I get the novelty with the BS-X, and I even support the idea of looking forward to going home to streamed games the way they did it. However, after a period of time the full game should have been made available on that platform, it’s just ignorant to allow it to be lost to time when you’re done streaming it. Very proud of the crew that so painstakingly brought this back for us all!
Gaming fans come to the rescue once again to bring us a piece of gaming history that we would never have been able to experience otherwise. Gotta respect the amount of effort that was poured into this recreation and the many mods and recoding jobs that have been done for many other games.
Its sad to think about the games wich are lost forever. Like pantings that were destroyd during war, or zelluloid Films, that did not make it into digital times. All the work, all the creativity gone forever
I remember discovering BS Zelda back in the early 2000s on a SNES emulation website. I always knew it existed, but wow dude, you did some great research here. Great video!
Great video man. I can't believe you could download games on a console in 1997! Fantastic stuff. Me snd a friend were discussing earlier how Nintendo aint afraid to try new stuff and go outside the box. They just go for it, its cool! Just got a Switch and am in Love with Breath of the Wild.
The version they have now is not the version as it was created, thus the original is lost. This one is a faithful recreation from the data that was collected from at least a few different cartridges. It would be like taking a car from the 1800s and changing out all the parts from other cars of the same make and model that were found, then changing something about the car that makes it impossible to drive today (like leaded gas I imagine?). It would not be the same car from that time, but a faithful recreation with changes to make it work today - the original car would be lost to time and what would be driven would be a memory of that car at best. Same with this version of the game. Can't play it as it was intended, so the game as it was created is lost.
I genuinely had no idea this game existed. Makes sense why it never made it overseas, but it’s really cool to know it was able to be preserved like this. Great video!
Wow so a game almost lost to the winds of time truly a legendary feat. Great job for bringing this to everyone's attention. The game is literally a missing link to the past lol
Actually there were similar services in the US long before this. In the early 1980s, there were services for both the Atari 2600 and the Intellivision that allowed for games to be downloaded over a digital connection. The 2600 had GameLine, which allowed you to download games over a dial-up connection, while Intellivision had PlayCable, which allowed games to be distributed over cable and satellite systems. Even Sega of America was doing this stuff in North America, partnering with Time Warner to provide a similar service for Genesis owners through the Sega Channel service.
This is a fantastic story! I had heard about the legendary Satellaview only Zelda game before, but not that there was a rescue/translation project underway, or that it had been completed so thoroughly! Thank you for making this video, and now(assuming it's been converted to a compatible rom format) I need to grab this and upload it to my SNES Classic, to REALLY play this game proper, after all this time. :-)
This is really interesting! I have heard of the BS stuff before, but hadn't taken the time to look into it. I found that your video did a great job breaking it into nice size chunks too. Definitely sharing this! Incredible knowledge find!
The 80's was filled with terrible gaming ideas haha. You'd be surprised at how many crazy things video game companies tried that failed. It was a wild time.
Amazing work and showing this gaming history to us, I had never heard of this game, please continue to do what your doing as I found this to be a rarity video that rarely comes around and is worth the entire watch, ty for your effort and time to make this video.
Ah the simple times when we didn't have downloadable games, or remasters, or any of that stuff. No extra fees, no pay to access internet... There was also no internet modems for Gameboy colors, and exclusive Japan only pokemon because of said modems not being accessible in America... Nope good old fashioned gaming, uncorrupted... right? RIGHT!?
What’s wrong with downloadable games and remasters? If there’s anything to complain about with gaming today, it’s the season passes, loot boxes, and other micro transactions.
Heiko Berlitz Can't forget good ol' planned DLC and day one patches that allow companies to release incomplete games with the promise they'll get as good as they should've been at first.
Sure, yeah, but Nintendo is still releasing full games without required DLC's or additional patches. Yeah, shitty game companies use microtransactions now, but there were always shitty game companies around back in the day who also put out half assed products and charged a premium for them.
ashworth Yeah, I was referring to other companies. Only case of planned DLC from Nintendo I can think of is BoTW, but that game was still finished at release.
That mode is officially called "2nd Quest" while yes its technically the same thing, The main reason I chose Master Quest is because I figured more people would be familiar with that term. I'll be honest I'm not an expert writer by any means so when scripting I try to use stuff that will be understood by the most people.
I like the style of this video. Informational about the Famicom, gameplay from the game and it also has you face! Great job and keep up the amazing work!
I've been working on this video for a few months now on and off, slowly refine the style and improving my edits. This video I think is some of the best work that I've put out and also a glimpse into what the Zelda Documentary will look like when done. I really hope you guys enjoy and if you could leave a LIKE and share this video around it would mean the world to me.
Nope. However this style of presentation and editing is going to be very close to what the Zelda documentary will be like. A lot of the research that went into this video will also be featured in the Zelda Documentary however there was so much stuff I figured it needed its own video.
Already got this added to my Retro Console collection. Rare games like this need to be archived and preserved for future generations. ...emuparadise...
Not going to lie I only made it 4:19 into the video before I started looking for this, and I found it! I just played week one and this is a game that I have wanted but never knew. Thanks for this I am going to finish watching your video now :)
I heard about this. Always thought it looked interesting. I just don't like the player character's hat. It's so out of place and that drives me up the wall.
Nah dude, he's hip, he's fly, we all wore backwards baseball caps in the 90's. Are you implying this is some sort of western stereotype?? I won't stand for it. Now let me put on my high-top sneakers, grab my baseball mitt, chew some pink bubblegum, and join my friends Jeff and Stan outside.
It's because the PC is actually the player avatar from the little overworld menu system used by the Satellaview. That's why there's two different versions you sometimes see, the system gave you a choice between a boy and a girl.
Awesome video and detective work. Hardly anyone in the West knows about this game. I was blown away when I uncovered it by going through the Super Famicom's complete romset.
+Mario Sanon Master Quest was originally released on the N64. Including rereleases to a system as part of the franchise release to a console is misleading and cheating. But you are correct about Twilight Princess, that was released originally on the Game Cube. But since it was so close to the Wii release, they made a version of it for that as well... a version that had reduced graphics and flipped everything over because apparently Nintendo think that basic movements with the left hand is too hard for right handed people to comprehend. Later, they made a release where you can pick if lefty or righty.
i would not count TP for other consoles but the GC either. It released on GC, Wii and WiiU. So WiiU only got one original Zelda game that also released on Switch
Link has a modern hat or is it his hair? Edit: Why hasn't Nintendo decide to revive this back? It looks like a good zelda game and add to the timeline of fallen hero.
Because Nintendo themselves really don't consider it a "real" Zelda game. Its story isnt canon, its gameplay and world just ripped from ALTTP and its pretty much forgotten about.
+Noble Gurdian i probably could have explained it more but i briefly mentioned that you dont actually play as link, you play as your satteliview avatar. In the patched version i have they made the sprite look more like Link
I played this several years ago ;) , was on a hunt for any old Zelda game I hadnt played yet and found out about this. It didn't take too long too setup
+Jon Neely probably because they dont even have the full ROMS themselves. The only reason we have them is because of the work fans did to re-create them.
Because Nintendo themselves really don't consider it a "real" Zelda game. Its story isnt canon, its gameplay and world just ripped from ALTTP and its pretty much forgotten about.
I'd be rather surprised if Nintendo doesn't have the files for this somewhere... They're really quite fastidious about keeping things. There's a reason they could release Starfox 2 in a more complete state than the leaked ROMS... They even had an original manual and box art for it, that they chose not to use for the release they made. The content of their archives is probably pretty extensive... Especially considering you're talking about stuff from the 90's... Not their early work. By all accounts Nintendo has archival copies of the packaging and cartridges for 3rd party titles too, not just their own games. I'd be very surprised if they had actually gotten rid of this stuff...
OMG. I think I remember this. In a comic/game book shop in the 90's some people were playing a version of A Link to the Past where link had to douse himself with a bucket of water and rescue an NPC from a burning house. It was the same house where you get the book of Mudora, so I was always waiting for that event to happen and it never did. I think this might have been why! Like a 21 year old mystery solved, I didn't dream that!!
I think the broadcast system is really interresting, they were actually quite ahead of their time, only the technology wasn't developped enough yet to make it work smoothly and being affordable for most people.
Pretty sure people had dial up internet at the time, for consoles though this and Sega Channel were probably the first steps towards what we have today in terms of digital distribution of games.
The modern internet was still developing, sure, but many things were attempted in various ways over the years. The satellite internet elements that are in place have essentially no relation to this particular scheme. The SV was largely a technological dead end. Download to a specific receptor that would display the media for a limited time was a concept that was tried in many ways for years. Patents demonstrate this, if you're curious. ("Interactive television" is a good search term. If I could recall some of the product or company names, I would note them, but they're mostly long defunct. "InterAction" seems familiar. DirectTV is one of these that survived, arguably. It uses a similar content delivery scheme.) The Internet-as-entertainment idea gathered billions of dollars of investment in the 90s, if not trillions. This was one of many attempts to create interactive tv. Its biggest claim to fame isn't being first or particularly innovative, it's being allied with Nintendo so their content was better than most.
Going further back, the PLATO mainframe system, which had online games, chat rooms and forums, and even dating functions written for it. Developed in the 1960's; some of the first computer games were made (behind the backs of college admins) for PLATO systems and hidden under names like Pedit5. It was more a local intranet than internet, (and no one outside of colleges and military had them) but still served the same functions for it's communities as later BBS and the modern internet did and does. The main difference being that the network now extends to people's homes.
Wow, this incredibly interesting. Back in my Nintendo Fanboy days, I read everything I could about Nintendo, but this is entirely new to me. I Have no idea how I never heard of any of this, specially the Zelda game, specially since I was a huuuuuge Zelda fan. Thanks for this amazing vid Matt.
I liked this vid a lot. One main point I would like you to consider is when you are putting 2 music clips over each other. I can see what you're going for, but it's really weird and kinda feels like a mistake. So don't do that. Whenever you introduce new music either have it transition or just do away with whatever default music you're using completely. This will make these transitions a lot more tasteful and lend to serving the video a lot better.
Gotta admire their innovativeness back then, nowadays such a thing would never be done because "inefficient". Tech progresses at a snail's pace these days as a result, with safe incremental improvements in existing technology rather than bold ventures into new and unknown territory.
I don't hate jazz, it just became difficult to concentrate on the narration due to it being a distraction in certain key areas. I'd just dial it back some or reduce the volume so that your message is not competing with your favorite jazz tune.
I’m pretty sure I never heard of this game before, although I’ve played and owned every title sans BOTW (no switch :(). Thank you algorithm for putting this creator in my feed 5 years down the line! :D Hopefully it will reach more fans in the future! Keep up the good work
I noticed that you have a Legend of Zelda poster/picture on the wall behind you. It looks like art from a Link to the past. It just occured to me that I has some memerobilia as a youngster too and that shamefully I turned to a strategy guide for the Lord Jabu Jabus temple in The Legend of Zelda Ocrina of Time; but, vowed to my friends to use it just that once, lol.
Or did I? I'm pretty sure the phrase "At least two" implies that its not always the case. I just don't own a copy of Four Sword and when you compare it to both Wind Waker and Twilight Princess I don't think its as easily recognizable which is why I didn't feel the need to include it in that shot. :)
Oh snap..I have 200 snes games I just collected through my childhood sitting in a box at my mom's house I haven't opened it in 25 years but I'm pretty sure that I played this game before and I probably have it
+Crow Migration because fans have been able to recreate the game after recovering data files and looking at old video recordings to fill in the missing pieces.
Loverboy25 some people still don't know and that's perfectly okay! As time goes on, and thanks to the people who put their time into making such videos;... (Wonderful editing and all that jazz btw. I don't click on just anything!) So is a much needed community that's becoming more known and available to the masses. Because retro video-games aren't just something you play, you experience them!
www.gamereproductions.com/index.php?subcats=Y&status=A&pshort=Y&pfull=Y&pname=Y&pkeywords=Y&search_performed=Y&q=Zelda&dispatch=products.search&page=2 Parallel Worlds is fan-made but definitely worth checking out as well if you have masochistic tendencies.
Nice man. The one thing I MIGHT consider changing is to play Zelda music in the background instead of jazzy elevator music...but to each their own. :) You talked about this wonderful orchestral music so much (and I'm an audiophile), but never...played any sampling of it. XD
+EpicU™ its been a project for over a decade so it doesnt seem like nintendo has any interest in stopping it. Plus they distribute the game files as a patch to ths ROMs which protects them to some degree.
He's taking a dig at how butt hurt Nintendo gets about youtubers making videos about their IPs. They're leading the charge in getting lets play and review videos of any of their games shut down. People are pretty upset at them for it.
Moobu yep. Started doing it religiously with Breath of the Wild, and it really bugs me. I uploaded three silly videos of Breath of the Wild where I didn’t even use capture software, just a shitty phone video recording, and they still copyrighted like.. two of the three. Claimed the BOTW music in the Thunderblight Ganon fight, and I believe they claimed footage from a cutscene as well. Even though the phone kept moving and didn’t ever really get a clear, straight moment of footage. It’s pretty shitty. They’ve been doing it on Mario Odyssey as well. I don’t understand. Why don’t they want people to upload LPs of these incredible games? They’re fairly new releases, too. LPs are a fucking fantastic method of FREE advertising for Nintendo’s content. I know for a fact I’m not the only one who bought Breath of the Wild as a result of seeing LPs showing off how great it is.
Yea, this is bullshit (BS) :'D this was never developed by Nintendo and I can't believe some people believe it xD Do you guys believe in Slender man also? Why would Nintendo release a game with same graphic and almost identical world? C'mon they just released one of the best game ever and would come up with this shit after?
Mind=Blown at all the things in this video. Nintendo was way ahead of their time back then, but damn all those hardware requirements probably scared many people away.
I'm sort of surprised that BS-X didn't take off. That technology was way ahead of it's time. How awesome would be, to be back in the 90s and down load remixed games and get magazine content. Also seems like that Ancient Tablet game could have fit in the same cart as Link To The Past, as a bonus game after beating the main title. It just would have been some extra sprites and text. It would have been pretty sick to have two games in one and I think people would pay a little extra for more game play.
An old school friend of mine had lived in Japan with his parents, who worked for a US military contractor at the time. He told us about the Satellaview (and the FDS, which we also had never heard of); at first we didn't really believe him. Then I was at his house one day and he busted out some old magazines he had brought from Japan and inside one of them, there it all was in an advertisement. Of course a few years later I encountered the "BS" roms on the web.
+911meltdown2 yeah I had to limit the shots in camera since my room is echo-y. I tried to EQ the audio to resuce the echo as much as i could, im not exactly great at engineering audio though.
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ACT 1 OF MY ZELDA DOCUMENTARY IS OUT NOW! th-cam.com/video/Fg2IcbcGBfY/w-d-xo.html
When will part 2 be out?:D
AwesomeFaceProd The game boy only has 1 Zelda game. The Gameboy color has 3 Zelda games.
AwesomeFaceProd Zelda one already has a master quest mode. Beat the game or use the name Zelda to play it.
AwesomeFaceProd this Zelda game looks like secret of mana
A memory card for 8mb!
I get the novelty with the BS-X, and I even support the idea of looking forward to going home to streamed games the way they did it. However, after a period of time the full game should have been made available on that platform, it’s just ignorant to allow it to be lost to time when you’re done streaming it. Very proud of the crew that so painstakingly brought this back for us all!
Gaming fans come to the rescue once again to bring us a piece of gaming history that we would never have been able to experience otherwise.
Gotta respect the amount of effort that was poured into this recreation and the many mods and recoding jobs that have been done for many other games.
Its sad to think about the games wich are lost forever. Like pantings that were destroyd during war, or zelluloid Films, that did not make it into digital times. All the work, all the creativity gone forever
True but deep
Most likely a lot shit was lost.
It all remains in the ether, waiting for another creative and seeking mind worthy enough to tap into its mystical bosom.
ooooooooooooooook zenyatta
@@docmadhattan no
"I'll leave link in the description". I don't see him... Where is he?
He is wearing the Cape of Invisibility.
His name is actually Zelda!
Johnny Prescott lol
your just kidding right? the fact you think link's name is zelda is funny :D
Yes, he's kidding. There was an article recently arguing that Link's name is actually Zelda.
The best thing of this video are the smooth jazz tracks on the background
I have this one on my phone, music name is summer Bossa nova
I remember discovering BS Zelda back in the early 2000s on a SNES emulation website. I always knew it existed, but wow dude, you did some great research here. Great video!
Find the Tablets of Destiny as an elf avatar with a sideways ball cap, on this episode of Insane Digital History!
hilarious
I remember this game. Wow, this completely awakened a flashback of my childhood. Only one person I knew had it. And I never saw it again.
"The BS stands for broadcast system..." hahaha
broadcast satellite..not system.
Bullshit 🤣
Great video man. I can't believe you could download games on a console in 1997! Fantastic stuff. Me snd a friend were discussing earlier how Nintendo aint afraid to try new stuff and go outside the box. They just go for it, its cool! Just got a Switch and am in Love with Breath of the Wild.
BS Zelda isnt lost. you can get it repacked on a cart or ROM.
How do you get it repacked into a cart?
It isn't that well known is what the term means...not literally.
The version they have now is not the version as it was created, thus the original is lost.
This one is a faithful recreation from the data that was collected from at least a few different cartridges.
It would be like taking a car from the 1800s and changing out all the parts from other cars of the same make and model that were found, then changing something about the car that makes it impossible to drive today (like leaded gas I imagine?). It would not be the same car from that time, but a faithful recreation with changes to make it work today - the original car would be lost to time and what would be driven would be a memory of that car at best.
Same with this version of the game. Can't play it as it was intended, so the game as it was created is lost.
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I genuinely had no idea this game existed. Makes sense why it never made it overseas, but it’s really cool to know it was able to be preserved like this. Great video!
So basically this is the same zelda with a different version of events lol.
Yeah kinda.
Alex O I love zelda but don't really have any interest in this. It seems like a zelda ALTTP remix at best. Meh. Interesting video though!
Wow so a game almost lost to the winds of time truly a legendary feat. Great job for bringing this to everyone's attention. The game is literally a missing link to the past lol
The story and gameplay sound like someone's fan fiction brought to life.
30 years old, grew up on NES and SNES... and this is the first time hearing about Ancient Stone Tablets. Awesome video!
In other words, Japan was light years ahead of the U.S. in the 90s.
Crimson McKnight very very not true, this was a horrible concept. And I believe Sega had a service like this in North America
Nah... this was ahorrible idea and not ahead of times, only cause they were doing this better In the US at the time...
Actually there were similar services in the US long before this. In the early 1980s, there were services for both the Atari 2600 and the Intellivision that allowed for games to be downloaded over a digital connection. The 2600 had GameLine, which allowed you to download games over a dial-up connection, while Intellivision had PlayCable, which allowed games to be distributed over cable and satellite systems. Even Sega of America was doing this stuff in North America, partnering with Time Warner to provide a similar service for Genesis owners through the Sega Channel service.
They still are
All games in the 90's were developed in Japan.
Your statement literally makes no sense.
This is actually kindof dope.. like the timed aspect is actually kindof sick.. “you gotta do your weekly” lol. Like idk Japan sure is something.
This is a fantastic story! I had heard about the legendary Satellaview only Zelda game before, but not that there was a rescue/translation project underway, or that it had been completed so thoroughly! Thank you for making this video, and now(assuming it's been converted to a compatible rom format) I need to grab this and upload it to my SNES Classic, to REALLY play this game proper, after all this time. :-)
This would have been way better than Star Fox 2 on the SNES mini release.
This is really interesting! I have heard of the BS stuff before, but hadn't taken the time to look into it. I found that your video did a great job breaking it into nice size chunks too. Definitely sharing this! Incredible knowledge find!
what a horrible way to get games to the consumer
The 80's was filled with terrible gaming ideas haha. You'd be surprised at how many crazy things video game companies tried that failed. It was a wild time.
It was late 90’s wasnt it? I vaguely remember reading something about this service in a magazine somewhere when i was in my early 20’s
AwesomeFaceProd But the snes/super famicom was a 90s console
bezoticallyyours83 just shows you how much he actually knows or cared to fact check.
Swaft is sin or you know, perhaps he pressed the 8 on his keyboard instead of the 9, Mr. Warrior.
Amazing work and showing this gaming history to us, I had never heard of this game, please continue to do what your doing as I found this to be a rarity video that rarely comes around and is worth the entire watch, ty for your effort and time to make this video.
+sharv88 sharv88 thanks :)
The Ancient Stone Tablets should be adapted for the 3ds or even remastered for the Switch...
the amount of information provided and the format has earned you a sub. Great work!
Thanks :)
Haha turn on subtitles at 8:25!
Joseph Brandenburg Lmao, that was awesome!
Damn, Japan gets all the cool stuff! I wish a live voice actress playing the role of Princess Zelda had given me porn story details back in 1997!
This was very good. I really enjoyed the narration, the rhythm, the music. 1 video was enough to subscribe!
+PLeXiM thanks man.
Ah the simple times when we didn't have downloadable games, or remasters, or any of that stuff. No extra fees, no pay to access internet... There was also no internet modems for Gameboy colors, and exclusive Japan only pokemon because of said modems not being accessible in America...
Nope good old fashioned gaming, uncorrupted... right? RIGHT!?
Patrick McGinnes no
What’s wrong with downloadable games and remasters? If there’s anything to complain about with gaming today, it’s the season passes, loot boxes, and other micro transactions.
Heiko Berlitz Can't forget good ol' planned DLC and day one patches that allow companies to release incomplete games with the promise they'll get as good as they should've been at first.
Sure, yeah, but Nintendo is still releasing full games without required DLC's or additional patches. Yeah, shitty game companies use microtransactions now, but there were always shitty game companies around back in the day who also put out half assed products and charged a premium for them.
ashworth Yeah, I was referring to other companies. Only case of planned DLC from Nintendo I can think of is BoTW, but that game was still finished at release.
This video alone was worth a sub. Looking forward to seeing what you have coming up in my feed.
Thanks man!
same
"I've been Matt"
Who else would I be :O
You, but stronger.
"... but then I went to surgery to become Mary"? :o
I'm mett
AwesomeFaceProd lol you might want to say “This has been Matt” instead of “I’ve been Matt” next time lol
That was a great video about the BS Zelda. Nobody talks about it as in depth as you did.
+Sirrantsalot months of research.
0:10 I'm going to be honest never knew this.
9:30 People are crazy dedicated.
Expected this to be about the remake of The Legend of Zelda that was featured through the service.
Early version of Master Quest? The original on the NES had a Master Quest. Got it by beating the game, or naming your character ZELDA.
That mode is officially called "2nd Quest" while yes its technically the same thing, The main reason I chose Master Quest is because I figured more people would be familiar with that term. I'll be honest I'm not an expert writer by any means so when scripting I try to use stuff that will be understood by the most people.
Enter your name as Link
@AwsomeFaceProd
Okay, it has been about thirty years since I played it. :)
@Donnie Spaulding
Enter your name as ZELDA
@@Mehwhatevr enter your name as Hitler
I like the style of this video. Informational about the Famicom, gameplay from the game and it also has you face! Great job and keep up the amazing work!
This is actually really freaking cool!
+Skyhijinx thanks :)
Great video. All the info was very well given and the editing was spot on. Keep it up.
Thanks man :D
I've been working on this video for a few months now on and off, slowly refine the style and improving my edits. This video I think is some of the best work that I've put out and also a glimpse into what the Zelda Documentary will look like when done. I really hope you guys enjoy and if you could leave a LIKE and share this video around it would mean the world to me.
AwesomeFaceProd, so... This is that Documentary Series we've been waiting for, right?
Nope. However this style of presentation and editing is going to be very close to what the Zelda documentary will be like. A lot of the research that went into this video will also be featured in the Zelda Documentary however there was so much stuff I figured it needed its own video.
AwesomeFaceProd, Noice! But does this mean the "Coming 2017" will actually be 2018?
I still plan on a 2017 release.
AwesomeFaceProd, hehe... Deadlines closin' in! XD
I feel so proud to actually remember articles in Nintendo Power about this game. I never thought I'd ever see the day one could obtain it though.
Is there a chance you would do a “Let’s play”of this game? Or a streaming of it?
Maybe if enough people want me to.
AwesomeFaceProd god yes dude. That would be kickass.
Yes! Dude you gotta, nobody LPs Zelda titles better than you man. I’d love to see this game in full.
I'll love a stream of this game.
I support the idea!!!
Already got this added to my Retro Console collection. Rare games like this need to be archived and preserved for future generations. ...emuparadise...
1995's Xbox Live!
or PlayStation Network!
Haha both
or, SEGA channel..
That was a thing?
Yes
Damn that Super Famicon St Giga thing was really ahead of its time.
Then there were the Philips CD-I Zelda games....
No there wasn't.
Nintendo had 3 lost Zelda are Zelda 3 on SNES, Zelda Mystical Seed of Courage on GameBoy Color, Zelda Wind Waker 2 on GameCube.
Not going to lie I only made it 4:19 into the video before I started looking for this, and I found it! I just played week one and this is a game that I have wanted but never knew. Thanks for this I am going to finish watching your video now :)
I heard about this. Always thought it looked interesting. I just don't like the player character's hat. It's so out of place and that drives me up the wall.
I think there is a version of the patch that makes it look normal.
Cool
Nah dude, he's hip, he's fly, we all wore backwards baseball caps in the 90's. Are you implying this is some sort of western stereotype?? I won't stand for it. Now let me put on my high-top sneakers, grab my baseball mitt, chew some pink bubblegum, and join my friends Jeff and Stan outside.
It's because the PC is actually the player avatar from the little overworld menu system used by the Satellaview. That's why there's two different versions you sometimes see, the system gave you a choice between a boy and a girl.
Eric Williams wish there was a patch for ALttP for the girl player character
Awesome video and detective work. Hardly anyone in the West knows about this game. I was blown away when I uncovered it by going through the Super Famicom's complete romset.
BTW you forgot Four Swords Adventures on Game cube.
patyos2 actually gamecube had the most zelda games release to date which were Twilight, Wind waker, Master quest, 4 swords, and the zelda collection
Mario sanon Depends if you include Virtual Console. If so then the Wii has the most with all the GameCube games, VC games, and Skyward Sword.
+Mario Sanon
Master Quest was originally released on the N64. Including rereleases to a system as part of the franchise release to a console is misleading and cheating.
But you are correct about Twilight Princess, that was released originally on the Game Cube. But since it was so close to the Wii release, they made a version of it for that as well... a version that had reduced graphics and flipped everything over because apparently Nintendo think that basic movements with the left hand is too hard for right handed people to comprehend. Later, they made a release where you can pick if lefty or righty.
i would not count TP for other consoles but the GC either. It released on GC, Wii and WiiU. So WiiU only got one original Zelda game that also released on Switch
You forgot Animal Crossing which had Zelda 1 in it.
THIS VIDE WAS CLEEAAN MY BOY! I can tell tou put a lot of hard work into making it. Keep it up Matt!
Yea... This isn't like a "lost" Zelda, there have been hundreds of videos on this. I got all excited.
Top Lists and Retro Reviews first time I've heard of it, can I get it to run on a n3ds?
never heard of it and im a die hard loz fan
A Lego Man they just like fan made
Top Lists and Retro Reviews Well I'm still super frickin exited! I've never heard of this and I can actually play it.
I once told an employee at EBgames about this and he looked at me like I was crazy. Who's crazy now Bill!?
Never knew this existed, thanks for such a informative video, going to check this out now!
Dang and here I thought I knew every zelda game......
+MightyAl Gamer well on the bright side, this is pretty much the only obscure game.
AwesomeFaceProd hmm yeah I can live with that thanks 👍
Phillips CDi.
This is a very interesting video, great work matt, so excited for the Zelda documentary
Thanks man :D
Link has a modern hat or is it his hair?
Edit: Why hasn't Nintendo decide to revive this back? It looks like a good zelda game and add to the timeline of fallen hero.
Because Nintendo themselves really don't consider it a "real" Zelda game. Its story isnt canon, its gameplay and world just ripped from ALTTP and its pretty much forgotten about.
+Noble Gurdian i probably could have explained it more but i briefly mentioned that you dont actually play as link, you play as your satteliview avatar. In the patched version i have they made the sprite look more like Link
You aren't Link in this game. You are some other character based on your avatar I believe. Definitely has a "Fresh Prince" feel though.
I played this several years ago ;) , was on a hunt for any old Zelda game I hadnt played yet and found out about this. It didn't take too long too setup
hes gunna leave "links" in the description
Yeah I'm sorry I forgot. I added the links just now though. Thanks for the reminder.
AwesomeFaceProd he was making a zelda pun
Those people who figured out how to recreate the game are the next level of geeks. They are the great, the transcendent, the mightiest of all.
The way you edit videos is so proficient, Matt. :D
Thanks :D
:D
Hey Mahesh! I didn’t expect to find you here!
Oh, hey, Embry! I'm a ZeldaTuber too!
"I've been Matt.."
The legend of Zeald Ancient stone tablits, that is a cool name
y doesn't Nintendo add it 2 the virtual console without the broadcasting part of it?
+Jon Neely probably because they dont even have the full ROMS themselves. The only reason we have them is because of the work fans did to re-create them.
Because Nintendo themselves really don't consider it a "real" Zelda game. Its story isnt canon, its gameplay and world just ripped from ALTTP and its pretty much forgotten about.
I'd be rather surprised if Nintendo doesn't have the files for this somewhere...
They're really quite fastidious about keeping things.
There's a reason they could release Starfox 2 in a more complete state than the leaked ROMS...
They even had an original manual and box art for it, that they chose not to use for the release they made.
The content of their archives is probably pretty extensive...
Especially considering you're talking about stuff from the 90's...
Not their early work.
By all accounts Nintendo has archival copies of the packaging and cartridges for 3rd party titles too, not just their own games.
I'd be very surprised if they had actually gotten rid of this stuff...
KuraIthys they actually lost the original ROM for super Mario bros, the only reason they have one now is because fans ripped it off the cartridge.
Nathan Hamman what?! Lol
OMG. I think I remember this. In a comic/game book shop in the 90's some people were playing a version of A Link to the Past where link had to douse himself with a bucket of water and rescue an NPC from a burning house. It was the same house where you get the book of Mudora, so I was always waiting for that event to happen and it never did. I think this might have been why! Like a 21 year old mystery solved, I didn't dream that!!
Oh WOW Matt, you really outdid yourself! This is such a high quality video
I think the broadcast system is really interresting, they were actually quite ahead of their time, only the technology wasn't developped enough yet to make it work smoothly and being affordable for most people.
was this satellite system a precursor to the modern internet?
Pretty sure people had dial up internet at the time, for consoles though this and Sega Channel were probably the first steps towards what we have today in terms of digital distribution of games.
The modern internet was still developing, sure, but many things were attempted in various ways over the years.
The satellite internet elements that are in place have essentially no relation to this particular scheme. The SV was largely a technological dead end.
Download to a specific receptor that would display the media for a limited time was a concept that was tried in many ways for years. Patents demonstrate this, if you're curious. ("Interactive television" is a good search term. If I could recall some of the product or company names, I would note them, but they're mostly long defunct. "InterAction" seems familiar. DirectTV is one of these that survived, arguably. It uses a similar content delivery scheme.) The Internet-as-entertainment idea gathered billions of dollars of investment in the 90s, if not trillions.
This was one of many attempts to create interactive tv. Its biggest claim to fame isn't being first or particularly innovative, it's being allied with Nintendo so their content was better than most.
Going further back, the PLATO mainframe system, which had online games, chat rooms and forums, and even dating functions written for it. Developed in the 1960's; some of the first computer games were made (behind the backs of college admins) for PLATO systems and hidden under names like Pedit5. It was more a local intranet than internet, (and no one outside of colleges and military had them) but still served the same functions for it's communities as later BBS and the modern internet did and does. The main difference being that the network now extends to people's homes.
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I've known about this for at least a decade! I've had good chunks of it already playable. Didn't know the team finished it though! Good to hear.
Bs Zelda sounds like some reaaaaaal bullshit
2:54 ;)
Wow, this incredibly interesting. Back in my Nintendo Fanboy days, I read everything I could about Nintendo, but this is entirely new to me. I Have no idea how I never heard of any of this, specially the Zelda game, specially since I was a huuuuuge Zelda fan.
Thanks for this amazing vid Matt.
I fell asleep waiting for you to finish 😩😴😉
My ex wife?
Shocked that we've never heard anything about this. Great video can't wait for the documentary.
I liked this vid a lot.
One main point I would like you to consider is when you are putting 2 music clips over each other. I can see what you're going for, but it's really weird and kinda feels like a mistake. So don't do that.
Whenever you introduce new music either have it transition or just do away with whatever default music you're using completely. This will make these transitions a lot more tasteful and lend to serving the video a lot better.
Gotta admire their innovativeness back then, nowadays such a thing would never be done because "inefficient". Tech progresses at a snail's pace these days as a result, with safe incremental improvements in existing technology rather than bold ventures into new and unknown territory.
The original Game Boy only had 1 Zelda - Link's Awakening
Unless I'm wrong
I think you're right. At least on North American and European releases.
But the GB is a handheld, not a home console. He was only talking about those
Gameboy Color had Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages...you did say original gameboy though so I guess they don’t count.
Xion Toshiro and the minish cap
actually on the game cube there was a collection of zelda games. it had 1, 2, a demo for windwaker, ocarina of time and majoras mask
Great video but I would consider ditching the elevator music
+No name aww man, i love jazz :(
AwesomeFaceProd Fuck the jazz haters, man.
I don't hate jazz, it just became difficult to concentrate on the narration due to it being a distraction in certain key areas. I'd just dial it back some or reduce the volume so that your message is not competing with your favorite jazz tune.
AwesomeFaceProd keep putting Jazz in your videos :) my favorite genre of music
I love jazz, that muzak's an insult to jazz, seriously! It's also jarring and makes your voice sound very flat.
Dude. Thank you so much for making this! Subscribed.
The Oracle games are the direct sequel to ALTTP
thatindiangamer9 i remember reading that A Link Between Worlds is the direct sequel to ALTTP
Matt Harder according the Timeline, the oracle games is the direct sequel. ALBW is a spiritual “sequel” and a prequel to Triforce Heroes
thatindiangamer9 Is Triforce Heroes a main series game and part of the timeline?
Nerdy George Washington It hasn’t been confirmed, but it does follow the same Link’s story from ALBW
if we assume this game is canon, and the timeline is valid. The timeline follows link, and link is gone when this story takes place.
I’m pretty sure I never heard of this game before, although I’ve played and owned every title sans BOTW (no switch :(). Thank you algorithm for putting this creator in my feed 5 years down the line! :D Hopefully it will reach more fans in the future! Keep up the good work
shut up and take my money!
ok give it to me :^)
Sunk3n8 * Futurama reference ?
Raveno 0_0 lol yep
Sunk3n8 its fake
I noticed that you have a Legend of Zelda poster/picture on the wall behind you. It looks like art from a Link to the past. It just occured to me that I has some memerobilia as a youngster too and that shamefully I turned to a strategy guide for the Lord Jabu Jabus temple in The Legend of Zelda Ocrina of Time; but, vowed to my friends to use it just that once, lol.
You forgot four swords adventure on GameCube
Or did I? I'm pretty sure the phrase "At least two" implies that its not always the case. I just don't own a copy of Four Sword and when you compare it to both Wind Waker and Twilight Princess I don't think its as easily recognizable which is why I didn't feel the need to include it in that shot. :)
Oh snap..I have 200 snes games I just collected through my childhood sitting in a box at my mom's house I haven't opened it in 25 years but I'm pretty sure that I played this game before and I probably have it
I'm confused. I thought you had to stream this game from satellite... How do you have a cartridge?
+Crow Migration because fans have been able to recreate the game after recovering data files and looking at old video recordings to fill in the missing pieces.
And they actually put it on a cartridge?
Reproduction cart Google it 😑
Loverboy25 some people still don't know and that's perfectly okay! As time goes on, and thanks to the people who put their time into making such videos;... (Wonderful editing and all that jazz btw. I don't click on just anything!)
So is a much needed community that's becoming more known and available to the masses. Because retro video-games aren't just something you play, you experience them!
www.gamereproductions.com/index.php?subcats=Y&status=A&pshort=Y&pfull=Y&pname=Y&pkeywords=Y&search_performed=Y&q=Zelda&dispatch=products.search&page=2
Parallel Worlds is fan-made but definitely worth checking out as well if you have masochistic tendencies.
This is super interesting, I'm a huge Zelda fan and I've never even heard of this, even though I have heard about that old "streaming" service.
I'm glad repros of this game exist, because it seriously deserves acknowledgment.
I don't understand why you didn't use actual footage of the game...
But...I did.
Then this is a different BS Zelda than I played my apologies
He probably played the first one that came out on it. It was a SNES version of the original LOZ.
Nice man. The one thing I MIGHT consider changing is to play Zelda music in the background instead of jazzy elevator music...but to each their own. :) You talked about this wonderful orchestral music so much (and I'm an audiophile), but never...played any sampling of it. XD
I wonder if Nintendo will take down this as it's editing their property illegally?
+EpicU™ its been a project for over a decade so it doesnt seem like nintendo has any interest in stopping it. Plus they distribute the game files as a patch to ths ROMs which protects them to some degree.
He's taking a dig at how butt hurt Nintendo gets about youtubers making videos about their IPs. They're leading the charge in getting lets play and review videos of any of their games shut down. People are pretty upset at them for it.
Moobu yep. Started doing it religiously with Breath of the Wild, and it really bugs me. I uploaded three silly videos of Breath of the Wild where I didn’t even use capture software, just a shitty phone video recording, and they still copyrighted like.. two of the three. Claimed the BOTW music in the Thunderblight Ganon fight, and I believe they claimed footage from a cutscene as well. Even though the phone kept moving and didn’t ever really get a clear, straight moment of footage. It’s pretty shitty. They’ve been doing it on Mario Odyssey as well. I don’t understand. Why don’t they want people to upload LPs of these incredible games? They’re fairly new releases, too. LPs are a fucking fantastic method of FREE advertising for Nintendo’s content. I know for a fact I’m not the only one who bought Breath of the Wild as a result of seeing LPs showing off how great it is.
They want you to sign up for the Nintendo Creators Program where they take a portion of your revenue.
Digital distribution of games in the early 90-s is crazy... Genesis also had some exclusive digital only games released
Isn’t stone tablets a fan game
Nope. Officially it was developed by Nintendo.
This question is literally answered in this video smh
I've got this game
Probably, guy can’t admit when he is wrong.
Yea, this is bullshit (BS) :'D this was never developed by Nintendo and I can't believe some people believe it xD Do you guys believe in Slender man also? Why would Nintendo release a game with same graphic and almost identical world? C'mon they just released one of the best game ever and would come up with this shit after?
Seems like this system was ahead of its time. We're only just now getting caught up to such expensive things...
100% completely absolutely fake
uh, no it;s not you dumb shit
Salty lol
Eximius Technology Did you even watch the video?
Well, you're a fucking moron.
Mind=Blown at all the things in this video. Nintendo was way ahead of their time back then, but damn all those hardware requirements probably scared many people away.
Good work on the video man. Really turned out well
I'm sort of surprised that BS-X didn't take off. That technology was way ahead of it's time. How awesome would be, to be back in the 90s and down load remixed games and get magazine content.
Also seems like that Ancient Tablet game could have fit in the same cart as Link To The Past, as a bonus game after beating the main title. It just would have been some extra sprites and text. It would have been pretty sick to have two games in one and I think people would pay a little extra for more game play.
An old school friend of mine had lived in Japan with his parents, who worked for a US military contractor at the time. He told us about the Satellaview (and the FDS, which we also had never heard of); at first we didn't really believe him. Then I was at his house one day and he busted out some old magazines he had brought from Japan and inside one of them, there it all was in an advertisement. Of course a few years later I encountered the "BS" roms on the web.
This was a really good video, liked and subscribed. Thumbs up!
This is so cool that Nintendo had this vision of online gaming thus far in the past.
Aside from needing a better mic, nice video. You earned another subscriber
+911meltdown2 yeah I had to limit the shots in camera since my room is echo-y. I tried to EQ the audio to resuce the echo as much as i could, im not exactly great at engineering audio though.