I hope this helps...
Hi,
reading some other threads I have found out that if you DON'T have a joystick installed, the game will slow down at half the speed it is supposed to run on a given machine. I think it was pointed out by one of the "old" guys of this forum, altough I am sorry I don't remember who...
I don't really know if there is to be a real joystick, I suppose you should simply activate the joystick support on your sound card.
Anyway, it worked for me, now the game works just fine with my sblive value. The only thing I am working on, sound fx crashes after battles with too much "action", and then I am left only with "thump thump" while music keeps playing fine... after that the only remedy is an hard reboot.
My system:
Athlon 600
MB Asus K7M
CREATIVE GEFORCE256DDR 32MB
SB Live! Value
S.O. Windows 98SE
The game runs off a boot-disk with win98 system files. Mind you, I have the diskette version, so I do not need to load any cdrom drivers...
Good luck!
Caladan