Just curious, is this possible, say take better features of a new firmware and combine with your old working firmware and have it successfully work on your player?
If this was the case, than wouldn't this be a better way to do things than upgrading to a new firmware which might kill your player, as the old firmware would only have some of its features updated, but it wouldn't affect the old firmwares compatibility with your player.
I hope what i wrote makes sense i am not a programmer (well i took 3 comp sci classes in uni, but i cheated off my friends
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