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Your Blu-ray drive can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox games – legally

5 months ago by misk to c/retro_gaming

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GameCube, Wii, Xbox, and Xbox 360 owners looking to back up their physical game libraries for use with emulators – without crossing into piracy – can now...
mrbigmouth502 6 points 5 months ago

Good luck getting a Blu-Ray drive for a decent price. They're crazy expensive, and I don't think they even make them for PCs anymore.

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666dollarfootlong 6 points 5 months ago

Oh shit, what happened? A bit over 6 months ago I got a Verbatim 4K USB-drive for ~105€, now that same model is 150-250€

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sawdustprophet 5 points 5 months ago

Oh shit, what happened?

Most (all?) of them went out of production, or will be out of production soon.

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Manalith 2 points 5 months ago

On top of that, LTT did a video about ripping BlueRay, which always fucks with the market

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mrbigmouth502 3 points 5 months ago

I don't remember how long ago I last checked, but I remember them being expensive well over six months ago. The price you quoted, 105 EUR, comes out to around $168.71 CAD, which is similar to what I remember seeing.

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cerebralhawks 4 points 5 months ago

Sure would be a shame if they listed drivers that custom firmware could be installed on. I’m looking for an external drive for my Macs to share.

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misk 5 points 5 months ago

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TachyonTele 0 points 5 months ago

Ad placement

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ltxrtquq 8 points 5 months ago

An ad for what? The open source firmware? Having an optical drive?

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cerebralhawks 3 points 5 months ago

Kind of on you. I’m on an iPhone — arguably, the worst way to browse the web due to how locked down iOS is — and I didn’t see ads. I use Wipr2, which cost $4.99, but it’s a solo developer who uses the Fediverse. Every other platform can use Firefox and uBlock Origin.

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TachyonTele -2 points 5 months ago

You have no idea what ad placement is, do you

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athatet 2 points 5 months ago

Please explain it to us.

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TachyonTele -1 points 5 months ago

When the mommy ad is the entire daddy video, they create a video soley to sell a product.

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misk 1 point 5 months ago

I strongly recommend using an ad blocking extension in your web browser. I use WBlock because I use Apple software but I hear good things about uBlock. 👀

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TachyonTele -1 points 5 months ago

You want the entire video blocked?

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misk -3 points 5 months ago

I pay for YouTube Premium because hosting and streaming video costs money and I want creators to be able to sustain themselves ✌️

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TachyonTele 4 points 5 months ago

Ok that has nothing to do with this, but alright

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corsicanguppy 1 point 5 months ago

Ad placement

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