Some CD-i and PC beta versions

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  1. candela

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    Hello all,

    I've had some CD-i and PC beta versions sitting around for a while and I thought I'd share them with you as a late Christmas present. They can be downloaded here: https://mega.co.nz/#F!Xol2UaLY!q9JlfeTyOWy2Ay0CBEid3w (this a free account with limited bandwith so maybe the Prototopia project can mirror these)

    I'm not an expert in making correct images so CD-i discs were ripped using ISOBuster. The discs with audio tracks were ripped using CloneCD as it's the only tool I know that supports this format. And even with CloneCD I had to try like 5 different drives before I found one that actually manage to rip all the discs. I re-burned one of the images and it seemed to work but no guarantees. The PC discs with audio tracks were ripped with the redump tool DiscImageCreator. The CDR rips are made from CDRs that were actually used for testing some 20 years ago. Some discs, both pressed and CDRs, had read errors unfortunately

    Nothing special in there, but for the small amount of CD-i fans there is "Origami 2 - Doll's House" (not a game though) which as far as I know is a commercially unreleased title even though I did see an advertisement for it in a flyer. Any other unreleased games were previously made available on GameTronik

    I do not know what the differences (if any at all) are with the retail versions of these titles so have fun finding out

    Kind regards,
    candela
     
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  2. Borman

    Borman Xbox Archivist Staff Member

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    Your link doesnt seem to work properly :)
     
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  3. candela

    candela <B>Site Supporter 2013</B><BR><B>Site Supporter 20

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    Sorry, can you try again please, I changed it
     
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    Borman Xbox Archivist Staff Member

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    Works now :) Imported it into my account for the time being.
     
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  5. rso

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    "some" versions, lol... that's quite a collection. Guess I better wait until I have faster internet again. Thanks for sharing! :encouragement:

    Heads up to anyone running into problems: The actual link still doesn't seem to work - you have to copy/paste the link text. (edit: seems fixed)
     
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  6. catseye69

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    thank you very much very interesting!
     
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  7. rewak

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    Thank you :)
     
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  8. Kao

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    Incredible collection! Thanks for sharing! :)
     
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    DevHackr Enthusiastic Member

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    This is wonderful! Thank you so much for preserving these. I promise I'll add them asap
     
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    Very nice of you to share, thanks :)
     
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    lwizardl Living The Dream

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    thank you for sharing these files.
     
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  12. ItsMeMario

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    Holy fook :D !!!!!1

    Thanks a lot sir !

    No idea what to expect from a Mad Dog McCree test built :D...have to try
     
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  13. SILENT_Pavel

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    That's awesome collection, thanks. Seems like most of games have "preview" status, like retail version in most of them.

    But anyway here is useful information for everyone:

    cd-i PC emulator: http://cdii.blogspot.nl/2012/08/mah-boi-keyboard-interface-to-use-with.html

    if games will request this - you can't run this on emulator:
    http://cdii.blogspot.ru/2009/05/digital-video-cartridge.html

    but you can extract the files from iso with this guide:
    http://cdii.blogspot.ru/2009/05/how-to-convert-cd-i-image-files.html
    Mirror of files (thanks to author of the article): https://www.mediafire.com/?hztqjqcx8b6yvjj

    http://icdia.co.uk/sw_pc/disctools.html
    http://cdii.blogspot.ru/2009/01/extract-video-from-vcd-and-digital.html
     
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  14. candela

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    I uploaded 3 more CD-I test discs I acquired some time ago, nothing exciting and only 1 of them is a game :

    Golden Oldies 2 - 26-04-96 - CDR.7z
    Concise Oxford Dictionary - 1.02 - 20-09-94 - Testing - Phase 2 - 810 0086 [The Concise Oxford Dictionary & Oxford Thesaurus].7z
    Drawing & Painting - 1.01 - 24-02-94 - Testing - FPD - 814 0106 [Tekenen en schilderen cursus].7z
     
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