Taro Bando
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Taro Bando is a Japanese composer and sound designer. He is known for his countless works at Nintendo. He started working for them around 1987 and continues to work there to this day. While he started off as a composer for their home consoles, he later ended up becoming a sound supervisor and started doing sound effects for their handhelds, mostly for the 3DS.
Audio Development
FDS
The Famicom Disk System games Taro worked on used Koji Kondo's sound driver, which required music to be written in assembly. However, it is unknown if Taro wrote his own music in assembly, or if Kondo arranged his music for him.
SNES
Taro used his own variant of the Kankichi-kun sound driver.
Gameography
| Released | Title | Sample | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987-09-04 | Famicom Mukashi Banashi: Shin Onigashima - Zenpen (FDS) (ふぁみこんむかし話 新鬼ヶ島 前編) | With Koji Kondo. | |
| 1987-09-30 | Famicom Mukashi Banashi: Shin Onigashima - Kouhen (FDS) (ふぁみこんむかし話 新鬼ヶ島 後編) | With Koji Kondo. | |
| 1992-08-27 | Super Mario Kart (SNES) (スーパーマリオカート) | With Soyo Oka. | |
| 1994-06-04 | Stunt Race FX (SNES) (ワイルドトラックス) | Sound Composer | |
| 1996-07-21 | Mole Mania (GB) (モグラーニャ) | ||
| 1996-12-14 | Mario Kart 64 (N64) (マリオカート６４) | Sound Programming with Yoji Inagaki. | |
| 1998-07-14 | F-Zero X (N64) (エフゼロ エックス) | With Hajime Wakai. | |
| 1998-12-18 | Mario Party (N64) (マリオパーティ) | Sound Support with Koji Kondo and Yoji Inagaki. | |
| 2001-04-14 | Doubutsu no Mori (N64) (どうぶつの森) | Sound Effect Programmer | |
| 2001-12-14 | Animal Crossing (GC) (どうぶつの森＋) | Sound Effects Programming | |
| 2002-12-13 | The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (GC) (ゼルダの伝説 風のタクト) | Sound Library Programming with Yoji Inagaki, Hideaki Shimizu, Yasushi Ida, Mitsuhiro Hikino, and Toru Asakawa. | |
| 2003-11-07 | Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (GC) (マリオカート ダブルダッシュ！！) | Sound Effects | |
| 2004-08-26 | Mario Pinball Land (GBA) (スーパーマリオボール) | Mario Series Sound Effects with Yoji Inagaki, Mitsuhiro Hikino, and Toru Minegishi. | |
| 2004-10-28 | Mario Power Tennis (GC) (マリオテニスGC) | Sound Effects with Masaaki Uno, Hikaru Ogawa, Yoji Inagaki, Mitsuhiro Hikino, and Toru Asakawa. | |
| 2005-07-21 | Mario Superstar Baseball (GC) (スーパーマリオスタジアム ミラクルベースボール) | Sound Support with Koji Kondo. | |
| 2005-11-23 | Animal Crossing: Wild World (NDS) (おいでよ どうぶつの森) | Sound Effects with Junya Osada. | |
| 2006-07-27 | Mario Hoops 3 on 3 (NDS) (マリオバスケ３on３) | Sound Supervisor with Koji Kondo. | |
| 2006-11-19 | Wii Sports (WII) (Ｗｉｉスポーツ) | Sound Effect/Programming with Masato Mizuta. | |
| 2007-11-06 | Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (WII) (マリオ＆ソニック AT 北京オリンピック) | Sound Supervisor with Koji Kondo. | |
| 2008-01-17 | Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (NDS) (マリオ＆ソニック AT 北京オリンピック) | Sound Supervisor with Koji Kondo. | |
| 2008-06-19 | Super Mario Sluggers (WII) (スーパーマリオスタジアム ファミリーベースボール) | Sound Support with Koji Kondo, Akito Nakatsuka, and Tomokazu Abe. | |
| 2008-11-16 | Animal Crossing: City Folk (WII) (街へいこうよ どうぶつの森) | Sound Effects with Yuki Tsuji and Masato Mizuta. | |
| 2009-01-15 | New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis (WII) (マリオテニスGC Ｗｉｉであそぶ) | Sound Effects with Masaaki Uno, Hikaru Ogawa, Yoji Inagaki, Mitsuhiro Hikino, and Toru Asakawa. | |
| 2009-10-13 | Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (NDS) (マリオ＆ソニックＡＴバンクーバーオリンピック) | Sound Supervisor with Koji Kondo. | |
| 2009-10-13 | Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (WII) (マリオ＆ソニックＡＴバンクーバーオリンピック) | Sound Supervisor with Koji Kondo. | |
| 2010-05-31 | I Wanna Be the Boshy (W64) | Music from games Taro composed used. | |
| 2011-03-27 | Steel Diver (3DS) (スティールダイバー) | Sound Effects | |
| 2011-11-15 | Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (WII) (マリオ&ソニック AT ロンドンオリンピック) | Sound Supervisor with Koji Kondo. | |
| 2011-12-01 | Mario Kart 7 (3DS) (マリオカート7) | Sound Effects with Takahiro Watanabe. | |
| 2013-07-13 | Pikmin 3 (WIIU) (ピクミン3) | Sound Effects & Programming with Yuya Takezawa, Ryoji Yoshitomi, Yuki Tsuji, and Yohei Miyagawa. | |
| 2013-11-22 | The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (3DS) (ゼルダの伝説 神々のトライフォース2) | Sound Effects with Masato Mizuta. | |
| 2014-02-13 | Steel Diver: Sub Wars (3DS) (スティールダイバー サブウォーズ) | Sound Effects | |
| 2014-05-29 | Mario Kart 8 (WIIU) (マリオカート8) | Sound Effects with Natsuko Yokoyama and Yohei Miyagawa. | |
| 2016-10-07 | Mario Party: Star Rush (3DS) (マリオパーティ スターラッシュ) | Sound Supervisor with Koji Kondo and Ryoji Yoshitomi. | |
| 2017-03-03 | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (SW) (ゼルダの伝説 ブレス オブ ザ ワイルド) | Sound Design with Mitsuhiro Hikino, Yohei Miyagawa, Riyu Tamura, Takuro Yasuda, Eiji Nakamura, Chiharu Minekawa, Hiroki Taniguchi, Kensuke Matsui, and Shunsuke Hongo. | |
| 2017-03-10 | Mario Sports Superstars (3DS) (マリオスポーツ スーパースターズ) | Sound Supervisor with Ryoji Yoshitomi. | |
| 2017-04-28 | Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (SW) | Sound Effects with Natsuko Yokoyama, Yohei Miyagawa, and Takahisa Yamamoto. | |
| 2017-11-10 | Mario Party: The Top 100 (3DS) (マリオパーティ１００ ミニゲームコレクション) | Sound Supervisor with Koji Kondo and Ryoji Yoshitomi. | |
| 2019-10-18 | Ring Fit Adventure (SW) (リングフィット アドベンチャー) | Sound Design with Yohei Miyagawa, Natsuko Yokoyama, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Pedro Avelar Gontijo, and Mitsutoshi Kodama, |
Image Gallery
Nintendo Japan profile.
Links
- nintendo.co.jp/nom/0106/koukaon/interv/profile/bando.html - Nintendo Japan profile.]
