LDPLAYER(1)

💿 LDPLAYER(1) — bestie, it’s ldplayer 💿

🌸 NAME 🌸

ldplayer — the MAME laserdisc image player. It’s giving niche-but-iconic, and honestly? Obsessed. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ldplayer pr8210 -rompath /path/to/pr8210.zip\;/path/to/image.chd

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so ldplayer is an optional utility, and its whole job is literally just playing the audio and video from laserdisc CHD files. But here’s the slay: it actually emulates a real laserdisc player, so it behaves just like one — pause, fast-forward, rewind, and all the rest. no cap, she’s doing the most in the best way. 💅

🎀 NOTES 🎀

First things first, bestie: go to your MAME ROMs folder and make a copy of cubeqst.zip (those are the ROMs for Cube Quest). Rename that copy as pr8210.zip. slay. ✨

Next, run ldplayer. Heads up though: the first path in the -rompath option is the full path to the pr8210.zip file, and the second is the full path to the laserdisc CHD file you want to play. Do not miss the backslash and semicolon — \; — between them. That lil combo is important, iykyk. 🫶

Once ldplayer is running, you can hit TAB like usual and check out Inputs (this game) to see the controls. For instance, Space is the Play/Pause button. Also, some laserdiscs (notably Cube Quest) have 30 seconds or more of nothing at the start, so you either need to be patient or use fast-forward to start seeing video. 😭 literally a waiting room. Be strong.

🌈 FILES 🌈

• /etc/mame/ldplayer.ini — the main configuration file. iconic file behavior, tbh. 🎀

That’s the whole lil manual, bestie 🫶 — signing off with version 0.145u5, dated 2012-03-25. 💜✨