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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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Post by isidisjcisjcud »

charcircuit wrote: post #34
isidisjcisjcud wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, Nintendo AND Microsoft of all companies really do deserve all the pity they can get, seeing as they’re such pro-consumer, fan-friendly, not-at-all monopolistic, completely altruistic entities. Right?

Nintendo and Microsoft have enabled a ton of value to be created in the video game market and they should be highly respected.

For that they are. But for everything else they’ve pulled (and continue to pull to this day) they deserve scorn, ridicule and, perhaps most importantly, financial troubles.

Microsoft likes to dig its own graves and bury its own products through series of baffling anti-consumer decisions, and given the state of Xbox currently, there’s not much left of it to bury anyways.

But Nintendo? They deserve every single attack aimed at them. Go look up some of the tactics they continue to employ (some dating back to the 80s, mind you) to stop game preservation, meddle with fan games, and just all around do everything they can to ensure the only way to play a Nintendo game is by paying full price for it (regardless of the game’s age and quality of emulation).

Nintendo and Microsoft do not deserve pity.

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

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Post by account42 »

noman-land wrote: post #40
account42 wrote: post #36

The 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.

Would be very curious to hear more about these kamikaze discs.

Just 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.

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

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Post by mmmlinux »

account42 wrote: post #36

The 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.

I recently noticed mine is struggling to recognize disks sometimes and I was shocked when I started looking in to a replacement.

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

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Post by whycome »

charcircuit wrote: post #32
whycome wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Continuing to play discontinued games and sharing that joy with new people and generations seems like a good way of strengthening an industry

And there are legal ways to do so like buying the discontinued game physically.

"legal" ways don't align - there's not enough profit in it.

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

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Post by charcircuit »

isidisjcisjcud wrote: post #41
charcircuit wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nintendo and Microsoft have enabled a ton of value to be created in the video game market and they should be highly respected.

For that they are. But for everything else they’ve pulled (and continue to pull to this day) they deserve scorn, ridicule and, perhaps most importantly, financial troubles. Microsoft likes to dig its own graves and bury its own products through series of baffling anti-consumer decisions, and given the state of Xbox currently, there’s not much left of it to bury anyways. But Nintendo? They deserve every single attack…

Nintendo is not trying to stop game preservation. In fact they maintain a large archive themselves. What they do rather is people committing copyright infringement. Also if you look at the fan games in questions you will notice they will be ones that also committed copyright infringement or patent instrument.

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

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Post by charcircuit »

whycome wrote: post #44
charcircuit wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And there are legal ways to do so like buying the discontinued game physically.

"legal" ways don't align - there's not enough profit in it.

Then there must not actually be much benefit to the industry in doing whatever you are expecting.
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