It may be a cable issue. We had a customer a few weeks ago send us an ECU from his RVR. We had sent him a 2G DSM (OBD2, EVO8-style) datalogging cable with his ECMLink package, because our experience with RVR ECUs said they were all OBD2 ECUs. So that's what we sent him.
But, for whatever reason, he could only find a 12-pin ALDL (EVO1-3 style) port in the car. Based on our conversation, I was pretty sure his ECU was OBD2, not OBD1. So he sent it in for confirmation and sure enough, the ECU works with the OBD2 style cable, NOT the older 12-pin OBD1 (ALDL) style.
So why his car only has an OBD1 (ALDL, 12-pin) connector we'll never know. But his ECU was physically compatible with the newer OBD2 cable.
The two cables are electrically incompatible with each other. So if your RVR has a 12-pin connector, you might be trying to use a 12-pin ALDL cable to talk to it with EVOScan which may not be right. It may be doomed to fail simply because the cable is electrically incompatible with your ECU.
I believe that customer I mentioned above plans to simply hardwire in an OBD2 port so he can use a compatible OBD2 cable.
FWIW, other RVR customers of ours have been able to find OBD2 ports in their cars just fine. But apparently some can not. I find that a little strange for sure. Why put a 12-pin ALDL OBD1 port in a car that is only compatible with the 16-pin OBD2 cables? No idea.
Thomas Dorris
ECMTuning, Inc.