NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner Zelda II fans - Ever play CD-i Zelda? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=163303 2016-06-17T16:03:28 -05.00 Guntz 28 I was GOING to get a boxed CD-i with 2 Zelda games and Hotel Mario from a 'friend' for $50, but he backdoored me for a local collector for $600. >:[ ]]> Zelda II fans - Ever play CD-i Zelda? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=163303 2016-06-17T13:12:31 -05.00 Guntz 28 Originally posted by: ruudos
 
Originally posted by: CZroe
 
Originally posted by: ruudos

I want to play them but the battery of my CD-i died (i own more models but this one was the only one left with a working battery). Happily I beat Hotel Mario just in time (fun game). Doesn't even boot up now, other models do though.

Now I have to see if I can fix it or find someone that is able to. It's a big flaw of the system.

Uh-oh. I haven't turned on my CD-i in at least 15 years. What happens when the battery dies?!
 
My CD-i 470 doesn't boot up. I will get a message that the memory is full and that I have too delete some files.
Deleting the files doesn't help. Still the system still remembers the file names so the battery isn't completely dead yet.  

My other models will start up but simply doesn't save your games anymore. There aren't any files left in the memory.

Maybe if the battery in my CD-i 470 is completely dead it will work like the others.

Replacing the battery is very trick since it's hidden inside a chip.

Useful links:
http://cdii.blogspot.nl/2007/04/c...
http://cdii.blogspot.nl/2009/09/a...

I know nothing about CD-i batteries (Like, didn't know they had them), but I just wonder if it has some stuff like a PC bios setting with it too.  On a bios, a weak battery can cause bad issues that a bad battery doesn't.  In the 2000-2005 era I had a ton of PCs I've had to fix by clearing out junk values in their bios. 

From what you're saying though it makes me think the battery is used just for saved data.  a weak battery could corrupt files and cause the program to reading them to crash, depending on how they did it.  If the save files have say a header field that says the length of the file, and that got corrupted, you'd have buffer overflow issues.  ]]> Zelda II fans - Ever play CD-i Zelda? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=163303 2016-06-17T12:44:02 -05.00 Guntz 28 Originally posted by: CZroe
 
Originally posted by: ruudos

I want to play them but the battery of my CD-i died (i own more models but this one was the only one left with a working battery). Happily I beat Hotel Mario just in time (fun game). Doesn't even boot up now, other models do though.

Now I have to see if I can fix it or find someone that is able to. It's a big flaw of the system.

Uh-oh. I haven't turned on my CD-i in at least 15 years. What happens when the battery dies?!
  My CD-i 470 doesn't boot up. I will get a message that the memory is full and that I have too delete some files.
Deleting the files doesn't help. Still the system still remembers the file names so the battery isn't completely dead yet.  

My other models will start up but simply doesn't save your games anymore. There aren't any files left in the memory.

Maybe if the battery in my CD-i 470 is completely dead it will work like the others.

Replacing the battery is very trick since it's hidden inside a chip.

Useful links:
http://cdii.blogspot.nl/2007/04/cd-i-defective-nv-ram-timekeeper.html
http://cdii.blogspot.nl/2009/09/another-take-on-repairing-cd-is.html ]]> Zelda II fans - Ever play CD-i Zelda? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=163303 2016-06-13T08:26:14 -05.00 Guntz 28 Originally posted by: ruudos

I want to play them but the battery of my CD-i died (i own more models but this one was the only one left with a working battery). Happily I beat Hotel Mario just in time (fun game). Doesn't even boot up now, other models do though.

Now I have to see if I can fix it or find someone that is able to. It's a big flaw of the system.
Uh-oh. I haven't turned on my CD-i in at least 15 years. What happens when the battery dies?!
  ]]> Zelda II fans - Ever play CD-i Zelda? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=163303 2016-06-13T08:20:41 -05.00 Guntz 28
Now I have to see if I can fix it or find someone that is able to. It's a big flaw of the system. ]]> Zelda II fans - Ever play CD-i Zelda? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=163303 2016-06-11T15:09:08 -05.00 Guntz 28
Windows ME (and 9x overall) is so outdated, who is going to write a virus for it or try to hack it? I use Windows 98SE and ME all the time even today. ]]> Zelda II fans - Ever play CD-i Zelda? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=163303 2016-06-11T12:51:24 -05.00 Guntz 28 Originally posted by: Guntz

Originally posted by: dra600n

As for Windows ME - that was pure garbage. That OS blue screened more often than anything else I had ever experienced and ended up switching to Windows 2000 at the time.

I have been using Windows ME this year on a couple different Pentium 4 and Pentium M based systems (with good drivers!) and it has been fantastic to use, nothing like its reputation at all. Like the Virtual Boy and 32X, it's wrongfully accused. I'd love to give the CD-i a chance.
I think the most complaints came before any service packs, so if you're running the latest SP, you're probably going to have a good experience, especially if you're not doing any development. I'd still never use ME even with the latest SP's just for the simple fact it doesn't have file or folder security, so I'd use Windows 2000 in place of ME (though, I'd never go back that far).

Plus, ME is so easily hackable, there's no point in running it these days (unless it was required by a specific piece of software, but then I'd just run it offline). ]]> Zelda II fans - Ever play CD-i Zelda? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=163303 2016-06-11T12:27:25 -05.00 Guntz 28 Originally posted by: dra600n

As for Windows ME - that was pure garbage. That OS blue screened more often than anything else I had ever experienced and ended up switching to Windows 2000 at the time.
I have been using Windows ME this year on a couple different Pentium 4 and Pentium M based systems (with good drivers!) and it has been fantastic to use, nothing like its reputation at all. Like the Virtual Boy and 32X, it's wrongfully accused. I'd love to give the CD-i a chance. ]]> Zelda II fans - Ever play CD-i Zelda? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=163303 2016-06-11T12:12:47 -05.00 Guntz 28
Also the CDI games really do suck. The animation is hilariously campy in that so bad it's entertaining way but the gameplay does not deserve defenders. Enemies spawn on screen next to your sprite. That shits unplayable and just bad programing. The overworld map is pretty, and the games were pretty colorful. Otherwise garbage.

I wanted to like Zeldas adventure but it's plagued by tiny screens and horrendous loading time. Like if the original Zelda had you wait 15 seconds everytime you moved to a new map section. ]]> Zelda II fans - Ever play CD-i Zelda? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=163303 2016-06-11T12:01:47 -05.00 Guntz 28 Originally posted by: Ozzy_98


Yea, the 32x was a pretty good leap in technology, but the games didn't use it for anything more than color. Or trying 3D stuff it wasn't really ready to do. Heck, look how many games used the genesis for some graphic elements, because they already knew how to program on it. Most of them were genesis games with better colors.  Then you have Metal Head in there just to hint that it could do something more. 

With After Burner, Space Harrier, Shadow Squadren, and Star Wars Arcade, they really had the on-rails shooters covered.  Then with Metal Head\T-Mek being kinda close, you didn't have that great of a varity of games. If there was an RPG for it, I'd hate to see what it sold for now adays. 
 
Seriously! lol

I think there were a few games that utilized the new graphic method, but most of them relied on the tile based VDP. Don't get me wrong, some of the games (like Mortal Kombat 2) were better on the 32x, but not by a whole lot. Hell, some aspects of MK2 are still better on the SNES (like the acid pool background). I think the other issue with the 32x is that it came out so late in the Genesis's life cycle that people were already planning on snagging the Saturn or N64, or even the PS1. Would you rather spend $200 on an expansion for your current console, or $300 for a brand new, more powerful system, knowing that Sega was about to drop support on the Genesis family?

Hmm, and RPG for the 32x....
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