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While re-releasing the first generation of CD-i titles in the standard...
Original CD-i releases before 1993 were published in a grey longbox (USA) or vertical opened long jewelcase (Europe) - both specifically designed for CD-i. In 1993, with the introduction of Digital...
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How to play Link: Faces of Evil and Zelda: Wand of Gamelon via MAME 0.174 and...
CD-i member "countmammamia972" succeeded in running Link: Faces of Evil on his Android phone. That's an achievement as running Mame CD-i on Android was still a tricky thing to do (while possible as we...
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A Japanese CD-i player by Philips, how unique was that?
It might be more unique than what we expected. For a long time, there was not that much known about what happened with CD-i in Japan. Thanks to a few collectors and digging for information by CD-i...
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CD-i member TwBurn created new GitHub repositories for code that's...
The USB2CD-i homebrew project is coming to a more user-friendly state with ready to use code that you can copy to your Arduino setup. CD-i member TwBurn has been busy with developing a tool to connect...
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'Introducing CD-i' - the official guide to Compact Disc Interactive from...
CD-i member KailoKyra has been busy digitalizing the CD-i reference books published by Addison Wesley around the early 1990's. Thoday he shares with us his scan of 'Introducing CD-i' - The official...
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This early screenshot of 'Secret Mission' on CD-i showed that Microids...
In 1995, the news was posted that French developer Microids was developing a few CD-i games on CD-i. They announced Secret Mission, Evidence and Fort Boyard. In the end, only Secret Mission saw the...
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Rare Records #61: 'Do You Remember the '60s?' (A UK exclusive top quiz based...
It is not often we see a UK exclusive CD-i, but it happened with 3T Productions who released 'Do you remember the '60's' in 1996 on CD-i. There are not that much 1996 CD-i titles in general so I wonder...
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You can hide an ATtiny85 inside a SNES extension cable. With a mini-din 8 on...
The SNES2CDi adapter remains a popular piece of CD-i hardware that people want to buy or create. CD-i member Simon Laroche made another improvement by hiding the tiny-arduino inside the SNES plug of a...
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Philips released '2 player accessory packs' like this one, including Striker...
This two-player accessory box contains a splitter, a gamepad and the game Striker Pro. It was published in 1995, following the 'I Want One' campaign of Philips, pushing the gaming elements of CD-i to...
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Rare CD-i Records #62: Anniversary Yuki Saito (Japan Interactive Media, 1992)
Soon to be preserved at Archive, but this is a very rare Japanese CD-i title called 'Yuki Saito Anniversary', which is a tribute CD-i about the Japanese idol Yuki Saito. The title was produced by...
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This early CD-i cover of Creature Shock was done in 1995, when Philips still...
This early cover of Creature Shock was done in 1995 and it is an official cover by Philips Media. Back then it was expected that Creature Shock was going to be released in 1995 on CD-i. Creature Shock...
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'Philips Functional Music' was a service by Philips in the '70's on 6" tapes...
This is a small sidestep of our CD-i journey but hear me out: We discussed before the BGM CD format and thanks to CD-i member Jac Goudsmit quite some details surfaced about his time at Codim. This...
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Reader Question: What do you think of the build quality of the lasers in a...
Ashton Humphrey answers: "they were not very good and most are way past their life expectancy. On the plus side they are easy to replace. Basically plug and play. New laser assemblies are easily...
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CD-i member Muh Mullet shares a few pictures of the insides of the rare...
While refurbishing a 21TCDI30/00 TV/CD-i unit, CD-i member Muh Mullet took a few pictures of this rare TV/CD-i combination. We highly recommend him if you need to repair your CD-i player, he is based...
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Rare CD-i Records #63: "CD-i Gevaert 100 jaar, een terugblik ..." (Studio...
"CD-i was a consumer market commercial failure (i.e. Philips never recouped their total costs), but professional users were all over the place. In those times PC's were much clunkier, often more...
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The CD-i Completionist is on a mission to review every game for the Philips...
We are happy to see more interest in the CD-i system lately with great initiatives like the Preserve CD-i blog and the upcoming 'Popular Retro' CD-i coverage. Now, another interesting blog has been...
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Reader Question: "Did anyone here own a CD-i when it was new?" What was your...
The experience of CD-i shared by people is always different when they owned the CD-i from the very beginning: Those who owned a CD-i when it was brand new are generally more positive (nostalgic?) about...
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Have you tried MAME CD-i Emulator and did you not get it to work properly?
Even in the CD-i Community there is not a lot of experience with Mame CD-i Emulator. There is an open bug since version 0.222 and it appears older versions offer more compatibility compared to the most...
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This CD-i prototype hardware controller works with a rechargeable accu pack,...
Do you remember this CD-i controller? It was planned to be released in 1996, but by that time the decision was already made to stop new developments in CD-i. That's a pity, as this CD-i pointing...
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Reader Question: "How important is it to keep the crystal of the Timekeeper...
CD-i member Kyle Daniels attempted to replace the Timekeeper battery chip in his CD-i player: "I'm trying to do the battery swap in place of my busted timekeeper. The top of this timekeeper is...
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