Live Broadcast Game - I've now run out of BS Zelda Material.

(EDIT: URLs fix.)

You hear that folks? After this I won't have any more BS Zelda videos to post. Sad, is it not?

I will probably move on to BS Marvelous. That has a similar engine to Zelda LTTP, anyhow.

Well, let's enjoy this ride, shall we?

And now we watch as our hero goes from not being lost in dungeons way too easily, to beating Ganon by the skin of his teeth.

The NicoNicoDouga Links:
ＢＳゼルダ第４週（最終週）1/3
ＢＳゼルダ第４週（最終週）2/3
ＢＳゼルダ第４週（最終週）3/3

Cross-linking:
Week 3
Week 2
Week 1

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Live Broadcast game - BS Zelda guy redeems himself.

(URL repair.)

I apologize about not having a single update for nearly a week in a row. This time, though, it's because I've been doing some serious researching, and have been learning a lot more. I will hopefully be a bit more active, um... today! Yeah, I shall probably post a couple new articles.

But let me start with this - BS Zelda, Map 1, Week 3. This is the week we have the ROM dump of, guys. :)

In this video, the boy who could not complete his objectives last week has to backtrack this week to get the Triforce piece he missed, and then go clear the objective of getting the other two Triforce pieces. Sounds daunting, does it not? Actually, from what I've seen, Satellaview games seem to be toned down in difficulty compared to other games...

But either way, here we go.









Only one more to go for BS Zelda! I will then cross-link both this and the Sekiban weeks for you guys.

Original NicoNicoDouga URLS:
ＢＳゼルダ第３週1/3
ＢＳゼルダ第３週2/3
ＢＳゼルダ第３週3/3

On a JP website I've linked here, The Satellaview History Museum, they have schedulings for Satellaview content. I noted this one in particular - a program that plays just before BS Zelda;

"☆16:30～17:00 ＢＳゼルダの遊び方 バグポタミア神殿"

Google messes up the translation, but it seems to be "How to play BS Zelda". Is it a radio tutorial of some sort? I'd like to learn more about this.

One more thing; I've been able to find alias for the uploaders of these videos. I am however uncertain of whether they all want their alias announced, due to NicoNicoDouga's anonymous nature. Therefore, I'd like them to contact me so I can request giving them proper credit.

CROSS-LINK:
Week 4
Week 2
Week 1

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Live Broadcast Game - I cringe at the amateurity of whoever played this BS Zelda.

(URL fix Edit)

BOMB THE WALL.

BOMB IT.

BOMB THE BLASTED WALL ALREADY

... aw crud, he's too late.


... er, um, sorry. Those are meant to go with these videos. D: right, anyway, now to post them!



Here's week 2 of BS Zelda Map 1. More Dungeon exploring as typical of the game. Note how in this one the player character does not reach the "goal" set on time. I wonder what the penalty was?







NicoNicoDouga Origianls:

ＢＳゼルダ第２週1/3
ＢＳゼルダ第２週2/3
ＢＳゼルダ第２週3/3

Week 4
Week 3
Week 1

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Live Broadcast Game - BS Zelda NES/FDS Remake, Map 1, Week 1.

(URL fixings. Most the Zelda stuff should be done now.)

At the moment I am fighting God himself to make this post. The terrible storm outside will not stop me!

I posted the Sekiban videos previously, but this time I'm going to backtrack a bit. Earlier I showed some videos of another BS Zelda. This one was a remake of the classic Nintendo Entertainment/Famicom Disk System title.

Now, I will show you more of it. For you folks familiar with this, please enjoy. Otherwise, if you want to know more, check out the BS Zelda Shrine here.



For completeness sake, I'll start by re-posting a few vids I posted earlier.



This was the loading and intro sequence. Now, for Week 1;






And lastly, the typical NicoNicoDouga URLs;
ＢＳゼルダ第１週1/3
ＢＳゼルダ第１週2/3
ＢＳゼルダ第１週3/3

CROSS-LINK
Week 4
Week 3
Week 2

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Live Broadcast Game - BS Zelda: The Final Sekiban.

(URL fix)

Woo hoo! With this, I'll have all the videos relevant to this game on here. Then when the scripts and translations are done, you can all enjoy the experience of watching someone playing a very linear videogame! :)

BS Zelda: Inishie no Sekiban; the final episode!











The originals:
BSゼルダの伝説 古代の石盤 第4週 part1
BSゼルダの伝説 古代の石盤 第4週 part2
BSゼルダの伝説 古代の石盤 第4週 part3

Also, I will cross-link the videos now, for easier access;

Week 3

Week 2

Week 1

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Fluff post to advertise other people - because I'm in a rush to update. Also, I'm going to /r/..

This post, just to let everyone know I'm still alive (in case four days is enough to convince you otherwise) shall have a link I was requested to put in, and maybe some other links. Woo-hoo!

http://www.kokugakuin.cc/pukiwiki/index.php?BSZelda

Choco took a lot of effort into making these BS Zelda: Inishie no Sekiban transcripts, based off the videos from NicoNicoDouga. Berri has been working on translating them for a while - The BS Zelda Shrine may have all of Week 1 ready by now.

Also, in the JP website searching I've been doing, I apparently saw that some videos used to exist on NicoNicoDouga that, well, don't seem to be there. I'm taking some crazy measures to try to obtain them, but nothing's gotten results yet, so I'll leave my request archived here in the off chance that all it takes is time...

Rの書斎　第2幕　第1週　選択肢上

BS F-ZEROグランプリ2 第2週

If anyone can find the videos of these, please let me nab them somehow.

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Live Broadcast Game - BS Zelda: Inishie no Sekiban, Week 3

(Man, all my old messages seem kinda silly. Heh. Anyway, EDITING: fixed the works.)

I've noticed that I'm posting a set of BS Zelda videos at least once weekly on a weekend. I guess now I shall continue that trend.

Here's Week 3 of BS Zelda: Inishie no Sekiban.





Note the player character in this one - different from the other weeks, yes? This time it's the girl mascot's turn. Whether you play as the boy or the girl depend on your BS-X BIOs settings.




And now for the originals at NicoNicoDouga.
BSゼルダの伝説 古代の石盤 第3週 part1
BSゼルダの伝説 古代の石盤 第3週 part2
BSゼルダの伝説 古代の石盤 第3週 part3

Cross-Linking:
Week 4/Finale
Week 2Week 1

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Live Broadcast Game Videos - BS Zelda: Inishie no Sekiban, Week 2

(EDIT: I'm almost done nearly all these articles.)

I honestly can't tell if I'm doing these fast enough. Aw, well!

Here's some more Zelda. This is week 2 of Inishie no Sekiban. Of note in this video; this is apparently someone different from whom played last time, and, well, he's apparently missed some stuff from the previous week! No worry for him, though, as the thieves at the location of the previous two dungeons got the stuff he needs to progress. (This probably did mess with his score tally, though.)







And the NicoNicoDouga sauce:

BSゼルダの伝説 古代の石盤 第2週 part1
BSゼルダの伝説 古代の石盤 第2週 part2
BSゼルダの伝説 古代の石盤 第2週 part3

Cross-Linking:

Week 4/Finale

Week 3

Week 1

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Listen to the Satellaview - Musical Pieces from Live Broadcast Games (Part 1?)

I will now post up some MP3s of music that played on the Satellaview.

I've searched high and low for some of these. These are arrangements of various game music that have played during a game's Live Broadcast.

The ones I have found were apparently released on CD beforehand. I will put down CD info when I can.



This is a track from Toy Music which plays during BS Zelda broadcasts.



This track from Super Famicom Game Music plays during it's appropriate spot in BS F-Zero.



This doozy of a track comes from Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, 3, -Hop! Step! Jump!- and is played during BS Super Mario USA, as well as used in various other moments (For example, Satellaview game advertisement BGM)

Other than ripping the MP3 from my embed, if you want to download the music, look up these discs on your favorite music-swiping source.

I have more sounds that I have not posted yet (because I'm lazy), so if you're interested, stay tuned... or something.

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Live Broadcast Game Video - BS Zelda: Inishie no Sekiban

(Edit: URL Fixing)

I believe I held off on doing the obvious and apparent long enough, eh?

Partial Translations, ROM Hacks, and even the soundtrack are available for this one. Therefore, it's only logical that the videos should be shown to the world as well.

So, fans, here we go! For non-fans, who don't know what I'm talking about, I'll start off with the first video before my description;



Yes, this looks like LTTP, but different. This is BS Zelda: Inishie no Sekiban, the Satellaview's follow-up to the acclaimed Super Famicom game as well as it's followup to the previous BS Zelda they released.

(NOTE TO ROM USERS: You will probably find ROMs and the like as "Kodai No Sekiban". As you can hear in the videos, that is not the proper pronunciation of the title... but apparently the meaning is the same either way. The reason the title came around is, in fact, from the way the title appears on the screen rather than how it's pronounced. How strange? This is only a minor inaccuracy that has come from the years of lack of Satellaview information, though.

The standard ROMs do not work on any emulators. Not even ones with better BS-X compatibility. If you want to play the games, your best bet is the BS Zelda Shrine's hacking project. Unfortunately, I'm not talented with ROM hacking, so I can't tell what's up there.)

For the above video, watch along with reading Berri's translation, currently in-progress. It will give you an understanding of the game's plot, changed gameplay mechanics, and more.

Of course, that video doesn't look very complete now, does it? Well, here's two more then! These together make up Inishie no Sekiban's 1st Episode.





And now for the original NicoNicoDouga Links:

BSゼルダの伝説 古代の石盤 第1週 part1
part 2
part 3

Cross-linking:

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4/Finale

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Satellaview Content, Part 1: Live Broadcasts

With the Satellaview, various kinds of content distribution was performed. I'll try to explain these here. Let me start with this one:

The most creative and gimmicky kind of content was "Live Broadcast" games. These games were an experiment in limited-time speedrun game contests, live audio broadcast, and episodic content, among other things.



This Youtube video, uploaded my makuchan, shows how such a game was downloaded. This specific example is BS Zelda, which was the first Live Broadcast game released.



koitetsu213 uploaded this video, which originally appeared on NicoNicoDouga, which has some of the gameplay, as it was originally played, via the live broadcast. NicoNicoDouga also has various other videos, which I will talk about later.

Note that nowadays, when you try to play these on an emulator...



There is no music. The reason should be readily apparant: Live audio was not saved into the ROM data. As far as I know, clean versions of the original audio are not available anywhere, and very few of the musical pieces are around.

(thanks to SobmicSSBB for the BS Fire Emblem video)

Playing these games, you will notice a clock. These games ran in tune with the BS-X's internal clock, and played in real-time. The majority of the games had a time limit of slightly less than an hour. They would also use the clock to cue various in-game events.

The games could ONLY be played when permitted as such by the service. Between "broadcast dates" and after the Satellaview service ended, none of the Live Broadcast games could be played anymore, and save data from them was useless on the actual Super Famicom Hardware. To make this situation more problematic, little of the content was re-released in any form officially. ROM dumps, a few musical pieces, and video uploads are currently the only known remnants of the Satellaview Live Broadcast games going around the internet - and they are far, far from a complete set in any form.

Currently, the only way to try to play "Live Broadcast" games is from a ROM Dump. However, very few emulators properly support BS-X games. I will post a guide on what I know here later on, but for now, I'll state that for Live Broadcast games, the emulator called SNESGT is the most likely to play any of them.

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