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How to convert your Bose 3-2-1 Home Entertainment System (Series 2) player into a multi-region compatible machine



Note: US versions may need updating to the European firmware before this hack works


To convert this player to Multi-Region playback

1. Press the Right button on your remote control

NB: You may find that before performing this step, ensuring a Region 1 title is already in the player

2. Press the Up button on your remote control

3. Press the Shuffle button on your remote control

4. Press the Stop button on your remote control

5. Press the Mute button on your remote control

6. The disc tray should eject to confirm the region change

7. Press the Standby button on your remote control to power off your machine

8. After one minute, press the Standby button on your remote control to power on your machine
To set a specific region on this player after you have applied the above hack

1. Press the Stop button on your remote control

2. Press the Shuffle button on your remote control

3. Press the 1 button on your remote control for region 1, the 2 for region 2, and so on

4. Press the Enter button on your remote control
NB: This player supports resuming, and may take you back to the RCE region map screen after performing the above hack. Press the Stop button on your remote control twice, or if this is prohibited you may be required to insert 10 different discs to clear the resume buffer, or power off your player for a minute and perform the above procedure with a non-RCE disc in the machine.