Ok, I finally found some time to do the regression testing. It seems this bug was introduced in wine-1.1.15-127-g466b682: Code: 466b682dc6ebb51afe9b632efc964d0a7e158e96 is first bad commit commit 466b682dc6ebb51afe9b632efc964d0a7e158e96 Author: Rob Shearman <robertshearman@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Feb 18 20:32:27 2009 +0000 winejoystick.drv: Use CP_UNIXCP instead of CP_ACP when converting a string that comes from the OS. :040000 040000 4cd652648a4df01b5c61c64dca684a69c97b816b dc9f1d78b80d602c8c4994f1976bb98107f6cdec M dlls In the AppDB (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=4774) you will find a link to a patch for Atomic Bomberman, that fixes the bug (in windows and wine). Since everything is working fine now, it probably isn't worth to open a bug report in bugzilla - at least as long as there aren't any other games affected by it. kind regards Malla