NEW OPTION: 'UHD Friendly' Firmware Downgrade / Cross-Flash Using Official (Modified) ASUS Flasher for ASUS & LG Drives

[Billycar11]

Just got a new old stock BW-16D1HT that was manufactured in May of 2017 and has 3.01 on it. I want to rip uhd and bluray. What firmware do I put on it?

You don't need any firmware you already have one that will work

[MartyMcNuts]

Just got a new old stock BW-16D1HT that was manufactured in May of 2017 and has 3.01 on it. I want to rip uhd and bluray. What firmware do I put on it?

As Billycar11 said, 3.01 is already UHD compatible.

[jonghotti]

Just got a new old stock BW-16D1HT that was manufactured in May of 2017 and has 3.01 on it. I want to rip uhd and bluray. What firmware do I put on it?

Nice score! Please do not load any firmware on it you are good to go and that thing is a collectors item!

[gamergomer]

appreciate the help everybody! I'm playing with it as we speak!

[Rossa]

Thanks Marty for the BP50NB40 Hybrid firmwares. Just got one yesterday, flashed it and it's working great with UHD's!

[MartyMcNuts]

Thanks Marty for the BP50NB40 Hybrid firmwares. Just got one yesterday, flashed it and it's working great with UHD's!

Welcome!

[jmm5102]

Hello Everyone,

First time poster here. I've been using MakeMKV for about 9 months now, and have had amazing success with it while building my Plex server. A few months ago I upgraded my server PC, and thought that it would also be good to add some UHD media to it as well. I have the ASUS BW-16D1HT, and back in May I was able to rip about 10-12 4K discs after following the instructions on this thread (Dark Knight Trilogy, Braveheart, Inception, Interstellar, Saving Private Ryan, etc.).

Recently though, I have been having an issue that I cannot seem to find a solution for. On Thursday I purchased the Forrest Gump 25th Anniversary edition in 4K, and no matter what I try, the disc is not recognized by my drive. I originally flashed to the 3.02 firmware back in May, that's how I was able to get the other 4K discs to rip, and have tried the 3.10-MK FW, 3.03-MK, as well as WH16NS60 1.02 and 1.03 after reading through some of the later posts on this thread. All of these gave me zero luck with Forrest Gump. I am currently on MakeMKV v1.15.2(x64-release), and the drive is only a few months old.

If someone has posted this problem in an earlier post, and a solution has been found, I apologize for the repeat post. I have not gone through all 44 pages of this thread just yet. I also found another thread talking about an issue with the Forrest Gump 4K 25th Anniversary edition, and a dump was submitted, but updating to the latest version of MakeMKV didn't solve my issue, so I wanted to see if anyone else had any luck in other ways.

Any help in this matter is highly appreciated. Forrest Gump is one of my favorite movies, and I must have it in 4K! Especially since I just worked through the issues I was having with 4K playback (That's a whole other story).

[Billycar11]

Clean the disc
Clean the laser on drive
Get new disc
Get new drive

[jmm5102]

Clean the disc
Clean the laser on drive
Get new disc
Get new drive

Thanks for the advice. I cleaned the disk with no success. Other UHD Discs still work, so I have purchased a second copy. It will be here Thursday, and hopefully I will have better luck with that.

[Billycar11]

Thanks for the advice. I cleaned the disk with no success. Other UHD Discs still work, so I have purchased a second copy. It will be here Thursday, and hopefully I will have better luck with that.

that disc is a BD100 https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Forrest- ... ay/238592/ just because other UHD discs work does not mean BD 100s will most UHDs are BD 66

[SamuriHL]

Triple layer discs can be a pain. I've got 3 drives, 2 ns60 and one Asus, all flashed with ns60 1.00 firmware and reripping all my Dolby vision titles over the weekend was challenging. Yes with 3 drives.

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[jmm5102]

Thanks for the advice. I cleaned the disk with no success. Other UHD Discs still work, so I have purchased a second copy. It will be here Thursday, and hopefully I will have better luck with that.

that disc is a BD100 https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Forrest- ... ay/238592/ just because other UHD discs work does not mean BD 100s will most UHDs are BD 66

That's good info to know for the future. The UHD movie I tested, to see if the drive was still reading UHD at all, was Inception, which, according to the website you linked in your post, is also BD100.

[MartyMcNuts]

FYI,

The flasher & firmware pack link in the original post has been updated with the latest MK firmware pack (20/07/2020).

[jmm5102]

FYI,

The flasher & firmware pack link in the original post has been updated with the latest MK firmware pack (20/07/2020).

Thanks for the tip. I actually was using the most recent versions, as I downloaded the pack on the 24th or 25th. Still no luck with that, but I have hope for the fresh copy of the movie arriving on Thursday.

[jmm5102]

The new Forrest Gump 4K disc came in today, and I was able to rip it without any issues. Thanks for the help!