Never Ending Soft Team/Chuanpu connection

[codeman38]

Don't know how I'd never noticed this before now, but as "andlabs" points out on the Project2612 forums, there's actually a credit to Never Ending Soft Team buried as ASCII text in Yase Chuan Shuo:

"BATTLE SYSTEM*  Written by TSUI-ChienHua NeverEnding-SOFT  TAIWAN,TAICHUNG   1994,1995"

So yep, there's a Never Ending Soft/Chuanpu Tech connection right there-- and before 1996, at that! Not as if we hadn't already figured out the two companies were somehow related, but still, nice to see it confirmed.

In pinyin, incidentally, that'd be Cui Jianhua (崔建華), who's also credited for the battle engine in Barver Battle Saga.

Edit: Sure enough, an almost identical credit's also buried in Barver Battle Saga! "*BATTLE SYSTEM*  Written by TSUI-ChienHua         (C)1995 NeverEnding-SoftStudio  IN TAIWAN,TAICHUNG"

Edit #2: Shui Hu Feng Yun Zhuan, the only game explicitly credited to Never Ending Soft, also has a hidden credit for Tsui: "SUIKODEN (ACT. GAME) Written by TSUI-ChienHua (C)1996 NeverENDING--SoftTEAM   IN TAIWAN,TAICHUNG"

Edit #3: Oh, wow, Conquering The World III is actually newer than Shui Hu Feng Yun Zhuan, and thus probably post-Chuanpu as well: "*BATTLE SYSTEM*  Written by TSUI-ChienHua         (C)1997 NeverEnding-SoftStudio  IN TAIWAN,TAICHUNG"

[KingPepe]

Geez, how many times have they been credited?

[codeman38]

Found yet another one, in Romance of the Three Kingdoms Part 5:

"*SANGO 5* SLG BATTLE SYSTEM  Written by TSUI-ChienHua   (C)1997 NeverEnding-Soft Team   IN TAIWAN,TAICHUNG"

Seriously, how many games did this guy develop?

[taizou]

Well that was unexpected.. O: I guess Never Ending was just a small team that assisted Chuanpu (and whatever came after Chuanpu) with various things, probably headed by Tsui. in Shui Hu he's credited as director and programmer, maybe the three people given actual credits in that game were the only ones actually working for Never Ending, everyone listed under "special thanks" was probably at Chuanpu (or ex-Chuanpu).