No voices in The Secret of Monkey Island. Crackling sound.

xwons

Hi,

Maybe someone has some idea. I wanted to play the Secret of Monkey Island via scummvm. It's actually a translated version, and it uses some version of the game that has the voices in English. If I launch the game from scummvm in my PC or from another emulator console (351ELEC), the game works well and the voices are heard. However, in retropie, instead of voices I hear a crackling noise.

I also notice that in my PC or the console, the music quality is better, while on the PI it sounds more like 8-bit. It also lets me choose between several variants of the game (CD, FM-TOWNS, SEGA/SegaCD, SE Talkie), but I don't know the difference between these.

Any ideas what could be happening? It's just the voices and the music quality, the rest of the game works well.

PS: music and voices for other game works well, for instance in Broken Sword.

windg

I try The Secret of Monkey Island (Unofficial SE Talkie v1.02/DOS/English) and it is working fine with the latest version of Scummvm on RetroPIe 4.8 without change anything . Try to change the variant to SE Talkie.

DjDiabolik

@xwons The original Monkey Island 1 and 2 have no speak.

The unofficial Talkie edition can be created from the "Special Edition" of both title.
After that you obtain a custom version of mi 1 and 2 whit english speak.

You can found all you need here:
http://gratissaugen.de/ultimatetalkies/monkey1.html

xwons

I see. My version must have been built on top of the Talkie version. It's a fan-translated release into the Catalan language, as released here: https://twitter.com/PrCeTrencada/status/1501877977033883652

What bugs me is that it works just fine in my PC and in my Anbernic RG351V console, but not in Retropie.

BadFurDay

@xwons it may be the audio codec for which the speech has been encoded is either not installed or simply not supported on the pi. Would you happen to know what format it is in? You may need to convert it.

xwons

@BadFurDay No, I honestly don't have any idea. I just downloaded that release, uncompressed it and placed it in the scummvm folder.

Anyway, it's not a big deal. Thanks anyway.

hellricer

Sorry for hijacking the thread, but I'm having the same issue.

I created the Talkie versions manually, and on my Ubuntu they work perfectly with the same exact same lr-scummvm core. But on retropie, just the cracking sound.

Since I'm using the same libretro core, I'm pretty sure it must be something trivial (like missing some ogg library or something...)

Anyone has any idea?

windg

@hellricer said in No voices in The Secret of Monkey Island. Crackling sound.:

Sorry for hijacking the thread, but I'm having the same issue.

I created the Talkie versions manually, and on my Ubuntu they work perfectly with the same exact same lr-scummvm core. But on retropie, just the cracking sound.

Since I'm using the same libretro core, I'm pretty sure it must be something trivial (like missing some ogg library or something...)

Anyone has any idea?

Try with the standalone Scummvm emulator, maybe the game works here.

hellricer

It does work in standalone ScummVM, thanks.

Still would be awesome to have running in retroarch because of shaders/controls/etc., but I do realize that it's an experimental core.

hellricer

Update: only monster.sog (OGG format) doesn't work. If you create a talkie version without compression, it works in retroarch core. FLAC works too.

Same with Monkey Island 2.

BadFurDay

@hellricer does mp3 not work?

hellricer

@BadFurDay Sort of...

I tried compressing to mp3 with scummvm_tools and it does play, but the quality is terrible (not only in lr-scummvm, but everywhere). I guess the format is slightly different and scummvm_tools isn't completely compatible. [EDIT: But I only tried once. Might be worth trying to compile scummvm tools from source or try on a different system...]

It seems that Talkie Builders can't create mp3 version directly (but maybe I overlooked something).

EDIT EDIT: Talkie builders can create mp3 versions and they work and sound great.