2008-06-14

Region Free

The Firmware Page used to have a good collection of patched/hacked optical drive firmware to bypass region codes. Since >NIL: retired in 2005, however, the firmware scene has somewhat sucked.

The Dangerous Brothers have a lot of new firmwares, but not for the newer Pioneer drives, which kind of sucks. Well, that's the way it goes. Beggars can't be choosers. So beggars will have to buy a supported drive, if available.

Edit: I found out from reading the forum above a bit more that MediaCodeSpeedEdit (MCSE) supports updating a standard Pioneer DVR-215 firmware to RPC1. Sweet!

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