I've been trying to get rid of this one chipped ecu I have for a long time. It was APR. I wanted something I could flash (I'm on a tuning forum, nuff said). Finally, I thought I did it. I traded it to an AZ member for his ecu. SCORE for both of us. He gets an APR ecu, I get a stock ecu. Awesome right?

WRONG!

I read his ecu fine, back it up, and try to flash my file. FAIL. Huh? Oh well, try again with nefmoto this time. FAIL @ 6 percent. At this point I know somethings up, so I peel back the warranty stickers (should be a clue right there) and what do I find? Another goddamn socketed ecu.

While I could remove the chip, and solder a new one in, I have this thing. Someone else could use this thing as it is, no need for me to add it's chip to the 32 others I have bastardized. So now, the ugly cycle starts over. Only this time, I have NO IDEA who's file is on this thing. It looks like trash, LDRXN flatlined after 2000rpm, too much timing, etc.

\Rant

Haha

Thanks for the offer nagy, I'd take you up on it, but you'd have to get something in return

I've never played with the 512kb s4 ecu.

PM me your demands

FWIW I've got a socketed GIAC ecu that I have flashed over fine.  APR is different though of course.

+1. I've had someone read one of my tunes, and say that the "fuel map is too lean"...
Funny considering I've relocated maps and what was described isn't even used...

From my experience, you can say whether the tune is crap or not, only after you logged the car that the tune was originally for and have hard data as to how it runs.
There are a million ways to tune ME7, not to mention it's very easy to just move maps around in the binary.