Hosoe has retained his ties with the Ridge Racer series and has also contributed as a guest arranger to a few albums based on the Mega Man series (as he does with other series) for its recent anniversary milestones. Other works Hosoe was involved with during this era include Driving Emotion Type-S, Mega Man Network Transmission, Xenosaga Episode II and The Nightmare of Druaga: Fushigino dungeon. They would all later join SuperSweep (of which Hosoe is President) and contribute to the Street Fighter Tribute Album. In 1996 he joined Arika along with Saso and Aihara and acted as Sound Director and Producer for the Street Fighter EX series. He has also been credited by the aliases Megaten or just Mega.
Along with Ayako Saso he formed the core of the Sampling Masters unit (with Takayuki Aihara and Nobuyoshi Sano as additional members) and would work on titles such as Ridge Racer 2 and the console versions of Tekken and Tekken 2. Shinji Hosoe (細江 慎治) is a renowned video game music composer originally employed by Namco whose works with the company include Dragon Spirit, Metal Hawk, Final Lap 2, Cyber Sled, and the original Ridge Racer.