That being said you can play the LDs on a standard player to watch the footage - it's fine for games like Dragon's Lair or Cliff Hanger because most of the action is the animation. But the fact of being able to interact with the film attracted quite an audience.I wouldn't advise it - lots of them are experiencing laser rot because of shitty manufacturing processes back in de day. Most of the laserdisc games are really hard to play, interactive movies generally do not have a very good gameplay, you do not control the character all the time, you make decisions as the film takes place, if the decision is wrong you lose.
He hopes to have a production model ready fall of 2011 at an approximate cost of $500. This hardware solution will allow cabinet owners to bypass the internal laserdisc player and play the game directly from an attached usb drive or laptop.
Developer Matt Ownby is currently working on a hardware based solution for laser disc players. As of version 1.0 beta the DAPHNE project is supported by Digital Leisure, the current copyright holder for several laserdisc titles including Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace, allowing people who already own legal copies of these games on DVD to download versions that function in DAPHNE. These may be ROM images from the original arcade machines, or alternatively fans of two of the most popular laserdisc arcade games, Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace, have created updated ROMs that alter the gameplay, correct bugs and reintroduce removed sequences. DAPHNE is capable of displaying the games’ full-motion video by playing MPEG video files on the computer or by driving certain models of laserdisc player directly via a serial interface.As with other arcade machine emulators, ROM images are also required to play the games.
The software is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems, and consists of a command-line emulator (DAPHNE itself) with a graphical frontend (DaphneLoader) to make configuring and launching easier.
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