Rare Nintendo Satellaview Promo (Cleaned w/ HD Upload) 

What a cozy promo. The Satellaview must have felt like magic back in the 90s.

This was streaming before streaming. Way ahead of it's time. Imagine being like no I can't go out tonight, zelda is getting streamed from a satellite to my snes and I don't want to miss it!

Satellaview was such a cool little service. Super before it’s time.

This looks so ahead of its time. I remember seeing it briefly in magazines in the 90s but was never going to be in UK.

1:25 Glad to see Nintendo had already been practicing their Presentation *Snap* overseas in the 90s.

omg, y'all are my heroes. As the perfect intersection of Japanese-exclusive Nintendo esoterica and lost media, Satellaview is my jam! 🤩 So, fun fact I learned the other day; The Satellaview was supposed to have an HDD. There's an unused "EXT." bay inside it, and according to the original patent, that was for a 'hard disk drive'.

4:00 That rendition of the Dark World is fantastic. Without your preservation, I would have never gotten to hear it, even if it's short and talked over. Thanks so much for this! It's interesting to see what else this promo is advertising. For example, I have never heard of 弟切草 (Otogirisou), basically a visual novel. I'm not quite sure what is being advertised here (the game existed outside of SatellaView so I guess this is just a "downloadable" title here?) but it's interesting to hear about these games too. Incidentally, a fan translation for it has been released just a few months ago! Neat!

I miss the 90's so much.

FYI.. the auto translator for Japanese to English in the subtitle settings actually works pretty well.

Awesome! Can't wait for the Release!

Crying shame that Nintendo doesn't make use of modern Internet infrastructure to re-broadcast these for Nintendo switch online... Perhaps some of the rights are caught up in the St. Giga side of things (the satellite radio broadcaster who partnered with Nintendo)

This is so cool! I had sega channel and had no thoughts about how absolutely magic it was. It wasn't until I was older that I sort of realized that I had a ding dang cable line going into my Genesis, just like how now it goes into my router.. and the Genesis just downloaded roms and loaded them.. in the 90s!

0:43 I love how they describe it as “A barrage of games falling from the sky!” (空からどんどんゲームが降ってくれ！)

Awesome video! I'm wondering why Nintendo decided to use satellite technology. I mean, a 14.4, 28.8, or 33.6 baud modem from that era would probably also be sufficient for transferring those tiny bits of addons. Edit to myself: As I was reading Wikipedia about how much a modem cost at that time, it's most certainly the price. Such a modem cost about $250 USD.

It is amazing how tech like this was so ahead of its time. We will feature this video in the next edition of our weekly retro gaming roundup, thanks for sharing and preserving this.

Finally got a Satellaview for my SFC a few weeks back as I have always wanted to collect one. It's pretty awesome to see these promo's.

Practically was the most innovative way at the time to play online or receive live updates. That broadcasting feature is practically the precursor to how people did it before live streaming. Basically this made online gaming on consoles as a real possible idea all those years ago.

Looks pretty good! It looks like there's some minor timing issues on the deinterlace resulting in the flicker, but otherwise it cleaned up nice. I'm happy to share some techniques to help clean it up more if you guys are interested!

As the components at 2:13 indicate, BS refers to Broadcast Satellite, pointing out the BS Antenna (the dish) and the BS Tuner. Also, it's weird hearing that orchestrated mix of the Dark World theme.

I have no idea what’s going on but I’m all for it!

1:03 The Orb used this sample in “Back Side of the Moon”

just was able to snatch a satellaview unit for $90, I tell you, importing yourself from japanese auction sites instead of Ebay, game changer...

Nintendo invented Steam over 5G before valve and 5G

When you realize this is the most voice acting a (real) Zelda game has ever had.

BS Marvelous Time Athletic? that looks fun and ive never heard of it

How come we never got all this cool stuff in the US, anyway? It also just blows my mind that Nintendo would go through the effort of releasing something as niche, risky, and ridiculous as the Satellaview, but couldnt even get a CD addon released.

RU-vid does support 4:3 videos, there is no need to add black bars and make it 16:9. This is worthy of uploading the original capture to the Internet Archive though.

this is great content. thanks for preserving a cool piece of gaming history that was thought to be lost to time. so cool.

Reminds me off sega tv. I had that for a bit in '95

Still cool as fuck. Wish this had expanded in some form into modern games.

When Xbox announced XCloud, I remembered this

Camel toe in a Nintendo promo? The 90’s were truly blessed!

Nice a new video I love satellaview related stuff good old Japanese tech

Pretty insane the the SNES had this service back in the day.

This is incredible to see!

Well done!

1:02 Holy crap, its the SOL tunnel sound from Mystery Science Theater??

When we talk about Nintendo online most people point at the DS and Wii as the consoles to start It then people are surprised to learn GameCube had online for one game and before that the SNES had satellaview but noone ever talks about that famicom online system I know It had horse betting but that's It

Thanks!

Amazing!

Thank you

2:57 is her mariko mori??

luckily enough own one. also have a data card with some data on of some Japanese magazine or something no games unfortunately

Woah stereo audio in HD

That teruki hairstyle

if monopoly is so good, why isnt the- 6:27

Cool

Where are the concord keys man its been almost 10 years surely youve found them

Satellite version of Sega Channel.

First appearance of the protagonist from Another Code?

First time i hear the letter L in Japanese. I expected something like Saturraview or Suppa-Saturra-View-San

I like 80s styled and charming that was. 🙂❤️

No subs? Wish I could understand what they were saying 😊

Are the games shown here lost media ?

we got robbed

Can I buy “Monopoly 2” in board game form?

A E S T H E T I C

2:29 🤣bahaha bozo

Demonetised for reused content in 3... 2... 1....

I love this channel and its content but man I hate the name lol

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I wonder if the NES remakes would've gotten renamed in America had this made it over. Since, you know, people would laugh at names like "BS The Legend of Zelda" making bullshit jokes. Lol

I find it absolutely hilarious that they were really trying to convince Japanese children that this thing was actually the receiver end of an honest-to-god space satellite that they constructed and launched into reaches of space up in earth's very orbit beaming video games into Super Famicoms, and that there were actual people up there manning these probes dressed like aliens from campy Godzilla films along with it.

Japanese is like a foreign language.

Anyone here know which of the first party sound link games were only playable *during* their broadcast? I know the Zelda’s were, but I can’t find any information on if the others were downloadable and playable after the broadcast or not. I’d really like to know about these 6 specifically, if anyone knows: Konae-Chan’s Heartbreaking Penguin Family BS Marvelous: Time Athletics BS Marvelous: Camp Arnold BS Tantei Club: Memories Lost to the Snow Excitebike: Bun Bun Mario Battle Stadium BS Fire Emblem: Akaneia Senki Edit: and to be clear, I’m not talking about emulation, I mean I want to know if any of these are still playable on official, un-modded BS-X cartridges that received the broadcasts in the 90s. Unsurprisingly, my search for this oddly specific information has yielded no results.

Awesome! Ok, sprite artists and rom-hackers, you have your assignments. :)

3 mins ago

That actress is subtly not happy to be in this video. :/

7sec ago wow, i be the first seeing this!

Lets hope we get a translation