Philips CD-I 'Titanic: An Interactive Exploration

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Philips CD-I 'Titanic: An Interactive Exploration

Post by BossYweed01 » Sun Jun 17, 2012 1:43 am

I purchased on Amazon.com (US website) the CD-I 'Titanic: An Interactive Exploration' I would like to view the CD-I on my Toshiba Satellite L505D-S5983 laptop. I can view some of the video files but not all of the disc. What do I need to play a CD-I disc on my pc? Emulation programs? Specialized software? The CD-Rom/DVD I'm using is the HP GCC 4244N.

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Post by Austin » Mon Jun 18, 2012 5:18 am

To run them on your modern PC, you will need a CD-i emulator.

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Post by cdifan » Mon Jun 18, 2012 3:42 pm

If this disc uses FMV (and I think it does from the description) then it won't work with the current public emulator version.

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Post by BossYweed01 » Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:12 pm

cdifan wrote:If this disc uses FMV (and I think it does from the description) then it won't work with the current public emulator version.
I have the unlimited CD-I Emu vo5.2. All I get is a green screen. How do I get it to recognize the Philips or Maganavox CD-I Player roms? The Titanic CD-I is FMV.

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Post by BossYweed01 » Thu Jun 21, 2012 6:51 pm

UPDATE: My Titanic: An Interactive Exploration CD-I works with cdiemu. Sort of. I'm still having some problems with video and audio. But, that might be happening for three reasons. 1 The disc is playing on a DVD/CD drive that doesn't support CD-I FMV. 2 I may not have extracted all the files off the CD-I. 3 The cdiemu software is not compatible with CD-I FMV. I can see the menus, some video and hear some audio.

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Post by BossYweed01 » Mon Jun 25, 2012 11:54 pm

As I stated in my previous post Titanic: An Interactive Exploration CD-I Disc 'sort of' works in cdiemu 0.5.2 The FMV videos play. The images sometimes play onscreen and sometimes I get only audio without an image or when an image is displayed onscreen, when it changes to another image I get half an image with red on top and the rest of the image below. My image problems maybe a result of not extracting the image files correctly? I hope 'Titanic: An Interactive Exploration' can be added to the next cdiemu?

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Re: Philips CD-I 'Titanic: An Interactive Exploration

Post by ArfredHitchcacku » Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:03 am

BossYweed01 wrote:I purchased on Amazon.com (US website) the CD-I 'Titanic: An Interactive Exploration' I would like to view the CD-I on my Toshiba Satellite L505D-S5983 laptop. I can view some of the video files but not all of the disc. What do I need to play a CD-I disc on my pc? Emulation programs? Specialized software? The CD-Rom/DVD I'm using is the HP GCC 4244N.
You might want to get an adapter actually. If your Toshiba laptop has an HDMI port (as mine does) you're in extreme luck because there are composite video cable to hdmi box converters that only require the CD-I cable and an HDMI Cable to work.

http://www.amazon.com/Composite-S-video ... te+to+hdmi

If your system does not have one, I'm fairly presuming it has a VGA port in which case this should work.

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-VGA2VID- ... ite+to+vga

It says High Resolution so I'm assuming it also upscales.

I'm not going to pretend these aren't overpriced but given the systems it would be useful for besides CD-I it doesn't seem to be an unwise investment.
Best game on 3DS? The only one that's also on CD-I.

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Re: Philips CD-I 'Titanic: An Interactive Exploration

Post by BossYweed01 » Thu Jul 05, 2012 2:30 pm

ArfredHitchcacku wrote:
BossYweed01 wrote:I purchased on Amazon.com (US website) the CD-I 'Titanic: An Interactive Exploration' I would like to view the CD-I on my Toshiba Satellite L505D-S5983 laptop. I can view some of the video files but not all of the disc. What do I need to play a CD-I disc on my pc? Emulation programs? Specialized software? The CD-Rom/DVD I'm using is the HP GCC 4244N.
You might want to get an adapter actually. If your Toshiba laptop has an HDMI port (as mine does) you're in extreme luck because there are composite video cable to hdmi box converters that only require the CD-I cable and an HDMI Cable to work.

http://www.amazon.com/Composite-S-video ... te+to+hdmi

If your system does not have one, I'm fairly presuming it has a VGA port in which case this should work.

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-VGA2VID- ... ite+to+vga

It says High Resolution so I'm assuming it also upscales.

I'm not going to pretend these aren't overpriced but given the systems it would be useful for besides CD-I it doesn't seem to be an unwise investment.
The converters you listed will not help me. I don't have a CD-I player! I have a CD-Rom/DVD writer.

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