This is a small utility to make decrypted copies of the PS3 game discs, suitable for use in emulators.

It does require a compatible blu-ray drive and existence of a matching disc key to work.

• Compatible blu-ray drive
• Disc must have decryption key, either in redump database or in the IRD Library
• For binary release you might need to install .NET Core prerequisites
  • See Supported OS versions and .NET Core dependencies sections in documentation
• For source release you will need to have .NET 6.0 SDK installed on your machine

1. Put ps3-disc-dumper executable in the folder you want your dumps to be in (GUI version has configurable settings)
2. Insert a PS3 disc in the compatible drive
3. On Linux open terminal in the folder where you put the binary
   1. $ chmod +x ps3-disc-dumper to make it executable
   2. Mount the disc (either through file manager or manually $ mount it to /media/...)
4. Start the dumper
5. Wait for it to complete

By default all files will be copied in the folder where the dumper was started from (.\[BLUS12345] Game Title\).

You can pass an optional parameter with the path if you want to dump in a custom location. This is mostly useful when ran from sources with $ dotnet run.

If you have custom key or IRD file, you can put it in local cache (.\ird\ on Windows, ~/.config/ps3-disc-dumper/ird/ on Linux).

Logs can be found in /logs/ on Windows or in ~/.config/ps3-disc-dumper/logs/ on Linux.

There are different ways to get the dumper work:

• precompiled binaries
  • make it executable on Linux, then simply run it
• running from sources:
  • $ git clone https://github.com/13xforever/ps3-disc-dumper.git
  • $ cd UI.Console
  • $ dotnet run