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Creature Shock CD-i had some nasty crashes which were tough to hunt down, but...
Creature Shock on CD-i was first announced in 1994 including a preview and screenshots, but it was not until 1997when the CD-i conversion was finally available. It seems the CD-i version was finished...
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Rare CD-i Records #68: Golgo 13 (Japan Interactive Media, 1994)
The very first time we heard something about the Japanese CD-i culture was in 2007 when Devin found a copy of Golgo 13. We all did not know what it was but were very exciting that exclusive CD-i...
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The developer behind MAME CD-i Emulation talks about why emulating CD-i in...
CD-i member 'A Moogle' (TheMogMiner) was an active MAME developer working on CD-i emulation until January 2021 when he resigned from the team. MAME CD-i Emulator is not known for its outstanding CD-i...
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This professional CD-i 615 saw the light of day in 1996 - as a 615/17 this is...
Sometimes mistaken for an authoring player, this is not one of them. This is not an authoring/development machine. Its purpose and unique feature is group working and document sharing, e.g. in...
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The author of CD-i Emulator explains how the approach of using the BIOS...
Yesterdays post about the current state of Mame CD-i emulation caused quite some discussions on the community pages. It even triggered cdifan, the author of CD-i Emulator, to wake up his CD-i Bits...
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You won't have any 'dead NVRAM' problems with your CD-i 180 player, as it has...
The CD-i 180 modular set (180/181/182) was jointly developed by Kyocera and Philips in 1988 and is also one of the few true authoring CD-i players. As it appears from the very interesting articles from...
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Rare CD-i Chronicles #69 - A CD-i Title Sampler (Big Hand Productions,...
One of the first promotional CD-i's in Europe was this 'Title Sampler' disc which was released in 1992. In fact in 1992, no promotion via full motion video was possible as the Digital Video Cartridge...
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Reader Question: "Would it be possible/easier to do High Level Emulation of...
Yesterday, CD-i member cdifan explained why a high level emulation approach has benefits in the case of CD-i. He answered on the difficulties as described by TheMogMiner about the current state of CD-i...
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Tearing down a CD-i 205 or 910 shows the insides have quite some similarities...
Stating the obvious for some of us who repair CD-i players a lot but this little bit of trivia is a nice thing to uncover: When tearing down a CD-i 910 (or 205, which is exactly the same unit) and...
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The differences between CD-i movies released as "Digital Video on CD-i" and...
When Philips introduced the Digital Video Cartridge in 1993 they released a new category of titles that were compatible now with the CD-i format: Movies. Before the Digital Video Cartridge this was...
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The Smurfs game 'Les Schtroumpfs: Le Téléportaschtroumpf' on CD-i featured...
Infogrames made quite a few platform games based on licensed cartoon series like Asterix and The Smurfs. Both French-based, most of these games were also developed in French by the French developer...
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First signs of life of new CD-i software homebrew developments in 2021 thanks...
'Hello World' - CD-i member TwBurn set the goal to himself to create a starting point in CD-i homebrew by coding these lines on the CD-i, and he did it! He hinted at his ambition to start some CD-i...
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'The CD-i Completionist' reviews 'International Tennis Open' and some new...
The new website 'The CD-i Completionist' just finished a new review: International Tennis Open and we love the synergy of the community finding new details here. CD-i member cdifan opted for an...
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'Compact Disc Interactive: A Designer's Overview' was a book edited by...
This state-of-the-art guide, prepared by the Technical Staff of Philips International, is a summary of compact disc-interactive (CD-I) knowledge. CD-I, a joint development of Sony and Philips, builds...
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CD-i Fanart Collection #10 - Re-imagining a classic scene from Zelda: The...
To celebrate the 35th anniversary of Zelda, we see quite some fanart of both Link CD-i and Zelda CD-i. The Zelda CD-i characters are quite unique to CD-i and offer plenty of fanart possibilities to...
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This re-equalized FLAC version of the Tetris CD-i Soundtrack is a good step...
The tricks performed by CD-i member Naean Howlett-Foster to create remastered versions of the soundtracks of Hotel Mario and Link: Faces of Evil inspired other CD-i members to do the same to other...
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Hi-res scans of the big box version of 'The 7th Guest' on CD-i, free of...
With new CD-i members like Alan Mealor the CD-i Community is getting bigger and better with people contributing CD-i stuff in high resolution and without any watermarks, it focuses on the beauty of...
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Discworld on CD-i was actually developed by Teeny Weeny Games itself in...
After many trial and error we managed to find a source who claims to have worked on the CD-i version of Discworld. In a team together with Simon Turner, the animator of Teeny Weeny Games, and Greg...
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Now available as PDF: The Designers Guide by McGrawhill, published in 1992 -...
The excellent scanning jobs of CD-i member KailoKyra resulted in another valuable addition to the online archive of CD-i literature: This time he uploaded the book "CD-i Designers Guide" published by...
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Here's a quick explanation of how I got Philips CD-i to run on Odroid XU4...
Here's a quick explanation of how I got Philips CD-i to run on Odroid XU4 with OGST image using CHD files. You can do the same thing to get Neo Geo CD running too but I have problems (see bottom)....
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