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You Can Now Legally Rip Your Wii, GameCube, Wii And Xbox Discs Using A Blu-Ray Drive
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cm0002 lemy.lol cm0002@lemy.lol
Joined: 2025-02-15
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Link: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/05/you-can-now-legally-rip-your-wii-gamecube-wii-and-xbox-discs-using-a-blu-ray-drive

A new tool has been released which allows you to legally rip optical media for a wide range of classic consoles using your PC's Blu-Ray drive.

OnmiDrive is a firmware modification for MediaTek MT1959-based optical disc drives manufactured by Hitachi-LG Data Storage, allowing the drive to read proprietary game discs for consoles such as the GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360.

OmniDrive also allows you to rip PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and Wii U discs, but these are all encrypted. It also supports rips of Dreamcast GD-ROMs, but only the low-density area can be read
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Rivalarrival lemmy.today Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-06-11
#2 · Quote Reply

What about the Wii? Can I rip Wii discs?
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cm0002 lemy.lol cm0002@lemy.lol
Joined: 2025-02-15
#3 · Quote Reply
Rivalarrival wrote:
What about the Wii? Can I rip Wii discs?

Wii Wii
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fox2263 lemmy.world fox2263@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-06
#4 · Quote Reply

Legally you say
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Cris_Citrus (he/him <3) piefed.zip Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip
Joined: 2026-02-26
#5 · Quote Reply

Thats cool as fuck!
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Auster thebrainbin.org Auster@thebrainbin.org
Joined: 2024-10-28
#6 · Quote Reply

Having had the misconception before, I must ask: in what jurisdiction?

Places like the USA with the DMCA and Japan with Nintendo, chances are it's outlawed by default.
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ruuster13 lemmy.zip ruuster13@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-07-09
#7 · Quote Reply
cm0002 wrote:
Wii Wii

Wii U please stop finding new ways to avoid saying Wii U?
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4am lemmy.zip 4am@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-23
#8 · Quote Reply
Auster wrote:
Having had the misconception before, I must ask: in what jurisdiction? Places like the USA with the DMCA and Japan with Nintendo, chances are it's outlawed by default.

It is legal to copy physical media for backup purposes for yourself if you already own a copy in the United States.

It may not be legal to ever use it. But even if that makes this tool effectively useless,
It is not illegal.
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grue lemmy.world grue@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#9 · Quote Reply
4am wrote:
It is legal to copy physical media for backup purposes for yourself if you already own a copy in the United States. It may not be legal to ever use it. But even if that makes this tool effectively useless, It is not illegal.

The DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent encryption even for a lot of purposes that would otherwise be Fair Use. It itself does have some carve-outs, but I don't know if this is one of them.
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imetators lemmy.dbzer0.com imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-10
#10 · Quote Reply
cm0002 wrote:
Wii Wii

Wii Wii ass haircut
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piccolo sh.itjust.works piccolo@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-09-15
#11 · Quote Reply
grue wrote:
The DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent encryption even for a lot of purposes that would otherwise be Fair Use. It itself does have some carve-outs, but I don't know if this is one of them.

This tool doesnt decrypt the discs. Just read them.
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Toes♀ ani.social Toes@ani.social
Joined: 2023-09-28
#12 · Quote Reply

I thought that was already possible with a program called Alcohol 120% back in the late 2000s?
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