ScottC2010

Managed to get some uk pal movies - ver good price: The Krays CDi Movie £ 4.00 James Bond : From Russia With Love CDi Movie £ 5.00 Star Trek VI CDi Movie £ 4.00 The Untouchables CDi Movie £ 5.00 Star Trek II - Wrath of Khan by Philips £ 9.00 Star Trek III - Search for Spock by Philips £ 9.00 Star Trek IV - Voyage Home by Philips £ 9.00 Face Off by touchstone £ 5.00 I'll see if I can find out more about the region lock on mine before I order and US ones

Will look into that

I was having a look at video by using iso buster too, I managed to extract the video from Star trek 6 - interestingly windows reports the video as 368x272 25fps 1376kbps (About 172 kilobytes per second) (172 kbs is explained here: The New International CD-i Association (icdia.co.uk) - It is mode2 form 2 - which frees up memory by excluding the error checking) This doesn't seem correct though as for PAL CD greenbook (whitebook is 352x288 PAL) should be 384x288 29.97fps - is windows not able to correctly interpret the video (It does play fine in windows media player) or is there some other reason for this do you know?

Fab - thanks for all this info I watched Black Rain the other day and now making a start on Red October

Have you played Atlantis? I get to where there is an entrance that looks like it's electrified but I can't get through - I can't find any switches - do you know what I need to do? (I only have the remote which is 2 buttons so if it needs 'button 3' to open then i'm stuffed i guess) I'll have to find a proper controller plus the 2 player adapter (I think there is a new better one available) 2 player Rise of the Robots awaits!

What is also interest was I forgot how wonderfully presented some of the 90's cdroms were, such as the titanic, 2 unlimited, cranberries - we seem to have gone backwards instead of forwards for example you click on the video tape in 2 unlimited to bring up the videos and then there's other sections like the behind the scenes, so much more elegant (and faster) then todays internet of 'do you want cookies', do you want notifications and pop up ads and videos, terrible loading times even with 3000mhz processers and gigabytes of memory; modern web developers could learn a lot from cd-i - they managed to do this with 15mhz 1mb ram and 150kb/s!

I've also emailed the Dread creator and also sent him some cd-i dev links as well as other info such as games like Atlantis (As the cd-i processor is basically a modded 68000 i would think this would be a good possibility) I'll let you know what he says - it would be great to find some developers to max out the cd-i Looking at how smooth Atlantis is i would think it's capable of more - imagine the Jaguar game Aliens vs Predator or something like Witchaven! I would love a good racer too like mario kart, wipeout or colin mccrea!

Just got time before I go

Thanks - i'll try discord, in the meantime I did find this old info which suggests they are not 100% region free: Interactive Dreams: CD-i is not 100% PAL/NTSC region-free, but some players are more compatible with both (archive.org) I'll send a screen shot of my message i get on screen when i get home later from my Steak Night at the local pub!

Yes, that's correct (USA VCD/CD-i movie. It was Planes, Trains and Automobiles) - maybe it's just on UK machines? I don't think there's a problem with games/multimedia (BurnCycle and Shark Alert are USA and work) - one for the Discord Guru?

I have just tried a USA DV and it does not work (Comes up with message that it is for NTSC) - is there a region unlock?

My CDi seems to have started playing the cd-r again all on it's own! I wonder if it is just that it needed running? I have given it a clean too but when I did that it made no difference initially. Is it known for these machines to 'settle down'?

Thanks, that's interesting

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