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Jucius_Maximus
21 Jan 2002, 09:54 AM
OK I have some questions about the procedure with the Pioneer 106S drive and region free solutions .... here's what I did:

0. The drive was first installed and set to region 1 with 4 changes remaining.

1. Installed Mr. Kirill's patched firmware 1.22 and then the machine said that the drive had no region set and 1 change remaining...did not set a region.

2. Started PowerDVD 4.0 XP (no DVD Genie) and put in a Region 1 disc (crouching tiger hidden dragon) and it popped up a box asking me to select a region ... I selected region 1.

3. Then I went back to the DVD properties window in the device manager. It showed the selected region as region 1 but still with 1 change remaining.

Is this consistent with what should happen after the firmware patch is installed? Or did I screw up? Are any more steps needed for a region-free solution? I don't actually have any non-region-1 discs to test it unfortunately.
Trancemaster
24 Jan 2002, 08:48 AM
It sounds like you've done alright, but you're basically screwed for making sure until you get another region disc.
Jucius_Maximus
24 Jan 2002, 11:25 AM
It sounds like you've done alright, but you're basically screwed for making sure until you get another region disc.

OK thanks ... I was somewhat confused because I ran CDVDINFO 1.3.5 and it said that the drive was region locked. Then I ran Drive Region Info 2.1 and it said that there was no region protection.

If I had had my head on straight, I would have done this before and after the flash so I could see the change.It sounds like you've done alright, but you're basically screwed for making sure until you get another region disc.
Trancemaster
25 Jan 2002, 05:52 AM
I have a Hitachi GD-7500 flashed with a hacked firmware and have no problems playing Region 1 and 2 discs. I downloaded CDVDIno to test it, and to start with it said the drive had no region protection. However, when I switched to my other drive and back again, it said the drive was locked!

DriveInfo gave me a result of no region coding.

Maybe CDVDInfo is just a bit cack.