Between 1996 and 2001, Yamada was involved with a few titles outside of Capcom, including Love & Destroy, Kahen Soukou Gunbike: Speed Power Gunbike and Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children: Shiro no Sho. Yamada is also a musician, frequently utilizing keyboards, vocorder and bass in collaboration with synthesizers and both sound and voice effects. This is demonstrated in the Remastered Tracks Rockman Zero album collection as well as other arrangement albums published by Inti Creates, most of which were directed and/or produced by Yamada. He was also a member of the now disbanded GeOnDan.