NFL Blitz 2000 through Mamewah/iPAC2 & batch file issues

[Clones]

I am attempting to set up NFL Blitz 2000 PC through mamewah and ipac2 on XP professional computer. 

I have set up a file called NFL Blitz2K which I am treating like it's own emulator like mame.  In this file I have the NFL Blitz2K.ini file which I set up generally like a PC game. 


### NFL Blitz2k.ini (mamewah v1.63) ###

emulator_title                            NFL Blitz2K

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  C:\games\NFL Blitz2k\roms
rom_extension                             lnk
dat_file                                 
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           
list_generation_method                    rom_folder

### Execution Settings ###
pre_emulator_app_commandlines             c:\winipac\winipac.exe "c:\winipac\mamewah.ipc"
emulator_commandline                      PC [emuexename]
post_emulator_app_commandlines            c:winipac\winipac.exe "c:\winipac\mamewah.ipc"
general_app_commandlines         


In order to get the game to play without use the CD, I am attempting to use Virtual Clone Drive to mount the .iso image.  I have tried to set up a batch file to automate the whole process through mamewah. 

My batch file is:

@echo off

"c:\program files\elaborate Bytes\virtualclonedrive\VCDDaemon.exe" -mount 0 "d:\program files\point of view, Inc\nfl blitz2k\nfl blitz2k.iso"
"c:\winipac\winipac.exe" "c:\winipac\nfl blitz2k.ipc"
"c:\program files\point of view, Inc\nfl blitz2k\blitz2ksr.exe"
"c:\program files\elaborate bytes\virtualclonedrive\vcddaemon.exe" -unmount 0
"c:\winipac\winipac.exe" "c:\winipac\mamewah.ipc"


I put a link (.lnk) in a file called NFL Blitz2K ("C:\Program Files\Point of View, Inc\NFL Blitz2K\NFL Blitz2K.bat").

Unfortunately as I click on the icon for NFL Blitz2K in mamewah, I get a message saying Please insert the NFL Blitz 2000 CD ROM into drive E. 

I am not able to decipher what my wrong step(s) were here. Any help here is appreciated.
          

[MKChamp]

If I recall correctly, I had to go to the registry file (regedit) and there is a key there that points to the cd drive where it expects the game to be. What I did was copied all the files off the install cd to a folder (like c:\games\blitz) and then changed that registry key to that location...worked.

[Clones]

Thanks, I've been searching on the internet for the regedit key but not having a lot of luck. 

[MKChamp]

Here's the key I changed:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Point of View, Inc\NFL Blitz2K\Archives

In this folder, change the data for the entry: BLITZ2K_CD to the path of the files. For me, I copied all the files from the cd to F:\Games\Install\ so that is what I entered for that key.

Hope you get it going...

[Clones]

Okay, I think the regedit moved things along.  It still does a lot of stuttering to open up the game but I can get there now and play.

When I quit the game I still have the cmd exe box open.  So I am still missing something in unmounting the game on the backside. 

[Clones]

Okay, progress is being made.       


"c:\program files\elaborate Bytes\virtualclonedrive\VCDmount.exe" d=0 "c:\program files\point of view, Inc\nfl blitz2k\nfl blitz2k.iso"
"c:\winipac\winipac.exe" "c:\winipac\nfl blitz2k.ipc"
"c:\program files\point of view, Inc\nfl blitz2k\blitz2ksr.exe"
"c:\program files\elaborate bytes\virtualclonedrive\vcdmount.exe" /u
"c:\winipac\winipac.exe" "c:\winipac\mamewah.ipc"


The program begins with an intro box with a set clickable boxes "play nfl blitz, options, uninstall, install"  I have been clicking on "play nfl blitz"  At this point the commentator starts to stutter.

After about 1 minute, I get a pop up error saying a copy of the game is already running and this one will close and you have to click 'ok'.  But then I can play the game.

So I am wondering if I am just jumping the gun, and should let the game take it sweet old time to load, and everything will be good.

Also, as I quit the game, it appears that the game unmounts and the ipac goes back to my other setting, so I am thrilled about this.  (I kept ending up at a command prompt which I was almost having to reboot the computer each time.)

[Malenko]

shot in the dark, turn off autorun?

i think maybe the installer is trying to run in the background?

[Clones]

That was the ticket.  As I shut off the auto play through tweak ui and that did it, program load as it was supposed to and played game.  Game also shut down like it was supposed to when I exited.  Thanks for the imput