I understand the pain all too well, mbowkett1978.
My MVP 2005 game (in which I held onto after all of these years) doesn't work on my laptop, despite reading on all of the steps in here on how to get it to work. So while watching MVP 2005 collect dust for years, I purchased the dvd of MLB 2k10 a few years ago and it works great. But after seeing how dedicated the modding community is for 2K12 and have abandoned 2K10, I also want that version. I also purchased SMB3 and find it to be an excellent game. But my passion have always been for playing My Career.
Unfortunately