"SaGa Frontier" was developed by the then-Square Production Team 2 (referred to as 2nd Division in the game) with Akitoshi Kawazu as director and producer, Koichi Ishii as planning chief, Kenji Ito as composer, and Tomomi Kobayashi as illustrator. Square Production Team 2 included Kyoji Koizumi, Miwa Shoda, Kazuko Shibuya, and Minoru Akao among others. The musical score for "SaGa Frontier" was composed and arranged by Kenji Ito, who provided music for many previous entries in the "SaGa" franchise. Production began in December 1995. Originally, the title of this game was ""Romancing SaGa 4"" during early development. Due to a change in hardware from Super Famicom to PlayStation, Kawazu changed the title. The team did not use 3D graphics as they were unaware of the hardware capacities at the time.