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[ReyBrujo]

Article:

The OmniDrive firmware unlocks the ability for compatible Blu-ray players to read the proprietary formats of physical media on older consoles. Compatibility is strictly limited to select external and internal Blu-Ray disc drives that use the MediaTek MT1959 chipset and are compatible with the firmware OmniDrive provides.

Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/modern-blu-ray-drives-can-now-rip-gamecube-wii-and-xbox-360-games-to-pc-third-party-firmware-unlocks-game-rips-from-physical-media-on-select-players

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[HerjansEagleFeeder]

Terrific news. The older I get the more I can appreciate emulation. Physical media isn't the way for preservation, nor making the medium any more accessible to people.

 

[mèx]

Now they have to add the boot-from-disc option to some of these emulators, it would be cool as hell. DuckStation and PCSX2 can already do that since they use standard CD/DVDs.

 

[Mownoc]

Original Xbox too nice. I tried to run an Xbox game on an emulator, didn't realise they previously only could be read by disc drives from an actual Xbox lol.

 

[ReyBrujo]

Who knows, maybe in the future it will support recording discs with native format so that you could play your preserved games (as Modern Vintage guy says) without modding your console.