BMB Karaoke -- A final set of Japanese CD-i Karaoke Discs

In 2021, I preserved the CDI Karaoke series from Japan (well let's say mostly, a few of the discs had read issues) -- a cache of 172 discs which had arrived to me via The World's Greatest CD-i Collector -- Blazers. And wouldn't you know it if the OTHER mega-batch of CD-i Karaoke discs from Japan didn't arrive on my doorstep today.

BMB is a huge name in Karaoke, they make equipment to this day. In addition to the complete set of 150  BMB Karaoke CD-i discs, incidentally came with the lot 100 of their Karaoke VCDs (#367-466). BMB also released CD+G Karaoke discs around the same era (but none to be seen here).

And so the preservation of these begins... I'm hoping to the highest of hopes, not too many (none?) errored discs (that an industrial grade resurfacer can't fix, anyway).

Follow along the CD-i progress here, and the VCDs will follow here.

All CD-i's will be added to redump (these VCDs do not meet redump qualifications however).

Thanks to Blazers! With him all things are possible.

Loan #21

 Photo CD heaven is here with a batch from Japan via Blazers.

Rest assured the above are dumped and datted at redump, and available in the Photo CD set via the Cvlt of Mirror's archive.org account.

Loan #20

To think 20 packages have already been loaned to us for preservation!

The 20th is courtesy of Blazers of course, and there are a lot of goodies in here, let's dig in!

Top left, while The Number Factory received a (very hard to find) retail release that has eluded us, we now have it preserved in some form -- a beta!

Over to the right one, "Tim & Bear At the Hospital"s unreleased build is now safely preserved, as well as an additional variant of of the Self-Selling disc. Beside that we have an unreleased title Rollerbollen 2 - which has a common CD-R error in the final 2 sectors -- this dump will be headed to No-Intro's Non-Redump dat for now.

Other rare items of mention: Alarma! (Spanish), Lycenne Graphics (Japanese), Mondrian (CD-Rom XA), and Kid's Geographic (Korean) -- all very rare treats from their perspective countries of origin.

And below... regional CD-i's, Photo CDs, and VCDs... as well as a buried "PlayPhone" disc which included swf / flash games destined to be loaded from PCs onto phones.

There's a lot of nice variety in this batch, enjoy!