MATSHITA BD-RE UJ-225S ATA DEVICE and Windows 10 - a bad combination!

You upgraded to Windows 10 and your DVD/Bluray drive is gone? It can become difficult or even impossible...

In my case it's about the Matshita Bluray drive called 'UJ 225S' in a Medion Akoya P8610. Initially sold with Windows Vista was the system later upgraded to Windows 7. So it's already a few years old. 

Last year there was the possibility to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. The owner of that laptop did it, but he later noticed that his Bluray drive wasn't available anymore. Interestingly in the BIOS it's still there and you can even boot from it. Using a current live Linux distribution to boot you can still see in the device overview.

So what can you do from here? 
A helpful solution which I've seen quite often and it apparently solved the issue in many cases is the following:
1) Go to regedit and select the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/atapi /

2) Create a new key named 'Controller0'

3) Create a new DWORD in Controller0 called EnumDevice1

4) Change the value of EnumDevice1 to 1

5) Restart your computer and your DVD/Bluray device should be back... 

BUT IT DIDN'T WORKED!

I found other suggestions to update the BIOS to version M1.04, but the BIOS was already running with the version M1.08. So that wouldn't make real sense...

ANOTHER IDEA: CHIPSET DRIVER

Maybe it's an idea to update the chipset driver? But there are no official Windows 10 chipset drivers available. You 'just' find the ones for Windows 7. And if you try them with your Windows 10 Medion Akoya laptop... you'll end up having a bluescreen.

Better use system recovery and go back to a date before you tried that. 

CONCLUSION

Basically it's something you end up nowhere. Either go back to Windows 7, use a Linux, use an external drive or maybe even change your optical drive completely. Too bad it's too old and not working with Windows 10, physically it's still very good.

Tenkaichi 3 Modding: 5 versus 5 battles from 2016!

In December a new updated version of DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 3 Latino Edition came out and with its new characters the game became even more awesome! How great it is I'd like to share with a few 5 vs. 5 battle I played against a friend.

'Tenkaichi 3' is despite being almost 10 years old still a fan-favourite - as I explained in another article. You can see that going on YouTube finding lots of battles with modded characters from the currently running new TV series Dragon Ball Super or even additional old ones who never made it to the official games. I tested the recent Latino Edition, where are lots of new characters included. Here's a short overview of the character selection:

Goku Black, Zamasu, their fusion, Hit, Cabba, SSJ Blue Vegetto, Future Trunks from Dragon Ball Super... it's all in it. Of course less important characters were replaced with new ones, but maybe they'll find a way to extent the amount of characters in the future.

Me and a friend are always enjoying the 5 versus 5 battles. Last time we did seven of these battles with new and old characters mixed up! Here's the result (Spoiler: I won the most of them :D).

Battle 01

Goku Black vs. Hit

Goku Black vs. Piccolo

Kid Buu vs. Piccolo

Kid Buu vs. SSJ4 Nappa

Super 17 vs. SSJ4 Nappa

Super 17 vs. Zaiko

Super 17 vs. SSJ Blue Vegeta

Freeza vs. SSJ Blue Vegeta

Vegeta (Buu Saga) vs SSJ Blue Vegeta

  Battle 02

Vegeta (Buu Saga) vs. Whis

Broly vs. Whis

Freeza vs. Whis

Freeza vs. SSJ Blue Vegeta

Goku Black SSJ Rose vs. SSJ Blue Vegeta

Goku Black SSJ Rose vs. SSJ Blue Vegetto

Goku Black SSJ Rose vs. Piccolo

Goku Black SSJ Rose vs. Gine

Zamasu vs. Gine

                                             

  Battle 03

SSJ2 Vegeta vs. Beerus

Kid Trunks vs. Beerus

SSJ Gotenks vs. Beerus

SSJ Gotenks vs. SSJ Blue Vegeta

SSJ3 Gotenks vs. Golden Cell

Frieza vs. Golden Cell

Frieza vs. SSJ Cabba

Goku Black vs. SSJ Cabba

Goku Black vs. SSJ Future Trunks (Super)

Battle 04

Goku Black vs. SSJ4 Vegeta

Goku Black vs. SSJ Goten GT

Baby vs. SSJ Goten GT

Baby vs. Piccolo

Nova Shenron vs. Piccolo

Frieza vs. Piccolo

Frieza vs. SSJ Future Trunks (Super)

Frieza vs. SSJ4 Goku

Super 17 vs. SSJ4 Goku

Battle 05

Goku Black vs. SSJ4 Vegeta

Frieza Final Form 100% vs. SSJ4 Vegeta

Frieza Final Form 100% vs. SSJ Blue Vegeta

Frieza Final Form vs. SSJ Blue Vegeta

SSJ2 Teen Gohan vs. SSJ Blue Vegeta

SSJ Blue Bardock vs. SSJ Blue Vegeta

SSJ Blue Bardock vs. SSJ Future Trunks (Super)

SSJ Blue Bardock vs. Piccolo

SSJ Blue Bardock vs. SSJ4 Goku

Battle 06

Goku Black vs. SSJ4 Pan

Goku Black vs. SSJ3 Kid Goku GT

LSSJ Broly vs. SSJ3 Kid Goku GT

SSJ4 Broly vs. SSJ Blue Vegeta

Kid Buu vs. SSJ Blue Vegeta

SSJ Blue Bardock vs. SSJ Blue Vegeta

SSJ Blue Bardock vs. Piccolo

SSJ Blue Bardock vs. Omega Shenron

Frieza Final Form 100% vs. Omega Shenron

Battle 07

Frieza vs. SSJ Blue Vegeta

Frieza vs. Piccolo

Majin Vegeta vs. Piccolo

Goku Black vs. Piccolo

Goku Black vs. SSJ4 Goku

Kid Buu vs. SSJ4 Goku

Kid Buu vs. SSJ Future Trunks Z

SSJ Blue Bardock vs. SSJ Future Trunks Z

SSJ Blue Bardock vs. Gine

These were my final battles of 2016 with the most recent mods at that time. Maybe this year I'll create my own mods after having made a bit experiences on how a few things on modding Tenkaichi 3 work - like exchanging music or downloaded characters. Let's see what 2017 brings - maybe even a new official Tenkaichi game? Better not giving up the hope and if not, there'll still be more mods!

Windows 10 flashing at the start, but why?

You start your Windows 10 and your desktop is flashing, flickering or let's say just becoming black, your desktop icons are disappearing and coming again every few seconds.

The only thing the might work is your task manager by pressing CTRL + ALT + DEL. Everything else in the background is gone and appearing again. It all looked like this:

It's all pretty annoying. A solution to have a booting scenario without all of this could be using the Safe Mode. It might be hard to get there at all, but if you make it to go to 'Run' and type 'msconfig' you can select Safe Mode for the next restart. Within this mode I experienced none of this disturbing flashing.

I often read that it's caused by the upgrade from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10. But in my case it was something else. Someone installed a certain suspicious 'driver updater' before the issue occurred. I removed the software of course, but the problem remained. I reinstalled a few drivers, but it didn't help. A malware scan with Malwarebytes Antimalware found more than 350 infections and cleaned them away, but the issue was still there. I found certain batch scripts while looking for a solution, but they didn't work either.

In general this issue is caused by a specific software or driver. But you have to find it to fix it.

So I reinstalled Windows 10, made the most sense since the computer only had a bit basic software installed and that was it. Saved the data, copied it back. Done. No issues anymore. The fastest and best way in cases like this.