E102

E102 is a member of the Sonic Retro community who focuses on the music of the Sonic the Hedgehog series. He has contributed updated credits to various pieces of music in various Sonic games, including:

• More official titles for tracks from the Mega Drive / Genesis and Game Gear games
• Information on how to access sound tests for the Sonic Advance trilogy
• The creation of pages for Keiichi Sugiyama, Sachio Ogawa, Masayuki Nagao, Kojiro Mikusa, Chikayo Fukuda, Yoshiaki Kashima, Mitsuharu Fukuyama, Hidenori Shoji, Takeshi Isozaki, and many, many more
• Evidence for the connection between the pseudonym Dawasa and the composer Tomonori Sawada
• As above, between Milpo and Yoshiaki Kashima

It is also originally thanks to his efforts that the long-standing idea that Masayuki Nagao was a pseudonym of Naofumi Hataya (known chiefly to Sonic fans as one of the two composers for the Japanese soundtrack of Sonic the Hedgehog CD), which had spread rampantly across the internet, was finally resolved as being false.

He has contributed more on Sega Retro, having updated the credit lists for nearly every Wave Master employee and sound staff member about whom said wiki has an article.

He is perhaps best known on the Sonic scene for his contributions in properly crediting the music of Sonic 3 & Knuckles, having officially tagged nearly half the soundtrack thus far; and he has made efforts to ascertain exactly what Michael Jackson et al. did for the game.

Before joining Sonic Retro, he made other discoveries for artists such as Toshihiko Horiyama, Yasuaki Fujita, and Naoshi Mizuta; and has furthered the resolve for greater credit information via liner notes, archived data and – though it sometimes backfires – his own perceptions.

His motto: If he doesn't do it, who will?

To this day he is still surprised that no one before him registered with this name.