Could you broadcast to real Satellaview hardware?

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sogilbert
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Could you broadcast to real Satellaview hardware?

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I can guess it might not be possible, but if you could do something with a raspberry pi somehow connected to the satellaview, then that would be neat :D
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LuigiBlood
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Re: Could you broadcast to real Satellaview hardware?

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It's possible in theory if you understand the bitstream data that goes in it, but for other than for documentation purposes, I personally want no one to do that because Satellaview preservation is in such a bad shape, I don't want people to rewrite their Memory Pack that may have gold in it but didn't appear in BS-X because BS-X likes to have cool things invisible.
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Re: Could you broadcast to real Satellaview hardware?

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If the Data Pak was substituted with a flashcart, that wouldn't be a problem though.
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LuigiBlood
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Re: Could you broadcast to real Satellaview hardware?

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Well I would be all for the use of sd2snes' USB port as an equivalent, which is entirely doable I think.
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Re: Could you broadcast to real Satellaview hardware?

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But that's one-to-one, not one-to-many transmission :P I hear small sats are relatively cheap to launch nowadays.
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Re: Could you broadcast to real Satellaview hardware?

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calima wrote: Sun Dec 01, 2019 1:50 am But that's one-to-one, not one-to-many transmission :P I hear small sats are relatively cheap to launch nowadays.
Well I don't see how you could not do something like Internet Server -> PC / Raspberry Pi Client -> sd2snes.
Also satellites are not that relevant anymore and I don't really want to add more to the mess of our planet's orbit lol
The only thing that matters is the data transmission and that's where anything is possible.
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Re: Could you broadcast to real Satellaview hardware?

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Thanks LuigiBlood, but I was thinking more like a Raspberry Pi with some kind of attachment to connect it to a real BS tuner so as to get the decoding done for you.
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