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Pioneer BD drives use the Renesas R8J32740 optical drive
controller (confirmed via BDR-XD08 teardown). Firmware
decompilation confirmed ARM Thumb-2 (ARMv6) instruction
set compiled with GNU C++.


Your project sounds interesting babayaga but I'm not sure about this reference to ARMv6.

As I ...

For the Pioneer BDR-211EBK Blu-ray drive, the latest official firmware versions include v1.54. Firmware v1.55 is officially intended for the Pioneer BDR-209 series, not the 211.

Or do I unterstand something wrong ....?


how much? :) the forum her doesn't work I want to research the last ...

WTB: BDR-S09 witj 1.55 firmware - the best would be postage from Europe can be lower firmware too, but i need .155 for research it .

Forum has been down for 24 hours .. :/

I really need it You need BDR-211EBK_UBK_FW155EU.exe or equivalent did not have it, need it for research thanks in advance! (211M)

I hope that this wouldn't sound offensive but I can't help but want to ask: in terms of like "layman interest" (i.e. getting a Pioneer drive crossflashed), is there currently any advantage of using this over BDRFlash? Or, does it aim at gaining one/some (e.g. "breakthrough" regarding post Dec 2022 ...

tomty89 wrote: Fri Jul 10, 2026 3:39 pm I feel like some people might not like it for the fact that the development involved reverse engineering BDRFlash...

Yes, that i understand, but its freeware. im not releasing naything, and i got most cdbs from offical upgrades..

I've made a flasher for pioneer drives, basically i'ts a easy mod, problem is having all the current firmwares for crossflashing. Im not going to release the firmwares, as long as im not allowed to, but i want this project to be open source and can be further upgraded, and also ported to linux, even ...

great readthrough and work! I don't know much at all about the MT1959 firmwares, I've been coding a new pioneer flasher for the past couple of weeks and are now done with it (or at least as far as i can go with the drives i got on hand), I wish there were a bigger community here in the forum for ...

Reverse engineering Pioneer serial number format — confirmed month at position 1 (A-M) and country at positions 2-3. Need help identifying the year encoding. Known data points: NIDL001216JP=Sep 2014, SEDL056253WL=May 2005. What formula gives these years?

Selling this NOS pioneer drive, testet for ripping and flash wth x60-firrmware.


$250 + shipping
Sending from Norway! I ship world wide.




More drives comming

MMakeMKV v1.18.3 win(x64-release) started
Error 'Scsi error - HARDWARE ERROR:441E' occurred while reading 'BD-RE PIONEER BD-RW BDR-XD06U 1.11 NIDL001216JP' at offset '33364246528'
Error 'Scsi error - MEDIUM ERROR:POSITIONING ERROR DETECTED BY READ OF MEDIUM' occurred while reading 'BD-RE PIONEER BD ...

i finally got a UD04 based of the 4k recommendation guide, but mine shows that the libredrive is not enabled and it cannot read 4k right not.

Manufacturer: PIONEER
Product: BD-RW BDR-UD04
Revision: 1.00
Firmware date: 2016-11-14
Bus encryption flags: 1B
Highest AACS version: 82

LibreDrive ...

I've never heard of NewEgg before, and I see they list different pioneer models as well, but extremely pricy for not knowing what you're going to get :/ Many of the pictures on there were taken from Yahoo auctions as well.

Mucio wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2026 6:09 pm You should use your mind and then you will understand.

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, (Yeah) yeah
Your head will collapse, if there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself...