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New Title Addition – Spartiti Interattivi per Chitarra Rock

Our Italian contributor, Marco Parisio Java keeps sending to us more and more Italian titles versions and Italian exclusives titles.
Today we present to you Spartiti Interattivi per Chitarra Rock, this is a very interesting title as it is a Karaoke title but in a very special way…
You can choose between 2 kind of karaoke styles:
– Voice Karaoke
– Guitar Karaoke

If you use to play guitar, this title is definitely for you!

The available songs are:
. Please Please Me (J. Lennon – P. Mc Cartney)
. Ask Me Why (J. Lennon – P. Mc Cartney)
. Daniel (E. John – B. Taupin)
. Your Song (E. John – B. Taupin)
. Fernando (B. Andersson – B. Ulvaeus – S. Anderson)
. Waterloo (B. Andersson – B. Ulvaeus – S. Anderson)
. I’ll Be There For You (J. Bon Jovi – R. Sambora)
. Living In Sin (J. Bon Jovi)
. Wonderful World (A. Fornaciari)
. Diamante (F. De Gregori)

Thank you Marco!


New Title Addition – Swiss Riviera

Swiss Riviera or “La Riviera Vaudoise” in Swiss CD-i title for tourists.
This title in the first one form an unknown number guides collection.
We still can’t define it is a free disc from a Magazine, or if it was a gift from the Swiss National Tourist Office.
You already know the other Swiss title Swiss Click, but both titles haven’t anything to see between them.
The person responsible for the title, Pierre Georges Penel, died in 2003 aged 56. We are still looking a way to contact other people who worked in this title to define if more CD-i titles are included in this guide collection.

About this specific disc, as told before, this is a pure touristic title about a specific Swiss region. The other titles may talk about other Swiss regions (if they do exist).
You can choose between French, English, German and Italian right at the start before the main menu.

There are a lot of videos, even if no Digital Video Cartridge is needed, but they are all windowed and pretty small.
All you need to know about the Swiss Riviera is right here! Restaurants, Hotels, what to visit, etc…
Tons of pictures, videos and audio will help you to prepare your next travel to this Swiss area.

Thanks to digger2 (our website member) who sent the original copy to us, we will soon make an exclusive video of this title.


New titles addition!

We have added new titles on our data base:

CBR – Theorie Examen – Demo Disk
Megapool TV-Wandpresentatie
ERM Produkt Catalogus #3
Free Gold Club Disk
Depression – The Search for the NaSSA
Bilinçli Seçim
Annual Report 1992/1993
Muziek in Economie

Enjoy!


Nobelia Demo v0.1 free download

Nobelia, the latest CD-i homebrew game by TwBurn is now available for download!
You will enjoy for sure this incredible game! And the music… oh the music…
Just try and be delighted!

YouTube video player

Read TwBurn interview here.
Get more info about the game here.
TwBurn GitHub page.

Download the BIN/CUE Demo 0.1 (09-05-2021)
(Burn it on a CD-R and play on your CD-i player)
Play the 4 levels of the demo!

Controls

Up/Down/Left/Right

  • Move character

Button 1

  • Start game on titlescreen
  • Place bomb (tile in front of you needs to be empty)
  • Activate chests/switches
  • Restart level after death

Button 2

  • Detonate remote bombs (when you have this powerup)
  • Resurrect after death (debug option)

Known Issues

  • Game might not (correctly) run on all NTSC machines
  • There is game/audio stutter in some cases, for example after destroying objects with a bomb or opening chests
  • Titlescreen is unfinished, there is no “exit” function

Nobelia selling like hot cakes!!

We at The World of CD-i are very pleased to report that Nobelia has sold over 150 copies to date, since we published details in March of how to get your hands on a copy. This is a tremendous achievement, and speaking to TwBurn, he has been quite surprised at the level of interest:
”The response has been great, better than I dared to hope. The reviews were extremely positive, with some fair and constructive criticism here and there, just as one would expect.”
You can read one of these reviews here: ‘Zelda Meets Bomberman’ In Nobelia, A New Philips CD-i Game – Nintendo Life.

We asked TwBurn: What was the best thing about making this game for CD-i, for you?
”It was a fun project, got to learn a lot of new skills and stuff about the system itself, gave me a whole new perspective on the CD-i.”
Having played CD-i games for 28 years now, I can honestly say that the game has blown me away and kept me coming back for more. The goal to collect all 7 gold coins reminds me of trying to collect all of the Chaos Emeralds in Sonic the Hedgehog, back when I had a Sega Game Gear! We are also pleased to announce that the prize for completing the game and collecting all of the coins has now been claimed, and the winner will be announced soon 🙂

TwBurn has created a true masterpiece on CD-i, complete with cute graphics, a toe-tapping soundtrack, challenging puzzles and a unique style of game for CD-i. The packaging is SOOOO professional – and I’m very excited for the future of CD-i in its ‘2nd life’. Big fans of CD-i will remember back to 2002, when Oldergames announced 4 ‘new’ CD-i games would be released, and we were treated to GO – Special Edition, Plunderball, Jack Sprite and Space Ranger. But TwBurn, having no prior game development experience, has produced Nobelia ‘from the ground up’ and delivered something incredibly special for us – which will be exclusive to CD-i. How unbelievably cool. And we’re confident at The World of CD-i that there will be more to come, so please stay tuned. Also, please do get interactive and post comments on your experience to date with Nobelia – we’d love to read them.

Another promising brand new game for CD-i is Super Quartet, released in demo form in late 2018. Sadly there is no news on whether this game will have a full release like Nobelia, but we will do our best to bring you news on this title.

For many years, I have been jealous of other retro consoles that have been given a new lease of life through homebrew development. Thanks to TwBurn, CD-i is now in on the act – and long may this continue – to make up for the multitude of games that were promised for our beloved system, but sadly never saw the light of day.

Keep enjoying Nobelia – we can’t get enough of it here!!! 🙂

You are still in time to buy Nobelia!


Othello & Mega Maze catalogue numbers

If you take a closer look at both discs calatogue numbers, you will see they match. But as they are completely different titles, this can’t happen as Philips Media always gave unique numbers for each titles.
But there is more… Othello® and Mega Maze shares the same number twice.

Othello – Testing Phase 1 uses 8100083 (1993/11/26)
Mega Maze final release uses 8100083 (1993/09/13)

Mega Maze – Testing Phase 1 uses 8100163 (1993/03/04)
Othello® final release uses 8100163 (1993/??/??)

We will assume the final release title as the correct catalogue number.

This is not the first time we saw those kind of errors, look here.
Typo from Philips Media? A change of catalogue number in the middle of the way?
That is not a problem as we saw it and defined how to pass through this issue.


Pac Panic French advertising

Here is the French advertising of Pac Panic™, for the Mega Drive, Game Boy and CD-i.

I want to thank you “Il était une fois… un jeu vidéo” @IEUFunjeuvideo for sharing this with us!


Partnership for Live CD-i Streaming Gameplay


CDiArcade is a registered member of this website. He streams CD-i videos gameplay broadcasted other the internet.
His goal is to promote the system and share his passion through the videos. No negativity, he present it in a positive light.
A partnership between The World of CD-i & CDiArcade is now signed to promote his quest and help him to spread the good word all over the world.
The World of CD-i support ideas who can bring new fans to our beloved system.
A Forum section is now available, there you will find announcements of the upcoming streams & support.
Live streaming and Podcasts are already available at Twitch & YouTube.
Each month a live streaming is broadcasted after being promoted under hashtag #CDiDay on Tweeter and then, podcasted to YouTube a few days later.
You can find CDiArcade on:
#CDiDay
Tweeter
Twitch
YouTube

Don’t miss his next LIVE video about Hotel Mario™ Friday day 26th of April at 22:00 EST time on Twitch (04:00 Lisbon; 05:00 Paris).

ll upcoming dates announcements will be done through the Forum!


Philips CD-i Backup Guide

We proudly upload our famous Philips CD-i Backup Guide under PDF format! 16 pages full of information in a “Do it Yourself” way.
Written by Blurb69 back in 2004, it is now updated to version 3.0.
The objective of the guide was and still is, to avoid using your original titles. We all know the difficulty to find CD-i titles due to high prices and the rarity of some of them. Using a copy of your own discs, you will protect your personal collection!

What’s new on version 3.0?
– Updated new website logo.
– Updated website links.
– Updated all freeware and shareware download links.
– Updated all tests under windows 7 with new screenshots.
– Added “What’s new?”.
– Translation of the Guide to French.

The French version was asked by so many people that it was impossible not to do it for them.

Download Now!
– English version
– French version


Philips patents lawsuit against Nintendo


This is not a news due to the fact it is from 2014.

Let’s make a short resume of what happened.
Philips accused Nintendo for violate at least 2 patents from 1996, used on Nintendo’s gaming next generation consoles.
Philips filed a suit against Nintendo back in 2012 in the UK and Germany, then in 2013 in France and finally in the USA in 2014.

The 1st patent said to be infringed describes a virtual body control device that models a user’s body in a virtual environment and lets an animated version of the body follow physical movements of the user.

The 2nd patent describes a user interface system based on a pointing device that lets users give commands to another device by moving it in a particular way.

Philips sent a warning to Nintendo about the 1st patent violation back in 2011, but the Japanese company never tried to get the rights of it, and then with the Wii U, the 2nd patent got also violated.

With this lawsuit, Philips wanted to stop importations and sells of the Nintendo consoles in the 4 countries and get compensation for damages.

In 20th of June of 2014 the Judge Colin Birss from UK patents tribunal ruled the violation of the patents 498 and 650 under the following consoles and systems:
Nintendo Wii, Wii Mini, Wii U and accessories Wii Remote, Wii Motion Plus controllers, Nunchuk, Balance Board and GamePad.

In December of the same year Philips confirmed a settlement with Nintendo that involves a cross-licensing agreement that spans the patent portfolios of both companies. The other terms and all financial details were withheld.

“We are very pleased to have reached this agreement with Nintendo,” said Brain Hinman, chief IPO officer at Philips. “It demonstrates that both companies recognize the importance of intellectual property rights. It also shows the value of our extensive IP portfolio and our commitment to protect our significant investments in research and development.”

This is clear proof of a possible development of a possible CD-i 2 or similar system back in 1996 but unfortunatly, never made.

A definitive proof of being far ahead is time…