Luc Rooijakkers revealed some interesting facts about the Android version of The 7th Guest, it actually has more links to the CD-i version than we would ever imagined!
Luc: "In July 2014 I got contacted by someone from MojoTouch, and Israeli game company. They were developing the 20th Anniversary Edition with the IP licensed from Trilobyte and he was looking for someone to extract good quality voice tracks, and also German and French versions. They were basing the Android version on the PC version, using the existing open-source ScummVM game engine. Unfortunately quality of the PC audio files left something to be desired and it was only available in English. It turned out that many audio and video assets where in “processed” CD-i formats and thus not readily extractable using standard tools. After a considerable amount of reverse engineering I was able to extract almost anything that he wanted, except for some games that simple weren’t on the CD-i disc for space reasons. This included all audio in three languages as well as a number of text screens in those same languages."
You could imagine that the CD-i version was also superior in the video, as the CD-i was using high quality MPEG decoding techniques. Apparently, this was not the case: "I also provided him with all the game videos in CD-i MPEG format, but they ended up not using them. The PC video files were a bit better resolution, looked somewhat less “blurred” and with less muted colours. This came out better after upsampling and conversion to the format they were using." - According to Luc.
[Thanks, Luc Rooijakkers, The World of CD-i]
