KleinesSinchen had many of the same links I would have had up.
That said even the crack smokers that gave us CSS encryption on DVDs (a rather weak encryption that anybody vaguely competent would have seen cracked in short order, never mind the further genius that went for the separately treated stuff aimed at film reviewers/awards reviewer) could see that giving consumers burners capable of making 1:1 copies of discs would be a bad plan, to that end they held a few things back from consumer gear.
I have been following things here since DVD was a thing on the horizon and I am not aware of any time when a model of burner (and associated media) has been so software driven that a firmware hack to them can make things burn commercial equivalent DVDs. Readers have had a few things done this way, and there was the burnermax stuff for the 360 (
https://gbatemp.net/threads/burnermax-payload-tool-0-15-xgd3-360-format-on-many-more-drives.339524/ ) as well as the stuff preceding that for given drive models. Handful of drives also saw custom firmwares to make them if not region free then unlimited swaps for DVD. There have also been a few attempts at getting PC drives working on consoles before -- way back when there was talk of some rare drive model that was only shipped with some whole dell computers (or was it HP) being tweaked to work in a console instead.
Similarly despite custom full board replacement and whatever else went down for the 360 I have not seen anything similar to that for DVD writers to allow them to do their own thing. I imagine part of this is people were generally content with what they could get from stock stuff for most purposes, and everybody generally accepted you would need a mod chip or similar since the PS1.
Similarly never seen anything interesting come out of China like we saw with region DVD free players, HDMI switches that so happened to lose HDCP encryption along the way, any number of nice things that might just breach protocols... Most things I ever see are some DVD pressing firm goes pop, or maybe does a ghost shift, and someone nefarious ends up with the kit to press more DVDs, so does either with some masters they have from somewhere else that maybe did not dispose of them the best or something they get made (which itself is not an easy thing*). It would also be my chosen path of attack if I were to want to make discs that pass checks on compatible devices.
There have been rumours but never seen hard evidence of the device or the resulting product.
*video detailing master making because why not
That is also not the sort of thing I would want to try to replicate in my home lab (might do CVD/PVD rather than control electrolysis to the degree I imagine is necessary with that) and I am already fairly well versed in several of the technologies on display there. Price of a somewhat luxury car (which is what a decent start at a machine shop costs, and many have those in their garage, or a decent electronics setup, or a decent audio studio, or a decent biology lab setup, or a decent chemistry setup) and I can do many interesting things as far as building stuff you would not expect out of a house but trying to think of a path to that gives me pause (even a cleanroom of suitable size is going to be a right pain to pull off).
On the other hand I did see
Which gives me some ideas about some aspects.
Do be careful buying high precision centrifuges and means to modify controllers as well -- that is facebag, fast car ride and dark room territory depending upon what goes for that one.
I also don't know what sort of info we don't necessarily have that would be necessary to make those masters, never mind the BCA extra security that appeared at one point.
As far as holy grail of modding then maybe on earlier consoles, with the wii being among the last device to adopt signed code though then 1:1 is nice enough but as almost every sky3ds user or 360 DVD mod user will tell you then having nice homebrew code, region free, cheats, modded games, downloadable games and more is pretty sweet and something to want.
There have been some earlier devices that saw things pressed and made (translations and repros and difficulty in telling things apart for a game I can't remember offhand but saw a nice writeup of the history of), and the Datel link above is another nice thing that Datel managed to pull off on more than one occasions.
There is also the side method. The 360 will read your burned dvd full of its code in the form of arcade demos. The earlier DVD hacks for the Wii revolved around using the hidden DVD read mode. GBA slot flash carts redirecting reads for DS code to the GBA slot would be another example, and even on the 3ds the earlier file replacement methods of loading whole games arguably counts as something in this realm. The bait and switch stuff seen for the PS3 earlier hacks, the PSP first directory based hacks, the DSi/3ds bypass (
https://hackmii.com/2010/02/lawsuit-coming-in-3-2-1/ , I will count the Dreamcast Utopia disc stuff too) also falling somewhere in this. If you can make a disc that uses one of these methods and bypasses some protections then that might be a way in whilst not strictly replicating things here.
All that said Wiis are still almost next to nothing so just do it
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