Hey everyone. I am huge believer in enabling people to backup and preserve their physical media collections. This includes the maintenance of their optical drives too. I don't believe you should be forced to pay people to do so, but I do encourage you use whatever tool you feel most comfortable with!
Im not here to try and get you to use my tool, just to say its here if you want it.
Largest collection of OEM firmware:
https://freemkv.org/firmware/find/
This page will tell you if it thinks there are compatible cross flashes so you can download them too. Ex. Search for UD03 and see UD04 is a potential cross flash. Use as your own discretion!!
Open source cross platform flasher:
https://freemkv.org/firmware/flash/
I didn't make this a specific "cross flashing tool". You download a firmware, you flash it. If its "allowed" or "safe" we do it. Simply put, you control what firmware you flash to your drive. We handle getting that firmware onto the drive (like the 2022 era downgrade stuff).
Read all documentation here:
https://freemkv.org/docs/firmware-tools/
It backs up into OEM format files that you can share and others can flash, or upload to me and Ill put on website if they are truly OEM ones I am missing. The more OEM you can share the better for everyone!
It takes about 2 mins to backup (I read twice and verify heavy), and < 60 seconds to flash.
Its open source, contributors welcome. Branch it and make your own tool from it. Do as you like. Its all MIT licensed.
No warranty of guarantees of anything! This is being tested by a few people other than myself, hopefully they will post their successes or failures here.