Is interesting how many exclusives this system has.
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Is interesting how many exclusives this system has.
Is interesting how many exclusives this system has.
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too bad so many games require the almost impossible to find and get working Digital Video Cartridge
Any you could recommend?
The Zelda games are better than the official Zelda 2.
Is this the only way you've found to interact with people?
He's bitter and lonely, yet still hasn't realized that this is why. Only his Sega Saturn understands his pain
Play WoG/FoE Remastered
>First video at 2:35 The israeli merchant grubs his handles together
You can play the games, or regurgitate ecelebs' opinions. But this is /vr/ - Console War (Retro), so of course you don't play games.
Frick off moron
lawll
A lot weren't really games.
It IS shitposting, even if you're ironic.
Yeah, sort of. Like if DVD extras was its own machine, and then they tried to cram videogames onto it to try to recoup some losses because it just wasn't profitable. Sort of ahead of its time with the interactive digital stuff, but it wasn't good enough on its own, you really needed the part where that stuff was on a movie disc, or a bonus disc with a movie, to make it really worthwhile.
The PS2 basically fulfills the same roles by being able to play up that kind of content, along with being able to play videogames and movies.
The CD-i players could play VCDs as well, and there were some movies that got released on the CD-i format (not many, since why release a movie on CD-i instead of VCD when the main difference is just that less players can play the former?).
VCD just never caught on all that hard as a format.
The CD-i is more comparable to a computer that lacks all the stuff people used to buy computers for (text editors, spreadsheets, programming, art and music editors, etc) back before CD drives.
The idea was that if you didn't have any interest in a modern computer outside of its CD drive, a CD-i player was a much cheaper alternative.
The internet becoming a thing really killed the appeal of a CD-i player to Joe Average though. Suddenly people wanted computers to surf the web rather than to look shit up on their Compton dictionary CD.
Has no one told you being a contrarian doesn't make you cool?
All other platforms wail in envy
Sega CD had Star Wars Chess though.
Is there a good emulator yet, or do you still have to wrestle with Mame for subpar results?
There's Same_CDi which simplifies the process significantly. I don't know if it was added to RA's repository, but you can get it on the author's github, and the instructions are pretty straightforward.
I am trying to play Hotel Mario, but it freezes on stage clear in Same_CDI randomly and I lose the save after that. Sometimes it freezes on Stage 1's Stage clear, sometimes on Stage 2's, etc. I've been able to beat Stage 4 eventually, but then it froze there. I've tried both the EU and US versions of the game, but both of them suffer from the same issue. Is there any way to fix this?
It's my understanding that this thing is pretty much just for playing movies. And it has this system where it basically does proto dvd menu technology for "interactive" features. Like point and click education software. And somehow, somewhere, some people in the company really overestimated the DVD menu tech and commissioned some really unsuitable games to be made for it. Is that right?
CD-i was made to run interactive encyclopedias. Compact Disc was still a new thing to many and people were still measuring its capacity in bookshelfs to appeal to non-tech people. PCs weren't there yet to provide multimedia experience in a comfortable way. so Philips (alongside Commodore with their CDTV thing) were expecting to fill a new niche of "multimedia players".
>Compact Disc was still a new thing to many
>1990
God damn zoomers
I don’t think he’s a zoomer because he’s fricking right. In 1990 a majority of cars still had tape decks and not CD players. Most boom boxes took tapes still. Early discmans were bulky and extremely expensive. Tapes were cheaper than CDs. I used tapes well into the 90’s so he’s right, CD was still a new thing for most people the same way blu-ray would be a new format for people who just stuck with the much cheaper and common dvds.
The first discman came out six years earlier in 1984. It was 350 dollars, which today would be 985 dollars. In this RadioShack catalog from 1990, look at the price of tapes vs cds. RadioShacks’s top of the line tape deck was $160 cheaper than their top of the line CD player. Their entry level tape deck was 50 bucks while their entry level CD player was 200. A lot of people weren’t bothering with CDs.
The other anon who replied to you is a homosexual. Zoomers are trash but he’s the kind of fat miserable sperg just dying to let everyone know he’s over the age of 30 like it’s some great achievement.
Forgot to post the pic. RadioShack catalogue circa 1990.
I had a pioneer CD player with one of those six-cd cartridges. It was like a mini jukebox.
What on earth are you on about? Everyone was using tapes in the 90s but that has nothing to do with CDs. I was buying vinyl in the 90s too. Every major brand was making CD players in 1990 from cheap to high-end. I could show you a TOTL Nakamichi or Sony tape deck more expensive than a crap Kenwood CD player but what would that prove?
Show it to me right now homosexual.
Find a catalogue from 1990, and show me a CD player cheaper than 50 bucks.
>Early discmans were bulky and extremely expensive
That was the mid 80's champ
>I used tapes well into the 90’s so he’s right
Even an 80's baby should be able to see the logic fail there. You're either severely moronic or larping.
>Their entry level tape deck was 50 bucks while their entry level CD player was 200
Yeah, you never used one of those entry level tape decks. Probably never used a tape period. If fact it sounds like you're so underage you missed out on CDs as well.
Yup. Confirmed underage larper with 0 reading comprehension skills.
Samegay who is trying to rewrite history that cds were the standard in 1990 LOL.
Get fricked loser, CDs weren’t widely adopted until the mid 90s and that anon is absolutely correct that they were new to most people in 1990. Please spit the cum out of your mouth.
Cassette and CD were aimed at different audiences. CD was basically the evolution of vinyl and portability only became a concern later. It's like trying to compare sales of the Game Boy with the SNES
Just admit you were wrong you fricking homosexual. Holy shit you are dense.
You called both the poster you first replied to wrong and a zoomer, then you called ME wrong and a zoomer, only to get shit thrown right in your fricking face and the best you can come up with is some bullshit false equivalency.
I can’t believe you had the nerve to do any of this, you’re a fricking moron and that poster is STILL right.
Some people just need the last word no matter what. Because the last word means you won.
I'm not any of those people, moron. Just popping in to drop facts
rent free
Also important to note that CD-i isn't a system, but a format, just like CD-ROM, VCD, Photo CD etc. The thing in the OP pic is typically called "a CD-i", but it's actually a CD-i PLAYER.
You don't get many video games for VCD either.
It's primarily designed for navigating menus to access video and audio at your leisure.
Here's a list of the initial CD-i lineup in America:
https://pastebin.com/cx7wKmh8
The only typical video game-type game there is Dark Castle, everything else is encyclopedias, collections of art/music, digital storybooks, childrens' entertainment centers of the "click on something to get an animation" type and a couple board game adaptations.
THIS is what the CD-i was really meant, and designed, for.
It was a Hi-Fi gadget. Actual games were an afterthought.
It was fine (nothing special though) for its actual purpose, but it got memed into being a gaming system because an Nintendo is on it.
It got a lot of use professionally for those interactive data screens in stores and museums and shit that are only ever going to run a single program that presents the user with text/video/audio about some subject. Much cheaper to use a CD-i player for that than a computer.
In Europe they remained in use for quite a long time actually.
Theres barely anything good at all. Only Burn Cycle is good but it's not exclusive
I literally posted statistical proof and you’re such a fricking dick kissing homosexual you can’t admit you’re wrong.
I knew about the CDi from gaming magazines, back in the day. But I have never seen one, or knew anyone with a CDi. The CDI really looked like an under powered 3D0. IDK. It seems like it specializes in video play back with some graphical overlay. The only time I have seen the CDi advertised was for this one here:
Where this crazy guy on a bus is hyped for Burn Cycle. I swear I saw this on TV at least once. but found it again when looking at videos on Youtube.