Power DoLLS 4

What works

Game runs, produces an unfocused "PD" window. Switching to it (using "Alt-Tab") causes the game to start, but graphics are not displayed (although the music plays in the background). Holding Alt-Tab while switching cause the game window (with proper graphics) to appear, releasing Alt-Tab gets you back to the black screen. Seems like a desktop + no-3D graphic card (Intel) glitch.

Moving the mouse seems to work and clicking buttons/menus works too, but the graphic glitch is in the way of playing the game properly. 

What does not

A certain graphic glitch (black screen, replaced by "real" game screen on Alt-Tab) prevents from playing the game.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Pretty much everything.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Looks like it can be playable with a different graphic card or desktop settings.

• To play the opening video, you must have Indeo 4.1 codec installed.
• Run "regedit" and locate the following registry key (create "drivers32" if it's missing): HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32
  
• add a String key named "vidc.iv41", for its value input "ir41_32.dll"
• obtain "ir41_32.dll" file (Indeo codec) and copy it into "windows/system32" folder in your wine installation.
• In-game small video clips require MS RLE video codec (msrle32.dll). You can register it the same way as described above, just name the new String key "vidc.mrle" and enter "msrle32.dll" for its value. However, this doesn't help much... and you will have to go with blank rectangles for now. Or switch off the in-game video clips in the game settings menu.
  

• The game is prone to crashes when run under "non-native" locales. Make sure you change your locale to "ja_JP.UTF-8" before running wine. A one-liner "LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 wine pd4.exe" works fine for me.
  

The game seems to have issues with a "true" full-screen in wine, so it should be run with "Virtual Desktop" wine option enabled.