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Chronicles #2 – Find the best CD-i controller!

Hey guys, this is Omegalfa from The World of CD-i for the 2nd Chronicle!

Now that we have a better knowledge to choose a CD-i player, let’s get a good controller!
You have for sure heard about the remote controllers that comes with a CD-i player:

“Very difficult to play with!”
“Who is the crazy guy who designed this?”
“It is supposed to play games with this?”

In fact, the remote controllers that came with a CD-i player was a little bit difficult to use for gaming, but keep in mind a very important thing, the CD-i wasn’t supposed to be a gaming console but a familial system, where you could watch a movie, check an encyclopaedia, listen music, play games and I pass many other possibilities…
So the main objective of the remote control was to simply move the cursor and click using a button.

Read the full Chronicle right here!

Come to the forum to talk about this subject!


Console Purist Chronicles

I have been invited by Stacy Burns, owner of one of the biggest Facebook groups called Console Purist, also member of The World of CD-i, under the username of Benaiah.
He needed to fill a void on his Facebook group about CD-i information, and I am so glad he turns to me to take this challenge. I am really exited to show to the world this underrated system, loved by ones and hated by others. Part of the people that does not love it have been influenced by crappy YouTube videos and other jokes when they most of them didn’t even tried once to play a CD-i title.

I am posting every Friday, to follow the #CDiDay Twitter movement, and this way improve in a higher level the divulgation in the same day of CD-i related information. You will find reviews, repairs, opinions, and other kind of stuff all write by myself, Omegalfa.
Each chronicle will get a topic on the our forum community, so you will be able to contribute with your opinions.
I am also adding in this section all the chronicles I will post there. A new Top Menu link called “Console Purist Chronicles” have been added to find all the posts, so take a good seat and have a good reading!

1st – 07/02/2020

What is the best CD-i player for a rooky?


RetroMan’s special boxes pictures

Let’s follow with more RetroMan’s contribution with pictures of part of his collection.
We are now focussed in the special boxes. Many boxes have been released in limited editions, here are few:

Once again, thank you RetroMan, for the trust you gave to us and also for your patience!


Latest additions on the site – December 2019

The World of CD-i website is in constant updates.
We are always adding information like new titles, covers, screenshots, videos, etc…
Our website members are a great value for us, this is why we encourage you to register, this way you’ll be able to add yourself new stuff. We always add credits to our contributors!

NEW ENTRIES:
Multimedia
Gnomes

CD-i Music
Ennio Morricone – Vidi Aquam
Peter Gabriel – Xplora 1

Video-CD Movie
Top Gun

Video-CD Music
Aïda

Digital Video on CD-i Movie
Daens
Fatal Attraction
Patriot Games
Star Trek VI
The Naked Gun 2 1/2
Top Gun (DV on CD-i)
Wayne’s World

Digital Video on CD-i Music
The Cream of Eric Clapton

CD-i Demos
Time Life Photography

Karaoke
Fado (Credits Alan_CDiZone: covers)

UPDATES:
Games
Battleship® (Italian catalogue number & EAN)
Caesars® World of Gambling (USA catalogue number & EAN)
Connect Four (USA catalogue number & EAN)
Earth Command (Spanish catalogue number & EAN)
International Tennis Open – 2 players version (Spanish catalogue number & EAN)
Litil Divil™ (Italian catalogue number & EAN)
Mad Dog 2™ (Spanish catalogue number & EAN)
Rise™ of the Robots (Belgian catalogue number & EAN)

Kids
Cartoon Jukebox (Spanish catalogue number & EAN)
Paint School 1 (Spanish catalogue number & EAN)
Paint School 2 (Spanishcatalogue number & EAN)
Stickybear® – Reading (Spanish catalogue number & EAN)
Story Machine – Star Dreams (Italian catalogue number & EAN)
Tom – Magic Picture Show (French & Italian catalogue numbers & EANs)

Multimedia
Chew The Right Thing (Credits Alan_CDiZone: covers)
Harvest of the Sun – Van Gogh (French catalogue number & EAN)
Iberoamerica – Descubra un Continente (Credits Alan_CDiZone: covers)
Journeys Through Victorian London (Credits Alan_CDiZone: covers)
Lenting Van Etten (Credits Alan_CDiZone: covers)
Let’s go skiing with Alberto Tomba (Credits Alan_CDiZone: covers)
Mexico – Paraíso Del Buceo (Credits Alan_CDiZone: covers)
Sail to Win! (Credits Alan_CDiZone: covers)
Swiss Click (Credits Alan_CDiZone: covers)
The Food of France (European catalogue Number & EAN)
Treasures of the Smithsonian (USA catalogue number & EAN)
UEFA® Champions League (Belgian catalogue number & EAN)

CD-i Music
Classical Jukebox (Italian catalogue number & EAN)

Video-CD Movie
Addams Family Values (Dutch catalogue number & EAN)


Shikotei’s The Apprentice Free PC version!

Shikotei, our website member, have just completed a completely insane project!
9 years ago he got this crazy idea to convert a CD-i game into a Windows game… Yes… 9 years of intensive work!
The game selected was The Apprentice of course! This game is for sure one of the best you can find on CD-i and maybe one of the best platform game of the 90’s!

CONGRATULATIONS Shokitei for this amazing work!
You are crazy and we need more crazy guys like you!

Shikotei:

After having started almost 9 years ago in Excel, porting this to PHP, porting that once again to Director in Lingo, and finally porting everything to Unity in C# this game has come a long way!

The Apprentice remade for PC is the project of just me whose idea of a challenge is programming everything from scratch. No black boxes, no bug-free engines, no such thing of any kind. Stupid? Perhaps.. but it got me knowledge beyond what I thought I needed to make a game! Knowledge that should enable me to make another one if I ever finish this one.

My version of The Apprentice requires an ISO of the original CD-i disc to run. It is needed because all the sprites, backgrounds, music, sound effects, and level layouts are stored there. None of them are aboard the game itself because that would be a copyright infringement. It is my way of trying to protect myself against those who hold the rights to the Apprentice.

Every asset I extract from the IMG file is kept in memory and so nothing is actually stored on the hard drive.

Download the PC version game right here!

For more information about how to play it and also other Shikotei projects, please visit his website at www.shikotei.com!

A forum topic has been created so Shikotei can answer your questions!