Future of disc drives

[AnyOldName3]

Standard disk drives are never likely to read GC/Wii disks, as they're technically not compliant to DVD specifications, so aren't something drives are supposed to read. Those that can only work because people discovered bugs in their firmware that allow software to do things like move the motors outside normal ranges and request data without the drive checking that it's actually valid. Reading the disks isn't necessarily a difficult thing to do, it's just that drives are only designed to read CDs and DVDs (and sometimes Blu-Ray disks) and throw errors when something goes wrong in case you confused the drive for a biscuit warmer or something.