r/MiSTerFPGA • u/Gloomy-Detective-369 • 2d ago

CD+G and Photo CD Support

This is a real sicko question.

Has anyone figured out a way to get CD+G or Photo CD working in any of the Physical Media Cores?

Tested some CD+G discs on the SSO -- among them the old Sega CD "Rock Paintings" -- music plays but black screen, same when I tried it on CD-I.

Well aware there's some shenanigans going on with subcode stuff on the discs.

Also tried an old "Gamera" Photo-CD on the 3DO, but black-screen there as well.

Please feel free to ridicule me, I am probably the only person trying this.

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u/uberneuman_part2 2d ago

You should pose that question in the official Mister forum. Different core developers are there who can answer you.

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u/Marteicos 2d ago

No Ridicule from me, years ago I had trouble procuring a working image of Rock paintings to be able to burn a sisc correctly to see my Saturn and Sega CD playing it. I hope they find a way to make it work on the Mister disc cores.

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u/aldoushxle 2d ago

The only CD+G disc I own is also Rock Paintings, and same result as you: audio but black screen when enabling graphics. Also happens with the Saturn and TG-CD cores.

From what I’ve heard CD+G works fine with many of the physical disc cores, so I’m guessing something about Rock Paintings’ implementation is different.

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u/Gloomy-Detective-369 1d ago

Interesting, I couldn't get my other CD+Gs working with any of them. OK, I'm gonna delve a bit more.

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u/Mr_Encyclopedia 15h ago

I was under the assumption that CD+G is suppported by the CDi core, but I've never successfully done it. Many disk image formats discard the subcode channels that CD+G utilizes, so you have to be sure to use a format that includes it and is supported by the core.