I'm still perplexed about how this thing worked. Was it like mixed between cable and streaming video games where if it was halfway through its runtime you'd start in the middle or was it like you had a short window of time during the day to play it? Satellaview thread.
The game was basically downloaded to the cartridge. This is why we still have so many of these games in rom form. But the audio accompaniment meant to go with it was only broadcast at specific times.
>>12355219Did you need to hook it to a satellite dish pointed at a geostationary sat?
>>12355219Imagine going this length, instead of just asking their partner SHARP Corporation for a cd drive....
>>12355595No. Other people could hook it up. OP didn't need to do it himself. He couldn't have because he wasn't even born yet.
>>12355613Huh?
Imagine how comfy it was to listen to the radio broadcasts talking about the very special romhack you were playing. God, those japs were living good..
>>12355667You will immediately cease and not continue to access the site if you are under the age of 18.
>>12355219Think of it like an early form of satellite internet, you'd download the ROM to a memory card which you can see it's attached to the cartrdige. Then the audio was streamed at specific times like satellite radio does and only worked at that time while the actual rom was always in the memory.You had to buy a dish and subscription service for it.
>>12355903You did not need to pay for a subscription service. Satellaview broadcasts were not scrambled. You could say they were included with the cost of the hardware.
Nintendo should have just released a lot of these games on a cart with a means to interact with an external cd player for audio elements, something that some 3rd parties already were doing on super fami.
>>12355219You gotta wonder how this bizarre abomination even got greenlit.
>>12355219>turn on thing>tune receiver to proper channel>make sure it's hooked up and the system is powered on and ready>it will wait for a certain tone of a certain length to tell it to get ready>tone is followed by other tones which fill up some RAM>once it's all done, you simply boot it up with the cartridge in place and the game comes upIt's literally no different than downloading something to your computer and running it.
>>12355219What satellite in orbit did Satellaview use?
Should I buy a Satellaview unit just for the hell of it?
>>12356663Japanese had a couple in geosync because they're so mountainous that it was impossible to get good service from normal TV towers there in many areas. Islands present a problem too. Now they have Internet most anywhere, even on remote islands. But I knew a guy who taught English on some remote island, back in the early 2000's, he had 48k ISDN and that was that. I would send him some CDs every now and again with really turbo-compressed re-encodes I would do so a whole season of some garbage could fit on one CD. Even the mail was ridiculously expensive there. The boat from the mainland came once every three weeks, otherwise they were cut off except in case somebody needed a helicopter airlift from the hospital.>>12356670Yes if they're cheap. Useless or not some coomlector will want it bad in 20 years.
Many Japanese people have satellite dishes pointed at BS because of free channels like BS-NHK, BS11 etc. I assume it wasn't much different back then so they came up with an idea for satellaview to make use of this.
>>12356670Please don't.
Phone line.
>gf tells me she played some mario puzzle game called "same game" on a Mario collection she had on PS2 as a kid>laugh it off thinking it's probably just Yoshi (the puzzle game) in some bootleg form>turns out it's actually a rather obscure game for SatellaviewDamn I stand corrected and humbled
>>12358285It had a cart release too.
>>12358289This one? Doesn't seem to include the Mario version unless it's on a tiny cart that goes in it.Miss this era of experimental things with carts we got in the 4th gen
>>12357483Line isn't picking up.
