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"