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