Page 1 of Goodmans GDVD 68 MultiRegion Hack Please ?

I`ve just purchased a Goodmans GDVD 68 DVD player. To be hounest I`m really impressed with it, cost £90 and comes with everything to make it a nice portable player. I`m intending to use it in the car to keep the kids quite. Seems to be DIN E size and so it will fit in the dash. Also seems to handle the bumps well.

Anyway, anyone know of a MultiRegion hack for it? It seems to be based on the ALi M5705 and a ESS E6008F chips, if that helps.

Cheers



Gary

I deceided to open the player up even though I have only just got it. The major chips are as follows:

UU2 TI, 34A99YTA
UU7 Winbond, 3173H
U8 WM, WM8728
U3 EtronTech, EM638165TS-7
UU1 ALi, M5705
U1 ESS, VideoDrive ES6008F
UU5? Winbond, W39F010P-70B (a square chip, EEPROM I think, like PC ones)
U28 Label covering chip marked 03-29400-15 V1.0
U6 ELAN, EM78P153SP

Any of this lot point to any particular type of hack that I might try?

Anything sound familiar? In the meantime I`ll look at the Tevion hacks

I wouldn`t bother, Gary - it`s an ESS chipset player (ES 6008F).

I`ll do some digging for you :)

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This item was edited on Friday, 17th October 2003, 00:26

Sadly ES 6008F players are very hard to hack and also extremely rare. I`ve only come up with one so far :

OPEN
SETUP
91010
STEP
SHUFFLE
NEXT
CLOSE

To check it`s worked then key in :

OPEN
SETUP
SHUFFLE
STEP
NEXT

Scroll down to "DEBUG" and verify that it says "9" - if so the deck is hacked.

Any joy ?

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This item was edited on Friday, 17th October 2003, 00:27

Here`s another :

1. Open the drawer.
2. Press the `Setup` button.
3. Enter the code 728180 or 628180.



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Thanks for all your help so far.

None of those worked but then I may very well have fat fingers + the remote does not have those exact keys on, so I have had to guess.

I`m happy to take photos of the unit, the remote, setup screens and the insides if that helps identifiy the player and possible cracks, but where do I send them?

Feel free to wing them over to me at styalc[at]moc.054aera, Gary

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