Can you make your own Photo CDs for use on 3DO?

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 8:14 am

Is it possible to simply burn some jpg or bmp files to a cd and have them show up on the 3DO or do you need to burn them a certain way. I'm just curious.

Post by **3DO Experience** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:51 pm

Nope, there was a thread called 3DO & photo cds but as it turned out the only software that can make the discs can't make ones compatible with 3DO.

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:04 pm

Thats whack man!

sneth · Post by **sneth** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 5:27 pm

first hit on google.
seems there is 3rd party software to do it.

http://tedfelix.com/PhotoCD/PCDMakeYourOwn.html

Post by **3DO Experience** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 5:50 pm

3DO Experience wrote:Nope, there was a thread called 3DO & photo cds but as it turned out the only software that can make the discs can't make ones compatible with 3DO.

BryWI · Post by **BryWI** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 7:17 pm

3DO have it's own standard for photo discs? or is the problem that there is no standard? This really shouldn't be too difficult to figure out if I had a disc image of a photo cd that did work, something not copyrighted of course.

phatrat1982 · Post by **phatrat1982** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 8:14 pm

From what I read on that article in the link it is something Kodak purposefully made difficult because they wanted to keep all the money for themselves. Apparently Kodak wants you to purchase a special type of disc directly from them as well as software but it turns out they no longer support this format at least that was how it sounded.

Post by **3DO Experience** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:03 pm

Yeah that's about it. No software was supposed to be available to the public. The only software that's leaked is a slightly different format not supported by 3DO machines.

They tried charging me like $15 for a roll of film to be turned into a CD once.

sneth · Post by **sneth** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 11:38 pm

i'll give this a shot
I think the biggest problem is going to be finding compatible jpg formats.

Jones · Post by **Jones** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:59 am

I'm not quite sure if it even uses JPG. Wasn't it TIFF or TGA?

sneth · Post by **sneth** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:35 pm

Hrm dunno. Good point.

I actually have a few Kodak photo cd's from back in the day.
This is on the bottom of my priority list, but I bet we can come up with something.