SNES Development
Satellaview Soundlink

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Soundlink, also known as “Live Voice” and various other aliases, is a Satellaview function in which Streaming Satellite Radio from St.GIGA is played at the same time as software data is broadcast, downloaded and played. This is intended to give the illusion of a game being played with high-quality audio. This was a selling feature of the Satellaview and was used in a lot of it’s software.

Soundlink is not emulated on any emulator because no source audio has been dumped or archived (cleanly - there are instances of Japanese fan-recordings of gameplay with Soundlink) otherwise - ROM dumps of games or programs that used Soundlink are often mute or only have sound effects without music, or one or two small jingles.

How Soundlink Works? Currently, it is believed that the Soundlink audio transferred from the BS Tuner to the Satellaview base and then into the Satellaview’s PCM chip.