A bag of 'old' CD-i discs surfaced today from a guy who saved them from work. I've seen a lot of CD-i demo discs and CDr version, but this time was a little different:
"Today I saved box with CD-i games from the thrash at work. I don't have much knowledge about CD-i so I don't know if there is anything really interesting. The box was a mixed bag of seemingly retail, test, beta and burned CD-r discs. I don't know all the games work, especially the CD-r versions. My 21TCDI30 player, the TV one with builtin CD-i which I also saved from the thrash at work a few years ago, seems to have some disc reading problems, even with the retail discs I tried (I need to check if there's something I can do about that)"
There were two Voyeur 2 discs on it! You may remember we found a
prototype of Voyeur 2 first in 2007 but we only had the first disc. Like with Creature Shock CD-i, Voyeur 2 was a game that needed two discs. Moreover we've only see a CDR beta version. In 2010
we published some videos of the CD-i version (disc 1 only)
On these pics you see a official test disc which indicates the games was full and done, something we were never be able to test in our CDR beta version. So that's a clear fact we have today: Voyeur 2 is a complete CD-i game, full and done. I really don't understand why Philips, after all the development that was put in, didn't finish it by publishing it.
However, there's now new CD-i stuff on the horizon and hopefully we will see more of Voyeur 2 on CD-i here on Interactive Dreams soon.
To get an idea of which beta and CDR versions surfaced, here's a list:
500 Years After – Disc 1, 01/03/93, cat 816 0001, Testing – Phase 1/ FPD
Brain Dead 13, 1.03 - 11/06/96, cat 810 0309, Testing – Beta
Drug Wars, final version - 30/12/99, cat 811 0059, Testing – Final Version
Kingdom: Schadoan, 1.02 - 11/06/96, cat 810 0280, Testing – Beta
Lucky Luke, 1.03 - 21/06/96, cat 810 0328, Testing – Beta
Mad Dog McCree, 1.01 - 26/08/94, cat 818 0045, Testing – Phase 3
Marco Polo (game disc + documentation disc), 1.01 - 02/05/95, cat 812 0044 G/D, Testing – FPD
Max Magic, 1.02 - 18/08/94, cat 690 1132, Testing – Phase 2
Mutant Rampage Body Slam, 1.01 - 05/08/94, cat 690 2822, Testing – Phase 1
Thunder in Paradise, 1.01 - 24/02/95, cat 810 0198, Testing – FPD
Uncover Tatjana, 1.01 - 18/09/96, cat 810 0331, Testing – Beta
Voyeur 2 (disc 1 + 2), 1.04 - 11/06/96, cat 810 0281, Testing – Beta
What's It Worth, 1.03 - 30/05/94, cat 811 0046, Testing – Phase 2
Who Shot Johnny Rock, 0.01 - 24/04/95, cat 810 0285, Testing – Pre-FPD
Zelda's Adventure, 1.1 - 05/08/94, cat 690 2292, Testing – Phase 2
And for the CDR discs:
7th Guest, 1.13 - 14/04/94, CDR
Apprentice, 1.05 - 20/10/94, CDR
Earth Command (Dutch), 1.1 - 29/09/94, CDR
Flashback, 1.14 - 04/07/95, CDR
Hieperdepiep Ik Lees (Dutch), 1.05 - 16/03/96, CDR
Les Guignols de l'info, 1.08 - 22/05/96, CDR
Lingo, 1.07 - 07/03/95, CDR
Lucky Luke, 1.03 - 13/03/96, CDR (disc seems to be unreadable)
Namco Classics, 1.15 - 04/09/96, CDR
Rise of the Robots, 1.1 - 20/09/95, CDR
Space Ace, 3.03 - 14/01/94, CDR
Tim en Beer bij de film (Dutch), 1.02 - 14/03/95, CDR
Wining & Dining, 1.02 - 27/03/96, CDR
We'll study on the dates to see if anything interesting comes up comparing them to the retail versions.
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