philippe::niquille | regular niche market thoughts

It’s annoying that after changing dvd regions for like three times the drive’s firmware locks it to that certain region and refueses to run any other dvd. Fortunately there are a few modified firmware versions cruising around that on some models even speed up burning or read/write dvd-rw! See for yourself:

You need a small app called Region X in order to control the region selection - You need a reflashed drive for this tool to not do any harm to your superdrive (That would be like blocking it entierly, I never tried it actually..)!

• So first of all find out which exact superdrive model (or whatever is residing in your mac) you have built-in (Apple -> About this computer -> System -> ATA)
• Check either this site or this one for a suitable firmware. Choose the right one that exactly matches your drive.
• Then carefully follow the instructions and flash the drive - do not take any action unless you really know what you’re about to do
• Check your region settings by playing the following dvd iso.

Have fun!