[OFFER] The 7th Guest for Philips CD-i

[DanielOosterhuis]

I figured I offer this one because despite the abandonware console games rule, CD-i appears to be exempt from these rules since there are a few CD-i games on the FTP already.
I have the complete CD-i game in 2CD jewelcase, which I can provide a BIN/CUE rip from (Alcohol 120% doesn't seem to be able to get anything useful out of it, so I had to use IsoBuster), as well as scans. It comes with two discs, one with the game and the other purely as an audio CD with music from the game. If there is any interest in this, I'll go ahead and scan the manual and covers, and dump the audio CD as well if that's also wanted. And, if Philips CD-i titles are allowed, I also (somewhere) have a copy of The Apprentice for the CD-i which I could also dump and scan for the FTP.

[mrpijey]

Yeah, these would definately be great to get a full dump of!

Why wouldn't Alcohol120% dump these properly?

[DanielOosterhuis]

Yeah, these would definately be great to get a full dump of!

Why wouldn't Alcohol120% dump these properly?

Alcohol 120% reports the disk has one track, which according to the program is blank, and the start button is greyed out. Changing the datatype doesn't help. I tried using a different optical drive, but that also did nothing.
IsoBuster is the only software I could find that is able to make an image from a CD-i disc (it does show the CD-i track), and it only supports ISO, TAO, and BIN/CUE.
If it's OK to use that, I'll go ahead and dump the game and scan the artwork this weekend, and upload it as soon as I have that all packaged up.

[mrpijey]

Sounds odd, but yeah, if ISOBuster is the only way then dump is as a bin/cue. That will be fine.

[DanielOosterhuis]

Sounds odd, but yeah, if ISOBuster is the only way then dump is as a bin/cue. That will be fine.

I've heard that the CD-i Green Book format can be difficult to work with. I also have a Free Record Shop (A now bankrupt Dutch music store) Free Gold Club Disk for the CD-i, which from I can tell has some promos for CD-i titles (one of the audio tracks on it is from the CD-i game The Apprentice), but not even ISOBuster can find the CD-i track, for some odd reason. I still tried to dump it regardless, but the CD-i Emulator reports the format is unsupported, unlike with 7th Guest which will open but just reports a lack of Digital Video Cartridge, so I sadly can't upload that FRS promo disc.

[DanielOosterhuis]

Finally got around to uploading it last weekend. Sadly, I couldn't dump The Apprentice for CD-i, ISOBuster won't find the CD-i track, it just treats it as an audio CD, as does Alcohol 120% or any other imaging software I attempted to use. Just dumping it as an audio CD in the hopes that the CD-i track would still be included didn't work, as the CD-i emulator gives an error that the image is unusable. No idea how others managed to do it, the Green Book CD standard is really, really confusing to work with.