Profire

Profire Co., Ltd. (株式会社プロファイア) is a computer hardware and software development company based in Nagoya, with an office in Tokyo. It was established on April 1, 1996. [1]

In June 2000, Profire established a game production subsidiary called Profire NDC (now Phonoca). [2]

Profire is part of a "strategic business alliance group" called Byakugun with four other game development companies — Alfa System, Matrix Software, Meteorise, and Studio Artdink — to cooperate in each other's development projects. [3]

Research Methods: Actual mentions, online resources

Arcade

• Pride GP 2003 (Capcom)
• Under Defeat (translation?) (G.rev)

"Yu Aoki" from Profire is credited with "translation." Presumably this is referring to some sort of text translation because if you search for the name "Yu P. Aoke" (sound designer on Godzilla: Daikaijuu Soudageki), you will see that they translated an article for a Japanese military magazine.

Mobile

• Namnam [Android/iOS, also HTML5] (planning, design, program production, various applications) (Bandai Namco Entertainment)

PlayStation

• Baseball game (unreleased) (Profire)
• Cat the Ripper: 13-ninme no Tanteishi (ported from Windows) (JP Publisher: Tonkin House)

A former Profire programmer tweeted about writing the sound driver for the PlayStation version. [4] The Profire website listed PC game ports (no specific titles given) to the PlayStation and Saturn. [5] A former Profire sound designer was an arranger on an unnamed game for PlayStation and Saturn. [6]

• Extreme Power (JP Publisher: CS)
• live! ReMiX (unreleased) (Profire)

PlayStation 2

• Pride GP Grand Prix 2003 (JP Publisher: Capcom)

Saturn

• Cat the Ripper: 13-ninme no Tanteishi (ported from Windows) (JP Publisher: Tonkin House)

Windows

• Biohazard 4 / Resident Evil 4 [7]
• Dino Crisis
• Godzilla: Daikaijuu Soudageki (JP Publisher: TDK)

Some Programming, [Some?] Graphics: Profire NDC

• Layer Section

A former Profire programmer tweeted about porting this game from the PlayStation to Windows. [8] However, the first Layer Section never came out for PlayStation, and the Windows version credits Big Bang Software, an American development company.

• Princess Maker: Pocket Daisakusen (development) (JP Publisher: CyberFront)

Planning, Production: GeneX

• Raynegard [MMORPG] (planning, client program [Windows], server program [IRIX], some graphics, sound) (JP Publisher: Capcom)
• Rockman X3 / Mega Man X3 [9] [10]
• Rockman X4 / Mega Man X4
• Soredemo Golf [online game] (StarOnline)
• Street Fighter Online: Mouse Generation [online game] (client program [Windows], server program [Linux], some graphics) (Daletto)

Xbox

• UFC: Tapout / UFC 2: Tapout (US Publisher: Crave; JP Publisher: Capcom; EU Publisher: Ubisoft)
• UFC: Tapout 2 (US Publisher: TDK)

Links

• Official website (Japanese)
• Contents Production Business page (Internet Archive Wayback Machine) (Japanese)