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It's Zelda Day! Presented for your consideration: BS-Zelda, the satellite radio-based Zelda games that never got released outside of Japan.
The first BS Zelda game was an update/modification of the original Legend of Zelda. It was intended to be played over four weeks, an hour at a time, with different areas of the overworld unveiled each week.
Here is video, with broadcasts included: 1 (YT 1h) - 2 (YT 58m) - 3 (YT 58m) - 4 (YT 1h2m) Each takes several minutes to get started, which mirrors the time delay before the game started when broadcast.
The second game was called Ancient Stone Tablets, and it used the Link To The Past engine, and much of its map. YouTube playlist (YT 12 items, 3h50m)
More information and emulator files hacked to be playable are at: The BS-Zelda Homepage.
The Satellaview (WIKI) was an add-on device Nintendo released in Japan for the Super Famicom (their version of the SNES) that could download and play games transmitted through St.GIGA satellite radio broadcasts. These games could be saved on either the Satellaview's internal 256KB Flash memory or on optional 8MB memory cards.
Many releases were made for the system, some being mere rereleases of retail games, but some produced only for the Satellaview. Some of those were special time limited games that were intended to be played in conjunction with satellite radio broadcasts. Many of these releases are documented and archived on the Satellablog.
Previously.
It's Zelda Day! Presented for your consideration: BS-Zelda, the satellite radio-based Zelda games that never got released outside of Japan.
The first BS Zelda game was an update/modification of the original Legend of Zelda. It was intended to be played over four weeks, an hour at a time, with different areas of the overworld unveiled each week.
Here is video, with broadcasts included: 1 (YT 1h) - 2 (YT 58m) - 3 (YT 58m) - 4 (YT 1h2m) Each takes several minutes to get started, which mirrors the time delay before the game started when broadcast.
The second game was called Ancient Stone Tablets, and it used the Link To The Past engine, and much of its map. YouTube playlist (YT 12 items, 3h50m)
More information and emulator files hacked to be playable are at: The BS-Zelda Homepage.
The Satellaview (WIKI) was an add-on device Nintendo released in Japan for the Super Famicom (their version of the SNES) that could download and play games transmitted through St.GIGA satellite radio broadcasts. These games could be saved on either the Satellaview's internal 256KB Flash memory or on optional 8MB memory cards.
Many releases were made for the system, some being mere rereleases of retail games, but some produced only for the Satellaview. Some of those were special time limited games that were intended to be played in conjunction with satellite radio broadcasts. Many of these releases are documented and archived on the Satellablog.
Previously.
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