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Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC

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Re: Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC

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Who uses a green X for not supported. edit: (on the github readme)

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?

maybe an :-( emoticon ?

Re: Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC

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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-...

Re: Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC

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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.

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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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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

We already had copyright law for that. We didn't need to make some code illegal, too.

Re: Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

Oh no!

Re: Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC

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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.

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