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Dont get too excited because I can`t remember exactly how I did it, but I certainly didn`t do any soldering and watched Final Fantasy Reg1 last night on my British player.

I posted a full description of my `process` at:http://www.vcdhelp.com/hacklist/dvdplayershack.html

look under sony 536

hope this helps people.

Joe, London

do u have numbers on ur remote?

Need help!
I only get test mode screen what do I from this point I don`t have numbers on remote

This item was edited on Saturday, 12th January 2002, 13:12

Make changes and screw up your player !!! This thread is BS

Steve

This item was edited on Saturday, 2nd February 2002, 08:45

OK, here`s what I think happened. Final Fantasy R1 is an RCE disc, now, as we know, RCE discs come up with the map of the world and tell you the disc cannot be played on non-region 1 machines. Now, some RCE discs can be played on even UNMODIFIED machines, such as the Toshibas and some Sonys. By selecting, TITLE 1, CHAPTER 1, some RCE discs can play, even on an unmodified SONY DVD Player.

I have personally been able to make Hollow Man work on a non-modified Sony DVP-S336, by using the TITLE and SKIP buttons, but THE PATRIOT cannot be played by this method. I would guess that this is how our friend above managed to make Final Fantasy play. I actually own this disc on R1, so I will try and reproduce that and post my findings here.

I would also like to point out that you will achieve NOTHING by going into the service menu (TITLE, CLEAR, POWER) and could potentially wreck your laser alignment if you hap-hazardly change settings.
There is NO REMOTE HACK using the Sony DVD Players original remote control, so you CANNOT make this machine multi region no matter WHAT KEYS you press!

I hope that ends this tedious thread!

Steve

This item was edited on Saturday, 2nd February 2002, 08:48