BH10LS30 (LG) modified firmware & region reset

[Subprime4829]

I know this drive is labeled in MakeMKV as "possible, might be supported in the future, but not likely soon" so there's no LibreDrive support right now. However, it is one of the last drives that is supported in the old MediaCodeSpeedEdit which allows modifying the original firmware with an RPC2 auto reset patch which allows you to change the DVD region code an unlimited amount of time. So once you change the region five times, it resets itself back to five changes allowed.

The latest official firmware is 1.02-A0, released in 2013. However, MediaCodeSpeedEdit only mentions support for 1.00-09 from 2010. Which I guess makes sense since it hasn't been updated since 2011.

My questions now are:

1. Can I patch 1.02-A0 with the RPC2 auto reset patch from MediaCodeSpeedEdit or will that brick the drive?
2. For whatever reason, after a rebooting my computer, it always only shows three allowed region changes. I can still change the region over and over again until it resets itself back to five but after each reboot, it goes back to three. What's up with that? (Sure, that changes nothing in practice but it triggers my OCD lol)
3. Is there any other alternative firmware or tool that allows me to modify the original firmware?

[Coopervid]

Forget about this old drive.

[dcoke22]

A drive that is LibreDrive compatible can rip things regardless of the region code. As Coopervid suggests, you could move on from the old drive and rip things regardless of the region.

[Subprime4829]

Forget about this old drive.

Sure, there's no 4K support but other than that, it's still a perfectly capable drive that works with CDs, DVDs and regular Blu-rays.

I've been seeing some people here still running Blu-ray/HD DVD combo drives from LG which are actually direct predecessors of this drive so I'm sure someone must have tried modding them?

[Billycar11]

Forget about this old drive.

Sure, there's no 4K support but other than that, it's still a perfectly capable drive that works with CDs, DVDs and regular Blu-rays.

I've been seeing some people here still running Blu-ray/HD DVD combo drives from LG which are actually direct predecessors of this drive so I'm sure someone must have tried modding them?

what more could you want you got your unlimited region reset as you say its good for what you need.
if you want more features get a current drive no one is developing mods for 10+ year old optical drives.

[sounds]

Following up on this for future reference - and YMMV - but I dug out this drive (forgot I had it) and it was running v1.02-A0 firmware. I also forgot that I had MCSE, so I fired that up - pointed it at this fimware and enabled both the rip speed and RPC1 patch, then saved the resulting file. Ran that to update the drive firmware, power cycled the drive (it's in a USB enclosure) and it then happily ripped a bluray disc using makemkv at a reported peak of 8.7X. So yes, as a drive to rip DVDs and Blurays to save wear on your BDXL drive(s), it seems to work fine

[TwitchyLens]

Following up on this for future reference - and YMMV - but I dug out this drive (forgot I had it) and it was running v1.02-A0 firmware. I also forgot that I had MCSE, so I fired that up - pointed it at this fimware and enabled both the rip speed and RPC1 patch, then saved the resulting file. Ran that to update the drive firmware, power cycled the drive (it's in a USB enclosure) and it then happily ripped a bluray disc using makemkv at a reported peak of 8.7X. So yes, as a drive to rip DVDs and Blurays to save wear on your BDXL drive(s), it seems to work fine

Could you please share your generated firmware or your speedsettings.txt? I just bought a "new" Blu-Ray drive, the BH10LS30, and had no clue that LibreDrive was a thing. I tried to follow your instructions but using MCSE made some trouble. The program never got a Linux port so I used wine to run it. I am not sure if MCSE ran the way it is supposed to (the speedsettings.txt looks kinda fishy) and I don't want to brick my drive.

This is my speedsettings.txt file:

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Media Code Speed Edit V 1.2.0.10
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Firmware: BH10NS30MAIN    REV LVL 1.02 110513
Bootcode: BH10NS30CORE
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Overall  supported media types:    0
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[gwhitcombe71]

sounds, tbh I'm not totally sold on flashing through a usb enclosure... (had a cheap one drop out halfway through a flash on an old dvd writer years back and that was the end of that drive, proper annoying). To be fair yours obviously went fine, but I reckon id plug it straight into sata if I could, or just leave the firmware stock and only patch the region bit if you actually need it. Also that 8.7X peak doesnt tell me much about the speed patch really, mine always peak high then crawl on the scuffed bits of a disc, so id want to see the average before calling it a win.