(NEW) Matshita Patched Firmware Thread (MAC Only)

Rishek · **Joined:** Fri May 11, 2012 11:57 am **Posts:** 1

Hi, I've found a couple posts requesting information about this drive, but nothing concrete. Any help much appreciated. It would be super to be able to have an RPC-1 drive.

I replaced my drive a while back and this is what I'm running.

Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2,4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB41.00C1.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.31f1
Serial Number (system): W88239190P1
Hardware UUID: 7180728D-004A-5144-967C-B974289C9250
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled

Drive:
MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ867PD:

Firmware Revision: 1000
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Generic Drive Support)
Profile Path: None
Cache: 0 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: To show the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose View > Refresh

Here's the dump:
https://rapidshare.com/files/2016196836 ... _0.dat.zip

Cheers in advance!

caldene · **Joined:** Tue Mar 30, 2010 6:49 pm **Posts:** 4

Hi, I can't seem to flash my UJ-875S. MatshitaFlasher appears to run when the Stock RPC1 .dat is dropped on it; Terminal reports 'Process Completed' after only a few seconds; but the RPC remains at 2. The drive does not work and is inaccessible to further attempts to flash it until I log out and back in again.

Here are my details

Mac Mini (1,1) running OSX 10.5.8

Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-875S
Firmware Version 1.0
Serial Number: fG655DE5
RPC-2
State is SET
4 Vendor Resets left
3 Region changes left
Region 1

Unfortunately, I can't seem to run the mem_dump tool either: it also reports 'Process Completed', but there's no output in the directory that it sits in (unless I'm looking in the wrong place?)

Any help would be gratefully received.

Purez · **Joined:** Fri May 25, 2012 7:14 pm **Posts:** 1

Hi, im on a Macbook Pro with a MAtshita UJ 868 kb19 drive. After flashing the drive (tried both rpc1 and original firmware) my drive still doesnt work, just pops out anything i put in. Also DVD info x just crashes for me every time i try to launch it.

Can anyone help me?

chef · **Posted:** Sat May 26, 2012 9:08 am

Purez wrote:

Hi, im on a Macbook Pro with a MAtshita UJ 868 kb19 drive. After flashing the drive (tried both rpc1 and original firmware) my drive still doesnt work, just pops out anything i put in. Also DVD info x just crashes for me every time i try to launch it.

Can anyone help me?

Has nothing to do with this thread!
Your drive has a hardware issue so it seems. Do you really think just flashing a firmware can hardware failures make go away??

Cubytus32 · **Joined:** Sat May 26, 2012 9:47 pm **Posts:** 2

Hi folks,

I'll try to be as precise as possible for this forst post involving a Matshita drive I can't flash.

Background: I want to rip a region 2 movie for those times I may be on a computer that isn't mine and I'm not willing to try out a patched firmware, or simplyto avoid the need for keeping optical discs on hand.. Movie plays fine in Mac OS X's DVD player, but is unable to play in VLC 64 bits, 32 bits, is not mounted by Fairmount (which claims to be unable to find VLC), and makes Handbrake crash.

The drive is a Matshita UJ-8A8 HA13 revision, sitting in a MacBook Pro 8,1 equipped with Snow Leopard 10.6.8
I got the original and RPC-1 HB14 firmwares, as well as MatshitaFlasher 2.01.
For some reason, it doesn't seem to be able to either patch the drive or make a dump out of it.

Trying to patch it yields the following message:

Code:

$ ./simple_flash 0 MATSHITADVD-R___UJ-8A8__HB14_RPC1.dat 
simple_flash V 2.01 compiled at Feb  4 2010 00:22:16
Selected firmware: MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8  HB14   
fatal: Selected drive (null) does not appear to be a matshita device

And there's simply no .DAT file output when running the MatshitaMemoryDump.

What could possibly go wrong in this case?

ThufirHawat · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 6:21 pm

Cubytus32 wrote:

Hi folks,

I'll try to be as precise as possible for this forst post involving a Matshita drive I can't flash.

Background: I want to rip a region 2 movie for those times I may be on a computer that isn't mine and I'm not willing to try out a patched firmware, or simplyto avoid the need for keeping optical discs on hand.. Movie plays fine in Mac OS X's DVD player, but is unable to play in VLC 64 bits, 32 bits, is not mounted by Fairmount (which claims to be unable to find VLC), and makes Handbrake crash.

The drive is a Matshita UJ-8A8 HA13 revision, sitting in a MacBook Pro 8,1 equipped with Snow Leopard 10.6.8
I got the original and RPC-1 HB14 firmwares, as well as MatshitaFlasher 2.01.
For some reason, it doesn't seem to be able to either patch the drive or make a dump out of it.

Trying to patch it yields the following message:

Code:

$ ./simple_flash 0 MATSHITADVD-R___UJ-8A8__HB14_RPC1.dat 
simple_flash V 2.01 compiled at Feb  4 2010 00:22:16
Selected firmware: MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8  HB14   
fatal: Selected drive (null) does not appear to be a matshita device

And there's simply no .DAT file output when running the MatshitaMemoryDump.

What could possibly go wrong in this case?

Try to flash the original firmware. We will see whether it is a HW problem, as I surmise...

Cubytus32 · **Joined:** Sat May 26, 2012 9:47 pm **Posts:** 2

Hi there,

same result:

Code:

$ ./simple_flash 0 ~/Desktop/MATSHITADVD-R___UJ-8A8__HB14.dat 
simple_flash V 2.01 compiled at Feb  4 2010 00:22:16
Selected firmware: MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8  HB14   
fatal: Selected drive (null) does not appear to be a matshita device

Puma · **Posted:** Mon May 28, 2012 9:42 am

have you guys read any of this thread, maybe from page 18 onwards?

looney_crumpet · **Joined:** Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:50 am **Posts:** 1

KGBguy wrote:

Puma wrote:

Quote:

About 4 weeks ago I downloaded some files from some forum with no instruction on how actually to execute it.
That post had been deleted on that blog and now I am looking for some instructions on how actually to get it done.

The files are named:
MATSHITADVD-R___UJ-8A8__HA13_RPC1.dat
MATSHITADVD-R___UJ-8A8__HA13.dat
MatshitaFlasher 0.6

I haven't done anything yet, just trying to get some information and see if I can get my drive region free. Can you help me out here or not? thanks in advance.

we take no responsibility for the files you downloaded. But always read the initial post. What i know about the procedure is this:-

Quote:

play at least one DVD and set a region, extract contents of matshitaflasher and put firmware file along with its contents into a location on your mac i.e Download folder, no disk in the driver. Now open Terminal

cd ~/Download/MatshitaFlasher\ 0.6.app/Contents/Resources
./simple_flash 0 firmware_file_name.dat

The first command opens up the location of the flasher. The second command executes the flasher. You need to put a name of the real firmware file that you downloaded.

Answer Yes and wait for the flash. You Must have admin rights for this.

.

Now this is not instructions from RPC1, this is what i know from people pointing me to the blog when it was there and reading it. Many people on that blog could not get it to work. Some user's then come here and have a pop at us for it. I know you haven't. But the success of this is limited. Please try and report back. BE PATIENT though when executing the commands, and give it time, as some expect instant action and brick there drive.

Thank you Puma,

I will try it out next week, and let you know what happened, thank you once again.
Let me know if you would think of anything else.

PS One more time, I am not expecting you to take any kind of responsibility for my Mac issues.
So, feel free to have any suggestions, also would it be better to flash it thru boot camp vs Lion/Snow Leopard.
I can also just put in a spare HDD just to flash it in Snow Leopard or Leopard. I am not actually sure if my current mac
will run Leopard, it might be too new, and no drivers on Leopard.

I had trouble with the instructions posted up by Dmitry originally, where despite typing everything in exactly, as above, it would refuse to flash my drive in Lion.

In the end I worked out that I needed to use sudo on the second line to get it to work.

i.e. type:

cd ~/Download/MatshitaFlasher\ 0.6.app/Contents/Resources

sudo ./simple_flash 0 firmware_file_name.dat

Where firmware_file_name.dat is replaced by the real name of the RPC1 file

After that, you will be asked for the admin password (type it in - it will be hidden), then everything will run as per the above.

Took me months and several goes to work this out so I hope this helps someone.

Lovethispage · **Joined:** Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:45 pm **Posts:** 1

Golybs wrote:

Dear all,

There seems to be a lot of confusion about whether following the instructions in the first post of this thread work on a Mac running a system version higher than 10.6.4. -- at least, I find it confusing. I've just successfully patched two laptops running 10.6.8 without either downgrading or using windows. So here's what worked and didn't work for me.

The versions of the tools provided in the first post of this thread didn't work. I get exactly the same errors as many people who posted here: DVD Info X doesn't produce any info, and running MatshitaFlasher results in an error "fatal: Selected drive (null) does not appear to be a matshita device."

I however found different versions of the same tools that do work on 10.6.8. DVD Info X 3 displays the drive information, and another version of MatshitaFlasher linked from this blog post successfully patched the drive for me.

The two drives I patched are UJ-898 HA07 and UJ-8A8 HA 13. For the latter, I couldn't find the firmware in your database, but google told me to look over there.

Just want to say thanks! This helped me SO much! after reading this thread, and with this advice, it took me 2 minutes to finally unlock my dvd player. THANKS!!!

caldene · **Joined:** Tue Mar 30, 2010 6:49 pm **Posts:** 4

I get the following error with the 0.6 MatshitaFlasher just linked to:

Quote:

dyld: unknown required load command 0x80000022

This is on 10.5.8, trying to flash a UJ-875S.

I've tried every version of the Flasher I can find and tried calling it from the CLI. Most often, it reports 'Process Completed' within five seconds, but the drive is unpatched.

Would anyone suggest upgrading to Snow Leopard (pre 10.6.4)?

Thanks to all for their hard work and generous sharing of tips and experiences.

DocZagreus · **Joined:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 4:00 pm **Posts:** 2

Hello,
I've read the whole thread but I get lost and I can't understand what I am supposed to do to make my macbook pro dvd unit region free (sorry

).
So, I've a macbook pro mid 2012 with Lion 10.7.4 and my driver is:
MATSHITA UJ-8A8 HB14

I've read that somebody was able to turn it region free, but I don't understand which firmware they downloaded and what process they followed.
Thank you very much for any help you can provide me ^^

chef · **Posted:** Sun Jul 08, 2012 4:47 pm

A "driver" is pure software, what you mean is a DRIVE.

I suggest you re-read post #1 carefully.

lucaponte1 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:09 am **Posts:** 1

Hi,
I would like to downgrade my superdrive Matshita UJ 868 KB19 to KA14.
I cannot find a link from where to download the firmware I need: Matshita UJ 868 KA14.
It can be emailed to: ...........

The reason of the downgrade is the most typical one: after upgrading to Apple KB19, my superdrive stopped working at all and refuses DVD-CD without any logic. Downgrading the firmware was helpful to other mac users.

thanks to whoever may help me.
Greetings,
Luca

chef · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 5:45 pm

lucaponte1 wrote:

Hi,
I would like to downgrade my superdrive Matshita UJ 868 KB19 to KA14.
I cannot find a link from where to download the firmware I need: Matshita UJ 868 KA14.
It can be emailed to: ...........

The reason of the downgrade is the most typical one: after upgrading to Apple KB19, my superdrive stopped working at all and refuses DVD-CD without any logic. Downgrading the firmware was helpful to other mac users.

thanks to whoever may help me.
Greetings,
Luca

Never read about such an "success" so far....

diehardmac · **Joined:** Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:52 pm **Posts:** 1

Hello,
I have an older Macbook Pro (2.16 Intel Core 2 Duo), updated to OSX 10.7.4, I have once again rendered the UJ-857D KCVB DVD drive useless , after running DVD Info X 3, the status of the drive reads " RPC-2 (region locked)", having only found an older region firmware update, I get the error msg., "You can't use this version of thr application Update KCVB to region free.app with this version of Mac OS X.

Is there a newer version available anywhere?

Thanks for reading/helping in advance!

DiehardMac

chef · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2012 6:12 am

diehardmac wrote:

Hello,
I have an older Macbook Pro (2.16 Intel Core 2 Duo), updated to OSX 10.7.4, I have once again rendered the UJ-857D KCVB DVD drive useless , after running DVD Info X 3, the status of the drive reads " RPC-2 (region locked)", having only found an older region firmware update, I get the error msg., "You can't use this version of thr application Update KCVB to region free.app with this version of Mac OS X.

Is there a newer version available anywhere?

Thanks for reading/helping in advance!

DiehardMac

Where is any logic in this highlighted quote??

opq · **Joined:** Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:55 am **Posts:** 20

Hi, is there any chance someone's tried these tools on OS X Mountain Lion?

Thanks!

chef · **Posted:** Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:11 pm

opq wrote:

Hi, is there any chance someone's tried these tools on OS X Mountain Lion?

Thanks!

What exactly you mean?

opq · **Joined:** Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:55 am **Posts:** 20

Ive seen a lot of apps not work correctly under ML so I wanted to be sure

chef · **Posted:** Sun Aug 05, 2012 10:00 am

opq wrote:

Ive seen a lot of apps not work correctly under ML so I wanted to be sure

Have you not read the thread title?

This is no discussion place about OS' and their issues. And you have already made similar posts in other threads, that could be easily called crossposting, which is not allowed.

voodoozz · **Joined:** Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:52 pm **Posts:** 2

Hello there,

I am looking like mad for the firmware of my Matshita UJ-8A8 HA13 drive, but I am absolutely not able to find it... :-(

Maybe someone can help me?

I want to free my drive from region code and so I am looking for the original and the RCP1 firmware...

I hope that I did not miss any necessary information.

Thanks a lot in advance.

I hope that I will be able to flash the drive under OS 10.8

Cheers,
Voodoozz

eFlat7 · **Joined:** Sun Aug 26, 2012 5:40 am **Posts:** 4

Hello. Total n00b here, but I think I'm honoring the request rules. If I've not followed exact protocol, I apologize.

I have a new 2012 MacBook Pro (MacBookPro9,1).

DVD Info X information:
Vendor: Matshita
Model: DVD-R UJ-8A8
Firmware: HB14
Status: RPC-1 (region free)

I have successfully flashed to RPC-1 (even though Region X states UnknownRPCstate). What I need, however, is to remove riplock. I have NO idea about digging into firmware. Is there anyone who can easily patch the firmware for me? I'd even be willing to make a small "donation" for this, if successful. Trying to rip hundreds of DVDs (DVDs that I legally own, and for my viewing only) and this is just getting painfully slow being capped in MakeMKV at 2.0x

Someone has posted the following links to existing firmware:
http://www.mediafire.com/?6auf25b5ouz0naz ORIGINAL
http://www.mediafire.com/?969c48tc58orkaf RPC-1

Thanks for any help.

chef · **Posted:** Mon Aug 27, 2012 12:32 pm

Who says that drive has a riplock really?

Get an unencrypted DVD and rip it to the hdd, then you should have the real speed...

eFlat7 · **Joined:** Sun Aug 26, 2012 5:40 am **Posts:** 4

chef wrote:

Who says that drive has a riplock really?

Get an unencrypted DVD and rip it to the hdd, then you should have the real speed...

Hi Chef! Thanks for the reply. I did exactly what you said. I had a double sided encrypted DVD that I had ripped, unencrypted, and burned to two single sided DVDs a few years ago. I tested ripping the originally encrypted disc and the unencrypted disc.

Encrypted disc:
Read Rate: 2.6 M/s [2.0x]

Unencrypted disc:
Read Rate: 6.4 M/s [4.9x]

I actually didn't know the encryption is what activated the riplock. I thought it was just the drive slowing the playback of any video DVD.

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