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|type = [[:Category:ConsolesHome consoles|Home video game console]]

|predecessor = [[Strange and Forgotten Console Magnavox Odyssey² emulators|Philips Videopac + G7400]]|emulated = {{~✓}}}}The  '''Compact Disc InteractiveCD-I''' ('''CD-iCompact Disc Interactive'''), is an interactive multimedia CD player and a disk format developed and marketed released by [[wikipedia:Philips|Philips]] in 1988. The first player aimed for home market was released on December 3, 1991/1992. Notably The Main system ran on Microware [[wikipedia:OS-9|OS-9]] and had a Philips SCC68070 CPU at 15.5 MHz with 1MB of RAM. The CD-I was never meant to be a video game console, it featured intellectual properties from was designed to be a "Interactive Multimedia" CD player, an expensive toy that people with money don't mind buying, using it a few times and forgetting they even bought it when something new catches their attention. When the system started to show signs of being a major flop for Philips, they pivoted the direction of the CD-I into the uncharted territories of video games. CD-I is mainly known nowadays for having games based on Nintendo[[wikipedia:Intellectual property|IP]], such as Mario and Zelda, due to previously having tried to develop a CD add-on for the [[Super Nintendo emulators|SNES]]. Their takes on Nintendo intellectual property were so infamously terrible that you would be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn't think of them when you mention the CD-i. However, there were a few cult classic games for the system.

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|[[MAME]]|Multi-platformalign=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]| {{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||Mid ||{{✓}}||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-| [https://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/ TinyCDi]| align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}| [https://emulationrealm.net/downloads/file/1670-tinycdi 2009-10-28]| {{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{~}}

|[httpshttp://mamedevwww.emulabcdiemu.itorg/haze/ TinyCDiCD-i Emulator]| align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[httpshttp://emulationrealmtgames.netfr/downloadstgames/file/1670cdiemu-0.5.3-beta4-tinycdiPatchedV1.2.zip 0.5.3 beta 4 (Patched)]| {{~}} ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||{{✗}}||{{✓~}} ||{{~}}

|[httphttps://wwwgithub.cdiemu.orgcom/Stovent/ CD-i EmulatorCeDImu CeDImu]| align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}|[http://tgames.fr/tgames/cdiemuNone (pre-0.5.3-beta4-PatchedV1.2.zip 0.5.3 beta 4 (Patchedalpha)]|{{✗}} ||Mid {{✗}} ||Low ||{{✗✓}} ||{{✓}}||{{✗}}<small> (WIP)</small>

|[https://web.archive.org/web/20010926085947/http://cdice.emuhq.com:80/ CD-iCE]| align=left|{{Icon|Windows, |Linux}}|[https://www.zophar.net/cd-i/cd-ice.html 1(?)2001-08-20]| {{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Low ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}||{{✗}}

:Has incomplete This [[multi-system emulators|multi-system emulator]] includes a driver for the CD-i, although support but is much easier to control, and incomplete as it actually emulates better audio than Cdiemu in some casesstill has no emulation for the Digital Video Cartridge as of July 2021.<ref>https://github. It com/mamedev/mame/issues/1170</ref> Starting the game from disc is recommended to start the emulation ; this can be done with the game already loaded, either with built-in frontend by picking the specific game picker or through a soft reset after mounting the diskdisc. MAME is also currently the only program to provide CD-i emulation through a [[libretro]] core, which makes it the easiest and the most stable method of emulating the CD-i for now. Compared to CD-i Emulator 0.5.3 beta 4, MAME is generally easier to control and can better emulate the audio for some games.

:An unofficial build of [[MESS]] from 2009 made by one of MAME's active developers, Haze. This build is a 'Tiny' MAME build containing the CDi code from MESS as named such that it is only focuses on 28th October 2009 using the CD-i. It uses a fixed gamelist like MAME. Works game list, but it works better than the last official MAME builds , especially with some games (for example like Zelda's Adventure)for example. On the other hand, some games have more issues than they have on the official MAME build.

:A closed-source payware emulator. Its compatibility isnThe latest public release, 0.5.3 beta 4, dates all the way back from 2018 and is unfortunately now ''unplayable''t very good and it only responds (without a crack, anyway) due to mouse movements for controlthe way that free trial timing is handled in the beta releases. The beta does have proof-of-concept emulation of the Digital Video Cartridge but compatibility may still be an issue<ref>http://www.cdiemu.org/site/relnotes.htm</ref>. Despite the long time between releases, making this emulator is still in seemingly active development as of July 2021, with work being done on the next version (likely called 0.6) that reportedly supports most of the DVC games unplayable unless you use an additional program called [and also has several other improvements<ref>https://cdii.blogspot.com/search/label/CD-i%20Emulator</ref><ref>https://www.youtubetheworldofcdi.com/watch?v=DFrar1gbrz4 Mah Boi]cd-i-emulation/cd-i-emulator-053beta5-titles-compatibilities/</ref>. Preliminary keyboard support has been added in 0;CeDImu:A much newer independent project being actively developed by Stovent, largely based on a set of unofficial documentation by the creator of CD-i Emulator<ref>https://github.5com/cdifan/cdichips</ref>.3 betasAs of July 2021, it's progressing quickly but still in pre-alpha, so don't expect it to boot any games just yet.

:One of the first made earliest CD-i emulators. It doesn't need a BIOS and can , but it was only developed to be able to play Rise of the Robots as that's what it was solely developed for(no other game is supported). ==References==<references />