retroarch Philips CDi needs me to insert a cartridge?

[BigBearPoet]

Hello!

I'm working on getting a Phillips cdi system to launch through Launchbox via RetroArch using the same cdi core. I’ve followed a few tutorials from JustJamie and ETAprime on YouTube, and it seemed like I had it right. The opening screen loaded, but when when I pressed the play button, I got the following message (also see screenshot): 

“you do not have your video cartridge loaded. Please switch off your CDI player, insert the cartridge and restart”

I am trying to play the games “Christmas Crisis,” and Christmas Country” respectively, and I can confirm that I have the correct cdimono1 bios (the one with 5 files). In the screenshot, you can see a Christmas style font, so it seems like the system knows what I am trying to load, but does anyone know what I am missing here?

[Buccaneer]

That is the case for a lot of CD-i games. As far as I know there is still no emulator or option available to get around this.

Edited November 3 by Buccaneer

[sundogak]

@BigBearPoetThis is an issue across all emulation for CD-i as the digital video cartridge hardware has not been emulated.  Not likely to be resolved anytime soon as specs for DVC are sparse.

List of CD-i programs that need DVC to run. 

Edited November 3 by sundogak

[BigBearPoet]

5 hours ago, Buccaneer said:

That is the case for a lot of CD-i games. As far as I know there is still no emulator or option available to get around this.

Bummer. I had heard something to that effect on al old Reddit post, but I had hoped maybe something had changed recently. Oh well, thanks for the reply.

[BigBearPoet]

3 hours ago, sundogak said:

@BigBearPoetThis is an issue across all emulation for CD-i as the digital video cartridge hardware has not been emulated.  Not likely to be resolved anytime soon as specs for DVC are sparse.

List of CD-i programs that need DVC to run. 

Wow. That is a long list. Thanks for the info. I guess this means that what I have should be able to play anything that is NOT on this list. It's a shame I only want the ones I can't have. Haha.