Warning: if you
flash your optical drive with an unofficial firmware version your warranty will
be void. If you do not know what you're doing then simply don't flash your
drive!
wesociety, our NEC
Forum Moderator, reports that "The Dangerous Brothers" have
released a hacked firmware version (2.F8) for the NEC ND-3500A drive. The
firmware was extracted from the MadDog 16X DVD recorder, which can be
loaded in the NEC drive. The benefit of this is that this firmware version
supports Single Layer Bitsetting which means that you can turn your DVD+R discs
into DVD-ROM discs!
One disadvantage though was that when you flash
your NEC ND-3500A drive with the MadDog firmware the drive would have a
different ID-string, meaning that your NEC drive would be recognized as a MadDog
drive instead. Thanks to "The Dangerous Brothers" this has been fixed
as the ID-string has been changed to "_NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG 2.F8":
TDB have now patched a version with the NEC 3500 ID |
For more information you can visit this
thread in our NEC Forum. As mentioned at the beginning of this news post
please make sure you understand the consequences of flashing your drive with an
unofficial firmware version!
Source: Club CD Freaks
