I'm sitting back and enjoying the show for now, users are going to be the winners here with more solutions out there :)

anything.... ANYTHING???

I knew that was coming.

Yeah, Meatloaf.

But I won't do that.

Except for in a public restroom?

Is there any options for people already tuned by EcuTek to use ECUFlash (short of getting a new ECU)? From what I know, EcuTek locks it so nothing else can flash to it?

Pretty sure there are ecutek users with the OFT, no? And i'm almost positive i've seen ECUtek and BRZEdit users. If so, i don't see why this wouldn't work. @mad_sb may be able to chime in.

I believe the Ecutek'd ecu is write locked. You could read out the file then follow whatever the process is to go back to stock with ecutek. If you have an ecutek cable i assume they can give you directions, if not I assume your tuner should be able to do it. After that you should be able to flash the ecu.

If not, there are going to a shit load of people pissed off at EcuTek.

just found this post from delicious that states it's not locked:

I wrote my ecu with an ecutek rom I pulled off a customer car. After writing it to my ecu, I could not write over it using the OFT. I couldn't even write over it using some of Rombinhood's development tools I had access to. This is due to their write protection. The only way to recover my ecu was to borrow the ecutek cable that belonged to the customer who orginally had that ecutek flash license and flash it back to stock using ecutek's stock rom file. After that I was able to do restore my flash back to stock or OFT tune status.

This is why we recommend that all ecutek users flash their ecu back to stock (with ecutek cable) before installing the OFT. Not doing so can introduce an ecutek-induced nightmare. I ended up purchasing another ecu mistakenly as I thought that the ecutek cable wouldn't work in my car due to VIN mismatch. Luckily this was not the case and I now have an extra ecu :)

interesting. so EcuTech users can make a full image of their ECU using OFT and then clone it to other cars. I recon they would need to watch out for any ECU hardware differences though. Curious if we may see soon EcuTech license key generators :D

I don't know how much value there is in ecutek licenses at this point but I suppose anything is possible. That said, I was only able to read out a few ecutek roms with the OFT. Some of them were locked from being read. Or perhaps it required different reading protocol. I did not care enough to look any further.

I don't know. Why do people crack photoshop when there is a gimp