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Okay, I decided to write my own Dosbox + Mechwarrior 2 guide. I have not looked at anyone else's work. I did look over some hex editing guides from 1997-1998 and some info on CD access (Dropship menus) but that's it. No information from any other source has been included. With that said:

Mechwarrior 2 (DOS) with DosBox v0.63
These directions assume you are using a Windows system.

1. Insert Mech2 CD in CD drive.
2. Create MECH2 directory on hard drive.
2. Go to command prompt.
3. Go to CD drive where your Mech2 CD is located.
4. Run xcopy *.* /E /H X:\MECH2 directory from the CD. (Where X is location of MECH2 directory on hard drive)
5. Run the install program from the CD and install into the MECH2 directory on your hard drive. DO A MINIMUM INSTALL.
6. Upon running the INSTALL program in Windows you may receive the error message: "An application has attempted to directly access the hard disk". CLICK IGNORE.
7. You may also receive the message: "Not ready reading drive F Abort, Retry Fail?", Hit F.
8. Open Mech2.exe into a hex editor and replace the following line: B901000000E8 with this one B900000000E8.
I found one occurence of this in my version.
9. Open MW2.EXE into a hex editor and replace the following line: B901000000E8 with this one B900000000E8.
I found 5 occurences of this in my version.
** I recommend HackMan or Hexworkshop for editing the files.
10. Copy the cracked MW2.EXE and MECH2.EXE into the Mechwarrior 2 directory and play!.
11. If you wish to install patch v1.1. Then install it but YOU MUST re-crack MW2.EXE since it has been updated!
12. If you do install patch v1.1, you MUST surf to your MECH2 CD, select ALL files in the GIDDI folder and then copy and past them to the GIDDI folder on your hard drive. DO NOT OVERWRITE ANY FILES! HIT NO!. (The v1.1 patch erases the files that that step #13 uses. If you do not copy the files again then you cannot edit your keyboard preferences and you will not be able to enter missions if you perform step #13)
13. If you wish dropship menus and the trainer's voice then you MUST use mount d X:\gamedir -t cdrom or IMGMOUNT to the .ISO of your MECH2 CD!
14. Play the game!

NOTES
* Obviously there will be no CD audio since DosBox does not support this. It would slow down emulation anyway if it did. I suggest just playing the music from your host system CD player, stereo, or ripping it to your audio file of choice.
** For those of you thinking about using just one mount command. For instance: Mount c X:\mech2 -t cdrom. It does work. Unfortunately the command seems to emulate the cdrom so well that you cannot save changes. Perhaps this could be an option for Dosbox? CDRW for -t cdrom option in mount command? (By CDRW I simply mean the ability to change files)