Jaleco
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| Founded | October 3, 1974 |
| Headquarters | Japan |
Jaleco Ltd. (株式会社ジャレコ Kabushiki Kaisha Ja-Re-ko) is a Japanese game developer founded in 1974. It is probably known best for its Bases Loaded franchise. The company's name stood for "JApan LEisure COrporation". It first started as an amusement equipment developer. In 1983, they formally changed their name to Jaleco Ltd. From the 1980s to the 2000s, the company developed and published many video games on various systems, but on November 1, 2000, Jaleco was purchased by PCCW and renamed to PCCW Japan which itself was bought in April 2001 by the VR-1 Group. In October 2002, PCCW Japan merged Jaleco USA and VR-1 Entertainment to form Jaleco Entertainment, which in 2004, was renamed to just Jaleco. The video game division was spun off on July 3, 2006 to Jaleco Ltd which was later sold to Game Yarou on January 15, 2009. Jaleco Holding, which no longer made video games, then changed its name to Emcom Holdings to dissociate itself from its video game past.
Games
Audio Development
ARC
Big Run uses a sound driver by Yasuhiko Takashiba.
Rod-Land and Soldam credit the sound driver to "Panic Yuma". These games required the music to be entered in a custom form of Music Macro Language. The snare drum and bass drum samples in Soldam are taken from a Roland MT-32. Due to a bug in the sound code and hardware, the music plays a ¼ step flat. The games use a YM2151 with an OKI MSM6295.
Game Boy
Jaleco programmed their own sound driver. The first version by Tsukasa Tawada, and the second by an unknown programmer. The music was written on a PC-9801 computer in Music Macro Language, and then compiled and converted into the sound driver.
SNES
Jaleco used their own sound driver. Unlike most developers, it is not based on Kankichi-kun. It was programmed by Hajime Uchida and used a custom MML.
Audio Personnel
- Atsuyoshi Isemura - Composer.
- Hajime Uchida
- Kenichi Arakawa
- "Panic Yuma" - Sound programmer for Rod Land (ARC) and Soldam (ARC).
- Shinichiro Nakamura
- Shinichi Sakamoto
- Suguru Ishida - Composer.
- Takahiro Ogata - Composer.
- Tatsuya Nishimura
- Toru Ohara
- Tsukasa Tawada - Lead composer.
- Yasuhiko Takashiba - Composer and sound programmer.
- Yasuyuki Suzuki - Composer.
- Yuichiro Ohkawa - Composer.
Links
- jaleco.co.jp - Official.
- mobygames.com/company/jaleco-ltd - MobyGame (Jaleco Ltd.).
- mobygames.com/company/jaleco-usa-inc - MobyGames (Jaleco USA, Inc.).
- mobygames.com/company/jaleco-entertainment-inc - MobyGames (Jaleco Entertainment).
- gamefaqs.com/features/company/12903.html - GameFAQs.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaleco - Wikipedia.
