Wow. Thank you guys. That was really helpful. I originally looked at Kita as a potential programmer, but the “Super Metroid” comment on the forums threw me off. You did beat me to the punch.
I’m guessing he doesn’t want to talk about stuff that is possibly under NDA. At least that’s my theory.
I am also hoping G-Zero and Dragon Hopper pop up one day. They are by far the most complete out of all the cancelled software for the VB.
(also, do we know how people know G-Zero and Jump Dragon were the japanese names for it’s JPN release if there was never a full preview?)
-Turbo
KR155E do you remember anything about the site in question? Or the name of the programmer? I tried looking all over for any other evidence, but I’ve only come across a mention of this “programmer” on GoCollect forums.
They say he was a programmer for the paper Mario “games” (plural), but also that he worked on Super Metroid too. They also mention that he was still working at Nintendo at the time of 2014.
With that much out of the way, I’ve only come across 3 definite possibilities.
-Rikiishi Motomu (however there is 2 mistranslated names, chikarashi motomu and satoshi rikiishi)
-Mitsuru Matsumoto
-Kenji Nakajima (or Ken Nakajima)
Any more leads would be great to at least another name to add to credits.