Not just Pepper's Adventures in Time, Adi has both EcoQuest games... and EcoQuest 1 is a weird hybrid of the DOS floppy and Windows CD versions??
These Adi games are possibly worth owning just for being unintentional collections of Sierra games.
But damn there's so many of them.
Also some of them are bizarre bespoke ports. Though Pepper seems identical to the retail version.
This seems like just the CD version of EcoQuest, but with the digital audio file completely removed as if it was a pirate copy (ha) and also a broken installer. I'm not entirely sure how it's supposed to work.
Adi Eco folder contains 56 files, my EcoQuest CD contains 63 files and an audio folder which is totally missing.
Missing files:
eco.bat
ecopic.bmp
install.bat
inst.exe
resource.aud
resource.cfg
title.bmp
All the files that are included are identical to my copy of the game.
But yeah they removed some files related to the game installer and all the entirety of the voice acting. But not changing the fact that the game kind of expects the voice files to be there. Huh?
The Goblins games seem to be unique versions, since ScummVM doesn't recognize them!
Though, they're probably the same as the French only versions from that French copy of Adi, only in English.
I think the German Addy games also have German only variants.
Inca II is detected as normal, but immediately crashes. (Is the game even supported?)
Scummvm wiki: "Support: None"
Apparently the Inca games use a different engine entirely.
The ScummVM wiki says the Philips CDi version of the Adi games... yes that exists... contains an unusual CDi port of Gobliiins. What! Argh!
Really need to set CDi emulation up in MAME again.
Also, there were Italian and Spanish versions.
Someone posted a short clip of it on youtube. The idea of Gobliins running on CDi is so strange... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Vxxu5FxTE
I wish I had a CDi.
@onfy my dad apparently was in the market for a VCD player at the time and briefly considered buying one
@noiob Would also love a VCD player/VCDs.
Unfortunately CDi consoles are both very large and heavy, and they use an internal power supply expecting the local mains voltage. And they only output the local video standard. So a machine from Europe (where they're way more common) would be not super useful to me, and also really expensive.
@noiob In the US and Canada the CDi sold really like shit, though funnily enough it seems like CDi consoles might be more common here than in the US? But they still appear very rarely, the 3DO shows up more.
@noiob And of course when they show up they're expensive because it's the meme console.
@onfy Hotel Mario really doesn't look that fun to play
@noiob It's more fun than the two Link/Zelda games, since those two have really horrible design.
@noiob I don't give a shit about Hotel Mario, well not much of one. I just want the stupid old edutainment CDs that no one else even gives a solitary shit about! Also I wanna watch the weird DVD precursors on one. (At least I can watch VCDs on old PCs and DVD players.)