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Joined: May 13 2009 Location: lowell, ma Posts: 289

theyre for an add on for the snes called the satilliview. i dont know much about these games except that i downloaded 1 and was curious to see if u guys had heard of or played these before. heres a site i found http://bszelda.zeldalegends.net/bszelda.shtml

Posted: May 17 2009 01:10 pm

Satelliview and CD-i were two COMPLETELY different beasts. The subject should be asking about Satelliview and not the CD-i Link and Zelda games.

Posted: May 17 2009 01:20 pm

The art of being a dick at it's finest.

Joined: May 13 2009 Location: lowell, ma Posts: 289

lordsathien wrote:

Satelliview and CD-i were two COMPLETELY different beasts. The subject should be asking about Satelliview and not the CD-i Link and Zelda games.

k sorry. i was just wondering man. i was hoping someone like u who knew about it would talk about it.

when i searched for the roms for the "bs" zelda games. some cdi zelda sites also came up so i just assumed they were the same. my mistake. care to emphasize on the sattiliview version of the zelda games?

Title: Comic Author Joined: Dec 12 2008 Posts: 1179

As is so often the case, wikipedia has the answers...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BS_Zelda

It always bothers me when people ask "hey, has anyone heard about this thing that's been on the internet for years now?"

Posted: May 17 2009 07:49 pm

Well to be fair, Google is pretty confusing to use. You know, you gotta type in what you're looking for, then you have to click on a link to Wikipedia or something similar. It's tricky.

Posted: May 17 2009 08:05 pm

I wish they'd redo the BS games for the VC and/or WiiWare

Posted: May 17 2009 08:13 pm

I wouldn't mind playing the Stellaview F-Zero.

Posted: May 17 2009 08:25 pm

I actually thought the whole wrong relationship between BS and CD-i was a little funny.

Anyways, I haven't found much amusement on BS Zelda. Maybe because I already finished the original Legend of Zelda and didn't thought of the port as much of an improvment.

Posted: May 17 2009 08:31 pm

That's because you're not playing it right. It was meant to be played in rounds and take like a month or so to complete. The hacked ROM doesn't given you the real experience.

Joined: May 13 2009 Location: lowell, ma Posts: 289

wow i better watch my mouth around here huh

Posted: May 17 2009 09:55 pm

This is for you:

Naw, just kidding, blkplaquelmc. And in case anyone needs it, This Is A Joke

Joined: May 13 2009 Location: lowell, ma Posts: 289

Eddie_Hyde wrote:

This is for you:

Naw, just kidding, blkplaquelmc. And in case anyone needs it, This Is A Joke

lol thanks but i prefer my stfu in a nice tall novelty batman glass from mcdonalds

Posted: May 18 2009 06:10 am

From Wikipedia:

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BS Zelda no Densetsu was a game released for the Satellaview attachment for the Super Famicom in Japan. It was based on the original The Legend of Zelda for the NES. Unlike the original Zelda game, this version had a different direct sequel called BS Zelda no Densetsu Kodai no Sekiban, which was based on The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

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The gameplay was largely unchanged from the original game, but a few differences exist which make the experience distinctly different. One of these differences is that the maximum number of rupees allowed a player was increased to more than a thousand (rather than 255 as in The Legend of Zelda). The overworld was altered from an 8 by 16 map to an 8 by 8, although an effort to make Map 1 relatively comparable in terms of general landscape features to the overworld in The Legend of Zelda is apparent. As in the The Legend of Zelda's Second Quest, dungeons are again completely different. This game is sometimes referred to as a "Third Quest", in reference to The Legend of Zelda's Second Quest. The Map 2 version could thus be considered the "Fourth Quest". Carrying on the tradition initiated in the Second Quest where the dungeon map layouts spelled "ZELDA", Third Quest layout spells "St.GIGA" and the Fourth Quest spells "NiNtENDO".

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The game was played in real-time. An onscreen clock showed the current time, and at various times on the clock certain events would happen. The game pauses for a moment before making a change. Sometimes the enemies are killed or stunned, sometimes a fairy appears, and occasionally the player is granted unlimited quantities of one of their items for a limited time. Bombs, boomerangs and candles can all be auto-upgraded this way, and will never run out of ammunition until the clock reaches the ending value, at which point the player’s bombs are returned to the amount they had before the unlimited amount was activated, or the boomerang will downgrade, or the candle will turn from red back to blue. The game was divided into four weekly episodes. These episodes were played live, at the same time as a video game tips show was running on the satellite network. The download time for each episode was typically around seven minutes.

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In one issue of Nintendo Online Magazine, there is some allusion to players with good scores receiving free gifts. The article states that players received a password that recorded the degree of completion of that day's featured dungeon. Players would then submit this password to the company, with players who completed the most receiving prizes. Due to costs involved, it is assumed that the prizes were Gashapon-style trinkets; many Zelda-themed merchandise items with unknown origins do exist, and some of these may originate from here. As a player had to be subscribed to the St.GIGA network to play, their mailing addresses would be known, and it is quite possible that these gifts were mailed. Still, information on this program has been very difficult to obtain.

Posted: May 18 2009 05:58 pm

I remember playing them in a Woolsworth store back in the 90's. Seemed like a platformer, as opposed to Zelda-style, game to me. Only played it for about 20mins, so my memory of such things is precious as it is. I will check out the emulated facsimiles of these games.

Posted: May 18 2009 06:59 pm

Um... they were never released in the US. You played something else.

Posted: May 18 2009 07:22 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Um... they were never released in the US. You played something else.

Duly noted. But then WTF were those Zelda games (definitely Zelda oriented) that I played then? They were platform games, roughly SNES-like graphics... Played like Zelda II, only the graphics were better. Try Super Mario World graphics with Zelda II gameplay. In all honesty, I would say I played it in '94-'96.

Posted: May 18 2009 09:13 pm

Uh... probably the Philips CD-i Unholy Triforce games

Zelda and the Wand of Gaemalon is the only one I could think of.

Posted: May 19 2009 05:53 am

Slayer1 wrote:

Uh... probably the Philips CD-i Unholy Triforce games

Zelda and the Wand of Gaemalon is the only one I could think of.

Philips CD-i, now that rings a bell. I am most sure that that is what I was thinking of. Thanks.