Fire Emblem: Archanea Saga: Difference between revisions

| platforms=  [[Super Famicom]] ([[Satellaview]])

({{hover|BS ファイアーエムブレム アカネイア戦記編|BS Faiā Emuburemu Akaneia Senkihen}} ''BS Fire Emblem: Archanea War Chronicles''), commonly called '''''BS Fire Emblem''''', is a collection of four standalone {{FES}} maps for the [[Super Famicom]], set in the [[Archanea (continent)|Archanea]] universe before the beginning of {{title|Ankoku Ryuu to Hikari no Tsurugi}}/{{title|Shadow Dragon}} and focusing on members of the games' cast other than [[Marth]]. The collection, usually counted as a single game, was playable only through the [[Satellaview]] satellite radio streaming add-on/service. The first broadcast of the collection's first episode took place on September 28, 1997; the collection's last broadcasts occurred in 1999.

The Satellaview was a satellite radio modem service for the Super Famicom, a joint venture between Nintendo and satellite radio company [[Wikipedia:St.GIGA|St.GIGA]].  The service streamed audio and visual content related to games and Nintendo, delivered by St.GIGA's satellite radio infrastructure: this included magazines, variety programmes, and sometimes entire Super Famicom games.  One particular unique variety of game downloads via the service came in the form of SoundLink games: games set up to play alongside a radio streaming of audio specific to that game, often including voice-acting.  Many of these games were more or less completely new installments in prominent Nintendo franchises.  Games of this variety were prefixed with BS, a common Japanese abbreviation for "Broadcast Satellite"; for example, ''[[ZeldaWiki:BS The Legend of Zelda: Inishie no Sekiban|BS The Legend of Zelda: Inishie no Sekiban]]''.

The menu for operating the Satellaview service was ({{hover|BS-X それは名前を盗まれた街の物語|BS-X: Sore wa Namae o Nusumareta Machi no Monogatari}}, ''BS-X : The Story of The Town Whose Name Has Been Stolen''), a cartridge "game" BIOS/interface visually reminiscent of ''[[WikiBound:EarthBound|MOTHER 2]]''.  Programming of various types could be accessed from places in the town, sometimes taking the form of a new structure related to the game in question. For ''BS Fire Emblem'', in the lead-up to the time of broadcast, the access point to the map of that night would appear in the Town in the form of a castle (oddly, the castle design used is from {{title|Genealogy of the Holy War}}).  Once opened, the game would download and start playing at the correct predetermined time.

 

==Translated scripts==

* Traditionally, ''BS Fire Emblem'' is not counted as a "full" {{FES}} game and is skipped in naming schemes which refer to each game by number in release order (eg. {{title|Ankoku Ryuu}} is "FE1", {{title|Gaiden}} is "FE2", etc).  However, there was a brief period around the releases of {{title|New Mystery of the Emblem}} and {{title|Awakening}} in which Nintendo and Intelligent Systems counted ''BS Fire Emblem'' as the fifth game in the series and that the series consists of fourteen games in total.<ref>Iwata Asks: [http://www.serenesforest.net/fe12/interview12_1.html Fire Emblem: Heroes of Light and Shadow] (translated by Serenes Forest)</ref>  This appears to have stopped, as the Japanese ''Fire Emblem World'' website's listing of games in the series now once again skips ''BS Fire Emblem'' and attests that there are thirteen games.<ref>ファイアーエムブレムワールド 【FIRE EMBLEM WORLD】: [http://www.nintendo.co.jp/fe/series/index.html SERIES] (Japanese)</ref>

* The game's [[:Category:CG images|CG images]], in addition to a separate piece of artwork for [[Midia]], were illustrated by Rika Suzuki, who fifteen years later provided [[Seliph]]'s [[DLC]] version artwork for {{FE13}}.<ref>Wikipedia: [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%88%B4%E6%9C%A8%E7%90%86%E8%8F%AF 鈴木理華] (Japanese: Rika Suzuki)</ref>

===Gameplay footage===

{{Youtube|Normal|r10XTbuZ_nU|250|Footage of ''Fall of the Palace''}} {{Youtube|Normal|XoYTsI0FkpA|250|Footage of ''Crimson Dragoon''}} {{Youtube|Normal|2yBoq7TnJQ0|250|Footage of ''Thieves of Justice''}} {{Youtube|Normal|E1S8Qlxr5kw|250|Footage of ''The Beginning''}}