The Firmware Page

I read all the FAQ'S and all of the threads on this drive.

Have two of these drives in my machine one set to region 4 and the other set to region 1 but after flashing the drives they won't change region and the drive I had set to region 1 I accidentally changed to region 4 as well but both drives won't do region changes.

Firmware for both drives is now 1.22

Is ther any way to force the firmware to update and why doesn't any of the supposed "region free" firmware on this site work fo rme?

It's got me worried to the point of purchasing brand new drives.

Any help would be kindly appreciated..

Read the FAQ again, flashing a drive is only half the job!

PS: Please remove the link from your signature, its not working anway.

My link does work..... And what do you mean flashing is half the job?

Which FAQ in particular. I read a couple and I have flahsed drives before with no problem on other machines.

hi, the firmware for the 215 is not region free, unless you use MCSE to patch it to RPC1, did you do that step?, then the drive is region free, what chef means is, patching the drive to region free is only 50% of the job, to also need software like anydvd, dvd region killer to bypass software like windows/powerdvd etc

I did that.... First I downloaded the firmware opened MCSE and did the patch, saved the patched file and ran the flash program. It said that it had done the flashing successfully. I took it at that and did a reboot of my PC. Tried different disks in the drive but it wouldn't change over.. Said I was on my last region change and would not budge, even after I had done the patch with MCSE..

I have since put back the older firmware for this drive 1.18 and I'm not game to tamper with it any more.

how did you flash the firmware to the drive? did you patch the flasher also? remember if you use pioneer flasher, you need to save the mcse patched firmware as the original name.

what was telling you it was the last region, software? what software have you running to bypass player restrictions?

Yes I saved the patched firmware in place of the original firmware... Then used the flasher to flash the drive.

I am using Power DVD for my movies and it said that I could not do any more changes when I swapped movies from different regions. ..

Plus typine "dvrflash" at the command prompt brought up a simple discription of each drive and even that said region free for the firmware despite it not working as expected.

Anyway I've downgraded the firmware to 1.18 for both drives and they're stable now on region 1 and region 4 respectively and I'm not feelign inclined to have another go in case I do them in permanently..

that is your issue, not the drive, its the software that is bringing up the region change, that is why we say patching the drive is only half the job, you need to download say dvd region killer (free), or anydvd (pay for after trial), to bypass powerdvd, that will solve your issues

I will do that.. But just wondering howcome you need to do this extra step if you have flashed with a patched firmware. In the past when I had my old LD dvd burner I flashed that with a patched firmware and didn't need to do anything extra to run it and it gave me unlimited region swaps with no extra fiddling.

I was under the impression patching my pioneer drive(s) with patched firmware as I had done would have acheived the same result. Still I'll try "dvd region killer"

What "old LD burner"??
Either it were an Liteon or you had an Autoreset firmware applied.

it was an LG sorry for the type...... an 816B I got the firmware off the Dangerous Brothers website and on that particular drive every time the system booted the counters for region swaps would reset to 5..

yeah that is an autoreset firmware, not a RPC1 one

OK I get the difference now. I just was under the impression they both worked the same way..

Is there an autoreset version of the Pioneer dvr-215 or 216 firmware available?

Nope.

Oh OK cool thanks.

Huh?

Adelaidejohn1967,

that was a spammer and got deleted...

Ah..... No forum seems mmune from those

afraid not, but we do all we can to limit there success