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Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC
- nom 5mo agotl;dr https://github.com/RibShark/OmniDrive https://github.com/RibShark/OmniDrive
- hypfer 5mo agoIt is unclear to me why OP linked to an article that linked to a video that talks about the repo (I guess? Didn't click) instead of just.. you know.. LINKING THE REPO. Thank you.
- piperswe 5mo agoI'm assuming this firmware also functions as a LibreDrive firmware for use with MakeMKV?
- cosmotic 5mo agoMy understanding is that LibreDrive leverages a bug in the drives firmware such that decryption keys for Blu-ray was accessible. This OmniDrive seems to have little to do with decryption.
- rainernotfound 5mo agoLibreDrive only works on certain firmwares that have the bug or are patched to expose it. OmniDrive is one of the latter.
- mmmlinux 5mo agoWho uses a green X for not supported. edit: (on the github readme)
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- bozhark 5mo agoYes, we absolutely don’t support this one, we should make it super duper clear how certain we are that we know we don’t support this one. Maybe a X shape?
- rolph 5mo agomaybe an :-( emoticon ?
- reactordev 5mo agoStop sign?
- krackers 5mo agored-green colorblind folks?
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- charcircuit 5mo ago[flagged]
- pirates 5mo agoWe all do illegal things all the time, I’m fine knowing that this one goes in the “bad” pile. I’m sure something terrible will happen to me soon.
- charcircuit 5mo agoIt's not just you who you are affecting, but also all the people who worked on the game, Nintendo and Microsoft, and even the entire video game industry by doing things like this.
- theandrewbailey 5mo agoWe already had copyright law for that. We didn't need to make some code illegal, too.
- charcircuit 5mo agoThe world already tried that. In response to continuing violations things were made more restrictive.
- account42 5mo agoOk then lets get rid of copyright as well since corporations are clearly not sticking to the deal.
- fortyseven 5mo agoOh no!
- whycome 5mo agoContinuing to play discontinued games and sharing that joy with new people and generations seems like a good way of strengthening an industry
- anonymousiam 5mo agoTwenty years ago, I bought two Wii consoles for my family when they first came out. Being concerned about the rough treatment my family gave the discs, I eventually modded both of the Wiis so they could read normal discs, and I purchased a HP 410125-200 drive, which I used to back up the more costly titles. https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-those-recommended-dvd-drives-that-could-read-gc-wii-games https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-those-recommended-dvd-...
- musicale 5mo agoRipping those tiny GameCube discs is interesting!
- account42 5mo agoThe question is how much longer will you even be able to find Blu Ray drives at all. The UHD drive market is already dangerously small and it was a PITA to get a replacement when my previous one died to a kamikaze disc.
- noman-land 5mo agoWould be very curious to hear more about these kamikaze discs.
- account42 5mo agoJust a regular possibly damaged UHD disk that violently disintegrated from centrifugal forces after too many read attempts, taking the drive with it to the grave. It's possible that the disc is innocent here and the drive was simply spinning it beyond design speeds but either way both are dead now.
- mmmlinux 5mo agoI recently noticed mine is struggling to recognize disks sometimes and I was shocked when I started looking in to a replacement.