CD-i Emulator

[_Chaz_]

Recently, I've been wanting to torture myself with the game Hotel Mario for the Philips CD-i.
However, I could only find 3 emulators for the system which all have serious flaws.

1. CD-i Emulator: Requires a payment to play for more than 3 minutes between resets.
2. CD-ice: Only plays "Rise of the Robots".
3. TinyCDi: Plays Hotel Mario, The Apprentice, Dimos Quest, Alien Gate, Jokers Wild, Tetris, and a few others, but most have issues.

So far, TinyCDi is the best one I've found and it's a "Tiny" MAME build (I have no idea what that means).

For such a notorious console, why is the pool of emulators so shallow?

 

[Nujui]

Probably because most people hated the console.

Though you could try and buy them, but from what I heard, they are rare and expensive.

 

[Hadrian]

Hotel Mario isn't that bad neither was the 3rd Zelda game.

This thing was shit I admit it but it had some decent enough light gun games and it was cool to play films from a CD back then. Crap interface to control games though, no idea why Nintendo partnered with them though! Shit even CD-32 was better than this.

 

[Nujui]

Hotel Mario isn't that bad neither was the 3rd Zelda game.

This thing was shit I admit it but it had some decent enough light gun games and it was cool to play films from a CD back then. Crap interface to control games though, no idea why Nintendo partnered with them though! Shit even CD-32 was better than this.

I know, I wouldn't mind playing them either if there was good enough emu.

 

[Hop2089]

Probably because most people hated the console.

Though you could try and buy them, but from what I heard, they are rare and expensive.

Not to mention some of the games cost a fortune, Zelda's Adventure can run you between $180-$250. Hotel Mario sucks end of story, Zelda's Adventure is ok, the voice acting is annoying though.

 

[twiztidsinz]

Check out MESS: http://www.mess.org/

http://mess.redump.net/sysinfo:cdi

 

[431unknown]

There is a cracked version of CD-i Emulator (first one you listed) floating around.


I just snatched it myself.

 

[Schlupi]

I BOUGHT that same emulator... running on my great computer, I couldn't even run the Zelda games and Hotel Mario properly. =( Waste of time and money.

If you can get them running fullspeed without wonky controls, PLEASE, tell me. I would like to know.