Backing up physical media on older consoles such as the GameCube, Wii, original Xbox, and Xbox 360 has long been a frustrating experience for retro gamers. However, according to a YouTube video from ...

Been pondering snagging one of these to enable ripping some BR disks for mobile viewing, but the price is still pretty off-putting from a simple cost standpoint; approximately 5x the price of a ...

From what I've noticed, most games to be installed can be downloaded off the internet without physical media, let alone the need for any optical drive. At worst, you may want a DVD drive (and dollars ...

OmniDrive is custom firmware for select Blu-Ray drives powered by the MediaTek MT1959 chipset that allows for numerous proprietary game disc formats to be read or ripped for backups and emulation. One ...

Sony's first-generation Blu-ray computer drive, the BWU-100A, is compatible with more disc formats than any other optical drive now on the market. The BWU-100A can burn single- and double-layer ...

Connecting the dots: Emulating retro games occupies a legal gray area: copying titles you already own is generally permissible, but few players have a practical way to do it. A newly released custom ...

Remember when: Like floppy drives before them, optical disc drives (ODD) were once a mainstay of computer builds. Whether you were installing new software or games, ripping music to your hard drive, ...