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REMINDER: Monies plz. (Donations)

I don’t know if many of you realize I got a Donate button to the right sidebar here. There’s kinda a reason for that. And now the reason’s kinda coming. I have an order for an 8M Memory Pack that I believe I need about 60 bucks for (this pack, if I read it right, should have Actraiser on it. Yay?)

Donations will make the obtaining of this pack and any future ones quite a bit easier, and would allow more updates with plenty of useful info.





Donations will be repaid for in some manner – likely when I get to dumping ROMs.


PRE-Satellaview Radio – St.GIGA Tide of Sound from 1992.

I’ve checked around for info on St.GIGA’s non-Satellaview material before and made a few entries on what I saw. This one goes deeper into the past, though. Way deeper.

August 1992, in fact. Nearly three years before the Satellaview was around, long before it was a blip on anyone’s mind, and Nintendo was still planning on it’s SNESCD. At this time, “Tide of Sound” was St.GIGA’s most popular program. Why, you ask? Well, I found an archiving, so maybe we can now find out.

St.GIGA 音の潮流 – ノンスクランブル放送より

Check the “Read More” link, as usual, to see.

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How much is that Soundtrack in the window? The one with the Sound & Drama?

Since I’m running relatively low on actual news items, I’ll write this piece up.

You’ve probably seen my previous posts where I mentioned looking for audio albums with Satellaview music. After figuring I’ve gotten as many as I’m ever gonna get, I decided to look them up on Yahoo Japan Auctions and eBay

OUCH.
MONEYPIT.

Here’s some of the results I got –

An Auction for “Super Famicom Game Music” on eBay. $100!

Super Mario World Original Soundtrack on eBay. $160.

Dragon Quest 1 Symphonic Suite on eBay. $39.99

Zelda Sound & Drama on YJA. 10,000 Yen.

Famicom Grafitti on YJA. 19,100 Yen.

Fuurai no Shiren Special Arrange Version on YJA. 68,000 Yen.

Super Mario World Soundtrack on YJA. 14,000 Yen.

Toy Music – Dancing Super Mario Brothers on YJA. 4,200 Yen BIN.

With these kind of prices, I’d be out of money fast trying to collect the actual albums! Blast, my goals…

Satellaview Radio – Bakusho Mondai on Tactics Ogre.

The newest NicoNicoDouga upload this time is another piece from one of the Satellaview’s radio programs.

Unfortunately, it is not dated, but the host is identified as “Bakusho Mondai“. It’s labeled as another “After School King” show, but it seems that rather than being sketch comedy or somesuch, we’ve got a whole program dedicated to a single game. That game is Tactics Ogre. If you’re not familiar with this game, here’s the Wikipedia article on it. I am not sure whether it’ll be brought up again.

Why Tactics Ogre? The Japanese version came out on the Super Famicom in Oct. 1995, and so I think this radio show was likely intended to rally some customers for it. I’m thinking it aired at some point around that timeframe.

爆笑問題の放課後の王様 ゲストにオウガ松野泰己

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Satellaview Soundtracks – Music Splice Hackory Custom.

I’ve done a lot of searching for Satellaview Soundlink music.
Unfortunately, in many cases, it was all to no avail whatsoever.
Eventually, I decided that instead of looking for soundtracks, to actually try to see what I can “restore” from my videos! The results are mixed, but some of them are fairly impressive! Others still require a lot of work to sound “Acceptable”, but I’m not giving up, obviously.

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Satellaview Soundtracks – Sousa Sentai Wappers SPC rips

A bit of a time ago I ripped all the SPCs I could from the “Sousa Sentai Wappers 1”, “Sousa Sentai Wappers 2”, and “Sousa Sentai Wappers Shoushuu Hen” ROMs.

I tried submitting them to SNESMusic.org but apparently I need proper song titles before these can be accepted, so… actually, the “Shoushuu Hen” ones actually have JP Song titles. If these could be translated, maybe that’ll work.

You can get the current version of my Wappers music rips in a nice RSN set here.
For your convenience, I will also supply Mp3s, and pictures of the track names for the ones I can supply. Just use the “more” button to check them all out.

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WaiWai de Q = Satella-Q? They appear to be one and the same.

The relatively substantial burst in Satellaview-related uploads from NicoNicoDouga have shown a great deal about St. GIGA’s Satella-Q series.
Right after the “Sayonara Heisei Q Nen” upload, another set was put up right away…

But, huh, WaiWai De Q’s the name now? Actually, it seems St. GIGA could hardly make up their minds on this themselves at the time considering how they swap the titles even throughout the broadcast.
The recordings are from part 4 of “Haru no Michi” – the last of the series under the “WaiWai de Q” name. After this one, all the future broadcasts were under Satella-Q.

I’ve been learning a lot about the Satella-Q series – much thanks goes to the generous NicoNicoDouga uploaders – and I’ve been supplying what I know to the Mario Wiki, as well. (I may need to adjust that title, though…)

BS サテラQ わいわいでQ 春の採点4週目 その1
BS サテラQ わいわいでQ 春の採点4週目 その2
BS サテラQ わいわいでQ 春の採点4週目 その3

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St. GIGA history – Sound of the Earth series.

I’ve said before how I wanted to take a bit more of a look into St. Giga’s Pre-Satellaview history, and it seems like I got something nice for it – a CD-R Copy in the mail. 🙂

“St. GiIGA Sound of the Earth
Ambient Soundscape 11: Prayers for the Spirit of Nature”

A bit of info on this series of CDs as a whole can be found on their site.

Is the CD anything special? Well, it’s certainly unique. It consists of not much more or less than the sounds of splashing water mixed in with various other “nature” sound effects. The tracks are done in such as a way as to sound transition-less when on played, all meant to go together.

I’ve ripped the music for anyone else who is interested.
To listen to the sounds in MP3 format…. Yeah, y’know, the “more” link.

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