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Look I don't really want to argue with you but the Asus mk 3.10 firmware most definitely works in all software that work with a friendly drive. The ns55 mk firmware may not. That's due to the changes LG made to the 1.03 firmware for that drive. The downgrade enabled version ie 1.02 of the ns55 definitely does work with all uhd friendly software.The software does not work with DeUHD for sure. Look anyway thank you for your kind help. Can you tell me link to make donation to support Redfox and the community.
Look I don't really want to argue with you but the Asus mk 3.10 firmware most definitely works in all software that work with a friendly drive. The ns55 mk firmware may not. That's due to the changes LG made to the 1.03 firmware for that drive. The downgrade enabled version ie 1.02 of the ns55 definitely does work with all uhd friendly software.
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I did use both version of firmware which all work brilliant with MakeMKV.
See MK versions attached. But this software is not compatible with DeUHD, AnyDVDHD or DVDfab.
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Look I don't really want to argue with you but the Asus mk 3.10 firmware most definitely works in all software that work with a friendly drive. The ns55 mk firmware may not. That's due to the changes LG made to the 1.03 firmware for that drive. The downgrade enabled version ie 1.02 of the ns55 definitely does work with all uhd friendly software.
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For the ns55 you really do not need to be screwing around with dosflash. Just get the 1.02 DE version of the firmware and flash it with the same windows flasher. Done.
I did use both version of firmware which all work brilliant with MakeMKV.
See MK versions attached. But this software is not compatible with DeUHD, AnyDVDHD or DVDfab.
So has I said brilliant improvement for MAKEMKV but not for the other third party softwares.
---Interesting results. My LG BH16NS55 flashed fine to the ASUSW-16D1HT_302.bin. But my Pacific Rim UHD disc freezes exactly in the same moment as before.
But my new ASUS drive BC-12D2HT (downgraded to 3.00) plays perfectly fine without freezing... So it is working better than the LG.
Ok, I am going to refresh LG-BS16NS5 with the UHD friendly flasher and the 1.02 software which I have not yet tried.
I do think it would be a great idea if the flasher had a facility to backup original software especially on new drive. I apologise if I seem to be arguing. I really am very grateful to you for your kind help so a big thank you. I test with Mike MK 1.03 and DeUHD did not like it.
When I disassemble to night I will spend day testing and I am sure you will be 100% right about everything.
Will buy extra licence tonight.
Thanks for your kind and extremly good and short explanation SamuriHL and help to all others including Mike etc
I'm irritated by some further below statement quotes 4) and 5) which got me to below thought
"That some BH16NS55s crossflashed to an Asus BW16D1HT could have issues e.g. with writing and perhaps also with ripping UHD/or with certain UHD software, could it have s.th. to do that the original BH16NS55 laser-calibration-data transferred over along, that it might be because it doesn't play together with the main target Asus BW-16D1HT firmware?
So that the main-firmware trusts in itself to turn the disc too fast which could make problems with some laser-CB-data not compatible to higher speeds?"
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Here it's about playback having issues with BH16NS55 crossflashed to BW-16D1HT.
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I don't want to make assumptions about something I don't KNOW for sure. As such the only thing I can say here is that in that particular case of the NS55 cross flashed drive, you would need to cross flash it using the unsafe dosflash method using BW-16D1HT calibration data with the NS55's encryption data and test playback on that exact same disc to know for sure if it's the calibration data that's causing issue. I can't say for sure that it's not, but, my gut feel is that it's not the calibration data that caused that issue. But that's a guess and I don't like going by guesses.
Big apology I have now found the 3.10 file sorry about that.
I will test tonight, if your drive is an friendly drive by dos flasher 3.02 do you need to restore factory 3.03 with dos write so that drive is back to factory condition before you flash with 3.10?
So just go be 100% sure I flashed my friends drive last week using dos flash to 3.02.
So what you are telling me I can flash 3.10 straight over this version. Sorry for mishap not finding 3.10 1st time. Will buy glasses
Ok I am about to try and update the firmware on BW-16D1HT with UHD friendly software in it done by dos flash. I have 2 firmware flashers by mike. I do not know which one to use so I have uploaded both so maybe you can tell me?
I did use both version of firmware which all work brilliant with MakeMKV.
See MK versions attached. But this software is not compatible with DeUHD, AnyDVDHD or DVDfab.
So has I said brilliant improvement for MAKEMKV but not for the other third party softwares. Buy I understand this it is business. Mike's interest and time are invested in developing MakeMKV work better and be compatible with more drives and I support this and will be making a donation now in my appreciation of what he has done.
Well Done Mike
Well yes, the other way around in his case (if he keeps his CB-data from the safe method), that the main target BW-16D1HT firmware instead causing the issue, not being compatible to his specific's unit CB-data.
So if using another new/newer BW-16D1HT UHD-friendly-main target-firmware (prepared by Mike), with the safe methode it might work with his unit's CB-data
Other people like coopervid says his BH16NS55 crossflashed to BW-16D1HT doesn't have any of issues if I understood him correcty.
Afaik "John Bank" still had issues with Mike's MK firmware pack with Bh16NS55 to BW-16D1HT 3.10 with those libre vendor command patches , crossflashed to, didn't he with 3 types of ripping software????
Coopervid didn't mention anything about that he did that complicated trick like you seperating your unit's CB-data off by another one to the target BW-16D1HT firmware, which with your NS60 would be fully functioning. Afaik as I had understood you
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OK but anyways there are many few contradicting statements, it's very problematic to believe for general crossflashing possabilities without resulting issues, when people come with stating such problems without real prooving !
Well yes, I then rather tend to believe SamuriHL.
Ok Update, I done all my drives and tested 5 different models. Yes they all work with MakeMKV and have micromode enable. Then I tried the LG-BS16NS55 with MakeMKV with mike's 1.03 MakeMKV worked fine, Dehud did not, AnyDVD did not & DVDfab did not. So I am doing disassemble the two versions to compare and also see why deUHD does not work. Great work with MakeMKV but other programs are left behind. Dos version works with all programs but does not do mircocode in to memory.
So what I have done is left one of drive on 3.10 especially for enhanced support with Microcode / Micromode for the best support when using MakeMKV. My other three drives I have left my on Polish software dos method. I have found some faults in this method after making new assembly file and list file which is block 1E8000 - 1E84FF IS OK / 1E9000 - 1EBFFF is wrong, it should be 1E9000 - 1EC056 1F0000 - 1FFFFF & 1EC01B should be 1 byte change for firmware version name display i.e 33, 2E, 30, 31 is output 3.01 and 31, 2E, 30, 32 would be 1.02 etc it is important not to overwrite 1EEC000 - 1EC057 as this is unique to the drive. I have noticed on some clean versions of software that this filled.
I believe mike is on a level on his own and all the other software programs are a few steps behind mike. But bear in mind we still need programs like AnyDVDHD which can rip a Blu-ray disc to an ISO for you own personal backup and also protect your investments. But I believe twenty years from now you will be able just to mount your ISO in Google or other type cloud storage and watch your movie. I believe they will have the ability to let you stream your own ISO's straight to your TV.
Thanks Mike for a super enhanced version of MakeMKV firmware 3.10
P. S. I believe you can cross flash the ns55 with the Asus mk 3.10 firmware and that will also make it uhd friendly.
The software does not work with DeUHD for sure. Look anyway thank you for your kind help. Can you tell me link to make donation to support Redfox and the community.
Does anyone actually have a changelog for the 3.10 firmware. ASUS isn't sharing anything. Seems to me that the firmware is nothing more than another attempt at suckering [regular] people into updating to make things more difficult.
mikech told us what the fixes are and they are pretty significant. It fixes the sleep bug for one. But also is much more stable overall and seems to be better at handling triple layer discs. They did remove the ability for official 3.10 to be downgraded with downgrade enabled firmware, but, mikech removed the restriction in the MK version, as well. The MK version that he released has all the benefits of 3.02 plus the bug fixes. It's what I put on my drive and have zero intention of going back.
Updating to the 3.10 MK firmware unfortunately has downsides. After updating the ASUS BW-16D1HT is no longer supported by DeUHD. DeUHD informs the user of this. It might (?) impact DVDFab as well since they are working with Arusoft. That said, it's fixable by downgrading to the 3.02 DE firmware using the modified ASUS flasher.
tldr If you only use AnyDVD and/or MakeMKV then the 3.10 MK firmware is great. If you need to also be able to use DeUHD then DO NOT update.