors	Hidetaka Ishikawa, Yusuke Yamazaki, Manami Saito
NHK Promotion
Motion Capture Actor	Mayuko Aoki
Wakakoma Pro
Motion Capture Actor	Tetsushin Murata
Composite Advisor	Takashi Komuro
	ALPHA CRC Ltd.
Post Production Sound Services Provided by Skywalker Sound
Re‑Recording Mixers	Dennis Leonard, Tony Sereno
Sound Supervisor	Dennis Leonard
Foley Editors	Andrea Gard, Joey Laurent, Frank Maerel (Pepe)
Foley Artists	Dennie Thorpe, Jana Vance
Foley Mixer	Tony Eckert
Foley Re‑Recordist	Frank Maerel (Pepe)
Skywalker Sound Technical Staff	Jennifer Barin, Christopher Barron, Christian Boatsman, Tim Burby, John Countryman, Travis Crenshaw, Doug Ford, Jonathan Greber, Gabriel Guy, Howie Hammermann, Mark Lindow, Brandon Procter, Steve Romanko, Kent Sparling, John Torrijos (J.T.), Christian von Burkleo
Credits (cont'd)
Special Thanks	Yukiko Adams, Yoshiro Akata, Atsushi Ebisawa, Kiyomi Enomoto, Kazuyuki Hashimoto, Koichi Ise, Takashi Isowaki, Nobuko Izumida, Stephanie James, Yoshinori Kanada, Masayuki Kasuya, Hitoshi Katsura, Amanda J. Katsurada, Shin Kimura, Yasunaga Kobari, Mizuki Kubo, Miho Kurashina, Hiroko Marcinkowski, Hitoshi Matsuda, Jun Matsuyama, Hiroshi Minagawa, Yumiko Miyahara, Yuka Miyamoto, Tohru Morita, Gary Mundell, Toshiaki Nagashima, Naoyoshi Nakazato, Yuto Nara, Etsuko Ono, Akio Sakai, Motonori Sakakibara, Terri Sasaki, Kiyoshi Sato, Kazuhiko Takata, Takazumi Tamahisa, Kazuyoshi Tashiro, Chikako Terashita, Naoko Tunnicliff, Kazunori Yamamoto, Yukiko Yamanaka, Koji Yamashita, Junichi Yanagihara, Debbie Yatogo, Ken Yuaka, All System Dept. Staff, All Square Staff, All Square USA Staff
Main Program by	Hiroshi Kawai
Directed by	Hiroyuki Itou
Producer	Shinji Hashimoto
Executive Producers	Tomoyuki Takechi, Hisashi Suzuki
Conceived & Produced by	Hironobu Sakaguchi

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