 Although his official job title was " composer " , Mitsuda found himself working more as a sound engineer . Over the next two years , he created sound effects for Hanjuku Hero , Final Fantasy V , Secret of Mana and Romancing SaGa 2 . In 1994 , realizing that he would never get a chance to move up to a real composition duty without some drastic action and feeling concerned about his low pay , he gave Square 's vice president , Hironobu Sakaguchi , an ultimatum : let him compose , or he would quit . Sakaguchi assigned the young musician to the team working on Chrono Trigger , telling him that " after you finish it , maybe your salary will go up " . Mitsuda was assigned as the sole composer for the game , in the end creating 54 tracks for the final release . Mitsuda drove himself to work hard on the score , frequently working until he passed out , and would awake with ideas for songs such as the ending theme for the game . He worked so hard that he developed stomach ulcers and had to be hospitalized , which led Uematsu to offer to finish the remaining tracks for him ; Uematsu ended up composing ten tracks , with one track by Noriko Matsueda . 
