mini-CDs? No-CD Cracks? What? (MVP Baseball 2005)

[Raderick]

First off, excuse my newbie-sh speaking here.

I would like to explain my problem, hopefully someone will help me out here.

I recently installed MVP Baseball 2005. I also overwrite the original .exe with hoodlem's crack .exe. Whenever I finish a game in owner mode, the game crashes.

Fine.

So after doing a google search, I run into this great resource site. I do some forum searching, and I run into this thread:
http://fileforums.com/showthread.php...=Baseball+2005

I would like to focus on the following post:

Originally Posted by SirMaverick

The game crash has been fixxed by either/or both of one the two following suggestions:
1. uninstall the game, reinstall the game, update with patch 2 (not the roster one)
2. Use the cd 2 image found on gamecopy world, do not replace the original .exe or the game will crash. The hoodlum crack will crash the game on owner mode.

Hope this helps, thank you for making the cd 2 image

Now, this is when my newbie mindset kicks in... Do what?

I completly did #1, and it did not work at all. Un-installed the game, re-installed, and then patched it with MVP Baseball 2005 Patch #2.

Number 2 is where I am stuck at. What do I do? I assumed what it is asking me to do is use the CD2 image on the gamecopy world web site instead of the hoodlum CD2, and installation didn't recognise (sp?) the CD2 I downloaded from GCW. I also mounted it to a virtual disc using Daeman Tools and Alcohol 120%, and that did not work either.

Timeline went along the line of....
Installed Hoomlem verion of MVP Baseball 2005.
Installed Hoolem Crack
Opened MVP Baseball 2005
MVP Baseball 2005 crashes after playing an owner mode game.
Un-installed MVP Baseball 2005
Re-installed MVP Baseball 2005, did not install Hoodlem crack
Get "Insert CD in order to play" dialogue, entered in CD2, will not open game.
Mounted CD2 from http://dl.gamecopyworld.com/?d=2005&f=MVP2005_MI!rar to virtual drive.
Still get "Insert CD in order to play" dialogue
Burns CD2 to CD-R disc
Un-installs MVP Baseball 2005
Attempts to Install MVP Baseball 2005 using newly-burned CD2 disc from http://dl.gamecopyworld.com/?d=2005&f=MVP2005_MI!rar. Install wouldn't recognise disc.
**Where we are now**

Thank you for your help in advanced!