When doing wine Rct2.exe I would get a solid black screen with the audio playing fine. My fix to this problem is installing the Xephyr server.
I'm on ArchLinux so packagenames and packagemanager commands may be specific.
First, install Xephyr and Wine (and whatever else you need)
$ sudo pacman -S xorg-server-xephyr wine
The original installer works fine in wine, so just install the game.
$ cd /path/to/rollercoasterdisc
$ wine Setup.exe
Now to the "tricky" part, you need two terminals, in the first one, start Xephyr:
$ Xephyr :1 -ac -screen 1280x1024x16
A black window appears, you're now running another X-Server in 16 bpp mode on display :1.
On the other terminal, go to wherever you installed RCT1 or 2
$ cd .wine/drive_c/blabha/RollerCoasterTycoon2/
Defining the DISPLAY variable will tell wine to start on screen :1 instead of :0.
$ DISPLAY=:1 wine ./Rct2.exe
Woho!
An interesting note is that I tried starting Xephyr in 8 bpp mode, but then I'd get the same black screen as with the standard method, don't ask.
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