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Satellaview

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Overview

Introduced in 1995 by Nintendo, the Satellaview was a console system. It is grouped with snes titles in EmulationStation.

Technical specifications

  • CPU: Ricoh 5A22 (WDC 65C816 derivative) running at 3.58 MHz, identical to the Super Famicom processor.
  • Memory: SNES main RAM plus 512 KB of BS-X RAM and 8 MB of Flash storage for downloaded broadcasts.
  • Display: SNES PPU with Mode 7/scroll layers, rendering 256×224 resolution with up to 32,768 colors.
  • Sound: Sony SPC700 audio engine with 64 KB of dedicated PCM RAM for stereo playback.

Supported ROM extensions

bs, smc, sfc, zip, 7z

Emulators

  • mesen-s (libretro) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_LIBRETRO_MESENS
  • pocketsnes (libretro) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_LIBRETRO_POCKETSNES
  • snes9x (libretro) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_LIBRETRO_SNES9X

Source data: REG Linux emulationstation/es-system/es_systems.yml