Was asked by a friend for scans of my NR reader manuals and had a little spare time this morning so thought I would get them done; also did the TDEV manual whilst I was at it. Here are the links for the downloads: NR Reader: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/86505982/NR Reader - Manual 1.pdf https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/86505982/NR Reader - Manual 2.pdf TDEV: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/86505982/TDEV - Manual.pdf
So I guess some NR readers didn't have the language switch, looking at the first manual. That's something I didn't know. I haven't seen any of those. Great upload Kiff!
Mostly PAL units I think. Havent heard of an NTSC unit without a switch, although if anyone has it would be Kiff
This. NR Readers come in two standard forms: 1) NTSC (switchable between US/JPN) 2) PAL There are also some "show" NR Readers (usually in Platinum cases) which were used for various events, including E3. These were NTSC without switches. Can't recall if these were "official" NR Readers, or simply drive swaps with retail units. FWIW, the original region switch mod for retail GCs was simply copied from the NR Readers since that part of the hardware is the same. The only real difference is the drive unit.
I bought around 30 NR readers a while back and in the bundle were various retail units, including a platinum NTSC unit which wouldn't read discs... I later opened it up to see what was the problem and it turns out it has an NR drive inside. I just thought this was something the developers had mangled together for some reason but obviously not.
The unit I have has had it's NR label removed which is what made me think it was a hash of 2 consoles by the developer... I suppose this unit still could be.
