Oh my goodness, this worked! Thank you SO much for your comment. You have no idea what this means to me — I’m so excited to relive one of the best parts of my childhood.

I’ve tried the fixes with changing the compatibilities from Windows 95 all the way up to Windows 8. Reducing the color mode to 16-bit as well. Tried all combinations of modes (in “Best” graphics because of reason below).

Any time I tried to change the graphics in game from “Best” to “Better” or even to “Good” the game doesn’t want to start up anymore. It will either not do anything, or flash a few things and never open up the game.

I’ve even tried downloading from multiple sources and doing all the same things above. Please help. I’d love to rerun my beloved childhood game, but if nothing else works I’ll just have to settle with watching a playthrough of it. 🙁

you have to limit the frame rate, the lower it is the less likely the wall will appear (or that’s how I got it to work using dxwind)

if you get a cd/dvd emulator program like WinCDEmu or Power ISO, you can extract the files from the .iso file and install from there

So I did all of these things and it actually worked, I pulled up the games using DXWnd and it doesn’t crash and I can hear it however I now can’t see it. 🙁 It showed a black screen with the DXWnd logo in the middle. Any advice?

Having this exact same issue on VirtualBox vm of Windows XP, tried Windows 98 compatibility mode as well and tried the game from here as well as the .bin file from another site 🙁

Could there be some kind of map issue? I’ve tried deleting my game and restarting, then uninstalling the whole thing too, but nothing seems to help. Has anyone else encountered this or am I just cursed?

Instead of setting your DXWind pathway to the PlaySpirit.exe, you need to set it to the Spirit.exe application that’s in the folder titled “game.” It’s been the only thing to work for me, so hopefully it’s able to help anyone who may be looking for a solution!

not just you