I recently traded in my 2016 WRX for a 2012 evo gsr, the car is pretty much FBO and has been tuned. I went to try to read the ecu and it will read it but says the rom definitions arent available. Im having trouble figuring out what definitions i would need to put in the rommetadata folder. Ive used Ecuflash before with my WRX but that ecu was still factory stock when i first read it. I tried to attach the attempt to read but not sure if it worked or not. Can anyone help me figure out what i need to do?

 

The ROM ID is 58018005. You can see the rom id at the address of 0x5002a.
Perhaps someone who tuned your evox set a unique ID(58018005) at that time.

So, if you have 5801005.xml, you can edit the contents.
Download attached 58018005.xml, and save it into 'My Documents/ecuflash/rommetadata/mitsubishi/evo/' folder.

(If you don't have 58010005.xml, download it from Bryan's site and save it into 'My Documents/ecuflash/rommetadata/mitsubishi/evo/' folder.)

Then try opening your rom with echflash.

 

I tried editing it in notepad++ but when i save the edited file it wont save as an xml file. Have any suggestions on how to edit and save as an xml so its usable by ecuflash?

 

No need to edit the .xml I attached. Just download it and place it into 'My Documents/ecuflash/rommetadata/mitsubishi/evo/' folder.
(I mean move the file from your downloaded folder to 'My Documents/ecuflash/rommetadata/mitsubishi/evo/' by Explorer or so.)

If you don't have 8010005.xml in that folder, also download 80100005.xml from Bryan's site and just place it into the folder.

 

Nevermind i finally got it, downloaded an xml editor and then just changed the one number in each line and saved and it worked this time. Thanks alot for the help, it was driving me crazy.

 

I just saw this reply, so basically i changed all the 80100005 in the xml file to 80018005, it allowed me to view the rom now but i didnt screw anything up doing it this way did I?

 

No problem.
Just note that the fix to 80100005 is not automatically reflected in 80108005.