Bamco (Bandai-Namco) issues apology over stolen music.

[inferiare]

The composer for the Super Robot Taisan K game has been found plagiarizing other composer's works without their consent. Kennosuke Suemura used music incredibly similar to Yasunori Mitsuda's work in Chrono Trigger (Battle with Magus) and Yasunori Shiono's work in Lufia II.

The ripped off music from Chrono Trigger (from about 1:10 on it's incredibly prevalent that that's the track you hear when you fight Magus)

The ripped off music from Lufia II (I'm not too familiar with this track, but I can hear it in the SRTK track)

The article found here.

I'm slightly disappointed. :/ You should have fun with your own work. Basing your music/work of art off of something else? Sure, inspiration happens, you dabble in it, it happens. But completely sampling the work without getting any form of an OK from the person you're using the work from? Not. Cool.

Discuss.

[SoulBlazerFan]

Ever seen the film "Pirates of Silicon Valley?"

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs said it best.

"Good inventors create. Great inventors steal."

Or, one of my all time favorites...

"It's not cheating, unless you get caught."- Al Bundy.

...Has little to do with this, but yes raini, I agree. Plagerism is wrong, even if you're intent was an "homage," which doesn't even seem to be the case here.

[Manibrandr System]

I shat brix when I listened to those tracks the first time.

[EverPhoenix]

wow... the one from lufia is like identical. but sounds so damn awesome! i so wish yasunori shiono had remade the lufia 2 soundtrack in this style, but cleaner

[tay120n64]

Wow.

How did he even get away with that to begin with? Has he no integrity?

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Valerie Valens wrote:

I shat brix when I listened to those tracks the first time.

It's upsetting to know that, since what I've heard from those games is super awesome. Knowing that the composer just went "Olol I like Magus's theme, and this theme from Lufia, I'll just use them!" makes me really angry.

@SBiF: Yeah, definitely not a homage at all. :/ Had it been that, sure. And really, stealing ideas, or just using someone else's work because you don't want to do it is silly. I've been inspired by plenty of work (my TE:A design shows that a lot ) but stealing an idea just... doesn't work with me. It's not MY brain child, and I'd rather be proud of something I created.

@tay: I'm not sure. It might have been the "well, it's just coincidence it sounds like x track!" but when it became more and more obvious it wasn't, he got in trouble.

[Jason Tandro]

rainichan wrote:

The ripped off music from Chrono Trigger (from about 1:10 on it's incredibly prevalent that that's the track you hear when you fight Magus)

Oh God, and it's horribly out of key... it's not even a GOOD rip-off!

[inferiare]

Jason Tandro wrote:

rainichan wrote: The ripped off music from Chrono Trigger (from about 1:10 on it's incredibly prevalent that that's the track you hear when you fight Magus) Oh God, and it's horribly out of key... it's not even a GOOD rip-off!

Lol well. It's not out of key in the sense of him trying to make it his own track. A few notes here and there changed but still sounding ok, but the rest of it was just... "WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT, MAKE YOUR OWN."