The Blues
So far, I haven't slipped up and mentioned "Russell" by its real name. *knocks on wood*
Anyway, I've got it loading up to the main menu now, and it actually draws stuff once I get there. And by stuff I mean a solid blue background with a white box where I'm supposed to enter text. And the cursor changes to an i-beam when I mouse over that box. But if I do anything to frighten it, it crashes. In comparing it with the PC version, it's apparent that this is not the desired visual end result. :)
Hopefully soon I'll have the "missing textures" sorted out so that things look normal. At least, I'm guessing it's missing textures. I'm no Direct3D expert, but hopefully it won't take too long to resolve.
Thus continues the march towards first playable.