A Satellaview research blog.

Category: Soundlink

“Soundlink” is the term used by St. Giga for a unique combination of a “streamed” game and a “streamed” radio broadcast, playing simultaneously for a combined gameplay experience.

These programs, broadcast in the 7PM hour and -only playable during the broadcast-, were the Satellaview’s biggest selling point – nearly all of the Soundlink titles were exclusive, and have not been ported or rereleased before or since.

Finally, video for BS Fire Emblem.

I put off putting this in a blog because I was so busy squealing over it and linking it at Serenesforest and the BS Zelda page. But now I figured I delayed it long enough.

Unlike the previous BS Fire Emblem uploads I put up, these feature both gameplay -and- soundlink. The best of both worlds. 🙂

Also, make note of the CG art – that art is not in the ROMs. Where did they go? 🙁

BS ファイアーエムブレム アカネイア戦記編 第1話 「パレス陥落」1/3
BS ファイアーエムブレム アカネイア戦記編 第1話 「パレス陥落」2/3
BS ファイアーエムブレム アカネイア戦記編 第1話 「パレス陥落」3/3

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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

Videos after the “more” of course.

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Satella-Q – the most obscure Toad-starring game ever?

(Minor edits: A “-” symbol apparently goes in the title, now that I’ve seen the videos closely.
Watch for “SATELLA-Q SINCE 1995”)
NicoNicoDouga has been kind to me today and has put up more Soundlink video uploads. Did they notice I was running dry?
This particular one was a bit of a mystery to me for a while – Satella-Q.
Satella-Q is, apparently, a quiz game.
It’s kinda strange that a game starring a Mario character could be so obscure, but it’s likely because this is a VERY Japanese quiz game, being used to advertise J-Pop models and products.
The player accumulates a high score by getting questions right and completing minigames. The questions seem highly pop-culture centric – a whole SECTION is apparently to identify J-Pop songs!

Since I’m not sure whether people’ve caught on that these were originally on NicoNicoDouga I’ll link the original URLS -before- the “more” button.

BS サテラQ さよなら平成Q年 其の1

BS サテラQ さよなら平成Q年 其の2

BS サテラQ さよなら平成Q年 其の3

I may also revise my old posts so that the original links show first, but I’ll see how this goes first.

But anyway, on to the videos! These are, from “Satella-Q – Sayonara Heisei Q Nen”.

As usual, the “more” button gives you the goods.

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Sekiban retrospective.

I wanted to try to appeal to the Zelda guys again. O:
This video was around quite a bit before the recordings of the game broadcast, but for whatever reason I waited a while to put it up.
This is the “BS Zelda: Inishie no Sekiban” Retrospective, from a Zelda promotional DVD (Guys, I forget, was it for Wind Waker? aaa.)

(EDIT: Oh, yeah, it was “Zelda no Video”. Thanks Smashmaniac. He also provied this url; here

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Satellaview Soundtracks – F-Zero (F-Zero Soundtrack, Super Famicom Game Music)

In the old blog, I used to upload Mp3s rather randomly.
This time, though, I hope to have this sorted out more by what game they appeared in.

Here, I will put up some examples from F-Zero.
The music from BS F-Zero seems to consist of –
a) Music pulled straight from “Super Famicom Game Music”.
b) Synthesized arrange based of the “F-Zero Soundtrack”, which was a set of jazz arranges.
c) All-new compositions, which I obviously lack clean rips of.

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