Was wondering what might be the best method to do so and how one might do it.

I don't want all the time I spend on these maps just floating around for free.

 

generic obfuscation is pretty easy. I'd share how to but its locked.


Sorry I don't want want all the time I spent on figuring it out just floating around for free.

 

Why bother its pretty easy to unlock it anyways.

 

Wow, thats very kind from you! I thought forums idea was to share.

Can you explain it anyway?

Regards.

 

 

That's great!.

OP:
Aren't you just reusing what Colby decided to release for free by firing up ECUFlash? Write your own M32R flash bootloader in assembler. Then build an interface in QT and C++ then post it up for everyone to use for free and sell the flashing hardware.... That's what Colby did.

Or you can share with everyone and drop the idea altogether.

If you know enough to innovate here, these answers would be obvious. Real coders are VIN locking these days. hint hint.

Instead of locking ROMs I instead built a map tracer from scratch in my spare time.... Then I released a free version.

 

next on Car-Toon network.....ECU locking a customers car that pays roughly $500 to get it done.

real thoughtful, i doubt the "hard work" is that impressive.

 

I rather hope he doesn't. Just like I would rather people keep their immobilizer and VIN coding methods to themselves, too.

 

I don't think people realize how much this can screw over future owners of the car. Say you lock the ecu on a car, the guy trades it in at the dealership. Next owner buys it does some mods and wants a retune. The next tuner can't access the ecu and has no way of contacting the previous owner since that's a breach of privacy. I'm dealing with this on an '05 sti and it sucks bc the ecu is locked. He's most likely going to have to either buy a used ecu or send it out to have tactrix bench reset his ecu. So now his car is down. He isn't even trying to make crazy power. He just wants to pass e check and the rom is throwing a drive cycle type evap code. All he needs is me to spend 5 minutes putting a stock tune on and it's turning into an ideal. Just my 2 cents. The point of open source, imo, is to help the community grow. Not leaving someone not able to drive their car down the road because last owner/tuner didn't think that these cars get passed around and it won't stay in one person's possession forever.

 

you should know by now that a tune done to one car is never ever the same as another so if anyone is stupid enough to flash your tuned rom to another car deserves what he gets

 

If I paid for that tune that tune is mine. RIGHT? Paid for services rendered not the guy programing it he way paid for the work right?, This is why I stepped away form cobb.
Joe Speedy painted my car...... I paid for it right its my car........So you lockers sorry to say this and get the dig But **** off I paid for it and wont pay for a locked one. Though I would rather do my self.

 

they will claim its there intellectual property and a court will stand by it and has done

 

SOOOOooooo true.

 

Yeah, I would go for limiting the ROM to a specific VIN, but not locking the ROM entirely. The next owner getting the shaft is pretty bad.

Plus, that might keep people from trying to share ROMs and damaging the engine?