Re: somebody has a japanese model?

Marcus,
Sorry about the delay... I havent had so much free time the last couple 
of days...

>Maybe you want me to try it out first, and then you can double check what I
>did, but it wil b easier for you as you have then two sources of
>information.
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I'd like it if you could do this... I'm not sure which settings in 
eeprom you'd be interested in..and according to the manual they're 
mostly things like servo controls?

>>As for probing for commands that begin "02 18 ..." I'm willing to try 
>>it... is this for commands that mirror the known "00 18 ..." commands?
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>Yes, with some dummy arguments (track 1, time 0.0.0 etc) where arguments are
>needed.
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Well, I tried 02 18 versions of some known 00 18 commands, and while 
they all returned 0c, none of them actually executed, so I guess it's 
fair to assume 02 18 is a "do you support x?" type command.  As far as 
probing goes... (heh) I wrote a sort of brute force test that sends all 
possible 02 18 commands of a certain length.  As can be expected, this 
runs very slooooooooow.  We're talking an estimated 50 hours to run 
through all commands of length 5-bytes. And of course, each additional 
byte in length increases the execution time by 256 (hmmm.... 1.5 years 
to test all 6-byte commands).  In the mean time, I'll try to think of a 
smarter way to do this ;)

Probably basing command guesses on the structure of known commands would 
help...  Or we could resort to an RC5-64 type distributed computing 
method? :)

Well, that's all for now,
David