Open ISO game CD- i, VOYEUR?

Hi everyone! Всем привет!

I'm looking for help to make a French adaptation of the game VOYEUR, developed by Philips P.O.V. Entertainment Group. I think it's possible, because there's a German patch that allows you to patch the US DOS edition from the German CD-i edition! I'd like to do the same with the French version, but I can't open the ISO with IsoBuster or similar.

I'm not at all sure I'm up to such a patch, but I'd like to at least give it a try. Please, could a member of old-games.ru try to open the ISO CD-i of the French edition? It would be a good start to be able to extract the resources in French. I've written to the German patcher, but he hasn't replied. Not a simple matter.

Большое спасибо

 

For IsoBuster to extract resources from a CD-i game, Windows 32bit is required. Extraction is impossible under Windows 11 64bits, you would get an error. I wanted to point this out for possible projects by old-games.ru members. I finally have the extraction.

 

For CD-i you need an emulator of this console to run games
CD-i Emulator Home
With free editions you need to set an earlier date using the RunAsDate program to be able to run the emulator

 

Hi MrPepka,

Thank you, it's an interesting site for emulation, but my goal is to patch the US DOS game in French with the resources of the French CD-i edition. Unfortunately, Stefan Müller, the author of the German patch, hasn't replied to my e-mail and I don't know how to proceed. I think his technique involves using the French CD-i edition audio track to replace the US DOS edition soundtrack. Maybe it's more complicated, I'm not sure.

On Stefan Muller's blog it says: “If someone is interested in the tools to copy text and graphics from or to the Voyeur .BLT files or to exchange the audio/backgrounds of the .RL2 videos just contact me.” This is a real shame, as I'm sure it could be useful for other translation projects. There are many CD-i games in French, Italian, German, maybe even Russian, that are only in English on the PC.

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In fact, the resources in the French CD-i game are compressed resources, containing the same files as in the DOS game. It's obvious, but I'm not aware of any tools for doing this.

 

IsoBuster can extract mpeg videos, audio then you can extract using ffmpeg. With other resources it will be worse

 

Really! Can you explain it simply, so that I can understand the method?

Here are the resources for the French CD-i edition:

Here's the game directory with the full extration:
VOYEUR FRENCH CD-i EXTRACTION.rar - Shared with pCloud

I think you need to extract all BLT, RL2 and VOC files.
If I patch the English DOS game with the German patch, the patch adds 139 files to a receiving directory. 2 BLT files. 73 RL2 files and 64 VOC files. I think the patch takes the soundtrack of the German CD-i version to replace the soundtrack of the US DOS.

I hope you understand better than I do...

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Here's an audio file from this game, maybe it will help you port this translation to the PC version

 

@MrPepka
Very nice Did you extract with IsoBuster?

 

This was done by a friend from Discord CD-i, I don't know how he extracted all these resources, but you can ask him about it on this Discord CD-i
Join the Philips CD-i Community Discord Server!