A Satellaview research blog.

New ROM dump Forces me to Force out a new pun. (Plus some redumps)

Before I get into the details of this ROM dump, let me attempt to elaborate on some credits to be given, because this is a bit complex.

A bit earlier in the year, I arranged in the SNESFreaks community a small group to purchase a chunk of Satellaview 8Ms. Some of the ROM dumps coming out, including the following ROM and some from later on – including a notable release I’m saving for my annual birthday ROM – are going to be from this set. The people involved in this include SNESFreaks community members ChronoMoogle, lytron, RedScorpion, Yankee, Wilo, Marcoeagleeye, and Tenchu, and all the 8Ms were dumped by ikari_01.

(Updates on who to credit for what specifically may be pending.)

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Kiddon Mattrick: “The infinite power of the SoundCloud will improve your Satellaview’s audio.”

I already mentioned this in the BS Zelda forums and my Twitter, but hey, blog padding!

You may have known that I’ve been collecting FLACs for Satellaview music for a while, with a particular aim to collect all the video game arranges used on the Satellaview as well as any other Satellaview-specific music compositions.

However, even having some of them, it’s difficult for me to simply have them available on here to listen to and download. Therefore, to facilitate in the distribution of these FLACs I’ve resorted to using SoundCloud.

I’ve currently got two Soundcloud pages available for particular music sets.
Click here for the recently-obtained “Fuurai no Shiren Special Arrange Version” and “Ihatovo Monogatari” FLAC sets, among others.

Click here for “BS Zelda” and “BS Super Mario” general FLACs.

I’ll talk more about Fuurai no Shiren a bit later. 🙂

As for Ihatovo Monogatari, I’ll admit, I don’t have absolute definite proof that BS Ihatovo Monogatari itself uses that soundtrack. The promotional ad from BS Tantei Club, though, certainly does, if you open your ears to listen:


よし！　Let’s dig into it!

ChronoMoogle speaking! Ok, so we just got a unbelievable big load of awesome scans! Where should we start to analyse them? No idea. Yay! So whatever, I decided to just start somewhere… And my random choice was the broadcast schedule of 17-21. of July 1995 and we will probably go on with the schedules until my japanese got better or bluesun or somebody else is willing to summarise some more detailed articles for us.

But don’t worry, the schedules are interesting enough! Many Satellaview versions/demos nobody ever heard of are in the list of individual broadcasts. And yeah, I won’t let you hold your breath, here they are:

Source: Famitsu 345, page 177

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One must have a lot of issues if you resort to scanning.

I was hoping for this update to be a bit bigger and more detailed, but I’ve been putting it off for too long. I think I’m getting hit with those “Dog days” of summer, so to speak!

This big update is provided to you special thanks to Benjamin Stevens of Planet VirtualBoy and ChronoMoogle of SNESFreaks!
Benjamin dug into his Famitsu collection and scanned all the Satellaview coverage from 1995.

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