All Pioneer drives will be LibreDrive supported

[Venturer]

@Mile

If you can find it useful here it's the 1.03 firmware dump made by MKV of a Pioneer BDR-XS08 .......... i think it's the rarest Pioneer drive

https://limewire.com/d/np2VC#3SgwZ7OlRO

Hope it will be fully supported!

Thank you so much

[ChaosLegionnaire]

thanks for the software, mike. without makemkv, i would never buy any blu-ray movie disc because of the nazi-like copy protection... so the movie studios should thank you instead for boosting their blu-ray movie sales!!

so i wanna ask, does this also include adding uhd support to all pioneer drives that are bdxl capable but were pre-uhd? i'm asking since you need to flash the drive with custom firmware anyway using sdftool and adding 4k uhd blu-ray support to a bdxl capable but pre-uhd drive also requires a custom firmware flash, so might as well just kill 2 birds with 1 stone...

[Billycar11]

thanks for the software, mike. without makemkv, i would never buy any blu-ray movie disc because of the nazi-like copy protection... so the movie studios should thank you instead for boosting their blu-ray movie sales!!

so i wanna ask, does this also include adding uhd support to all pioneer drives that are bdxl capable but were pre-uhd? i'm asking since you need to flash the drive with custom firmware anyway using sdftool and adding 4k uhd blu-ray support to a bdxl capable but pre-uhd drive also requires a custom firmware flash, so might as well just kill 2 birds with 1 stone...

208 and newer for desktop will do UHD and
xd05 and newer for usb will do UHD
we are not sure if cross flashing will be reqired or not or it it will be added in like it was on the LG wh/bh series non UHD drives

[amoeba]

I'm so happy right now! I thought I'd missed my chance noticing all the EOL and Out-of-Stock notices on the pre-flashed vendors' websites, then I get to makemkv.com and see my S12UHT might be usable yet.

Well done you legends! For a while there I was worried that the Pioneers wouldn't be cracked.

[ChaosLegionnaire]

208 and newer for desktop will do UHD and
xd05 and newer for usb will do UHD

thanks for the heads up and this useful post. this is very useful information on what pioneer drives to look out for hoarding since they will no longer be made.

shame on pioneer for that ultra-nazi 2023 encrypted firmware scandal! serves them right for being driven out of business in the optical drive sector. money talks and the rest walk indeed... in one rare instance now, customers made a company "walk" through the power of their consumer dollar.

[CalicoSkies]

Very good news, but there are no more Pioneer burners available for purchase in the open market.

If you're only concerned about ripping though, you wouldn't need a burner, just one that can read discs..?

[MrEJ42]

Very good news, but there are no more Pioneer burners available for purchase in the open market.

If you're only concerned about ripping though, you wouldn't need a burner, just one that can read discs..?

I don't know if there even is such a thing as a UHD-BDROM drive. It would probably not be worth making for the cost.

[CalicoSkies]

Very good news, but there are no more Pioneer burners available for purchase in the open market.

If you're only concerned about ripping though, you wouldn't need a burner, just one that can read discs..?

I don't know if there even is such a thing as a UHD-BDROM drive. It would probably not be worth making for the cost.

I guess that's true.. I assumed there were such drives, but I guess it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense for those to exist.