ok i just went and found the mother of all ecu flashes, i went and dl 1.28/1.29a and got nothing
on 1.29a i get
[00:23:46.437] sending init sequence 1 (0001)
[00:23:49.718] sending init sequence 1 (0003)
[00:23:52.984] sending init sequence 1 (FFFF)
[00:23:55.718] no response to any known code
link to where i found all the downloads for old version of ecuflash
http://evoecu.logic.net/mirror/ecuflash/releases/