Changing the internal PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109 Drive's Region Settings

[vidmarc]

I need to change the region code of my internal Pioneer drive.

However, I now have only one more go at doing so before the drive becomes locked to a particular region. Is there a way around this?

Is there a way of flashing the region to All Region?

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109
Firmware Revision: A912

[Case]

Build the drive into a PC, flash the firmware to RPC1, move it back into your Mac, reset the counter with Region X.

[vidmarc]

I don't have access to a PC.

[Case]

The unofficial flasher utility for Mac only works upto model DVR-108. After that the programmer retired from the scene. So there is no unrestricted Mac flasher utility for your drive, only ones that run on dos/win/linux.

[albloom]

DVRFlash 2.2 should do it:

http://lasvegas.rpc1.org/

The RPC1 data file for the 109 is at

http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?category=4&manufactor=25

You do have to go into "terminal" to do this. I friend and I wrote some
user notes (dummy's guide, if you will). If you'd like a copy, drop me
a note with your e-mail address.

I understand that you need RegionX (from macupdate.com) to actually
reset the number of region codes to zero after making the drive RPC1.

Then you do your 6 changes again, run RegionX again, etc.

[terryj]

Yes Joachim S did this for us a while back:
Joachim posts Flasher
for Mac to xlr8yourmac.com in 2005.

and here:
Joachim's Flasher Direct

Region X direct link here.