When something like this happens, it's generally an incompatibility with your system, so Dianthus you probably wouldn't be able to replicate it. There's a number of things I know of that might cause a symptom like this.
- Your system doesn't support hardware acceleration.
- Fix: you'll need to use to Solarus launcher, which has an option to "Force Software Rendering"
- Could be using the 64 bit version when you need to use the 32 bit version
- Need to update graphics drivers perhaps
- Your system doesn't support OpenGL
There could be other causes, but those are the ones I'm aware of.