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4300842 No.4300842 [Reply] [Original]

So I just purchased a CDi. What am I in for?
What other games should I try?

Apparently the thing is both region free and has no copy protections, so I can just burn and play anything. Anyone have experience doing so?

>> No.4300846
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4300846

>>4300842
>So I just purchased a CDi. What am I in for?

>> No.4300851

>>4300842
Dat Dances With Wolves thickness.
Christ. How many discs is that?

>> No.4300865
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4300865

>>4300851
Three.

>> No.4300871

The shitty Zeldas, at least I would if I had one of those.

>> No.4300878

>>4300871
Already got the ISOs for those along with Hotel Mario and the prototype for the unreleased Super Mario World sequel.

>> No.4300927

>>4300842
There's some 3-game compilation of Galaga, Pac-man and pac-attack somehwere

>> No.4300947

>>4300927
Are they actually arcade ports or something else?

>> No.4300956
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4300956

The Apprentice is the only "good" game on the CD-i. Everything else is just shovelware, abandonware, and awful, awful junk shit.

I have no idea why you would have purchased a CD-i, when there are a plethora of other retro consoles with a classic selection of good games.

>> No.4300958

>>4300956
Cus those can be emulated.

>> No.4300962
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>>4300956
I really like this artist and his perverted sense of humor, kinda wish he made more games for actually good systems.

>> No.4300971

>>4300958
uhh
not well

>> No.4300976

>>4300958
Which consoles? Maybe a couple 8-bit and 16-bit ones emulate okay, but the vast majority have emulation issues, especially PlayStation, Saturn, 3DO, etc.

>> No.4300978

>>4300842
Kether and Burn:Cycle are genuinely relatively solid games. Thunder in Paradise is pretty cool for what it is. You got some okay shit there.

>> No.4300979

>>4300971
>>4300976
99% of everything that matters is emulated just fine and you're just being a jewish faggot if you say otherwise.

>but m-muh collection
No.

>> No.4300994

>>4300979
Kiddo, hope you have fun emulating the N64.

>> No.4301000

>>4300842
Gimme a review of Tetris and Titanic, senpai. Everything else kinda looks like shit

>> No.4301002

>>4300979
>99% of everything that matters is emulated just fine

>> No.4301005
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4301005

>>4300994
I'm actually a hardware/flashcart fag. I just am willing to acknowledge that in most cases, emulation can work if you don't care about the hardware/controllers/input lag/etc.

Pic related. My flash cart collection.

>> No.4301007

>>4301000
Tetris CD-i has an amazing OST for what that's worth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byJLw-dQXHA&t=2033s

>> No.4301014

>>4301000
Isn't Titanic just one of those slightly interactive encyclopedia things that were common on home computers back in those days?

>> No.4301023

>>4301014
Yeah upon second glance it says 'reference' on the spine. When I first saw 'titanic - an interactive exploration' I got excited thinking it might some kind of myst clone or something

>> No.4301037

>>4301023
Burn:Cycle is an adventure game and generally brought up as one of the best games for the system.

>> No.4301069

>>4300842
>What am I in for?
Shitty shit. Positive feedback from an ebay jewseller.

>> No.4301080

Laser Lords

It's fucking stupid but in a charming way unlike the rest of the CDi

>> No.4301101
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4301101

>>4300842
>What am I in for?

Exactly one actual good game

>> No.4301127

>>4301101
>game with a "Nudality" in which you undress your waifu prize
Welp. Time to buy a CD-i.

>> No.4301129

>>4300846
fpbp

>> No.4301137

>>4301000
>Gimme a review of Tetris

you can only rotate the pieces one direction, instantly making inferior to almost every other tetris port in existence.

Has a soundtrack of cheesy new age 90's elevator music thats laughable at best.

TL/DR its garbage.

>> No.4301195

Can you get S-Video with a CD-i? I have a converter for S-Video to HDMI and it may look okayish on a modern display.

>> No.4301197

>>4301195
The CDI 910 in the OP image has S-Video. None of the other models do to my knowledge.

I believe it's a 240p image.

>> No.4301204

>>4300962
Y'all are memeing, but Tetris for the CD-I is god tier.

>> No.4301207

>>4301023
There is a PC game about your adventure on the Titanic that was really good. Titanic Adventure out of Time

>> No.4301472

>>4301005
Wow how many Jew dollars did you Jew out for those JewJews?

>> No.4301546
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4301546

>>4300842
THIS IS IT LUIGI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHkBNeWNKI0

>> No.4301576
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4301576

>>4300842
Looks like it's in pretty good shape, good find. I wish I could find one even for decorative purposes.

>> No.4301609

>not getting bernstein bears

>>4301207
The PC Titanic game was awesome, not as good as DUST though, which was by the same company.

>>4301037
I love Burn:Cycle it's cheesy as fucking hell but I really love that "game"

>> No.4301614

>>4300871
>shitty
The only shitty one is Zelda's Adventure, and that's probably because they didn't get to finish it. The other two are actually pretty fun.

>> No.4301726

>>4301195
If you want to mod; pretty sure it has a Sony CXA somewhere. RGB->HDMI

>> No.4301757

Aren't CD-i consoles literally dying because the battery can't be changed, or am I getting confused with something else?

>> No.4301829

>>4300846
This.
I'm not a full time emufag, but I still try the first level or so out before buying a game, let alone a console.

>> No.4301874

>>4301576
That's a photo from google images.

>> No.4301878

>>4301757
I think I remember hearing something like this too.

>> No.4301891

>>4300842
Remember getting that same model from a thrift store when I was 10 thinking it was some kind of fancy CD player. Ended throwing it in the garbage because I thought it was junk. Weighed a ton too, even heavier than the Xbox huge

>> No.4301935

>>4301609
>>4301037
Music is pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xj5_-eWU7w&list=PLDD523DE2FA37D506
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzkGJOQ6bmQ&index=2&list=PLDD523DE2FA37D506
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FyAObDSbQQ&index=3&list=PLDD523DE2FA37D506
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWA8ouwuyhs&list=PLDD523DE2FA37D506&index=7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM2wkuUBSWU&list=PLDD523DE2FA37D506&index=8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21RSVJQqUXk&index=10&list=PLDD523DE2FA37D506

>> No.4301952

>>4300842
Literally the worst console ever created, no redeemable qualities

>> No.4302064

>>4301472
>often used as form of piracy
>Jew

Really makes you think

>> No.4302579

>>4301874
aw, that's a shame.

>> No.4302610

>>4302579
It's not though. it's likely just from the auction I bought it from.

>> No.4302624
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>>4302610
>It's not though
Yes it is, it sa-
>Ebay is the site the picture is from

>OP paid 250 dollars for a CDI

aaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>> No.4302647
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4302647

Yes but what about Radioshack's Memorex VIS?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cayU_2iM07c

>> No.4302669

>>4302624
The CDi is expensive, senpai.

>> No.4302684

>>4302669
For $250 you could have gotten a working PC Engine Duo and an Everdrive.

>> No.4302694

>>4302624
This is why when I post about things I just bought, I never use the exact image from the auction

>> No.4302712

>>4302694
I feel really bad for OP. For 250 dollars he could've bought a really good system in really good condition.

>> No.4302731

>>4302712
You could get a Saturn with new battery, in perfect condition, controllers, and games for 250 dollars.

>> No.4302767

>>4301757
Almost anything can be fixed or changed. If you can't figure it out find an electronics technician who can. At least you don't have barrel batteries leaking all over the damn boards destroying traces.

>> No.4302772

>>4302624
$250 is too much but at least he got a gamepad. Some of the CDI game pads go for around $80. I still got a thin one for my Magnovox Consolized CDI.

>> No.4302818

>>4302772
The CDi model OP got averages around the 200 Mark and that controller averages around 70, so OP actually made out alright, especially considering the stack of games. OP's does SVideo which makes it a bit more sought after.

>> No.4302836

>>4302818
I find it odd that some of the big models go for more than the Consolized version. S-video. I get that since that can be line doubled very respectively. But they're still huge for what good they as far as entertainment value goes.

>> No.4302873

>>4302818
>games
Those aren't "games"

>> No.4303276

>>4302873
Tetris, Thunder in Paradise, Kether and Burn: Cycle are games.

>> No.4303296

>>4303276
So is Pinball.

>> No.4303307

>>4302684
>>4302712
>>4302731
I already own the majority of the systems I want though. Also 250 really isn't bad at all considering the system model I got not to mention an actual gamepad. Bundles like this average a fair amount higher.

>> No.4305517

Use it to listen to audio cd's and read encyclopedias.

>> No.4305853

>>4301101
>"Exactly one actual good game"
Tits = Good Game

>> No.4305862

>>4305853
I'm a simple man. I see tits, I like it.

>> No.4305881

Play the fuck out of that CD-i Tetris you have there. Sit back and enjoy the music.

>> No.4306004

>>4305881
Yeah, CD-i Tetris has a pretty amazing OST.

>> No.4306152

I heard good things about Pac-Panic.

>> No.4306242
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>>4300842
Are you the same guy that made a thread about wanting to get a CD-I weeks ago on /vr/ and I told you that you really weren't missing anything? Then someone came in afterwards, said the exact thing I did albeit worded more politely and you thanked him.

like seriously, you bought the thing and now you're wondering how to burn games AFTER you purchased it?

>> No.4306258

>>4305862
What do you think of the PC98?

>> No.4306272

>>4300842
Play the zelda games and hotel mario

Yes theyre shit but still the most famous games for the cdi

>> No.4306274

>>4302669
My local gamestore lit sells the fuckers for 30 bucks

>> No.4306275

Does the cdi have even one good game?

The apprentice seems fun

>> No.4306484

>>4302772
>Some of the CDI game pads go for around $80
>tfw I just picked one up at a thrift store for 3.99

>> No.4306909

>>4300865
There was movies on the CDi?

>> No.4306959

>>4306909
There were more movies than there were games. The CD-i was a home multimedia system, it was not a game console.

>> No.4306970

>>4301005
well... youre definately a fag. at least you got that rite

>> No.4306980

>>4300865
>VCDs

I still wonder why VCD video quality always looked worse than VHS or SD TV broadcasts. I though they used the same resolutions except VCDs' MPEG DAT files are more compressed?

>> No.4307005

>>4306980
Because the picture actually has a lower resolution (a VHS and SD TV picture is actually interlaced, not the VCD's), and it uses mpeg 1 compression which is quite lossy.

>> No.4307365

These things where expensive, and yet they required you to buy an add-on to play video cd, by that price I expected to be already included.

>> No.4307582

>>4302064
Yeah jews trying to jew in on some other jews jew dollars

>> No.4307592

>>4300842
Play Little monster at school. Is it like a point and click "living story
Book or whatever? I used to love little monster

>> No.4307629

>>4306275
>The apprentice seems fun

It is. It's simple but solid, basically a vertical scroller like Kid Icarus with a somewhat unfair but still satisfying challenge level. Like a tame Kaizo Mario or IWBTG. But with really lovely, colorful pixel art.

It works within the pitiful limits of CDI hardware to deliver a genuinely fun, focused experience. Just don't expect it to be super deep or expansive, it's all precision platforming start to finish.