So this summer I decided to ante-up some cash and acquire a couple of WC rarities - So I'm now the proud owner of SWC and wc3 for the 3d0 and wc for the segacd
Ignoring the 3d0 for now (since the only emulator i can find, freedo is rubbish and doesnt load wc3 at all) the segacd version is pretty cool. Since it is basically wc1 and the secret missions plus speech it occured that it might be possible to get the speech out (getting it into wc1 for dos being the next desire!)
Sadly all my work so far has shown is that the audio is (probably) 8 bit mono 8000Hz PCM, but that loading the audio like that into goldware gives me the audio (not quite the right speed i dont think, shotglass sounds a bit less intelligent and more ponderous than he does even in the game!) but with a large amount of background static - even during silences. The effect is worse if you look at the med.dat file (which seems to hold all the medals conversations) which has the applause almost completely eradicated by the noise on it.
Has anyone looked into extracting the audio properly (not just the cd tracks which seem to be more just for the same of having cd audio in the game!)
In another completely unrelated note (well it's wc1 related) I notice that the wc guide on the CIC doesnt include mark minasi's helpful info on the kills required to get certain medals and the actions that you must complete to "win" a mission and a series.
Ignoring the 3d0 for now (since the only emulator i can find, freedo is rubbish and doesnt load wc3 at all) the segacd version is pretty cool. Since it is basically wc1 and the secret missions plus speech it occured that it might be possible to get the speech out (getting it into wc1 for dos being the next desire!)
Sadly all my work so far has shown is that the audio is (probably) 8 bit mono 8000Hz PCM, but that loading the audio like that into goldware gives me the audio (not quite the right speed i dont think, shotglass sounds a bit less intelligent and more ponderous than he does even in the game!) but with a large amount of background static - even during silences. The effect is worse if you look at the med.dat file (which seems to hold all the medals conversations) which has the applause almost completely eradicated by the noise on it.
Has anyone looked into extracting the audio properly (not just the cd tracks which seem to be more just for the same of having cd audio in the game!)
In another completely unrelated note (well it's wc1 related) I notice that the wc guide on the CIC doesnt include mark minasi's helpful info on the kills required to get certain medals and the actions that you must complete to "win" a mission and a series.