Originally Posted by bri3d

DRB III with the Crossfire and Sprinter cards is a weird package DaimlerChrysler created to allow "Chrysler Dealerships" to work with the Crossfire and Sprinter, which are really Mercedes cars (and hence fully supported by DAS). While I've never worked with DRB III, it's my understanding DAS is substantially more fully-featured, especially in developer mode.

DAS will definitely work with a Crossfire - under the covers, including the ECU and electronics, it's just an R170 SLK-class. That's how the Mercedes engine swaps are done without needing to hack the ECU: using DAS in developer mode.

As far as I know the only people who know how to do anything to the Crossfire with a $20 cable (Galletto) are Eurocharged, and that's because they've disassembled the raw ECU dumps so they can just modify the flashes and reflash, rather than sending the ECU configuration commands DAS-style (and hence they can do more than DAS in some respects, like editing fuel mappings, and less in others, like resynchronizing VINs and keys). To the best of my knowledge the configuration protocol DAS uses is encrypted and has not been reverse-engineered.