dvd region free ?

Ste-

not sure if its the right place

but was thinkin of flashin my combo dvd/cdrw drive to make it region free any 1 else do this ?
does it **** up ur drive ?
wana know before i do it.



thanx

ste

Stephen

http://www.firmware.fr.st - all your firmware needs.

If you follow the instructions to the letter you should have no problems, but there is the possibility of buggering your drive, if a power failure or something happens during the flash process.

Ste-

thanx 4 that but i found a nice little program its a trial but im findin a way around that

netman

i flashed my 10/40 pioneer dvd about two years ago with a region free firmware some guy from poland hacked.. still working perfectly.

so as long as you get the right firmware, there's virtually no risk.

Ste-

tryed to flash it
but ended up it went missin done a system reinstall to get it back
any help ?


samsung combo dvd/cdrw sm304b t000

chopster

Have a look at this feeware prog.

http://elby.ch/english/fun/software/index.html

Hope this helps

Ste-

tried that already mate but to no avail.

cheers for ur help.

chopster

What about DVD Genie ? Can't remember the url , do a google.

Ste-

found a cool freeware program makes the drive region free

cant member the name or what it is
found it at 3 o clock last night and was half asleep

but if i remember ill post the link

thanx 4 all ur help

Ste-

scavanger region set 1.4

http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/scavenger.html

heres a link 4 it too.

Lemming

I downloaded DVD Genie thinking that it'd be the answer to all my problems.

Unfortunately, it only works at a software level. Most new DVD drives have hardware checking now too, and will count down (usually 5) the amount of times that you change regions.

I found a firmware update that returned the drive (an LG x16 DVD drive) to non-checking of regions.

I think the link was that url provided by Stephen further up this thread.

I ****ed up the firmware update, lost the drive, shat myself thinking I'd knackered my MoBo too. ALl I had to do was reattempt the firmware flash (the cause of woe being a dodgy disk that had cocked up) and all was well.

The_Bullman

you could try region killer. this like dvd genie only blocks the software aspect.

i used it and i got links from their website to a firmware site. works sweet now

Ste-

it deffo cums down to what hardware u have and weather its locked by ur drive or just software

im usin scavenger region set and power dvd and power dvd region set no problems just watched a number of american dvds.

hoe to buy a lot more and again thanks to all that helped.


ste

SOL

I flashed my friends dvd drive once, just did a google search, found some new flash firmware read the instuctions about 10 time to make sure i wasn't gonna screw it up, but it really isn't that hard