Hack Help Forum - LG 4210 - Page 1

WARNING: Do not attempt this hack unless it has been confirmed to work with your player. Reports show that it completely screws-up players which do not have latent VCD capability. If your player is not specifically listed below, then assume that the hack does not work on that model. Choose to ignore this warning at your own peril.
Reports confirm that this hack works with the following LG players; DA-3520, DVD-3000E, DVD-3350/1/E/C, DVD-4210, DVD-4730, DVD-4750, DVD-4830, DVD-4950.
If the transport in your player cannot read CD-R/CD-RW then only original pressed "silver" VCDs can be played.
I strongly advise that you do not experiment with any other values or settings other than the ones specified. Doing so may result in undesired effects (e.g. foreign language menus) or may even disable your player completely.
No changes are saved until you press the "ENTER" button. So if you think you have made a mistake before reaching that point, simply press "RETURN" and the procedure will be cancelled.
I cannot of course accept any responsibility for anything that happens to your player whilst you are poking around with these settings.
Follow these instructions very carefully.

Power on the player with no disk in the drive

Press "PAUSE" on the remote

Enter "1472" on the remote (the characters 01 47 should appear on the display)
[If your player is a non UK model, this number will probably be different - don't worry]

Press the UP arrow three times (the characters 04 Fd should appear on the display)
[This number may be different depending on the configuration of your specific model - don't worry]

Press "PROGRAM", "6", "PROGRAM", "5" (the characters 04 FE should now be displayed)

Press "ENTER" (the display should flash briefly)

Press "RETURN"

Power the player off and then back on

Play a VCD!

If you are having trouble getting the hack to work, try pressing "STOP" on the remote before you press "PAUSE" for the first time.
The above hack will also enable the 5.1 Speaker Setup menu which is of no use on players which do not have an in-built Dolby Digital decoder (e.g. DVD-3000E and DVD-4730). Therefore on these players perform the above procedure but exchange steps 4 and 5 for:
Press the UP arrow three times (the characters 04 9C should appear on the display)
[This number may be different depending on the configuration of your specific model - don't worry]

Press "PROGRAM", "4", "PROGRAM", "5" (the characters 04 dE should now be displayed)

Will it now play SVCDs, XVCDs, XSVCDs, or mini-DVDs?

thanks

pmuff

Hi - I also have an LG DVD4210 - but when i try the hack to read vcd's the discs will not read - they just eject after about 30 seconds with the message "disc error" - would anybody have any thoughts why ?
Thanks