GameCube optical disc pits&landspic.twitter.com/bbdeI7lrjo
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Basically the idea of the protection was that you cannot predict which sectors you hit with a radial scratch, but it turns out the check doesn't care about angular relationships, so you can just encode the "scratch" into the data from the outset.
Of course it also turns out they used symmetric crypto to secure the metadata about the errors, so these days anyone can just replicate the original process with the key... But I don't think anyone has ever done so.
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Hello I have mini-DVDs that I'd love to get around using someday.
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I believe it's possible to DIY a direct bootable disc for GC, but you need a pretty advanced setup (custom FPGA interceptor to munge the bitstream and probably some custom mechanics to figure out how to write the BCA). Also the media needs to be DVD+R (-R won't work IIRC)
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