Satella Zone 3DS

Satella Zone
General
Author	SatellaZone Team
Type	Other Apps
Version	2.2.1
License	BSD-3-Clause
Last Updated	2024/05/01
Links
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Website
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SatellaZone is a 3DS Nintendo Zone Revival patch that grants you access to archives from various stores and restaurants, including Best Buy, AT&T, McDonald's, and more! Additionally, with the "LocalSatellaZone" version, you can enjoy watching videos locally. Also you can access Nintendo Zone without the hassle of launching FBI if you are using UsaPatch (available for USA consoles only).

Installation

Download the SatellaZone archive:

• SatellaZone.zip - Normal version, requires hotspot.
• LocalSatellaZone.zip - With low quality video (stored on SD card), does not require hotspot.
• LocalSatellaZoneHQ - With high quality videos (stored on SD card), does not require hotspot.
• UsaPatch.zip - Patch that allows you to launch Nintendo Zone from homemenu on USA.

Extract the .zip and drag & drop the romfs folder in sdmc:/luma/titles/TITLE-ID/.

• EUR- 0004001000022B00
• USA - 0004001000021B00
• JPN - 0004001000020B00

Make sure to enable game patching in the luma configuration menu (hold Select on boot).

To include the USA Home Menu patch, extract the luma folder from the usapatch.zip archive on the root of your SD card.

User guide

How to watch videos?

This only applies to the normal version (not the local version).

First make a hotspot named "NintendoSpotPass1" (without "") using a phone or something else without password.

Get the SSL patch here (follow the readme).

Launch Nintendo zone, if it take a long time to try to load something (so official servers but it's down) then the hotspot worked.

Ignore the error and you can now watch videos.

The tutorial can also be found on the main page of SatellaZone by clicking the (?Help) button.

Media

Official SatellaZone Trailer (MegaPika)

SatellaZone Trailer - Release (MegaPika)

Satellazone Teaser - 3DS Nintendo Zone Revival (MegaPika)

Changelog

v2.2.1

• Added Pokémon news, you can view them from Macdonald's zone.
• Added 2 ACNL events pages.
• Removed discontinued 3DS Community Online Revival event. Thanks to everyone who participated.
• Special thanks to DarkChicken for the new content.

v2.2

• Redesigned pages.
• Added new content.
• Check yourself to figure out what.

v2.1.2

• High Quality Videos! Videos are now available in full quality on LocalSatellaZoneHQ! You can now choose between:
  • LocalSatellaZoneHQ for High Quality Videos.
  • LocalSatellaZone for Low Quality Videos.
  • SatellaZone for No Videos.

v2.1.1

• Redid some pages.
• Added ACNL exclusive content page.
• Removed confusing "easter egg" (there's still the base one).

v2.1

• New Zone selection page.
• Fixed a screenshot page back button.
• Made fake loading pages not on history.
• Moved credits.
• Bring not found back (idk why pika deleted it) to not confuse people that tapping does nothing.
• Edited custom page.

v2.0

• For this release there is no hotspot method to watch the videos with the normal version. If you want to watch the videos you need to download the "LocalSatellaZone" version, the quality of the videos have been scaled down so the files are not too big. If the quality is too bad i will do another release with normal quality videos.
• Fixed a lot of pages with edited images.
• New menu and pages.
• Around 40 videos to watch.
• New easter egg (as always).

v1.3.1

• Added more informations on help page about the SSL patch that is required.
• Fixed screenshots pages.

v1.3

• Videos are now server sided, you need to create a hotspot named "NintendoSpotPass1" wihout password to watch them.
• Edited some error messages to make them understandable.
• As always, improved some pages quality.
• Don't forget to delete old romfs folder like on every updates!

v1.2

• The title says it, this release fix the HORRIBLE quality of previous SatellaZone.
• Also rearanged some menus (and added a not found page for pages not findable, if you have a "specified file was not found on the server" error (NOT VIDEOS ON THE LITE EDITION because this is normal in this case!), please report it to us because this is not normal).
• IMPORTANT! Again, please delete the old romfs folder of Nintendo Zone because some files name changed again and the old ones will be unused and will take space for nothing.
• Special thanks to Spencer Everly for sending Nintendo Zone saved page!

v1.1

• Redone some pages (changed some images and pages/some images are better quality).
• Reorganized ALL romfs files.

Credits

• MegaPika for working on the project.
• Cooolgamer for fixing my mistakes + technical stuff.
• The Fridge for some cool images.
• MettleSphee for the moflex graphs.
• Ghost64 for the old debug and credit pages + other things.
• BostonSix for some images.
• Sudocraft for the SatellaZone logo and name.
• Swipley for helping me with the "how to download" page.
• Braden Yes for reviving the conversation about NintendoZone.
• Envy for research about Nintendo Zone.
• JeremKO for beta testing the 1.0.
• Spencer Everly for backing up Nintendo Zone pages when it was alive.
• JbrockPony and Kolma for the youtube videos back when it was alive.

External links

• Official website - https://satellazone.neocities.org
• GitHub - https://github.com/MegaPika/SatellaZone
• GBAtemp - https://gbatemp.net/threads/introducing-satella-zone-a-nintendo-zone-revival.611480
• Discord - https://discord.gg/csSWztn6z4