Pioneer DVR-A04 firmware hack problems? PLEASE HELP!!!

[An_Alien]

I bought a Pioneer DVR-A04 (region 2) two weeks ago.
Last night I borrowed Matrix (region 1) off a mate to back up for him.

I used the region free firmware hack on this page:
http://kickme.to/dvd105s

I put the Matrix DVD in and copied it fine.
But I just put Sixth Sense (region 2) in the burner to watch on my PC but it's giving me the wrong region error message.

Checking the system properties for the drive it tells me it's set for region 1 playing and that I have 1 more change remaining, before applying the firmware hack I had 4 changes remaining.

What the Hell has happened??

I'm pretty certain all I need to do is switch back to region 2.
But when I switch back to region 2 the number of changes remaining is going to drop to 0 and I'll be stuck with a region 2 only burner.

Is there something else I should do to make my burner region free?? Or does the hacked firmware allow me to make further region changes, ignoring the number of changes remaining??

I'm really worried now, the firmware hack hasn't worked as I expected it would do, so I'm concerned that it doesn't behave as I expect it to when I switch back to region 2, like it screws the change up and I'm left with a useless burner sitting in my PC.

[davros]

hello an_alien I think you may be mistaken about your burner not being region free after using the region free firmware....windows itself keeps a record of how many region changes you have performed so you need a program to fool windows....usually region killer will do the trick.When I flashed my drive my changes left went from 5 down to 2 without even putting a disc in it!!! but by using software to fool windows I can play any region dvd....hope this helps

[An_Alien]

hello an_alien I think you may be mistaken about your burner not being region free after using the region free firmware....windows itself keeps a record of how many region changes you have performed so you need a program to fool windows....usually region killer will do the trick.When I flashed my drive my changes left went from 5 down to 2 without even putting a disc in it!!! but by using software to fool windows I can play any region dvd....hope this helps

Thanks and Sorry Davros,
I should've replied to my original post or removed it.
The day after applying the hacked firmware I used the last changet to fix it at region 2.
At first I figured "So what if I can't read region 1 DVD's??"
Then I tried an r2 disk and it worked, then I tried Matrix (r1) and it worked too. (This was using SmartRipper, which incidentally doesn't need to have the files unlocked by playing them now.

The only problem I have now is playing films using the burner.
I can use PowerDVD to play them (RegionKiller for The Matrix)

But when I'm using IFOEdit and play anything in that it'll now crash.
Windows Media Player 7 and WinDVD crash with some files too.

I'm using XP and everything worked fine before, I can live without beng able to play some files in some apps, I'm good enough to backup a DVD then test it in PowerDVD now to do without the checking it in IFOEdit.
But it'd be nice if I didn't have to.


In a nutshell:
The hacked firmware worked but introduced a couple of minor problems that I can live with.