How to Burn PS3 Games

For gamers, their most precious possessions are undoubtedly their game DVDs and Blu-ray disks. Like all storage devices, even optical disks have a limited life span. It is therefore necessary that you have a sound back up for your game disks.

One of the biggest problems with burning PlayStation 3 (PS3) games is that all these games are burnt on Blu-ray disks. The introduction of Blu-ray discs as default storage mediums for PS3 consoles has created a lot of controversy. So if you are curious about burning PS3 games to DVD, forget about it! There is no way a DVD can accommodate a game that is burnt on a Blu-ray disk in the first place. Yes, Blu-ray disks can hold more data but they are not that fast when it comes to copying or installation. So what does this mean for gamers who want to back up their best games? It is inevitable that they have a Blu-ray disk burner.

The game disks are write protected. So you cannot copy them directly. This feature is introduced by Sony to prevent the theft or piracy of games, developed exclusively for the PS3 platform. You will need to have a special software that can bypass the write protection. I share information about burning PS3 games with the good faith that you need this information for back up purposes. Sharing copyrighted material or selling it is punishable by US laws. It will be good for you if you keep this fact in mind.

Burning PS3 Games

First of all, you will need to buy or borrow a Blu-ray disk burner, that lets you burn the back up disks. These burners can be quite expensive! It may cost you around $600 to buy a new one! Once you get the burner installed on your desktop computer, you have the main piece of hardware that you will need.

Besides the burner, you will obviously need the original game disks, along with blank Blu-ray disks on which you can back up the games. Lastly, you will need a software that can bypass the copyright lock on the original Blu-ray disks and burn their copies on to blank disks.

One such software is ImgBurn, which can do the job for you. This is a free program that lets you copy and burn Blu-ray disk PS4 games. Download and get it installed on your computer. Once you do that, you can actually begin burning the Blu-ray disks. Firstly, insert Blu-ray disk in the drive and then using the ImgBurn software, select the 'Create Image' option to make an ISO image of the game. You will need adequate hard drive space to accommodate the image.

Once the image has been created, you can remove the original disk and then insert a blank disk. Then using the 'Write Image' option, you can burn the ISO file stored on your hard drive, directly to the blank disk. With that your job is done and you have a backup disk for your top PS3 games now.

Moral of the story is, you cannot burn these games, without a Blu-ray disk burner! So get hold of it first and then get hold of a software that can let the games be copied and burned.