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=D I will check out StarTrek 6! I've not seen that on VCD!

Yeah, I had that too! The one required for DVD =D But that same company did release an MPEG-1 decoder for VCD - not seen one on eBay ever =/

Yeah, that's not a bad game! I prefer Pac Panic from Namco - that's a good CDi game too =D

GadgetUK164 - Retro Gaming Repairs & Mods Yeah. Main problem with CD-i Tetris is that it stops gameplay every time you level up but it was pretty chill. Defenders of the Crown is another that was well-suited to the format. Should have been a lot more Myst-like adventure games since it was well suited to those.

Nice tip =D Never thought of that!

Thanks =D

Hehe =D Off work this week, so not had much else to do!

I would like to add a word regarding patching holes, repairing hinges and so on. My personal favourite is Oyumaru in clear colour - it is at ebay in best price and epoxy putty - Milliput. About both of them is lots of vids. Disadvantage might be colour of epoxy putty, but it might be spray painted or even some sort of colourant might be added. tough places might be filled with toothpick. I think that is most promising solution from all which I ever saw. When I was a kid I spent my free time with model-making lessons. I got Ouymaru and Milliput to repair broken hinges in my psone. Epoxy putty might be treated by a file. Blue Stuff is a bit more expensive than Ouymaru is but both of them seems to be very similar if not very same solution. Worth to try - on some junk at first. Screw posts might be repaired too. You need to wrap around the screw using Teflon (PTFE) tape, and then add epoxy putty to the hole and insert screw in there. Wait for cure and we have got screw post alive back again;)

Good point on those round fuses =D I had forgotten about those damn things lol. It does like very VCR ish in its design.

Hehe =D

Thanks =D I didn't know that about the Jaguar CD!

PMSLMAO! :o) Yes, it ruined things for me too - I am often now laughing at things I've said when they shouldn't be funny lol.

Sorry if I missed any questions last night - it was hard to keep up with everything lol. 7th Guest was awesome, and Creature Shock as well =D I played some Creature Shock yesterday and it wasn't too bad! Regards the point about cutting off the internal connector first - yes, that's absolutely what I learned from this experience - start with the one that's easy to fix without any visible change first. =D Thanks on the correction lol =D

Good seeing you on the stream last night. I think its only the 2nd time I've seen your face. The other time it's usually someone filming the back of your head playing an arcade machine.

Hehe, thanks mate =D

Strictly speaking, they aren't exactly the same thing! I had a VLP player that was from the late 70's - that played Laser Vision, that was Philips early road map for Laser Disc, but you couldn't play Laser Disc on a Laser Vision player. But there was CD Video - used a lot in jukeboxes if memory serves. But Laser Vision isn't really Laser Disc, it's more a case of Laser Disc took the LV format and improved it with digital encoding.

GadgetUK164 - Retro Gaming Repairs & Mods This confusion is why LaserDisc was never a success. :) LaserVision is the format name where LaserDisc was originally a brand name owned by Pioneer for the same format. They used LD on their players and the discs they published while their industry partners with compatible players had to use LV. Users played LaserVision discs on LaserDisc or LaserVision players but discs published by Pioneer might also say LaserDisc on them. If your player was, say, a Panasonic then it would also say “LaserVision” instead of LaserDisc. That changed in the early ‘90s when Pioneer opened up the LaserDisc name to the rest of the industry. In 1984 they added digital soundtracks for compatible players but it was often at the expense of compatibility with earlier players. You often had a choice between DTS, digital, and standard releases for a given title. For the European market they basically re-launched the format as CD Video where all CD Video discs and players supported digital audio and had gold-colored discs, but they were 100% compatible with digital audio LD/LV players (and vice versa). LaserDisc/LaserVision users were left dealing with discs that only worked on some players and not others, but solving that for European releases obviously didn’t save the format. There were also various releases for picture format (Academy, letterboxed wide, and anamorphic wide). Then we have CLV vs CAV discs... It was a real mess! I live in the region where they test-marketed it back in the ‘70s so I’ve seen more Disc-o-Vision discs than most. :)

Thanks for your continued support =D

Yes, it was really popular over there! TBH - it was a good step up from VHS!

No idea how much the decoder cards sell for? Nice to have though just for VCD imo. I didn't know that some of the games required the card? I might try Dragons Lair later without the card to see what happens.

Thanks, much appreciated =D I've fixed mine in the video that will go up tomorrow =D

I saw that video - that wasn't the same card though! He had an MPEG-2 card (which I also had around 2000 ish - for DVD support), but before that there was a full length card that provided MPEG-1, released around the same time as the CDI hit the market.

Thanks =D And LOL! The music on my vids for the last few years have it much lower in volume! On some of my older videos it was way too loud lol

Light guns use the vblank and hblank to determine the position on screen, a modern LCD or Plasma cannot re-create that as it tends to draw the image a frame at a time or in 3 sections etc. I would be suprised if any old lightgun like that works on a a modern TV even with a receiver.

@@GadgetUK164 the Sega Menacer used infrared tracking on a receiver connected to the console port. Akin to modern arcade guns and the Wii tracking, totally I dependant of display. It was definitely known earlier than we think - I don't know if the Philips gun would do this.

"Back to Black" - it's basically a light polish that contains sillicone. Makes white patches of dried out plastic go back to black, and this usually means that most scratches end up not visible.

Yes, the do look nice, and great to play around with but there's just not enough in the way of games really. There are some good games like Lemmings and that beat em up game which I forget the name of (will show it in part 2).

And I think you're right, licensed mold from Gravis or something =D

I don't think 7th Guest needs the MPEG decoder card?

It does sound like the disc maybe rubbing on something! Inspect the inside of the drive carefully (perhaps with the disc in) to see if you can work out where the squeeking noise is coming from.

@@GadgetUK164 I have found what the issue was, the spindle was rubbing against the screws on the disc drive mechanism, raising it higher than I raised it before fixed the issue now I can barely even hear it running.

Yes, those are nice too =D I want one lol

Meguiars PlastX & Back to Black!

This is the stuff:- Simoniz www.amazon.co.uk/Simoniz-SIM01-500ml-Bumper-Restorer/dp/B000Y8IVI6/ref=sr_1_30?ie=UTF8&qid=1523788475&sr=8-30&keywords=back+to+black Sold in Halfords in the UK too I think.

Yes, that can work in a similar way! The only problem is the polish can rub off onto things it touches!

GadgetUK164 - Retro Gaming Repairs & Mods true, just thinking about covering the light scratches and keep up the great work 👍

If its the tray version like the one in this video, the same fix shown in this video might solve it (if your spindle is pressed down). Beyond that, it would probably be the laser needing replacement.

Back to Black is the other product!

Yes, thinner heat shrink is better! But provided you have multiple layer of tubing (like I did), it really isn't anything to even worry about.

:o)

=/ You could also buy a working unit and compare to that?

GadgetUK164 - Retro Gaming Repairs & Mods My unit works, it's just the door on the front of it. It doesn't close, the drive closes when pushing the button, but not the door.

CDI is a cd player that happens to play games lol

Hahahaha =D Yes, indeed - I did mean Rebel Assault =D I think my brain mixed up "Red Alert" (Command and Conquer) with Rebel Assault =D

Perhaps too much inhalation of the Isoprop? :P

:o)

CDi was never a gaming system, it was a multimedia system even bringing the internet to the livingroom. I really love watching old 4:3 movies on cdi, way better than vhs and 99% of the dvd releases of old movies are trash. Being dutch there is probably some national pride in me saying this but Philips again was a real frontrunner on tech. But as usual, too early, too inovative, really creating a market instead of supplying a market.....

Philips were always innovators but their products often seemed unfinished, with too many bugs, experimental design decisions that didn't work or just plain iffy build quality (and I speak as someone who bought Philips in preference to Sony for a long time); in their rush to be first to market they didn't apply the last 10% of polish to make their products world-class. The Japanese then refined the ideas and wiped the floor with Philips, unfortunately.

@Jelle Smid I meant more now than back then, I don't understand why people want them now, they games library sucks :P @Jason james Just to think this thing wouldn't have been around if it wasn't for nintendo, I wonder what direction Phillips would have gone. I would guess they would still have released a video-cd player, just no games.

RefractionPCSX2 CD-i was coming with or without Nintendo. Nintendo’s contribution was only the three Zelda games, Hotel Mario, and Tetris.

Jelle Smid CD-i has nothing to do with the Internet. “Multimedia” was the big buzz back then. It was basically “multimedia” PC CD-ROM software without the PC.