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UJ-85J Drive Region Free
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Is there any region free firmware available for the UJ-85J Matshita drive on Leopard ? I found some a thread with the firmware on a thread in the rpc1 forums but unfortunately, the firmware flasher is only for tiger and i have leopard.
A download link for a leopard flasher would be much appreciated.
here's the rpc1 link - The Firmware Page :: View topic - Matshita and Apple RPC1 firmware: a summary
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The region code is more a thing of the apple DVD player software.
If you want to play DVDs from other regions, play them with the VLC video player, which you can download free. It doesn't give you trouble to play DVDs from other countries.
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Originally Posted by Veltliner 
The region code is more a thing of the apple DVD player software.
If you want to play DVDs from other regions, play them with the VLC video player, which you can download free. It doesn't give you trouble to play DVDs from other countries.
Wrong.
He needs to Flash his drive so it can play DVD's of any region.
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Region coding is handled both by the drive and the player software. moonmonkey is right that the drive needs new firmware to make it region-free - if that firmware is available. See this thread, and particularly this one for more in-depth discussion of the issue.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Originally Posted by moonmonkey
Wrong.
He needs to Flash his drive so it can play DVD's of any region.
Then why could I play a region 2 DVD using VLC, while it didn't play in my regular DVD player because of its being region 2?
Edit: that disc was the first DVD I played on my 24" iMac. Maybe you don't get a screen dialogue with your first disc. But isn't the drive set to region 1 by default? And when you put region 2 disc in, you have to switch to region 2?
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Originally Posted by Veltliner
Then why could I play a region 2 DVD using VLC, while it didn't play in my regular DVD player because of its being region 2?
It depends on the drive. In older DVD drives, you can still access the data even though it's of a different region, letting VLC perform the decoding; in newer drives, that doesn't work. (Case in point, the combo-drive on my old eMac had no problems playing a R3 DVD with VLC, the drive in my new Mac mini however, doesn't.)
Edit: To be fair, I haven't actually tried playing an R3 disc yet, but I tried playing an R2 disc with VLC without starting Apple DVD Player first, which was a no-go, which leads me to believe that it does extra checks for video-DVDs.
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Thanks for trying to help guys and sorry i left the thread for dead.
My problem got solved. The software flasher and the firmware were perfectly alright and the only reason i couldnt go ahead and flash my drive was because the software checked to see if tiger was installed before running. so i edited my systemversion plist file and made it 10.4.9 for a few minutes and the flasher worked perfectly. now i have a region free drive that i can reset as many times as i like.
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V Smart. 
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