technology Browsing game discs on a dedicated Blu-ray player

[Katie Cadet 80]

Hello fellow bronies!

Do you remember back in the day you got a game for your PlayStation/Xbox/Wii, and then suddenly you decided to put it into your non-gaming Blu-ray player just to see what's on the disc in terms of data?

I somehow tried that on an LG BP200 with my Xbox and Xbox 360 games alongside my Sony Blu-ray players, because they have DVD-Video layers, whereas the PlayStation games are readable on Blu-ray players, but most of the data are in proprietary containers, but on the PlayStation 3, there are some PNG files readable by the Blu-ray player. Nintendo games are unreadable.

Feel free to share your sightings here!

I've also attached a video of some guy testing out the game discs here:

 

[Thankful Brony 42 9,382]

I learned that some music CDs have enhanced features that show text or simple animation on a CDi. I guess that never caught on. I should try some other disc games on a bluray player: Sega CD, Dreamcast, CDi, Turbo Grafx, 3DO, Jaguar CD.

[Splashee 28,507]

I was always happy to listen to game CDs in an audio player…. Except breaking my ears playing the first (data) track by mistake.

[CypherHoof 26,479]

9 hours ago, Patriotic Brony 42 said:

I learned that some music CDs have enhanced features that show text or simple animation on a CDi. I guess that never caught on. I should try some other disc games on a bluray player: Sega CD, Dreamcast, CDi, Turbo Grafx, 3DO, Jaguar CD.

there was a format (cd+g) that was designed to add a low-resolution graphics track to audio CDs - the most common use of this was of course Karaoke.

The Sega MegaCD could play CD+G, as could many DVD players....

[Katie Cadet 80]

I recently found out that my Sony UBP-X800M2 cannot play PlayStation 3 game discs (they are unreadable), but the PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 discs are read fine, but there's no media to play even though the game data is in proprietary data containers.

Sony used to offer the PlayStation Now service on some of their Blu-ray players released during the mid-2010s, where you can use a first-generation DualShock 4 controller to stream PlayStation 3 games, without the console!

So that's what happened when I put this in my recent Sony 4k UHD player. Sony, the company who makes Blu-ray and the PlayStation, seems to unintentionally have a few tricks up their sleeves these days...

[Katie Cadet 80]

Jacob R did a similar Foreign Disc video, but on a 4k Ultra HD Blu-ray Player instead of a standard one that was mentioned in the first post:

 

[Katie Cadet 80]

The Sony BDP-S370 and BDP-S380 reads PlayStation 4 discs with no content to be found.

The Sony UBP-X800M2 tries to read the PlayStation 4 discs, and it has the same unreadable error as with the PlayStation 3 disc that I put in earlier.

[ZiggWheelsManning 5,639]

Would an Xbox One or PS4 game disc of Star Wars:  Jedi:  Fallen Order work on a Blu-Ray player?  

Some off-topic questions,

Did console versions of Fallen Order require the downloading of the frustrating client known as Origin?  

Do GD-ROM discs (Sega Dreamcast) work in Blu-Ray players?  

[Katie Cadet 80]

1 hour ago, ZiggWheelsManning said:

Would an Xbox One or PS4 game disc of Star Wars:  Jedi:  Fallen Order work on a Blu-Ray player?  

Some off-topic questions,

Did console versions of Fallen Order require the downloading of the frustrating client known as Origin?  

Do GD-ROM discs (Sega Dreamcast) work in Blu-Ray players?  

No, The PS4 discs show nothing on a Standard Blu-ray player, and also would not read on a UHD player.

The Xbox One is a different story, since some Standard Blu-ray players can read the package data PNGs, and it's the same problem as with the PS4 on the UHD player.

Jedi Fallen Order appears to require an Origin account in my opinion.

Dreamcast games would only play a little warning message (e.g. "This disc is for use only on Sega Dreamcast.") on the Audio CD portion if played on both Standard and UHD Blu-ray players. (Jacob R tried it at one point.)