Posted by Gene E. Bloch on 06/06/06 21:27

On 6/05/2006, OldIron posted this:
> I am curious how some of these region 'hacks' are discovered.
>
> Is there a 'system' or 'process' to how this might be done?
>
> I would love to region hack my machine, but have NO IDEA where to start.
> I'm capable/willing to solder/unsolder as well as experiment, but would
> appreciate a starting point.
>
> Other than that, does anyone have an authorized service manual/disc for this
> machine that might help?
>
> Just thoughts and hopes and simple questions, I hope.
>
> Thanks for any input that may eventuate in my being able to watch R2 & R4
> dvds without buying a new machine. (I honestly like the machine other than
> the evil region code, which I know they 'all' have.)
>
> OldIron
>
>
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Well, my system is to go to dvdhelp.com :-)

Enough kidding: I suspect that there are some engineers around who can
read the machine code of the processors in some of these machines
(reverse engineer or disassemble are a couple of names for what they
do).

If so, they can search though the code for ways to hack. They might
discover, as Frank Zabkar suggests, a simple test in the code that can
be hacked easily to change the result of a test for regions to always
OK.

They might also discover code that responds to remote key presses and
figure out a sequence of commands that turns off region testing.

Some people might just have the patience to do endless testing. That
would not include me, I suspect :-)

Gino

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