Here you can find utilities that are useful for aspects relating to CD/DVD burning and firmware related, including DiscInfo, Nero Disc SpeedDiscInfo - Utility to see information about a Drive's Status
VSO Inspector - get your hardware details, Media ID and get stats online about success rate of your discs and writers
Opti Drive Control - A program for testing optical drives and media
DvdInfo - Useful program for information on Drives, Media, setting booktype and more
DvdinfoX - Drive information for the Mac
DVD Region Killer - Program to enable the user to play all region DVD's
AnyDVD - Enables bypassing of Drive and Software Region Limits, also HD/Blueray
Region X - For Region Free Play with an RPC1 Drive on the Mac
LtnRPC - Removes Region Lock on MTK Chipset Drives, (Liteon and more)
MCSE - Great Utility for rip lock removal,region free, media write strategy changes and more
MatshitaWinDump - Windows Utility to Dump Matshita Firmware/Patch to RPC1
MatshitaWinFlash - Windows Flash utility for Matshita Drives, flash Stock and RPC1 Firmwares
MatshitaFlasher - MacOS based firmware flash tool
Matshita Memory Dumper - MacOS based firmware dump tool
ImgBurn - Can read, write, build, verify image files, and more
DVRFlash - Flashing Pioneer Drives with new and old firmware, as well as Crossflashing
Omnipatcher - Tool to patch Older liteon firmwares
Liteon Firmware+Utilities - Patch/Flash Liteon drives, rpc1, bitsetting, read speed and more
BinFlash - Utility to Backup, flash NEC based drive's firmware
Samsung Patch Utility - Modify firmwares to RPC1, Read speed, and more
LG Renesas Firmware Utility Mac/Linux/Windows - Flash and Dump Bin firmware to certain LG Drives
Optimal Writing Speed Utility - Pioneer 116/216 Utility
UnderCoverXP - Printing CD/DVD Covers and more
This page will be updated with new utilites when available, many thanks to coaster for his suggestions
