This is great news for video game preservation.

OmniDrive firmware transforms modern Blu-ray drives into universal game rippers for GameCube, Wii, Xbox, and Xbox 360 disc preservation without console mods.

Plus its a crap shoot whether it will RROD within a week. Hope it doesn't for your sake but all the 360s are a crap shoot. You are either lucky or will become an expert in shipping.

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 ...

Gamers who have their Xbox 360's firmware flashed may have recently noticed an inability to play backups, or even make backups of newer games that have come out: Gears of War 3 and Dead Island, to ...