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|discontinued = 1998
|introductory price = {{Inflation|USD|799|1991}}.
|predecessor = [[Magnavox Odyssey² emulators|Philips Odyssey² / Videopac (+ G7400)]]
|emulated = {{~}}<abbr title="Many full-motion CD-i games still can't be emulated; see the "Hardware features and accessories" section.">[[#Hardware_features_and_accessories|*]]</abbr>
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The CD-I was never meant to be a video game console, it 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.
The CD-I is mainly best known nowadays for having games based on Nintendo being home to three [https://www.mobygames.com/game/21134/zelda-the-wand-of-gamelon/ particularly] [wikipediahttps:Intellectual property|IP//www.mobygames.com/game/21409/link-the-faces-of-evil/ notorious][https://www.mobygames.com/game/21411/hotel-mario/ games]loosely based on Nintendo copyrights, such as Mario and Zelda, due to previously having tried which were mainly made possible by Philips's prior attempts to develop a CD add-on for the [[Super Nintendo emulators|SNES]]. Their takes on Nintendo intellectual property were have earned so infamously terrible much infamy over the years that you would be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn't immediately think of them when whenever you mention the CD-i. However, there were a few cult classic games for the systemas well.
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==Emulators==
<div style="maxoverflow-x:auto;width:100%; overflow:auto;">{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;width:100%"
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
| {{N}} ||{{~}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}[https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/philips/cdi.cpp *]
|-
| [http://www.cdiemu.org/ [CD-i Emulator]]
| align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
| [https://www.cdiemu.org/download/cdiemu-0.5.3-beta7.zip {{CD-i EmulatorVer}}]<br/>[httphttps://tgames.fr/tgames/cdiemu-0.5.3-beta4beta7-PatchedV1.2Patched.zip 0.5.3 beta 4 7 (Patched)]
| {{~}} ||{{?}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
|-
:;[https://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/ TinyCDi]
::An unofficial build of [[MESS]] from 2009 made by one of MAME's active developers, Haze. This build is named such that it only focuses on the CD-i. It uses a fixed game list. Some games have more issues than they have on the official MAME build.
;[[CD-i Emulator]]
:This emulator by CD-i Fan is currently closed-source donationware, with vague plans to move to [[Licensing#Open-core software|open-core]] at a future date.<ref>https://github.com/cdifan/cdiemu</ref> The public beta releases unfortunately handle free trial timing in a way that makes them unusable (without cracking, anyway) after set calendar dates; for the latest beta, 0.5.3 beta 7, this will be at 2025/01/01. The current betas do have proof-of-concept [[#Digital Video Cartridge|DVC emulation]], although compatibility may still be an issue.<ref>http://www.cdiemu.org/site/relnotes.htm</ref> Despite the long time between releases, this emulator is still in active development as of April 2023, with work being done on the next version (likely called 0.6) that reportedly supports most of the DVC games and also has several other improvements.<ref>https://www.theworldofcdi.com/cd-i-emulation/cd-i-emulator-053beta5-titles-compatibilities/</ref>
;CeDImu
===Enhancements===
<div style="overflow-x:auto;width:100%">{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;width:100%"
|- style="font-weight:bold;"
! colspan=2 | Name
| {{?}}
|-
| rowspan=4 6 | Post-Processing
| [[Wikipedia:Category:Anti-aliasing_algorithms|Post-rendering AA]]<br/><small>(FXAA, TXAA and MLAA/SMAA)</small>
| {{Y}}
| {{?}}
|-
| [[Wikipedia:Comparison_gallery_of_image_scaling_algorithms|Post-rendering scaling]]<br/><small>(Sharp bilinear, Lanczos and [[Wikipedia:GPUOpen#FidelityFX_Super_Resolution|FSR 1]])</small>
| {{Y}}
| {{Y}}
| {{Y}}
| {{Y}}
|-
|[[Shaders_and_filters#AI-powered filters|AI-powered filter compatible]]<br/><small>([https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/gfecnt/nvidia-freestyle-ansel-enhancements-geforce-experience-article/ Freestyle])</small>
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
|-
| [[Shader_Presets|Shader Chain]]
| {{Y}}
| {{Y}}
|-
|[[High_dynamic_range#Inverse_tone_mapping|Inverse tone mapping compatible]]
| {{Y}}[https://www.libretro.com/index.php/category/hdr/ *]
| {{?}}
|-
| rowspan=5 | [https://tasvideos.org/Emulatorresources/Features TAS features]
| colspan=2 | Exclusive to [https://docs.libretro.com/guides/crtswitchres/ libretro cores] and [[GroovyMAME]] at the moment.<br/>Also there is a [https://github.com/psakhis/Groovy_MiSTer project] for achieving software emulators like libretro cores and GroovyMAME send the raw RGB data over a network to a core running on MiSTer, it basically turns the MiSTer into a GPU for the emulator allowing for easy setup and use with CRT TVs/Arcade monitors.
|-
| rowspan=4 5 | Misc
| [[Netplay|<abbr title="Should not be confused with JagLink emulation, see #Hardware features and accessories section for that.">Netplay</abbr>]]
| {{?}}
| {{?}}
|-
| [[Virtual_reality#VR_game_room_simulations|EmuVR support]]
| colspan=2 | Exclusive to [https://www.emuvr.net/wiki/Installation_Guide#Downloads libretro cores] at the moment.
|-
| Free Look<br/><small>Free Look is a enhancement feature that allows manipulation of the in-game camera.</small>
| {{?}}
|}
</div>
===Hardware features and accessories===
<div style="overflow-x:auto;width:100%">{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;width:100%"
|- style="font-weight:bold;"
| colspan=2 | Name
! MAME
! CD-i Emulator
! CeDImu
|-
| colspan=2 | [[#Digital_Video_Cartridge|Digital Video Cartridge]]
|{{N}}
|{{~}}[https://www.cdiemu.org/site/dvcarts.htm *]
|{{N}}
|-
| colspan=2 | [[Early_Online_Services|CD-Online]]
|{{?}}
|{{?}}
|{{?}}
|{{?}}
|}
</div>
====Digital Video Cartridge====
The one and only expansion card officially sold for the CD-i was the '''MPEG Digital Video Cartridge''' (DVC), a hardware MPEG-1 video decoder which enabled CD-i Digital Video and [[wikipedia:Video CD|Video CD]] playback as well as enhanced FMV capabilities for games that support it (similar to the [[Sega_Saturn_emulators#Hardware_features_and_accessories|Sega Saturn's Video CD Card]]). As of April 2023 January 2024 there is no emulator that fully supports the DVC, and several games that rely on MPEG-1 video decoding will be pretty much unplayable without that support. To know whether your chosen games require the DVC, either check the "DVC status" column of [[wikipedia:List of CD-i games#Games|Wikipedia's CD-i game list]], or check [https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/hash/cdi.xml MAME's CD-i hash list] for games where the list includes <code><sharedfeat name="compatibility" value="DVC" /></code>.
:See [[Home_Media_Player#Emulators|this dedicated page]] for more information about home media playback support for emulation softwares.
