Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC
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4 hours ago
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anonymousiam
14 minutes ago
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Twenty 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-...

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piperswe
3 hours ago
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I'm assuming this firmware also functions as a LibreDrive firmware for use with MakeMKV?
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cosmotic
2 hours ago
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My 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.
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rainernotfound
1 hour ago
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LibreDrive only works on certain firmwares that have the bug or are patched to expose it.

OmniDrive is one of the latter.

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charcircuit
18 minutes ago
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This bypasses DRM which makes it illegal.

>for the purposes of game preservation and game emulation

Those purposes don't make breaking DRM legal either.

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theandrewbailey
2 minutes ago
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This firmware is code, and code is speech. Any law making speech illegal is unconstitutional. I'm puzzled as to why the DMCA (or this part of it) hasn't been overturned yet.
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pirates
11 minutes ago
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We 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.
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charcircuit
5 minutes ago
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It'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.
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theandrewbailey
23 seconds ago
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[delayed]
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mmmlinux
2 hours ago
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Who uses a green X for not supported.

edit: (on the github readme)

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krackers
9 minutes ago
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red-green colorblind folks?
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bozhark
36 minutes ago
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Yes, 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?

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rolph
30 minutes ago
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maybe an :-( emoticon ?
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nom
3 hours ago
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hypfer
2 hours ago
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It 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.

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