Why can’t PS5/Xbox discs be copied and shared? Like they have some special discs but can’t they be manufactured as fakes and still work?
In: 21
One way I’ve heard of used the auto tracking of the disk drive to prevent them from being read and burned correctly in a PC.
A disk might have some imperfections in the track that can cause the track to kind of wobble a bit rather than making a perfect spiral around the disk. The disk drives laser is capable of making micro adjustments to compensate for this and stay in the right track as it spins.
The data about these micro adjustments is useless to the PC reading them, it just cares about what was on the track, not what needed to be done to read it so its discarded by the disk drive and never reported to the pc. . However a console disk can have a very specific intentional wobble early on in the disk that the console disk drives are designed to detect and report to the console that the disk is legit. Any PC disk drive that read this intentional wobble would just auto correct it as an error and it wouldn’t get recorded in any way so would be absent from the file that got burned into the copied disk.
Latest Answers