no no no, it's a shadow under the font, not on bitmap; and on a 640x480 resolution it is very visible... there must me an entry in winntbbu.dll which specifies the shadow color...
add this to the winnt.sif [GuiUnattended] DetachedProgram="\temp\game.exe" that assumes the game is in c:\temp folder and starts it at T-36 time of the gui setup.
media player depends on to much things not yet installed at that point i was thinking about something that twists your brain out, something like Sokoban, but smaller edition... (no card games please)