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| ⚫ | The Satellaview service could be accessed via the [[St. GIGA]] satellite station between 4:00 and 7:00 PM. The user was required to have a subscription to the St. GIGA station, as well as a BS tuner in order to operate the Satellaview. During this time, users could download and play games. The BS system broadcasted for five years, up until June, 2000. A large catalog of games previously released in cartridge format, as well as a few new games, was made available for download through the service. A deluxe package came with a rewritable 8-megabit memory card that plugged into a slot on the top of the boot cartridge. Without this cartridge, the BS-X cartridge saved downloaded content to its 512 KB of built-in memory. |
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| − | The ''Legend of Zelda'' games that were released were ''[[BS The Legend of Zelda]]'', ''[[BS The Legend of Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablets]]'', and a [[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past#Satellaview Broadcasting_System|port of ''A Link to the Past'']]. |
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| − | Along with other and earlier game download services, the Satellaview service paved the way for modern downloadable content distribution, which allows the purchase and download of full retail games as well as original download-only titles, much as the Satellaview allowed. |
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| − | * The first 6 [[dungeon]]s in the first BS The Legend of Zelda quest are in the shape of a letter. When put together, they spell out S t. G I G A (St. GIGA), the company that provided satellite service for the Satellaview. The other two Dungeons are in the shape of a Skull (Dungeon 7) and an Arrow pointing down (Dungeon 8) |
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| − | * Similarly, the Second Quest's dungeons spell "[[Nintendo|NiNtENDO]]". |
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| + | ==Satellaview ''The Legend of Zelda'' Games== |
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Revision as of 18:00, 11 June 2016
Template:Exitstub-nintendo Template:Sources
Template:System The Satellaview was an add-on piece of equipment for the Super Famicom.
Features
The Satellaview service could be accessed via the St. GIGA satellite station between 4:00 and 7:00 PM. The user was required to have a subscription to the St. GIGA station, as well as a BS tuner in order to operate the Satellaview. During this time, users could download and play games. The BS system broadcasted for five years, up until June, 2000. A large catalog of games previously released in cartridge format, as well as a few new games, was made available for download through the service. A deluxe package came with a rewritable 8-megabit memory card that plugged into a slot on the top of the boot cartridge. Without this cartridge, the BS-X cartridge saved downloaded content to its 512 KB of built-in memory.
A feature called SoundLink allowed the use of streaming music or voice clips, most famously used in Ancient Stone Tablets, while playing a game.