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Ive read the thread concerning the Mico Diamante 3000 firmware and Ive rang Mico Tech support today to ask if they have the firmware for the Adivinia 108 player (Alba 108) and I was told they do not have a listing for that model....?

Is there now a firmware patch which works to enable VCD playback for the Alba 108 or is the previous thread just referring to the Diamante 3000 ?

Cheers !

Which tech support did you contact, I`m guessing Alba, not Mico, as they dont have a phone contact unless you speak Chinese.
I have been in contact with Mico direct by email and hoping they will address this problem. But I already they wont do it for the Alba, only if it is a Mico brand (legal reasons), so that is the ruse I am using.
I am hoping to get a reply when they return after Chinese New Year hols.
Will let you know if I get anything useful.

Just had a reply back from Mico Tech support - suggesting I contact Alba.....!

Ive also followed a similar route - appealing to the tech support workers "better side" and asking if they can either email the Advinia firmware to me "unofficially" or perhaps point me to a nice ftp site where I can download it.....!

If that fails I will go down the "setup a hotmail account, claim to be Brit living in Hong Kong with "frozen" Advinia 108 who has been advised to try reapplying the firmware by getting it from Mico tech support and buring it to CD.......! :)

My dear Wacket.

I noticed a posing about a vcs/svcd patch for a Mico Sophia which uses the same 2812 hack as the Alba. The reference for the patch was http://asterix69.tripod.com/MiCO.zip. I couln`t access the site myself but you might like to investigate further given your determination to crack this case.

regards

s

Well Snafu, I actually have both the Sophia and Diamante patches, thanks to the good people of this forum. Ironically I have returned both my 108`s to the good people at Argos so I am now Alba-less. But in my interest of not being defeated & back to the good people of this forum havent given up the quest - who knows I may acquire one of these machines again - they came down again in price after Xmas. The reason for returning them was I got an all singing and a fair bit of dancing Kingavon DVD28 which is multiregion/no macrovision & slimmer than the 108 for €10 cheaper. It even plays MPEGs any varierty direct from disk via a browser type menu. (See my posting) Only shame is Mico are bringing out machines which play jpegs. Ever striving for perfection, never getting there.
Anyway I am still waiting to hear back from Mico again, New Year is well over, so I will give her a shout

Congratulations my dear fellow on your new acquisition. It has many of the features of my latest prize the Arianet 4053X ie. multiregion, macro free play anything etc and of course a 5.1 decoder.

But to business. I still have my fully featurer Alba 108 (s-video, optical out etc) and I`m happy to try the sophia and diamante patches if I knew where to find them. Hate to be beaten you know.

PS. How`s the weather in the Emerald Isle?

Hi,

Got my 108 at Crimbo because there was no 114s.
Currently to play SVCD/VCD I press goto a few times as the disc speeds up then press 0 and enter or 1 and enter this works okay.
Is there a better way of doing it ??
I don`t fancy doing the code hack then pushing the tray in as I suspect this will screw up the player eventually..

Cheer DC

Snafu
if you post a suitable email address I will send both to you. they are about 300k each. Beware though, one chap used one on the other and had to get the other patch to unscrew his machine. Still got nothing back from Mico, emailed again today wishing her a Happy New Yr in my best possible Chinese so might get some reaction. I think she may have hoped I just went away. I was told initially that no Adivinas were sold in the UK, so I took slight offence that Ireland was not in the UK & told her I got it as a present from a Chinese friend, Mico hols were finished 10 feb so its nearly time to hear more. Weather - cold but dry, bit like my sense of humour I guess (with occasional downpours). Anon