Cd-i emulator did not find a supported cd-i system rom file

#CD I EMULATOR DID NOT FIND A SUPPORTED CD I SYSTEM ROM FILE FULL#

While Philips did dabble with the idea of expanding into the edutainment market, there was never a presumption that they would compete with Nintendo or Sega. Notion of the CD-i platform as being a game machine. To me (and I have the system still along with about 30 CDs), I enjoy Dragon's Lair and Space Ace the most, though 7th Guest is ok. I removed the line stating 'The most popular games for the system were The 7th Guest and Burn: Cycle.' Unless there's a verifiable source, this seems to be inherently biased. Dwiki 19:46, 15 April 2006 (UTC) Most popular games Distributing the ROMs is, however, illegal, which is why doesn't provide any. In general, content providers may claim that emulators themselves are illegal, but it's my understanding that at least in the US, distributing emulators is legal, since they don't infringe on copyright. Well, the emulator entry sure links to a lot of them. Coffee5binky ( talk) 17:25, 26 December 2009 (UTC) Linking to emulators I suggest just getting a bunch of old-ass magazines from the era and carefully reading the news and previews sections, maybe even gossip, and see what and who said what. Anyways, it's been too long to really remember.

Now what does that mean? Nintendo didn't do a damn thing about the four 'Nintendo' games released on CD-i, and I remember if somebody called 1-80 and asked the rep about CD-i, before Nintendo split with Philips and went with SGI for Project Reality, they were giving info out that those games were approved or whatever. Nintendo then assured, in some random blurt in a random issue of Nintendo Power in 1992, that Nintendo's CD-ROM unit would be 100% compatible with CD-i.

Dwiki 07:08, 7 December 2005 (UTC)ДЇrom what I know from reading old video game magazines, Nintendo and Sony split ways, then Nintendo went to Philips, because the CD-i was already in development. I don't recall Nintendo ever publicly complaining about the situation, although they might have, I was about 10. This is, of course speculation, which is why I tried to make the language as ambiguous as possible in my revision to your revision. I imagine that Nintendo grumblingly let Philips release Nintendo games but didn't complain too much when the royalty checks started rolling in. Most likely Nintendo was placed in a bad position when they went to Philips to get out of their licensing situation with Sony, and Philips was happy to exploit any connection with Nintendo legally allowed.

I think you're right, and I didn't mean to imply that the term loophole is blatantly misleading, but we would basically have to see the contract itself if there was a legal loophole that Philips exploited, or at least an article about Nintendo being angry.

Dwiki 20:40, 15 March 2006 (UTC)ДЄs far as the loophole, I've heard it numerous times, and when I get home from work I'll take a look into finding a trustworthy source on it, because I don't believe Nintendo willingly let them do it, but they were allowed to based on the language of the contract. The generalization by models doesn't seem to exist elsewhere on the Internet, so hopefully this makes this article a more useful resource.

Okay, to answer myself, I have spent some time and updated this entry.

We need to take some action soon to document these models or something. My money's on being the correct list of models.

Okay, our list is weird and incomplete.

Why not leave it in, still interesting information that you have to come to the discussion to find out.

#CD I EMULATOR DID NOT FIND A SUPPORTED CD I SYSTEM ROM FILE FULL#

The Philips CD-i system came in four models: the CD-i 450, which was the 'video game CD-i', the CD-i 210, which was the common multimedia version, the CD-i 220, which was the full featured top model and the CD-i 550, which was basically a 450 with the Digital Video Cartridge installed plus it came with an arcade pad. This para removed, having little in common with this list of models:

15 Should we change CD-i to be a 'format'?.

6 One of the first cd based home consoles.

5 Notion of the CD-i platform as being a game machine.

Cd-i emulator did not find a supported cd-i system rom file