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Hello everybody,

I'm still in Vegas with the team and am writing you from my
hotel room at the Flamingo Hotel & Casino to let you know that
we have now enabled ordering for frog feast (cd-i version) at our
online store. We still have plenty of copies left from CGE2K7 and
all orders wil ship this weekend!

For more info: http://www.oldergames.knurdz.com/news.php?aid=18

Great stuff! Hows the weather?

It's actually pretty damned good here in the UK ATM... for a change

Devin wrote:Great stuff! Hows the weather?

It's actually pretty damned good here in the UK ATM... for a change

I'm in Ottawa for a couple of days, and it's pretty hot here also. Coming to the Great White North, I would expect it would be a bit cooler.

Gamgator offers Frog Feast right here

And he posts "PLEASE READ: This title will not play back on Philips model CDI490 players!"

Hi Charles. What's this about? The Demo I played works fine on my 490.

Maybe an NTSC/PAL issue? Did the demo work for you GATOR?

I remember Charles mentioning some multiplayer issues on players that require the splitter (the 4xx series that don't have a second controlle rport on board).

But I thought everything was working, according to his blog!

Bas wrote:And he posts "PLEASE READ: This title will not play back on Philips model CDI490 players!"

Hi Charles. What's this about? The Demo I played works fine on my 490.

The game wasn't tested on a US CD-i 470, due to a problem reading CD-Rs.

I do know it was tested on a Magavox CD-i 550 and a Philips CD-450. These units both use the Roboco board, which is supposed to be the same chipset as the CD-i 470/490. I would guess there is some other problem with the CD-i 490.

Bas wrote:I remember Charles mentioning some multiplayer issues on players that require the splitter (the 4xx series that don't have a second controlle rport on board).

This was based on some information posted by CD-i Fan. From what I gathered, the only time a splitter won't work is if there are already two ports on the unit.

The only problem I noted was using a mouse on the CD-i 450. But, this was also a problem with Rise of the Robots.

Hello Devin & gang . . .

We tested the CD's sold at CGE2K7 and they did not work on three different CDI490 players I had for sale.
I did not have any problems playing them on:
CDI220, CDI910 & Radio Shack 910 Clone, CDI350 as well as the SONY portable I sold.
RW was to look into the brand of CD's they used . . . I've not heard back from him since CGE2K7 . . .

So, to cover my REAR, I added the "Not for CDI490" for now.

gamgator2000 out . . .

Devin wrote:Maybe an NTSC/PAL issue? Did the demo work for you GATOR?

GAMGATOR2000 wrote:We tested the CD's sold at CGE2K7 and they did not work on three different CDI490 players I had for sale.

Were they not recognized as CD-i disks?

If they were recognized, did they not startup, or have some problem before or during the game?

Have you tried any other CD-R disks on any of these systems?

Any information you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Do I see here the cause is just a low quality CD-R Oldergames used for publishing? The test version of Frog Feast runs perfect on my 490 player (brand: Philips (tssk)) - How could the game itself go wrong if the demo runs fine?

Bas wrote:Do I see here the cause is just a low quality CD-R Oldergames used for publishing? The test version of Frog Feast runs perfect on my 490 player (brand: Philips (tssk)) - How could the game itself go wrong if the demo runs fine?

The game does use real time files and sounds. Small changes were made in the display code, but it hasn't affected any other cd-i player. The point of failure should tell a lot.

Is the CD-i 490 sensitive to CD-R's?

I've used several brands of CD-R's and I never had any problems. Well, time will tell, number 34 is reaching The Netherlands soon

Wanna swap? I got number 38...

Who has number 1?

cdifan wrote:Who has number 1?

Number 1 was auction off at CGE.

Hello! Answers Below!

gamgator2000 out . . .

cdoty wrote:

GAMGATOR2000 wrote:We tested the CD's sold at CGE2K7 and they did not work on three different CDI490 players I had for sale.

Were they not recognized as CD-i disks? NO!

If they were recognized, did they not startup, or have some problem before or during the game? DISC's Never Started Up (also tried Auto Play from Menu)

Have you tried any other CD-R disks on any of these systems? YES! (RW's PlunderBall also did not work on the CDI490's)

Any information you can provide will be greatly appreciated.