What happened to the Resident Evil Director's Cut soundtrack?

In August 1998 Capcom released Resident Evil: Director's Cut Dual Shock Ver., the original game with analog control, vibration, and a new symphonic soundtrack replacing the original score by Makoto Tomozawa, Koichi Hiroki, and Masami Ueda. The new music was credited to Mamoru Samuragochi, a composer celebrated in Japan as a digital age Beethoven: a man said to have composed masterworks after losing his hearing entirely.

The replacement was generally deemed inferior to the original it displaced, and one piece became notorious in its own right: the ambient theme for the mansion's basement, which has been ranked among the worst video game compositions of all time. The original score quietly returned in later editions; the 2006 Nintendo DS version restored the pre-Dual Shock soundtrack.

On February 5, 2014, it was publicly revealed that the music attributed to Samuragochi since 1996 had mostly been ghostwritten by Takashi Niigaki, a composer and part time lecturer at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. Niigaki said Samuragochi was not deaf, had normal hearing, and had posed as deaf to build a mystique; that the cane was unnecessary; and that most of the biography in his album liner notes was fiction. Niigaki went to the press because a supposed Samuragochi composition was about to be skated to by Daisuke Takahashi at the Sochi Winter Olympics.

Samuragochi's handwritten statement of February 12 said he had partly regained his hearing three years earlier and that he was deeply ashamed of living a lie. At a Tokyo press conference on March 7 he admitted his hearing, while impaired, did not meet the legal requirements for deafness, and that he had returned his disability certificate. Hiroshima revoked the Citizens' Award it had given him in 2008. Doubts had been on paper earlier: a reporter for Aera magazine noticed in June 2013 that he answered questions before the interpreter finished and stood to answer a doorbell, and the magazine held the story.