The BS Zelda game was one of the Zelda games that
few people know about. Only "released" in Japan,
players actually never owned the game. They used it through
sattelite. That's right, sattelite. A hookup to the
Super Nintendo, called the Satalleview, would connect to a channel
aired in Japan, and would download games instead of video. BS
Zelda was a remake of the original Zelda for the NES with some
new level designs. It was only playable for an hour a day
once a week for four weeks. Each week, the station would
add new levels to the already existing game, providing new levels
until the inevitable end at level 9. Then, the game stopped
airing, and all was lost.
Or was it... A ROM image of the game is floating on the
net (3rd week, so the game is unbeatable.) ROM's are the
game's memory image, and can be played on an emulator.
However, this is illegal if you do not own the
game. This did let most of the US play what we were missing
out. Some were impressed, others were not. But this
little game is making quite a stir and has captivated the interests
of many. Be prepared to learn all there is to know about
the Zelda we never got to play...
More
info on the satellite:
The
satellite was a system that basically the world was not ready
for. The interactive market was in its infancy when this
add-on device was released to the Japanese public. A unit
would cost around $150 (14,000 yen) and would require the Super
Nintendo to play with, making it a $300 dollar package.
The system would hook up to the "St. Giga" channel,
where games could be downloaded from 4:00 to 7:00 PM Eastern
Standard Time. What's most interesting about this system is that
the way you get to play your games. With an adapter that
looks similar to a Super Game Boy, the satellite would transfer
the game to a flash rom via the adapter. The adapter and
the flash rom cost $50 dollars and $30 dollars, respectively.
The satellite actually had some download capability, as 256k
flash rom was installed into all satellite units if the user
had not paid for the pricey combo mentioned above.
All games downloaded were completely free. You did get
bombed with advertisements while you were downloading the game.
How great! Sounds like the internet to me... Nintendo
and Square were the only two (known) companies that provided
games for the unit. At one time, multi-player RPG's were
in the works, but since the system failed, they were not to be.
The satellite had much potential, but it never
shined. Eventually, the service was stop altogether, and
the $150 dollar add-on is now an expensive paperweight.
Most likely, we'll be seeing variations of the system soon, as
the time is prime for it to be reintroduced. The satellite
was like the Atari; we just weren't ready.
Walkthrough:
Note: This walkthrough is an excerpt from "The BS-Zelda
Homepage" found at
http://members.xoom.com/Con44/bszelda.htm
Link (the lead character) seems
to have been replaced by the mascot for the BS system. In any
case, we'll call him Link. Link will immediately walk into a
cave on the first screen. From there, it will sit until the clock
hits 00:07. You will then receive your first item, the Wood Sword.
From there, go one screen up, then one
left. there is a shop here, which offers the large shield, a
dungeon key, and a candle, costing 130, 100, and 60 rupees respectively.
>From there, go one screen left, one up (without crossing
the bridge), one right, and finally one up. You'll now be on
a screen with a long bridge going left. Also, if you look at
your map, Link (marked in green) will be right next to a red
dot on the map. That's Level One. Cross the bridge and enter
the tree.
Go one screen left to pick up the compass,
which will tell you where the boss is. Kill all the bats to unlock
the door left, then enter it. One of the Stalfos in this room
has a key (not hard to spot), kill him to get it. Kill all the
Stalfos to unlock the door left if you want to read some japanese.
If not, go back to the entrance, then one screen up. Kill all
the snakes in this room for a key. Unlock the door up, go through,
and unlock the door up in that room. Go up and collect the Map,
then kill all the bats to open the door left. In this room, kill
all the little droplets to open the door left, enter, and push
the block on the far left up. Go down the stairs, collect the
bow, and return to the droplet room. From here it's all self-explanitory,
because there really is only one path. When you get to the boss,
watch his fireballs, get in between them, and stab away at the
head. This will get you an extra heart and one room right is
the first piece of the triforce.
By now you should have enough rupees and
at least 4 bombs, so it's time to collect some basic stuff. If
you spent a lot of time slaughtering enemies and have a spare
190 rupees, go get the large shield and candle by going (from
level 1 entrance) right, down, left, left, down, and right. Primarily,
you really need to get the candle, but it helps to get the shield,
too. You can also bomb the center wall 1 screen up from the start
of the game to play the rupee game, which will get you money
quick. Now go left, up, right, right, right. You'll see a cave
open to you, go in and collect the letter, which you'll need
later. From there, go up 2, and left one. A bolt of lightning
normally kills every enemy here, so collect anything left behind,
bomb the center of the big rock, and enter Level 2.
This level is a no-brainer, you should
be in and out in 5 minutes, tops. Go up one room, kill all the
wolf creatures (another name that escapes me), and collect the
boomerang. Go up to get the compass, and up until you're in a
room full of snakes. Kill them all to unlock the door left, go
in and grab the map, then kill the blobs to get out. Go one right,
collect the bombs, bomb up, go in, then left, bomb up in here
for more japanese (presumably which says "Dodongo dislikes
smoke") then collect the key in the previous room, unlock
the door, enter the stairs, and you'll be face-to face with Dodongo.
put two bombs in his path to make him swallow them, and collect
your heart and triforce piece. Level over.
Now, we double-back by going right, down,
down, left, left, left, down. Now, cross the bridge and use the
candle to burn away the 3 bushes. Go left, left again, and down.
See the two bushes at the bottom? Burn the one on the left and
get some free cash. Go one screen right and enter Level 3.
One quick rule to this level: kill everyone
you meet. A lot of enemies have keys in here, or open locked
doors. Go up one room, right, down, right, collect the 35-40
rupees, then bomb up. Go in and collect the key, then go down,
left, up, left, and up to get the compass. Two more rooms up,
in a room with 3 blobs, bomb up, and follow the path to your
first meeting with ironknuckles. They can only be hit on the
side their shield doesn't face, and they change direction quick.
In any case, run into the stairs and collect the raft. Go four
or five rooms down, until you're one room above the entrance.
Go right twice, this room oughta look familiar. Go right through
the locked door, and collect the map. Go down one, and a bolt
of lightning should kill everything in the room. Collect the
Magical Boomerang and go all the way up. When you come to an
old man, bomb left, and enter the stairs. Follow the path to
the boss, and your third triforce piece. Getting too easy, eh?
Now we have to go on a little excursion
before going for level 4. Go left one screen, then up along the
LEFT side. there are two bushes, about two tiles apart from one
another. Use your candle on the left, and you'll have your pick
of either Red Medicine, which can fill your life twice, or an
extra heart container. Take the heart, you'll need every last
one you can get. Now, go down one, then up along the right side,
then up again. Go left, then up until you come to the graveyard.
in the middle row, second headstone from the left, push on it
to reveal a passage. Go in and collect the White Sword, which
is much stronger than your wooden one. From there, go down 4
screens, then left one, then up. enter the store there, and take
your pick of Arrows, the Blue Ring (lowers damage), or Meat (don't
worry about it yet), for 80, 250, and 60 rupees. Go right one
screen, walk onto the dock, and you'll be whisked away to the
entrance of Level 4, the last marked on your map.
Run through this one, too. Go left for
the compass, back to the entrance, up one and kill everyone for
a key. Up again, kill everyone for some bombs. Bomb right and
go get the key, then go back, up, and right for the map. Then
back again, and continue up until you can unlock a door right.
Don't worry about the locked door down yet, instead go up. Go
right to hear some more japanese, or left which will be a room
with two Ironknuckles and a staircase. Instead of dealing with
them, bomb left, where an old man will let you be able to carry
twelve bombs for 50 rupees. Then go kill those Ironknuckles for
the key, and go down the stairs for the flute. Go right, down,
unlock the door, and continue down to a room with a staircase.
Go down, and you'll come up in a room with Ironknuckles and Pols
Voices, but ignore them and head left. Play your flute once,
then stab the stuffing out of the the mini-eyes that come out.
Get your triforce piece and heart, level's over.
Ok, now we do a lot of running around.
First go down, burn the bush sticking out and go inside. Select
the letter, and give it to the woman inside. She sets up several
medicine shops on the map, including where you are right now.
Go left, down, and right until you're at what's left of those
3 bushes by the bridge. Cross the bridge, and go up, then right
until you can't anymore. Go up to the dock and ride the raft
to a new area. This cave here will just be a guy with information,
in japanese. Go left two screens and burn the bush. This is a
money making game. Choose the correct rupee every time, you get
a more rupees. Choose wrong, you lose rupees. This is an easy
way to get tons of cash. Now you might want to race back and
get the Blue Ring, or wait. Either way, from the game, go one
right, up, and up the stairs to the cheapest store here. You
can pick up the Large Shield, Dungeon Key, or Meat, for 90, 80,
and 60 rupees. Buy Meat. Go down, then right, and position yourself
above the headstone. Walk directly up, and you'll pass through
the rock to the ridiculously obscure entrance to Level 5.
This one takes a few. Go up one, right,
right, then bomb down to meet with a fairy. Along your travels
you'll meet an old man, and you also should have picked up a
key, which you'll now need. Return to the room 1 screen up from
the entrance, and unlock the door. In here a man will say "I'm
hungry" or something to that effect in Japanese. Give him
the meat, continue up. And keep going up until you run into the
compass. Push the block up, grab the compass, and bomb left.
Enter and go back, this time pushing the block right, then go
up. Kill the much harder and faster Blue Ironknuckle, then push
the block on the left to unlock the door and a new staircase.
Go down the stairs, emerge and bomb left for more bombs (which
should bring you up to 16, not bad!) go down one room. Now kill
the 3 Dodongoes, and go down, entering the staircase right away.
Pick up the Stepladder here, and go back to the stairs two rooms
up. Go down to the room below where the hungry guy was, and get
the key. Now go up to the room you bombed left in, go in and
down. You can go up in that room to read some japanese again,
if you like, but if not, follow the path to the bottom, where
a staircase will take you to a room just before the boss. The
boss is quite simple. Keep slashing from a safe distance until
it's toast. Get your triforce piece and get ready to move on
to Level 6.
Let's quickly grab a heart piece and move
onto the next level. If you haven't gotten it already, I'd suggest
buying the Blue Ring. >From the Level 5 entrance, go down,
left, down, right, down, and down again, where you'll notice
a heart container. Use your stepladder to walk over and grab
it. Then go down, left, down, and right to find a grave on the
beach. Play your flute, and from the sea comes the entrance to
Level 6. Also note that it's now night...Octorocks are now ironknuckles,
and blue octorocks are now blue ironknuckles...be careful.
These dungeons are beginning to seem too
easy, eh? Well, this one is no different. Go up 3 rooms and kill
all the monsters. Push the left block to open the door left.
Go in here, then right one more room, bringing you to a room
with a fairy you can't reach, and a key. Take the key and go
two rooms left, then go up until you can't anymore. Here is a
locked door with an unfriendly guy who was the level 4 boss.
Kill him the same way, then go 1 right and pick up the map. Bomb
up for an old man saying some Japanese. (presumably, "Walk
into the center of the A") Go down two screens from him,
and pick up the bombs. Remember this room on your map, on your
way back you'll need to bomb into the left wall to pick up that
key. Walk down the center of the room, and you'll pass through
the wall to a hidden staircase. Go down it and pick up the Magic
Wand, and return. Now start heading all the way back toward the
entrance, picking up the key I mentioned earlier. Once you are
two room above the start, unlock the door right, go inside, pick
up the compass, and bomb right. Go inside, and you have two choices:
down or up. Up is that fairy you couldn't reach before, go there
if you need it. Down will put you in a room with one snake, trap
walls (whatever they are), a staircase and a passage down. Go
down first, pick up the key in there, then go back and down the
stairs. Kill the mummies, and ready your bow and arrows. Unlock
the door, go inside, and put on arrow in the eye of the boss
while it's open. You're finished with another one.
Let's now pick up a few things before we
get into what is technically the end of the game. Make your way
to the Level 2 entrance. From there, go left and cross the river
with the stepladder. Go left one screen, and bomb in the right
side of the middle hump of rock. Go in for another of the cheap
stores. It has the same items, same prices. One screen left again,
then up. If you bomb here, there's a cave where an old man will
charge you for blowing up his door. Continue left. On this screen,
you can bomb in the middle/left hand side of the rock to get
a heart container or red medicine. Go left, enter the cave to
listen to some more Japanese, or go down one screen for even
more. (This guy wants ten rupees to tell you a secret), or you
can go up one screen, bringing you to a group of statues. These
statues are supposed to come to life when touched, and the top
right one theoretically has the Power Bracelet. Since he won't
come to life, there's only a few things you can do in the game
from here. However, the remainder is below, including the Pro
Action Replay codes that will give you the "lost" items,
hence being able to finish the remainder of what's in the game.
Extras:
Items: 200 rupees, Blue Medicine, Master Sword (?)
From the Level 1 entrance, go one screen
right, down, and left. Burn the bush in the center of the screen,
and go inside. Here a Moblin will give you 100 rupees. Go to
the dock leading to Level 4, then one screen right. Burn the
bush on the corner, go inside and collect another 100 rupees
from another Moblin. In front of the Level 5 entrance, there
is a man offering Blue Medicine, only if you haven't gotten any
red medicine yet. (I was told this, and seen it, but have never
gotten him to appear myself.) The remaining things here are not
confirmed, just rumors I've read or something odd I saw on a
BS Zelda map i had. From the Level 5 entrance, entrance, go down,
left, down, left, then up the stairs. Go inside the cave. You
should be able to get the Master Sword in there, though I never
have.
Pro Action replay walkthrough:
Here is the remaining walkthrough if you use the following Pro
Action Replay Codes:
Master Sword Code: 7E743A03 (gives you
the Master Sword)
Power Bracelet Code: 7E742E01 (gives you the Power Bracelet)
Red Ring Code: 7E742B02 (gives you the Red Ring)
Silver Arrow Code: 7E742302 (gives you Silver Arrows)
From the same screen you got the Wood Sword
on (the start), go 2 screens right. Push the block in the way
of the staircase, and go in. Go down one screen from here, then
left, up, then right. Push the bottom block out of your way,
and go up one screen. Do not bomb on this screen, there's another
old man that'll make you pay for his door repairs. Instead, go
one screen right, and bomb here, where you'll find another store.
Buy Meat if you don't have any. Leave the store, go one screen
down, push the left block in the little cross-shaped group. Go
inside and collect another 30 rupees from another Moblin. Leave,
go up, right, and bomb here to reveal a cave with 45 rupees.
Leave, go down one screen, and enter Level 7.
Immediately go right, ignore the Ironknuckle,
grab the key and leave. Go up, left 2, up again, kill the Ironknuckle
for some Bombs, then bomb right. Go inside, pick up the 40 rupees,
go right, pick up another 40 rupees and a key. Go up, and once
again collect 40 rupees. Go down, left 2, down, and right 2.
Unlock the door down and go inside. Go down the stairs. >From
here, go up, kill the two Patras, go up one and push the block,
go through the door left. Grab the key, kill the bats, go through
the door, push the block and go up, then left. Bomb down, enter
the stairs, and get the Red Candle. Make your way up, right,
and all the way down to the stairs. When coming back from those
stairs, go right 3, pick up the compass, and then go left 2.
Go as far up as you can, collect the map, kill the Ironknuckle,
go down 1, bomb left, go in and get the key. Go up for another
old man and his wacky Japanese, or unlock the door left, and
go in. Up leads to a fairy, down will lock you in a room with
a mummy. kill him, push the block on the left. This will open
the passage you came from, a passage left, and a staircase. Don
not go into the staircase, it's a trick that'll send you way
off course. Instead, go one left, then up. Kill the creature,
then push the block on the left. Go down the stairs, then go
up one, and fight the boss, who's also the boss of Level 1....very
easy. Get the triforce and you're done!
From here, go up, then left 4, which may
look familiar to Zelda fans. It's Spectacle Rock, and also the
entrance to Level 8 if you bomb the left rock.
Go up, kill the 2 blobs for a key. Bomb
right, go in and collect the Book of Magic. Go left, then up.
Welcome to the dark room. you can't see the path through this
room, you pretty much have to wing it. You can bomb left and
meet a fairy, or go right. In here you can bomb up for a shortcut
through here, or follow the path right, and up to get the map
by pushing the block second row, left side. Go up, left, down,
left, and up. There are stairs in here. Take the stairs, and
basically follow the path to the two spider bosses. Beat them,
get the triforce, and not only is the level over, but unfortunately,
the game. There is nothing really left to do.
As far as the rest goes, if anyone can
tell me any of the names i missed, any secrets (I came up missing
two heart containers...), or any patches to unlock Level 9, the
Power Bracelet, or anything else of interest not in this FAQ,
please e-mail me at my address at the top. Enjoy, it's a really
cool game, despite what it's missing.
Codes:
Pro Action Replay Codes:
7E742101: Boomerang
7E742102: Magic Boomerang
7E742216: Infinite Bombs
7E742301: Wooden Arrow
7E742302: Silver Arrow
7E742401: Blue Candle
7E742402: Red Candle
7E742501: Flute
7E742601: Meat
7E742701: Blue Medicine
7E742702: Red Medicine
7E742801: Magic Wand
7E742901: Raft
7E742A01: Magic Book
7E742B01: Blue Ring
7E742B02: Red Ring
7E742C01: Steppladder
7E742E01: Power Bracelets
7E742F01: Letter
7E743714: 5000 ruppees
7E7439FF: all pieces of triforce
7E743A01: Wooden Sword
7E743A02: White Sword
7E743A03: Master Sword
7E743C01: Bow
Hyrule: The Land of Zelda -
"The Legend of Zelda" is a registered trademark of Nintendo.
The BS Zelda game was one of the Zelda games that
few people know about. Only "released" in Japan,
players actually never owned the game. They used it through
sattelite. That's right, sattelite. A hookup to the
Super Nintendo, called the Satalleview, would connect to a channel
aired in Japan, and would download games instead of video. BS
Zelda was a remake of the original Zelda for the NES with some
new level designs. It was only playable for an hour a day
once a week for four weeks. Each week, the station would
add new levels to the already existing game, providing new levels
until the inevitable end at level 9. Then, the game stopped
airing, and all was lost. 
However, this is illegal if you do not own the
game. This did let most of the US play what we were missing
out. Some were impressed, others were not. But this
little game is making quite a stir and has captivated the interests
of many. Be prepared to learn all there is to know about
the Zelda we never got to play...
The
satellite was a system that basically the world was not ready
for. The interactive market was in its infancy when this
add-on device was released to the Japanese public. A unit
would cost around $150 (14,000 yen) and would require the Super
Nintendo to play with, making it a $300 dollar package.
The system would hook up to the "St. Giga" channel,
where games could be downloaded from 4:00 to 7:00 PM Eastern
Standard Time. What's most interesting about this system is that
the way you get to play your games. With an adapter that
looks similar to a Super Game Boy, the satellite would transfer
the game to a flash rom via the adapter. The adapter and
the flash rom cost $50 dollars and $30 dollars, respectively.
The satellite actually had some download capability, as 256k
flash rom was installed into all satellite units if the user
had not paid for the pricey combo mentioned above.
Link (the lead character) seems
to have been replaced by the mascot for the BS system. In any
case, we'll call him Link. Link will immediately walk into a
cave on the first screen. From there, it will sit until the clock
hits 00:07. You will then receive your first item, the Wood Sword.