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I just died near the end of the first dungeon in BS Zelda.
It was basically an enhanced Super Famicom (SNES) remake of the original Famicom (NES) game "The Legend of Zelda". It could only be played via an attachment called Satellaview (official name: BS-X, hence the name of the game) which downloaded the game to its own cartridge. Of course, the game was Japan-only as the Satellaview never made it to the West. Oh, and it was played live, cut into four episodes that took place every week, and included a real-time voice-over narrator (!)
Strange, huh?
Well, when I read about it first, it sounded dead cool to me.
Luckily, these wonderful people somehow obtained the thing, translated and patched it to be played on an emulator. And as thier disclaimer says, downloading it for free should be okay as the game was only broadcast via satelllite for alimited amount of time and has never ben sold anywhere.
So I dug out my old-ish Saitek P750 game pad (which surprisingly has both a gameport and an USB connector) and checked it out.
First thing: Wow, NES music turned SNES - how COOL!
In this version of the game, you don't play Link but get to choose between a boy and a (red-headed ^_^) girl, apparently the Satellaview mascots.
The graphics look really neat and the sound effects had me sold immediately. If only my stupid pad wasn't that imprecise. The directional pad is a bad joke and tends to do stuff you didn't intend it to do. That's why I got hurt constantly even though I bloody beat the NES original, even though half the world keeps telling me it's the most difficult installment in the whole franchise. Ever played "The Adventure of Link"? Ugh.
Maybe I should invest in a better pad one of these days. I don't play emulated games too often, but I think that's mainly cuz I never get anywhere because of that damn D-pad =_=
*makes note to check eBay just in case*
Anyway, this thing rocks and everyone intersted in old and/or obscure video games should give it a try!
One thing, though: The version of ZSNES on their page acted really strangely on both of my machines so I recommend getting the latest one at the ZSNES homepage.
It was basically an enhanced Super Famicom (SNES) remake of the original Famicom (NES) game "The Legend of Zelda". It could only be played via an attachment called Satellaview (official name: BS-X, hence the name of the game) which downloaded the game to its own cartridge. Of course, the game was Japan-only as the Satellaview never made it to the West. Oh, and it was played live, cut into four episodes that took place every week, and included a real-time voice-over narrator (!)
Strange, huh?
Well, when I read about it first, it sounded dead cool to me.
Luckily, these wonderful people somehow obtained the thing, translated and patched it to be played on an emulator. And as thier disclaimer says, downloading it for free should be okay as the game was only broadcast via satelllite for alimited amount of time and has never ben sold anywhere.
So I dug out my old-ish Saitek P750 game pad (which surprisingly has both a gameport and an USB connector) and checked it out.
First thing: Wow, NES music turned SNES - how COOL!
In this version of the game, you don't play Link but get to choose between a boy and a (red-headed ^_^) girl, apparently the Satellaview mascots.
The graphics look really neat and the sound effects had me sold immediately. If only my stupid pad wasn't that imprecise. The directional pad is a bad joke and tends to do stuff you didn't intend it to do. That's why I got hurt constantly even though I bloody beat the NES original, even though half the world keeps telling me it's the most difficult installment in the whole franchise. Ever played "The Adventure of Link"? Ugh.
Maybe I should invest in a better pad one of these days. I don't play emulated games too often, but I think that's mainly cuz I never get anywhere because of that damn D-pad =_=
*makes note to check eBay just in case*
Anyway, this thing rocks and everyone intersted in old and/or obscure video games should give it a try!
One thing, though: The version of ZSNES on their page acted really strangely on both of my machines so I recommend getting the latest one at the ZSNES homepage.
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