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On my Macbook Pro, the UJ-846 FQ3T RPC1 firmware has worked perfectly. Thanks a lot for this incredible job that we were all so desperate about !

May 2008 bring many other such news (Zone free Blu-Ray drives on Macs ? ).

Thank so much.

As many other people on this board, I upgraded to Leopard and THEN I figured out that a patched firmware existed for my drive (FM0S), on the brand new iMac Alu 20".

So...

I took my USB Portable Hard DISK. partitionned it in order to creat a macOSx partition, bootable of course. (GID menu).
I installed Tiger on it. It's slow... but....

I booted on this Usb HD, applyied the patch....

and.....


DVD Info X v1.0.2, by xvi (xvi@rpc1.org)

WARNING --- DVD Info X will only list DVD drives that have some WRITE
capabilities, like combos, DVD-R, DVD-RW, etc...
DVD-ROM-only drives will NOT be listed.
WARNING --- You also must eject any inserted medium to list the drive.

Vendor: MATSHITA
Model: DVD-R UJ-85J
Firmware: FM0S
RPC-1 (region free)

yesssssssss !!!!

Works perfectly with the DVD application of Leopard (the change count always stay at 5), and obviously with VLC.

You guys Rock !!!!!

Used Benn11's firmware and irnmongoose's instructions and it worked perfectly on my PBPro 2.2 and although the DVD Info X said region fix was permanent it works fine now - DVD player fine and VLC as well

Dear Ben,

I'm new on this forum, and I'm sorry if you already answered this question and I didn't see your reply...

I have a MacBook, with the following specifications to my DVD Player:
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857D
R

I'll do my best to respond usefully. I have no recollection of ever flashing the Sony AW-G170A. Given all the hours I have put into this project in the last few weeks, it strikes me as very unlikely I could have done it without noticing or remembering, and, for the same reasons, I doubt I did it in the past. I had once, in 2004, used Region X v.1.old and I had used one of NIL's tools (I think -- it was a guy in Singapore) to make the Matshita UJ-811 (I think) that came in my 1GHz PowerBook G4. I sold that in 2005, and did not retain the software (Region X, DVD Info X).



I don't remember what was running in the background, but when I came back to this thread today, I made sure I was freshly rebooted with nothing else running. The output from DVD Info X was unchanged (see below).



I can't find such a tab. Do you mean DVD Info X when you ask about DVDINFO? I looked in System Profiler as well. was not helpful, and could see only two of the 3 drives: the Matshita UJ-85J on the PATA bus, the LG HL-DT-ST GSA-H62N on the PCIslot3/ExpressCard34 bus by SATA, but not the Sony AW-G170A on USB2.



And still more of a puzzle, when I put a region 2 DVD in the Sony, nothing happens. No request for region code change, the disk does not mount, &c. If, however, before I but the disk in the Sony, I run Region X (v1.2) and choose region 2, I can mount and play the disc in the Sony or in the Matshita. It seems that if there are more than one RPC1 drives, Region X changes them all at once. I don't want to pester dvi, but I discovered this feature does not seem to be in the documentation that comes with Region X v1.2, because I read it.

The Sony drive was in a cardboard box with the Emprex brand on it, but the metal outer case of the drive itself declares it to be Sony, with the same designation I and DVD Info X noted above.

So, Emprex boxed it that way, or I need to get my temporal lobes checked. I've patched two Matshita and one Pioneer in the last two weeks, but zero Sonys. I agree it seems extremely unlikely that DVRFlash could have done it --- I just can't explain how it was done.

Search is your friend, especially in these forums.

Here's what ben11 wrote on Sep 28, 2007 9:31 pm: http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=42953&highlight=KBV9

I would probably try it . . . but I'd probably learn more first - I'm a beginner, too.

Pantagruel,

this is a thread about Matshita drives, not Sony.
Please create or append another appropriate thread about flashing a Sony drive.

Surely PumaUK meant "DVDInfoPro" which runs under windooze.

Regarding the Sony again, has it been flashed with RPC1 or auto-reset firmware?

Thanks Pantagruel... Guess I will try it then...
Wadih.

I tried this, self running program:
http://rapidshare.com/files/58886407/UJ ... 9.zip.html
And got this
DVD Info X v1.0.1, by xvi (xvi@rpc1.org)

WARNING --- DVD Info X will only list DVD drives that have some WRITE
capabilities, like combos, DVD-R, DVD-RW, etc...
DVD-ROM-only drives will NOT be listed.
WARNING --- You also must eject any inserted medium to list the drive.

Vendor: MATSHITA
Model: DVD-R UJ-845
Firmware: DBN9
RPC-1 (region free)
Thank You very very much.

How do I make my drive region free? I tried downloading from rapidshare.com files, but it told me "no file found to update". javascript:emoticon(':roll:')

...By starting to read in this thread carefully.

I have a second mac and can boot from there the local tiger-enviroment by connect with fire-wire.
the flash - update is on a usb-stick
But then ? how / where can I start the flash-update in booted tiger-enviroment ?
using terminal ?
thanks

I've got a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.1 with a Matshita DVD-R UJ-857D rev. KCVB.

I've downloaded the corresponding bit of firmware but when I open it and try to run it the icon simply flashes in my dock before disappearing. I've done a bit of looking around and it sounds like this is a Leopard compatibility issue with the Flasher app, is this correct?

Also, and more importantly to me, is there going to be an update to the app so that those of us who didn't know about this until we bought Leopard can flash our firmware?

Were already discussed in this MAC section.

Why does anyone come here and posts the same question again and again?

and the answer is there :
http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?p=209712#209712

regards

Because we do a search and nothing comes up so we decide to post in the most relevant section? I mean it's not like I created a whole new thread here.

Thanks CH-Vox for the reply.

Not to worry, basically the answers are there in the threads, but some members cannot be bothered, and simply ask the same questions over and over again.

ben11, fantastic, you are a genius!

I've been trying to play legally purchased DVDs on my treacherous MacBook Pro *shita UJ-85J for a long time, and finally your RPC-1 firmware cured it.

Of course I had to disable DVD Player (it still asked for region changes) and just use VLC. Tragically this means I no longer have to watch the UOP crippled adverts at the beginning of DVDs either. Oh well.

Rich.

Rich,

Actually, you don't have to disable DVD Player.

Now that your MacBook is region-free, you can change the regions as often as you want. Yes, you still have to change the regions every time you insert a DVD from a different region, but the number of changes is unlimited! Region X 1.2 is your tool for that.

Denny

It is possible to run the firmware update under leopard (without fooling around with tiger partitions etc) - you have to fool the updater that it's running under previous O/S.
see thread:
http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?p=210022#210022

i've tried it and it works - the drive is now listed as rpc-1

Dear Ben11

Please, could you send me the link to download the firmware patch for my Matshita DVD-R 857D
i did not find it on the different link you have posted before.


my superdrive does not work anymore since last apple upgrade

Thanks

Marcus

Then please contact Apple!
You have used their update and that is why you should ask them first.

another solution here :
http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?p=207704#207704
regards,

Super thanks for your firmware for the UJ-835E GAND

Any luck with UJ-857E with rev ZF1E? It seems all the new Penryn based macbooks and macbook Pros I've seen have these drives.