A Satellaview research blog.

The service’s last moments.

I originally had this video up with the “BS Tantei Club” vids, but it really deserved it’s own post – I’m just a bit of an unorganized crammer, really.

This melancholy video, which I found labeled “LAST DAY”, shows someone viewing St. Giga’s farewell message, and being unable to even get a BS Yoshi no Panepon download in time…

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More fanmade BSFE.

My first new blog post shows that I’m still very interested in the fanstuff.

This time, on NicoNicoDouga there was a new upload related to BS Fire Emblem. This one is now going on the new webspace.

View the video by clicking the “More” tag.

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Moved!

By now all you folks who read the old Blogspot version should be migrating over.

Apologies for the default layout. I’m still a noob at WordPress.

The old blogposts will be under scrutiny for quite a while while I edit them up and re-direct the video embeds to the new webspace.


Notes on the Blog’s move.

You might have noticed that while a lot of content from the old Satellablog has remained intact, there’s a few notable things absent or slightly reworked.

This is part of the effort of mine to clean up the blog. Information which I feel is not quite accurate has been rewritten or removed, as have “Fluff” posts, or posts which have become obsolete in time.

If you guys really care for the old-ass posts with the corny puns, the old site will still be up. I can’t guarentee the video embeds will work forever though…

Looking more into St. Giga.

As a Satellaview researcher I’ve wondered about the nature of St. Giga – and how they got involved in an ambitous Nintendo project – for a while. Even as I’ve looked up Satellaview content, I’ve also looked into researching St. Giga as a whole.

For a while I’ve tried entering search terms with their title on NicoNicoDouga – and recently I’ve been getting results. You can check some of them after the snip.

More importantly though, the English Wikipedia has been doing articles based on translations of the Japanese Wikipedia.
I’d like to thank anyone who helped on that. 🙂
It’s very helpful, and it gives me context into some of my search results, too.

Whether it be the experimental New-Age music, or the just-as-experimental yet radically different Satellaview, St. Giga’s history was innovation in the music business – which may have been why Nintendo sought them out for this project.

Apparently Nintendo invested stock in them in 93? Funny, wasn’t that around the year the Super Famicom CD projects fell under?

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Nintendo’s finally feeding. :)

I’d like to give thanks to Serenes Forest once again for the heads-up that inspired this update.

Nintendo has been putting up audio snippets of their Fire Emblem games on their site.

You might ask, “What’s so special about that?”

Well, check out that last Monsho song – “WIND”. It’s a BS Fire Emblem-exclusive song (Apparently the song called “WIND” which was used in the Thracia albums is not the same…? BS F-Zero was confusing enough!)

This is the closest Nintendo has gone yet to re-release anything Satellaview-related since the add-on device’s demise in mid-2000.

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Page reserved for reccomended emulators.

Originally this was a different article entirely, but now this space will be updated with what emulators are recommended. (Last update April 14th)

For games intended to run from the BIOs and Data Carts meant for compatible cartridges:

BSNES version .042 – http://byuu.org/bsnes/

For Soundlink games:

SNESGT, .218 should do for now, I think… – http://gigo.retrogames.com/

For BS Fuurai no Shiren:

This special case seems to only run on a modified SNES9X emulator which I only know of as “SNES9XWSE”.

http://kiddocabbusses.tryhappy.net/nothingforfree/BS-X/snes9xwse.rar