Minato region-free hacks

Open Tray.

Enter 0 1 1 1 from remote pad (appears as stars).

Then area code (1 or 2 or 3 or 4 etc) appears as the number.

close tray

Press the Open/Close button on the Remote Control to open the drive tray

Press the buttons 0 1 1 and then 1 on your remote control, in order, one at at time

A number of stars should appear in the top left hand corner of the onscreen display

Press the button 1 on your Remote Control to select Region 1, or 2 to select Region 2, and so on...

The word Region and then the number you selected should briefly appear on screen to confirm that the hack has been successful, however this may not be the case on some models

Note:- This hack may not work on machines with up to date firmware, although if it doesn't display the stars it doesn't necessary mean it hasn't worked.

Many R1 discs play automatically ( well over 75% it seems)

Ones that come up with the "wrong region" screen can be made to play by:

Press the " Prog" button.

press 1 , 1 then go down to where it says "start" and press enter.

The film will then start

It leaves "program" displayed on the screen but you can get rid of this by pressing "prog" ,selecting "stop", then "exit" (they highlight automatically when you press "prog" again anyway).

Using this method you should be able to get any disc to play.. It will suffice until the multiregion hack becomes known.