The Nintendo Broadcast Satellaview was added to my collection after my last collection post
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The Nintendo Broadcast Satellaview was added to my collection after my last collection post!
Of course the service is gone, but with it's bios and a cart with a real-time clock, you can get a good sense of what it was once like!@SuperSelena64 If you have a PC, there's a group of folks working to replicate the Satellaview experience with emulators!
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The Nintendo Broadcast Satellaview was added to my collection after my last collection post!
Of course the service is gone, but with it's bios and a cart with a real-time clock, you can get a good sense of what it was once like!@SuperSelena64 Super jealous! Such an interesting piece of hardware, way, waaaaay ahead of its time!
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The Nintendo Broadcast Satellaview was added to my collection after my last collection post!
Of course the service is gone, but with it's bios and a cart with a real-time clock, you can get a good sense of what it was once like!@SuperSelena64 damn a real Satellaview in the wild. Would be awesome to see this restored to full functionality via the fan project someone else mentioned!
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The Nintendo Broadcast Satellaview was added to my collection after my last collection post!
Of course the service is gone, but with it's bios and a cart with a real-time clock, you can get a good sense of what it was once like!@SuperSelena64 one day I’d like to even get a non working one as a stand for my SFC but even broken ones go for a fair amount.
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The Nintendo Broadcast Satellaview was added to my collection after my last collection post!
Of course the service is gone, but with it's bios and a cart with a real-time clock, you can get a good sense of what it was once like!@SuperSelena64 I wonder what it felt like at the time with stuff like BS Zelda. I never quite understood what that was exactly. Custom world maps or something?
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The Nintendo Broadcast Satellaview was added to my collection after my last collection post!
Of course the service is gone, but with it's bios and a cart with a real-time clock, you can get a good sense of what it was once like!@SuperSelena64 One of the most interesting consoles peripherals of all time. Games made for the thing really was a unique one time experience combining SNES game play with a radio audio drama, and tied together with synced up gameplay loops tied to what you were currently hearing.
The end result is simply an temporal spectacle unlike no other. The closest comparison I can think of is like whenever Fortnight host a live concert but tied to that famous case in World of Warcraft where a unintentional epidemic spread throughout the world. Think of around a hundred thousand Japanese kids playing a synced experience and having no way of playing it again after it was done.
It was ephemerality in video game form.
I feel like there is a lot you can study from it.
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The Nintendo Broadcast Satellaview was added to my collection after my last collection post!
Of course the service is gone, but with it's bios and a cart with a real-time clock, you can get a good sense of what it was once like!@SuperSelena64 incredible!!!
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@SuperSelena64 I wonder what it felt like at the time with stuff like BS Zelda. I never quite understood what that was exactly. Custom world maps or something?
@nazokiyoubinbou It was a lot! Zelda had a whole 3rd Quest, the games had scheduled times for download availability and certain levels were only playable at certain times on the BS-X clock, and it piped in real audio as well so you could hear announcers and live music!
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@nazokiyoubinbou It was a lot! Zelda had a whole 3rd Quest, the games had scheduled times for download availability and certain levels were only playable at certain times on the BS-X clock, and it piped in real audio as well so you could hear announcers and live music!
It was just a whole thing!@SuperSelena64 It's sad that people like me completely missed out on stuff like that. I can only imagine the excitement people must have felt.
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@SuperSelena64 One of the most interesting consoles peripherals of all time. Games made for the thing really was a unique one time experience combining SNES game play with a radio audio drama, and tied together with synced up gameplay loops tied to what you were currently hearing.
The end result is simply an temporal spectacle unlike no other. The closest comparison I can think of is like whenever Fortnight host a live concert but tied to that famous case in World of Warcraft where a unintentional epidemic spread throughout the world. Think of around a hundred thousand Japanese kids playing a synced experience and having no way of playing it again after it was done.
It was ephemerality in video game form.
I feel like there is a lot you can study from it.
@vinnyboiler Even now with what has been reconstructed on my system, I can launch the BS-X version of Excitebike (for example) and if it's not time for the next course yet, I can play practice rounds until the time is ready. You have to play it at the right time to play the different courses. It's just so cool.
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@aeva I thought that's what we did by coming here.
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@aeva You can have values that are different but their difference is a subnormal value and suddenly with FTZ you have div-by-0s, yeah.
(This is super rare but still.)
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@rygorous ah, so for example, a not quite zero value and zero compare differently depending on whether DAZ is on, stuff like that?
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@aeva the main thing that breaks without denormals on is that some numeric code might start slightly misbehaving in rare corner cases you're unlikely to notice, and certain assumptions like "if (a != b) then a-b != 0" don't hold with denormals off
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@aeva me and the DSP classic: "why does it get very slow after the envelope fades out"
I solved this when I was doing a synth in Flash by adding noise
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@aeva It's fine for audio code but when you turn it on, you generally want to put it in a scope guard thingy that saves the original MXCSR and restores it after (way out in the outer loop, not per function or anything, toggling that isn't super cheap) because it changes the results of some float calcs and breaks a few rules that while not _super_ important might trip you up
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@aeva For audio?
Mostly you just won't need it if your IIR filters and delay lines (these are the two main culprits) just do this magic supah sekrit fixup on their input:
input += 1e-30f;
(or, in some cases, put it on the output for the feedback signals)
