One step closer to reliving the Satellaview.

[Kiddo]

Hey. folks. I figured this was a pretty big development, so I thought I'd mention it here:

A friend of mine, Luigiblood, has been working on "BS-X Project", a fork of BSNES intended to simulate a Satellaview's online environment, for a while now.

Most importantly and recently, though, some groundbreaking progress in getting this to work.
Check a few of the video logs;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHm_n7Ivnes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV7J0_uESTI

Some of this stuff is now in "bsnes-bsx v002".
http://bsxproj.superfamicom.org/index.htm
In this version you can modify various aspects of the town (particularly NPCs and items) by editing the "bsx?.bin" files included with the emulator. (I may post some example bins if everyone needs help on this.)

This is a great deal of progress in a short period of time. I hope everyone enjoys this.

Future updates will certainly get even closer to replicating the experience - perhaps someday Soundlink games may even be loaded in a manner that's similar to how they originally were! Of course, we might need a streaming radio service to help with that there...

A lot of the info being learned from the project is being archived here;
http://wiki.superfamicom.org/snes/sh...iew+%28Meta%29

[Steven]

Cool, thanks for sharing this.

BTW, props again to you -- the man who made "BS Out of Bounds Golf" possible for play on a real Super Nintendo

[Colorado Rockies]

Whoa that is awesome. Looks and sounds a lot like Earthbound.

[Blanka789]

Great developments. I haven't been paying attention to Satellaview stuff for years, but I guess I should start again.

[Jorpho]

With the controversy that seems to surround BSNES's development, I wouldn't have expected someone to manage to fork it.

Anyway, while this is all intriguing, it will be much more so when it is all translated. (It'd be nifty someday if someone completed a complete audio redub for the BS SMB USA and Zelda games. What I'd really like to see is an English patch for Dynami Tracer and Treasure Conflix, but those aren't necessarily Satellaview-hardware related.)

[Kiddo]

With the controversy that seems to surround BSNES's development, I wouldn't have expected someone to manage to fork it.

Anyway, while this is all intriguing, it will be much more so when it is all translated. (It'd be nifty someday if someone completed a complete audio redub for the BS SMB USA and Zelda games. What I'd really like to see is an English patch for Dynami Tracer and Treasure Conflix, but those aren't necessarily Satellaview-hardware related.)

In terms of (recent) fan translation stuff;
1) The BS-X ROM itself has had some translation, although a lot of the stuff recently discovered has obviously not been translatedyet.
2) There is someone I recall working on Dynami Tracer a while back, and someone who expressed enough interest in Treasure Conflix to do a text dump.

[Kitsune Sniper]

With the controversy that seems to surround BSNES's development, I wouldn't have expected someone to manage to fork it.

Controversy? What's going on?