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Can't Read ROM
My friend recently had his 2003 Evo tuned at a local shop who used ECU Flash. After he melted a piston, I offered to take a quick look at his tune to see if anything major stood out to me. I connected to his car with a Tactrix 2.0 cable, and downloaded his ROM (ECU Flash v 1.43.3150), and it could not open it.
I have the entire Tephra pack of xml files in my metadabase, and still can't open it. I then figured his tune might be locked, so I tried ECU Unlocker and this also failed. I even let his car idle a few minutes before pulling the tune (and he has a new battery) to ensure it wasn't a voltage issue.
Any ideas? I think it may be locked, but why can't I unlock it? I've uploaded the file to see if anyone else can open it or has suggestions. Thanks.
I have the entire Tephra pack of xml files in my metadabase, and still can't open it. I then figured his tune might be locked, so I tried ECU Unlocker and this also failed. I even let his car idle a few minutes before pulling the tune (and he has a new battery) to ensure it wasn't a voltage issue.
Any ideas? I think it may be locked, but why can't I unlock it? I've uploaded the file to see if anyone else can open it or has suggestions. Thanks.
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If there is a specific table your looking for the values i may be able to try and get just that one to work.
Be sure to change the file extension to ".xml" and add it to your rommetadata folder under evo.
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Yeah.. It opens it, but some of the tables are "scrambled" and also, when I scroll down the left-hand column far enough it causes ECU Flash to stop working and I have to terminate the process in Windows.
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Ok I think I got it. It looks like this rom has a base of ROM ID 96530006 which is a "universal" Evo 8 ROM ID (I forgot about this one). I attached a txt file that you can try as the xml deffinition for this rom. I was able to open it and all the tables I looked at were good with the exception of the tephra mod options. The xml has table definitions for tephra v5.10 which are scrambled most likely because this is not a "patched" ROM. My OEM xml for 96530006 had litterally almost not tables in it so it was useless. Im working with a fairly early version of ECU Flash here..
Anyway give this one a try.
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Anyway give this one a try.
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btw just to give credit I found another thread with someone having a similar problem. Their rom ID was also this 84185028 so it wasnt made up i would assume. unless its the same guy. For sure its not a commone id though and is copied from 96530006 xml. In the hex file i guess there are a few strings that contain the 96530006 rom id number. I was thinking about trying to dig into the hex file but wasnt sure how to go about it...
anyway let me know if it works for you.
anyway let me know if it works for you.
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^
Edit: I went back to the thread that also talked about this weird rom id number and downloaded the rom that this guy posted. I was curious and wanted to check it out. So far it appears to the EXACT same ROM. Same timing and fuel and weird disabled knock control settings.
It just makes the situation that more f'ed up. If anyone is insterested in the other thread here is the link bind-rom-not-reading-urgent
Not much is really said in there but the hex file is posted. The guy is from NH not CT....and this was about a year ago exactly.
Edit: I went back to the thread that also talked about this weird rom id number and downloaded the rom that this guy posted. I was curious and wanted to check it out. So far it appears to the EXACT same ROM. Same timing and fuel and weird disabled knock control settings.
It just makes the situation that more f'ed up. If anyone is insterested in the other thread here is the link bind-rom-not-reading-urgent
Not much is really said in there but the hex file is posted. The guy is from NH not CT....and this was about a year ago exactly.
Last edited by ethan169; Jun 12, 2012 at 11:23 AM.
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