Shining Force 2 soundtrack

[RainMan7]

Hello there.

I have a few questions.

1) Does anyone know whatever happened to Motoaki Takenouchi? (composer of Shining Force 2)

2) Does anyone know where I can find a template for similar sound-font setup as heard in Shining Force 2? I really love the way the samples sound and was wondering if anyone might have a good idea as to where I can find some sample templates which resemble Shining Force 2.

Much appreciated! Also, please feel free to discuss this amazing soundtrack if you have any thoughts about it. I believe it is harmonically adventurous, thematically relevant, thrilling, unexpected and a true joy for the ears and heart. Does anyone else love this soundtrack?

[Arrow]

Can't really help you with your questions, but to this day, SF2 is in my Top 5 favorite VG soundtracks. I about died the first time I heard the Symphonic Suite CD.

[Sam Ascher-Weiss]

Takenouchi is a god... I highly recommend you download everything else he's ever written

[Dave Harris]

Last I heard, he was doing stuff with j-pop. There's a thread about it over at project2612 - http://forums.project2612.org/showthread.php?t=218

And yeah I also thoroughly recommend checking out some of his other stuff if you haven't. He's a complete badass. I wrote up a Wikipedia article with all the soundtracks he's written (that I know of)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoaki_Takenouchi

Most of them are available in ripped formats now.