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ASUS BW-16D1HT Blu-ray disc burner (Blu-ray disc region question.)

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System Name OVERKILL
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 3.9 GHz 8-Core Processor
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Memory G.Skill Ripjaws V 64GB (4x16GB) DDR4-3600
Video Card(s) EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11GB Black 11G-P4-2281-KR
Storage Samsung 970 Evo 1TB M.2-2280 NVME SSD (OS); WD Black 8TB x1; WD Black 4TB x2; Asus BW-16D1HT x2
Case Corsair 750D ATX Full Tower
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Power Supply Corsair HX Platinum 1200W 80+ Platinum Fully Modular
Software Microsoft Windows 10 Pro x64
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So I have two of these installed in OVERKILL. Top one I want to leave the region as-is and the lower one I'd prefer to set as Australia or Ireland since it's Region B. (If I set this one to UK it'll have a problem since some titles do this censoring on the disc and not the menu.) I do use AnyDVD HD but sometimes there's an errant title or several which refuses to have its region coding removed. Figured I might as well use the second drive for Region B titles.
Changing one region location setting in Properties won't alter the other one, correct? It's bad idea to do so in PowerDVD whichever number.

Suggestions or is what I want to do correct? Does the registry see it different for both drives individually or does it use it for both no matter what? Please see side for computer specifications.
 

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Changing DVD region for one drive shouldn't alter the other one. Windows assigns a unique class ID for each drive.

And besides, there are ways to reset the region change counter.

There is a community on makemkv.com that offers custom firmware for such drives:

https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19113

LibreDrive supposes to remove such restrictions from the firmware.
 
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System Name OVERKILL
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 3.9 GHz 8-Core Processor
Motherboard Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero ATX AM4
Cooling be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler
Memory G.Skill Ripjaws V 64GB (4x16GB) DDR4-3600
Video Card(s) EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11GB Black 11G-P4-2281-KR
Storage Samsung 970 Evo 1TB M.2-2280 NVME SSD (OS); WD Black 8TB x1; WD Black 4TB x2; Asus BW-16D1HT x2
Case Corsair 750D ATX Full Tower
Audio Device(s) Onboard
Power Supply Corsair HX Platinum 1200W 80+ Platinum Fully Modular
Software Microsoft Windows 10 Pro x64
Benchmark Scores The RGB on this is toned way down.
Changing DVD region for one drive shouldn't alter the other one. Windows assigns a unique class ID for each drive.

And besides, there are ways to reset the region change counter. There is a community on makemkv.com that offers custom firmware for such drives.
Thanks! On Emulator Procrastinator I have an older ASUS Blu-ray disc burner with just DVD burners in it. Already had some of the DVD drives set as different countries but wasn't entirely certain if it were the same with Blu-ray disc burners. Easier with software compared to hardware sometimes.
 
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