[Ti] Early holiday gift posted by XVI: DVD Region-free patch

[robert at elastica.com]

From what I understand if you revert the patch you'll get AA21 and I'm not
sure what Apple will think if they see that on your machine. I have AA17
on my 800 and I noticed that th patch authors site doesn't make AA17/AX17
available.

From what I understand his "patch" is not a patch but the complete
firmware so you'll simply upate your firmare to AX21 and if you revert the
patch by running it again you'll end up with AA21 and not AA11.

So if you try doing this upgrade and later your machine requires warranty
serice you might have a hard time explaining how AA21 got on there as I've
not seen any recent DVD firmware updates publically posted at Apples site.


 On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Ray M wrote:

> The author writes that...
>
> "This application will change your drive¹s firmware to the region free AX21
> version, or, if your drive is already using the AX21 version, it will prompt
> you to revert it to the region locked AA21 version. As the region locked
> version is an Apple official version, you may want to revert your drive to
> this version before sending the drive for repair, in case you ever need.
>
> The AX21 firmware was built by patching the AA21 firmware (which is region
> locked). The only modification is that it is RPC-1 (region-free).
> Once updated with a region free firmware, you will need the ³Region² utility
> to manage (unlimited) region change."
>
> My drive is an AA11 Will the patch work on my machine?
>
> Ray
>
>
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