New firmwares for the NEC ND-3520 add additional features

Time to pull out the pics of the smoking monkey and hot red haired lady again. Liggy and Dee-27 have been busy and released new firmwares for the NEC ND-3520. Lucky owners of this drive were already surpised earlier this week, thanks to andrepappy, and are now able to scan for the quality of discs. However there were some requests to make more modifications.

As many people were complaining that they wanted a firmware capable of doing quality checks AND bitsetting on all plus media types, I started modifying the 3.04 firmware that everyone is playing with at the moment. I copied the bitsetting code from MadDog's 1.f3 firmware and made it work on the 3.04 firmware. Please consider that - although this firmware has been tested - this is a highly experimental firmware that may still have some bugs. If you damage your drive by flashing this firmware, neither me nor CD Freaks can be held responsible for this damage. Don't RMA your drive in this case, but buy a new one.

New features include bitsetting for DVD+R(W), speedhacks,
new write strategies and more. For more information you should read the thread by Dee-27 and the thread from Liggy, besides more information you can also get support and find the downloads of the files over there.

Source: Club CD Freaks