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Wheel of Fortune (1998)

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Wheel of Fortune (1998)
Wheel of Fortune (1998) cover
Developers
Artech Digital Entertainment
Publishers
Hasbro Interactive
Release dates
Windows November 15, 1998
Wheel of Fortune (1998) on MobyGames
Wheel of Fortune (1998) on Wikipedia
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Key points

Video rendered as white (no, not Vanna White) when played on modern systems.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
3 Hot seat
Wheel of Fortune has each player taking turns to solve a word puzzle by guessing letters. Except for Solo games, unused spots are filled with CPU players.
LAN play
Online play

Issues unresolved

Videos are rendered white

All FMVs in the game, except for the intro logo videos, only appear as white (the color, not Vanna). Audio will still play as normal.

Videos can be disabled in the options to alleviate the issue, but it does take away some of the spectacle that the show is known for.

(Linux only) Videos cause program to become unresponsive

All FMVs will bring up an error regarding the Indeo video codec used to play them. The program will proceed until it's time to play the first puzzle, but as soon as Vanna appears, the program will become unresponsive, requiring the program to be terminated. As said before, videos can be disabled in the options to make the game playable.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) Pentium 90 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 40 MB
Video card (GPU) 1 MB VGA adapter
DirectX 5.0 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible
Other 4x speed CD-ROM drive

Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References