| ▲ | Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC(tomshardware.com) |
| 84 points by 01-_- 5 hours ago | 19 comments |
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| ▲ | anonymousiam an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'm assuming this firmware also functions as a LibreDrive firmware for use with MakeMKV? |
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| ▲ | cosmotic 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | rainernotfound 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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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| ▲ | mmmlinux 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Who uses a green X for not supported. edit: (on the github readme) |
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| ▲ | krackers an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | red-green colorblind folks? | |
| ▲ | bozhark an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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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| ▲ | nom 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| tl;dr https://github.com/RibShark/OmniDrive |
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| ▲ | hypfer 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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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| ▲ | charcircuit an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| 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 43 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | This firmware is code, and code is speech[0]. 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. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junger_v._Daley | |
| ▲ | tacticalturtle 21 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Is it actually breaking DRM? Or is it just creating a 1:1 copy of a proprietary format? > Game consoles that are supported include the original Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Wii, and Dreamcast. Physical media from other consoles, such as PlayStation 3, 4, 5, and the Xbox One/Series consoles, technically work, but the content on physical media for these consoles is encrypted. Breaking encryption is definitely “illegal” - but backing up a binary format is not. I can backup my GBA cartridges ROMs for personal archival use if I have a device that can read them. | | |
| ▲ | charcircuit 17 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I would consider changing the format of a disc to prevent it from being copied by a regular drive to be considered a protection measure. The content is still encrypted so if not the disc, it would be the emulator decrypting it which would be the problem. |
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| ▲ | pirates an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | charcircuit an hour ago | parent [-] | | 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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