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For most Nintaus players - Region and Macrovision

To turn Macrovision off, and make your DVD region free.
1. Open the tray
2. With the remote, put in the numbers 9 9 2 6
3. Choose region 9 (region-free), and choose Macrovision Off
4. Close the tray.
Ok to run

For N9808 - Macrovision

Unfortunately Macrovision is only removable with a firmware upgrade/crossgrade

Update: I recently tried did the upgrade on my own unit with great results. Here's my instructions and what to expect.
Burn the MTK.BIN file to a cd-r using Joliet and disc at once. Name the disc MEDIATEK.

Insert the disc into the player and you will get a screen which allows you to confirm whether you want to upgrade. One click will complete the operation so this is the time to pull out if you are nervous. If you decide to continue, the screen will indicate that the unit is upgrading. Shortly thereafter, the disc will be automatically ejected. There is no confirmation that the unit has successfully upgraded, the message still says "upgrading". It caused me quite a bit of stress, but now you just need to remove the disc, press close, power down, power up and…Bob's your uncle, you have a macrovision free N9808.

The suggestion that you should wait until the unit resets by itself might be worth it, but for me it just didn't happen. Wait if you like. Just walk away and make a coffee. If it doesn't reset by itself, just do what I did. Hopefully the player is still under warranty. Just take it back and plead ignorance if you get a major disaster.

Unfortunately I didn't take down my version number before the upgrade so I can't give you those details. If anyone tries it, if you could give those details in the guestbook for me to post, that would be great.

N9808.zip

Macrovision hack posted by Peter Swiatkowski at August 02 2003: Posted on DVDRHELP.COM

Instructions:

To create the firmware update CD...
- Extract the MTK.BIN file from the zip aarchive.
- Burn MTK.BIN onto a (blank) CD-R, usingg ISO-Level 1, Mode 1, no Multisession (!), naming it (the CD) MEDIATEK

Using the CD to update the player firmware...
- Turn the power on, insert the update CDD and close the tray.
- Follow the instructions on your TV screeen (ie press PLAY to start the update; either the front panel PLAY button or the one on the remote can be used).
- DO NOT press any keys during the actuall update process, nor should the player be switched off or should the power supply be interrupted by any means!
- The tray opens automatically a few secoonds after the update starts. Remove the CD and wait for the player to reset itself - just under minute after starting the update - and the player will close its tray. This minute can feel like a long time but you must resist the urge to intervene; or you may end up with a dead n9808.

This worked for me, but I'm not sure whether there is more than one version of the n9808, so use this firmware at you own risk.

Note that the player is region free out of the box. The macrovision supressed firmware leaves the player region free.

As near as I can tell neither verion of the firmware is RCE immune. One RCE disc I tried to play (both before and after the upgrade) just kept displaying the disc's "This disc is not formatted to play in this region" screen. Anyone got any ideas about this?

I don't know of any original firmware for this player so there's no going back.

For N9808 - Region

This one's safe

Press the following keys to check the firmware version of your player:

"SETUP" - "1" - "3" - "6" - "9" - "3x left" - "1x right"
A new entry appears in the setup menu, called "VERSION".

Set value of region code to "0" for region free

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