Goodmans region-free hacks

Firstly put in your Region 1 disc into the player on the screen it will display wrong region press1 and skip forward at the same time this will start the movie

This Hack was emailed into dvdhacks.co.uk by Gary Morton

Finally got this hack from a very reliable source

after months of waiting and searching for a remote

hack for the Goodmans GDVD 125 machine.

What you have to do is:

Press SETUP on the Remote Control

Go To Custom

Press 3 3 3 3

And the hidden menu will appear, offering you the

options to hack your machine.

Hope this will help anyone else out there, who has the

same machine as myself, this remote hack worked for me

first time, so it has been tested by me.

Press the Open/Close button on your remote control

Press the 2 button on your remote control

Press the 8 button on your remote control

Press the 1 button on your remote control

Press the 2 button on your remote control

Press the Enter button on your remote control

Using the Down button on your remote control, select the Country Code option and press the

Enter button on your remote control

You will now be presented with four dashes, press the 1 button on your remote control for

region 1, press 2 for region 2, and so on, or press 0 for multi-region playback

Press the Enter button on your remote control

Press the Open/Close button on your remote control

Power On the unit and with no DVD in the tray

Press Set-Up, Menu, Step, Previous and Next

A service menu should now be displayed allowing region Bypass to be selected

Ensure there is no disc in the player

Press Setup, Menu, Step, Previous and Next on the remote control

A service menu should appear

Select the required region or use Bypass for region free

Open the the player drawer

Press 9 8 1 7 on the Remote

You will now be in the hidden menu where you can change the Region from 1 to 6 by pressing Enter on the Remote. Selecting 9 sets it to Region free

You can also disable Macrovision from this screen

If your TV does not support NTSC, you can also set the output to PAL from this screen

Press Set-up on remote

Onscreen menu will appear, press Next, Previous, Next, Previous

Ver2 should appear in the top right hand corner of the screen

Use Right and Left buttons to change this to Ver255 which is multi regional

Press Set-up again and your done

Open the drive tray

Press buttons 7 and 4 on the Remote Control. If this doesn't work, you may have to enter the digits 7 and 7 instead

Press Enter

A hidden menu will appear where you can scroll down to Country Code and using the Select button, choose any Region between 1 and 6, or select 13 for Region free

Press Return to exit the menu

Thanks to Luke for the information

Turn on the player and Open draw

Press Setup

Select Custom

Press 3 3 3 3 3

This opens the secret settings menu offering Regions 0-6 (choose 0 for Region free)

VCD Hack:

Turn On the player

Put a music CD on the tray and Close the door with the Close button on the player

The music CD should start playing, when it does, press the Open button on the player

Now put the VCD on the tray

Close the tray with the Close button on player

Press Menu then 5 on the remote

Wait for Stop to appear on the display

Press 0 0 0 1, Play then 0

The VCD should now start playing

Press the Setup button on the Remote Control

Press Vol+, Vol-, Vol+, Vol-

The onscreen display should show "VER #" indicating the currently Region setting

Using the Left and Right cursor keys, change the Region code to 1 for Region 1, 2 for Region 2, and so on, or set it to 255 for multi-Region playback

Press Setup

Turn On the player and Eject the disc tray

On the remote press 2 8 1 2 followed by Enter

This gets you to the engineers menu

Press Down until you reach COUNTRY CODE and press Enter

The current region code will change to four dashes (----)

Input one number (0=Region Free, 1=USA 2=Europe, etc) and press Enter again

The new region code will now be displayed. You can exit by just pressing the Eject button once more

VCD Hack 1:

Turn On the player and place a VCD on the open tray

Using the front panel press Close quickly followed by Menu and 5 on the remote

This should load and play the disc. If the disc fails to play then press 0 0 0 1 and the disc should then play

VCD Hack 2:

Turn On unit and open draw

Press 2 8 1 2 and Enter on the remote to get the engineers page

Insert your VCD and close the draw

When the VCD has loaded you will have a blue screen with a yellow square in the corner

Press 0 0 0 1 on your remote and the VCD will play

Timing is NOT important on this hack

Press Menu

Key in 1 6 7 on your remote control

The key region box will pop up

Key in the region you want

Press Mute

VCD Hack:

Insert a music CD

Press Menu, 5 and Eject on the remote control

The tray should stay closed

Press 1, Index, Menu and Eject on the remote

A menu should now appear

Press 1 to enable VCD playback

Open the tray

Close the tray, making sure that there is no DVD on it

Press DVD/TV to take the screen to TV mode

Press Return

Press Display and then enter 8 8 8 0

Open the the player drawer

Press 9 8 1 7 on the Remote

You will now be in the hidden menu where you can change the Region from 1 to 6 by pressing Enter on the Remote. Selecting 9 sets it to Region free

You can also disable Macrovision from this screen

If your TV does not support NTSC, you can also set the output to PAL from this screen

Power on the player and Open the tray

Key in 8 1 3 2 8

Press Enter until you highlight 9 (Multi-Region)

VCD Hack:

Turn On the player and place a VCD on the open tray

Using the front panel press Close quickly followed by Menu and 5 on the remote

This should load and play the disc. If the disc fails to play then press 0 0 0 1 and the disc should then play

Put the player into Standby

Press 0, 0 on the remote control

Press 1 for region 1, 2 for region 2 etc.

To verify the current region press 0, 0 and +10 to indicate the region on the front panel

Press Set-up on remote and an on screen menu will appear

Press Next, Previous, Next and Previous

Ver2 should appear in the top right hand corner of the screen

Use Right and Left buttons to change this to Ver255 which is multi regional

Press Set-up again and you’re done

1. Press the Open/Close button on the remote control.

2. Using the remote control, key in the following: 2 8 1 2, Enter.

3. Using the Down button on the remote control, select the Country Code option and press the Enter button.

8. You will now be presented with four dashes, press the 1 button on the remote control for region 1, press 2 for region 2, and so on, or press 0 for region free. Try 9 if 0 does not work. Try 255 if 9 does not work.

9. Press the Enter button on the remote control.

10. Press the Open/Close button on the remote control.

Submitted to DVDHACKS by Dave L

1. Press the Open button on your remote control to open the drive tray

2. Press the Setup button on your remote control

3. Press the Next button on your remote control

4. Press the Previous button on your remote control

5. Press the Next button on your remote control

6. Press the Previous button on your remote control

7. A code should appear on the top left hand corner of the onscreen display

8. Using the Left and Right direction buttons on your remote control, change the code to VER 1 for region 1 playback,

VER 2 for region 2, and so on, or VER 255 for multi-region playback

NB: You may need to use the up and down buttons to select the region option before you change it

9. You can also change the code to VER 3001 to enable parental controls, or VER 3000 to disable these controls

NB: You may need to use the up and down buttons to select the parental controls option before you change it

10. You can also change the code to VER 4001 to enable Macrovision, or VER 4000 to disable this feature

NB: You may need to use the up and down buttons to select the Macrovision option before you change it

11. You can also change the code to VER 5001 to disable VCD/SVCD playback, or VER 5000 to enable this feature

NB: You may need to use the up and down buttons to select the VCD/SVCD playback option before you change it

12. Press the Setup button on your remote control

* Switch on the DVD player - you don't need to open the drawer.

* Press 1 6 7 1 9 one by one on the remote.

* A hidden configuration menu comes up. Press OK on the remote, then 0 to change the configuration

number to 0.

* You should now see that the region is set to ALL.

* Press EXIT on the remote.

Slight downside with the player, although it converts NTSC to PAL, the quality is not very good (player

pauses every 3~4 seconds). However, if player output is set to NTSC, no problem. Power on player

Open drawer

Enter 3 4 9 7 3 4

Enter 0 for multi Region

Display will flash 'Region Full'

1.Press setup from the handset. The setup menu now appears on screen.

2.Press next button on handset.

3.Press previous button on handset.

4.Press next button on handset.

5.Press previous button on handset.

6.Current version number should now appear in the top right hand corner of the screen. Using the right and

left buttons on the handset change the 'ver' number until ver255 appears. This is the code for multi-region.

7.Press setup on the handset. The setup menu will now reappear.

8.press setup on the handset to exit the setup menu.

PUT THE MACHINE IN STANDBY MODE

POWER IT UP FROM THE FRONT PANEL

OPEN DISK TRAY VIA FRONT PANEL BUTTON

MAKE SURE DISC TRAY IS EMPTY

CLOSE DISK TRAY VIA FRONT PANEL BUTTON

PRESS TV/DVDR ON CONTROLLER

PRESS RETURN ON CONTROLLER

PRESS DISPLAY ON CONTROLLER

ENTER 8 8 8 0 ON CONTROLLER

All controller commands must be pressed very quickly

The button sequences must be entered very fast to activate the region free mode:

* MESSAGE APPEARS ON SCREEN SAYING REGION-FREE*

Press the DVD function on your TV set

Press Set-up on your remote control

Press 1 3 7 9, in order, one at a time

Select option and using your remote control, change it to 1 for region 1, 2 for region 2, and so on, or 0 for multi-region playback

1,PUT INTO DVD SCREEN MODE

2,PRESS DVD SETUP KEY AND HAVE THIS SET ON SCREEN

3,USE THE REMOTE,KEY IN 1 3 6,AND 9 THEN IMMEDIATELY PRESS THE LEFT NAVIGATION ARROW 3 TIMES FOLLOWED BY THE RIGHT ARROW ONCE

4,NOW YOU WILL SEE A NEW OPTION ONSCREEN NAMED VERSION.

5,ENTER INTO VERSION AND SELECT REGION CODE AS REQUIRED 0 IS REGION FREE.

Put into DVD screen mode

Press the DVD Setup key and have this set on-screen

Use remote to key in 1 3 6 9 then immediately press the Left navigate arrow 3 times, followed by the Right key once. (this takes some practice, so don't stand too close to the TV)

Now you will see a new option on-screen named VERSION

Enter into Version and select region code as required (which means the code free option)

1. Turn on player

2. Open player disc tray

3. Press 1 2 3 4 on remote

4. Insert disc

5. Press play