{"id":664331,"date":"2026-05-25T16:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/664331\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:07:12","slug":"you-can-now-legally-rip-your-wii-gamecube-wii-and-xbox-discs-using-a-blu-ray-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/664331\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Now Legally Rip Your Wii, GameCube, Wii And Xbox Discs Using A Blu-Ray Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"You<\/a> Image: Zion Grassl \/ Time Extension<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

OnmiDrive<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

With this firmware mod, users can legally back up their personal disc collection and play it via emulation without downloading files online.<\/p>\n

As noted by TechSpot<\/a>, the Disc Preservation Project Wiki<\/a> has a list of compatible optical drive model numbers so you can check if your PC’s Blu-Ray drive is compatible with OmniDrive.<\/p>\n

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\"Damien<\/p>\n

Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media’s sites from an editorial perspective. He’s also the editor of Time Extension<\/a>, the network’s newest site, which \u2013 paradoxically \u2013 is all about gaming’s past glories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Zion Grassl \/ Time Extension A new tool has been released which allows you to legally rip…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[238721,6881,2210,74,186049,1298,166181],"class_list":["post-664331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-game-preservation","tag-gamecube","tag-pc","tag-technology","tag-wii","tag-xbox","tag-xbox-360"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}