Oh my god

Okay, but did it use the FE1 character designs? If so then I'd buy a CD-i purely for this.

@@astracrits4633 I think it was the original designs in the Zelda CDI style.

@@misterzygarde6431 Epic. Gonna go pick up this nonexistent port now.

I'm imagining it being a mixture of the poorly compressed ova along with the cdi cutscenes. Marth gets the same voice as link, villains would randomly turn into monsters in cutscenes, and most importantly the battle animations would be in the zelda cdi style

I feel sorry for anyone that had to play anything BUT games with the gamepad one. The spoon and especially the wireless remote had more buttons, so were more useful with non-game CDs.

@@rastas_4221 Oooooor both. Lol

I feel bad for anyone that had a CDI

Only a Spoonfull.

Such a shit controller even the Tick rejects it.

Exactly. If you're playing a CD-i game while using the presentation controller and say the controls are terrible, it's because you're using a controller not even meant for playing games. That's like playing Super Mario Bros with the Power Glove and saying the game has terrible controls. While still flawed, it gets a lot better if you use one of the actual CD-i gamepads.

You can make one yourself pretty easily too.

Let´s go back, to the beginning

Fact HUNT'D!!

So you are the one guy who actually owned a CD-I.

@matt fahringer No, it's plug and play.

Yeah Leave the game on the menu And have a party at home😂

rad!!

Looked into it a bit, seems like a bit of an acquired taste. I don't know if I'm going to be trying that one.

@@FrameRater I own the SNES version and all I can say is "if you like Tetris with a Pac-Man twist then you might like it." The biggest thing is you'll need to be careful with how you place the ghosts so you can get Pac-Man to eat all or at least most of them when he finally shows up (though there's also a fairy that occasionally shows up to magic the ghosts away, though I don't recall if there was any specific means in which she appeared).

@@BloodRedFox2008 As someone who has also played this game (specifically the version on Pac-Man World 2), the fairy appears when a meter fills up, done by clearing lines in the playing field or having Pac-Man eat the ghosts if I recall correctly.

@@FrameRater Pac Attack is a really good game, and that’s coming from somebody who doesn’t really like puzzle games. They totally ruined the soundtrack on CDi though. The SNES ost is god tier.

"i hate broccoli..and yet... I am broccoli";favorite tick quote

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Man, burger king went with the cdi for training? Wild.

I don't like mobiIe phone games either for that same reason.

And they're popular for the wrong reasons lol

YES

Definitely... I have no idea why they decided to release the system as gaming consoles did games better and PCs do the "interactive" CD crap better. Hell PCs still did gaming better back then than the CDi.

They were trying to sell this idea of a general purpose multimedia device, forward thinking in a way but poorly executed. And also, very unlycky timing. The CDI kickstarted support for many formats that went almost nowhere (Photo CD, Video CD, CD+Graphics) while being too early to take advantage of really successfull formats (like the DVD). There was a crapload of dictionaries and encyclopedias, but good luck with them on a 15 Khz TV and no printer output! As a gaming console, it would be a very basic 16 bit machine at best given the specs. The games are what they are: traditional games like platformers are more or less public domain Amiga level (ok, that was too harsh..sometimes commercial Amiga level, but it ain't saying much for what was sold as a next gen machine..). Adventure games with full motion video..well they weren't very good even then and it didn't take much for people to realise it and put an end on the fad. You can play lightgun games even without a CRT, so I guess this is a positive? Also, Tetris has a fantastic red book audio soundtrack, but that has hardly anything to do with the CDi itself!

Just as true if you replace CD-i with PS4

It has "charm" only in the sense that it is a PERFECT time capsule of that period around 1998 when EVERYONE and their mum decided they could make a video-game console.

@@TheTurnipKing CDi was developed before 1990. It is a very early system, created when CD-ROM was considered very advanced and expensive tech. The ability to display many high quality images and high quality audio was shocking.

True. The spoon is fine for browsing menus or playing basic games like Connect Four.

No it's definitely pac man.

"Three, take it or leave it"

Why would they have a mode for speed if you could change it on the controller? I recall trying this and it didn't change anything.

@@FrameRater The speed switch on the controller is a hardware solution while the speed mode is a game option. Input devices like the CD-i remote or the CD-i Trackball can move the cursor on different speed levels depending on how hard you press the disc on the remote or how fast you spin the trackball. The controller can't do that given it's digital input. The switch on the controller is there to switch between speed levels for scenarios where you want to move the cursor fast and scenarios where you want to move the cursor precise. It kinfa emulates the different speed levels of other CD-i input devices. That's why I thought that the switch might fix the problem in Ms. Pac-Man. But I wouldn't be surprised if the game doesn't support different speed levels from the input and just stick to one. The speed mode in the game has a different purpose. It is a gameplay option for all controllers after all, so it would be weird to bind it to the switch of one specific controller. (Sorry if my answer sounds like gibberish. English isn't my mother tounge.)

also in the original, the ghosts have 2 modes, one where they seek Pac Man, and another where they each are programmed to return to 1 of the four corners. Also their tracking AI has intentional "flaws" in which they might take a more roundabout way to get to Pac Man. If you get ghosts in a certain pattern you can actually leave Pac Man at certain points in the maze facing a certain direction and the ghosts will never get him.

It's simultaneously loose and very stiff. I can't properly explain it. Best I can say is there's just a bunch of dead air between the DPAD and impact points. It feels disconnected.

@@FrameRater hmm interesting. I have 2 cdi controllers. I will check tomorrow if they feel different

Yeah I've heard that's pretty bad. And yes it does.

Oh I know dude, I have a physical copy of it! Best Bosconian ever!

@@FrameRater Nice. I wish I had an X68000 or a computer that wasn't crap.

Assuming the two you're talking about are the KZfaq Poop material, there's a third in this unholy Triforce: Zelda's Adventure.