the music of "ruby" and "sapphire" is entirely game music; all speech is on-screen as text. the music was composed by junichi masuda, go ichinose and morikazu aoki, and have no lyrics, apart from for two tracks with vocals, "trick master" and "slateport city". the soundtrack of the game was released by mediafactory in japan on april 26, 2003; the album reached #297 on the charts and was there for one week. junichi masuda wrote only battle tunes, go ichinose wrote most of the town, route, fanfare &amp; 'spotted' tunes, whereas morichi aoki did the remainder.