[Offer] Voyeur II 1.04 Beta Test Discs (Phillips CDI)

[haus]

My buddy won a foreclosed storage container and found two beta test discs for a 1996 CDI game called Voyeur 2 (v1.04) and is offering to sell them to me. Is this something people would be interested in? If so I'll buy them off of him and see if I can rip them.

[TheWinnerCollector111]

My buddy won a foreclosed storage container and found two beta test discs for a 1996 CDI game called Voyeur 2 (v1.04) and is offering to sell them to me. Is this something people would be interested in? If so I'll buy them off of him and see if I can rip them.

Depends...is it a build that we don't have?

[gtgamer468]

I just checked the server and the beta version of the database and it looks like we don't have it. This would definitely be a great addition. Please get it if you can and rip it correctly.

[Edness]

I'm definitely interested in this as well, but I also recall another forum user here saying that A120% refused to dump their CD-i games properly. I'm not saying this will happen to you, you definitely should try it with A120% in MDF-MDS format first, however I'll leave this thread here in case problems arise
https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37940

[DanielOosterhuis]

I'm definitely interested in this as well, but I also recall another forum user here saying that A120% refused to dump their CD-i games properly. I'm not saying this will happen to you, you definitely should try it with A120% in MDF-MDS format first, however I'll leave this thread here in case problems arise
https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37940

That would be me. It's been a while so I'm a bit fuzzy on details, but I remember the files just being garbage. However, it should be noted that some discs seemed unrippable in any sort of way, whereas others still could be ripped to an ISO. So it wildly depends on the disc. Green Book is a massive pain in the neck to work with, that I can definitely tell you.

[Darkstar]

Use DiscImageChef to dump the disc, it is currently the only software known to dump "CD-I Ready" discs (I assume this is one?) correctly. Ping claunia either here or on the VGPC discord or on freenode in #DiscImageChef if you have questions (or ask them here and I'll do my best to answer them, of course

[claunia]

Do NOT dump as ISO, ever. Green Book invented Mode 2 sectors and those do not work in .iso.

Besides that there are three types of CD-i discs.

CD-i discs, the TOC does not contain a track 1, this way Hi-Fi players just skip to Lead-Out, not playing the data and destroying your speakers. This one is supported by Alcohol, however as it does with many other discs, the image is not a faithful representation of the disc (the TOC in the image is not the same as on the disc). Most games are in this format.

CD-i Ready discs, the TOC contains several audio tracks from 1 to X, but track 1 doesn't start at LBA 0, more like 30 minutes after, and the space between Lead-In and Track 1 is a MODE 2 track containing the CD-i filesystem. Because the TOC is like that, and the Q subchannel indicates those sectors as to be skipped, a Hi-Fi player will just seek to the first audio track. These discs DO NOT dump correctly (or at all) with Alcohol, CDRWin, Nero, BlindWrite, DiscJuggler, etc. They work with DiscImageChef, and only in dicformat (because the formats of the previously mentioned software cannot handle a track 0, or changing from mode2 to audio mid track). Most of these discs are "CD-i Music", but some games come in this format also.

CD-i Bridge, are exactly like CDROM-XA, they contain one or more MODE2 tracks. Some even do not use the CD-i filesystem but a normal ISO9660 one. Most movies for CD-i are in this format. These discs work perfectly in any software that supports MODE2.

[claunia]

https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37940

P.S.: The Apprentice for CD-i is a CD-i Ready disc that the MAME team specifically told me about to add support for in DiscImageChef.

[Darkstar]

My buddy won a foreclosed storage container and found two beta test discs for a 1996 CDI game called Voyeur 2 (v1.04) and is offering to sell them to me. Is this something people would be interested in? If so I'll buy them off of him and see if I can rip them.

P.S: Don't pay more than around $25 for it

(It's at least the 2nd or 3rd listing of that game from the same seller, each time the game is sold it is re-listed, so he probably has some more copies to sell off)