Problem making mat****a sr-8176 region free

[frer]

Hello, I am trying to make my Mat****a SR-8176 MZ25 region free but am having problems. The dvd-rom player is installed on my notebook running windows 2000 professionnal. Since it is required to run the app dwl2 on real dos mode here are the steps I used:

1- Reboot using win98 boot disk.
2- Copied dwl2.exe and mz25.bin from a: to c: (there is a reason for this that I will explain later)
3- Remove the floppy drive module and insert the dvd rom module
4- Run the program (dwl2 2 mz25.bin)

Everything seemed to work perfectly. The program recongnized the drive and the program worked with no bugs but when I restarted the computer in windows and launched the cdvdinfo.exe, the app says that I am still under region protection (?).

The reason I have to copy my files from a: to c: is because dos does not recognize the ntfs file system but creates a simily c: which contains several system files. This might be the problem although I have tried launching ntfsdos and could not run the program (computer hung).

Does anybody have any idea what I should do or try doing?

Thank you,

François

[furosa]

Actually, the RPC1 patched firmware has an "X" instead of a "Z" in the name, so it should reas "MX25" instead of "MZ25". You may have downloaded the incorrect file.

Try again to download the right file from:
http://perso.club-internet.fr/farzeno/firmware/
and give it a try.

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