First post, by AWEIGH
The game in question is "Wizardry Empire: Princess of the Ancient", developed by STARFISH in the year 2000. It was the first of the major japanese Wizardry games developed by the japanese after the rights were sold by Sir-Tech.
The game itself is only 100mb's in total and I will provide a dropbox link to the zipped game folder. The only way the game runs is by ticking the Windows 95 or the Windows 98 compatibility tab. Once the game launches it does so in 640x480 and there are no graphical configuration options outside of the DirectDraw code inside the game's executable (which I've finagled with a bit using a hex-editor trying to see if d3d8 code from the game's sequel, Wizardry Empire 2: Legacy of the Princess, would work).
The problem is that once the game launches there is intermittent screen flickering which can range from seemingly completely random to non-stop. It will ALWAYS happen regardless of the game scene being rendered, be it inside one of the textured polygonal dungeons or while utilizing the City's services.
Here is the list of wrappers I've tried:
DDHack10 (didn't launch)
DDWrapper (did nothing that I could notice)
dgVoodoo2_51 (this is the one that got the farthest. it ALMOST works)
DXGL-0-5-8 (this one got the second farthest but causes a game crash to desktop)
DXwin (this one couldn't hook the game but ironically works perfectly with the sequel, which is in d3d8 instead of dd)
D3DWindower (the japanese program that the developer of DXwin ripped off. Same results.)
The one that got the furthest is dgVoodoo and the problem it has is that once you entered any of the dungeons the wall textures disappear; other than that the game works perfectly and WITHOUT the seizure-inducing flickering.
Now, since this is my first post and I'm new here is it ok for me to post the dropbox link to the 100mb zip of the game for whoever is interested in trying to help me out? It's not Abandonware, since it is for sale in Amazon.jp, but it's been out of stock there for more than 8+ years and you will NOT find this game anywhere else. I'm probably one of 7 people who have a copy of this game and it's because I'm part of the translation team (we're nearing completion; and we already translated its sequel which has no problems on modern systems).
So, do I post the dropbox link?
