{"id":8,"date":"2008-04-30T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bsx.superfamicom.org\/?p=8"},"modified":"2012-11-02T12:05:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T19:05:02","slug":"pictures-of-the-satellaview-hardware-and-carts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/pictures-of-the-satellaview-hardware-and-carts\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures of the Satellaview: Hardware And Carts"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post will have some pictures of Satellaview hardware, carts, memory packs, and whatnot.<\/p>\n

Most of these pictures were taken from other sites, and for that I apologize. These are meant for educational purposes, but if you have any objections, send me a comment and I’ll remove them.<\/p>\n

I’ll start with this box right here…<\/p>\n

\"Box\"<\/p>\n

This is a Satellaview box. Open it up…<\/p>\n

\"Boxcontents\"<\/p>\n

And here’s what’s inside! But how does this all go together? Let’s go one piece at a time…<\/p>\n

\"Bios\"<\/p>\n

This looks like a Super Famicom cartridge, and it is! But it’s not just any cartridge; it’s the Satellaview’s BIOs cartridge, “BS-X : Sore wa namae o nusumareta machi no monogatari”.<\/p>\n

You could pop this in as-is on top of a Super Famicom and play it, but without anything else, there isn’t much of a point.<\/p>\n

You might prefer trying to find a BS-X cart with…<\/p>\n

\"MemPack\"<\/p>\n

A BS-X Memory Pack! Nowadays, since the Satellaview service does not work, you might prefer a used one with some data already in it compared to what seems to be this perhaps-not-so-touched-one which still has it’s retail box.<\/p>\n

\"Biosandpack\"<\/p>\n

The Memory Pack goes into the Bios cart like so. Now, when you load up the Bios, it will read the data from this memory pack.<\/p>\n

So, yeah, that’s great. Now what about that other thing..?<\/p>\n

\"base\"<\/p>\n

Oh, this Satellaview base? This is the actual hardware add-on which allowed you to use the Satellite services and whatnot.<\/p>\n

\"Set\"<\/p>\n

They connected to a Super Famicom like so – Cartridge with Memory Pack on top, and the Satellaview base at the bottom, through a port that, up until that point, the Super Famicom did not use.<\/p>\n

(All the other things are to assist in these connections. It’d be a bit ridiculous to go in-depth on the use of the L-Bracket to send power from the Super Famicom to the Satellaview base… although now I just realized I explained it’s use already! Drat!)<\/p>\n

Using these, and the St. Giga Satellite service, you could have the Satellaview download and stream data.<\/p>\n

Oh, by the way, one more picture? These aren’t included in the set, of course…<\/p>\n

\"SlottedCarts\"<\/p>\n

What are these? They have the shape of the bios cart and appear to take carts in the shape of Memory Packs.<\/p>\n

These carts read data from Memory Packs for use in their own games. These uses were more restricted than the Bios itself (You could not load a game of Special Tee Shot from a Derby Stallion 96), and instead were more specialized; The data these games looked for was usually expansion data, which may have been downloaded from the Satellaview service onto the Memory Pack.<\/p>\n

NOTE to ROM users:<\/p>\n

I have the following expansion downloads in ROM format –<\/p>\n

“Same Game Koma Data”
\n“KANADERU CONVERT”
\n“RPG Tsukuru Data”, around 3 or 4 portions, need to double check.
\n“Sound Novel Tsukuru Data”, around 4 or 5 portions, need to double check<\/p>\n

Other dumps would be appreciated.<\/p>\n

If you have these ROMs and don’t know how to use them, I will put up a guide to loading them using BSNES shortly.
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