Modding rundown: Sound

[Teancum]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCODA

It's what I found on the Coda engine.  Still doesn't lead to a codec, but maybe it will get us started.

[Teancum]

993-1004 in XML2 x_voice == Emma Frost (will be using some of these for break files since they're already in a nice native format)

[winstrol]

The wavs that I'm using are IMA ADPCM, but they still sound a little bit off.

Yep, i tried that and seems like it sounded even better than vox/bicom. So perhaps it could be some sort of modified ima adpcm, or some format really close to it.

I also tried using uncompressed wave (PCM, 16-bit, 22050) again and it worked this time and sounded really fine (last time it didn't work because i was using 8-bit.. :X)
So what about using that? the only drawback is that the files will be bigger (about 4x). For _m would  still be less than 1mb and for _v sounds you could decrease the amount of sounds eg: only 1-2 sound for bored, only 2 respafirm.. etc

[Teancum]

What do you use to edit sounds with?  I tried using Goldwave for 16-bit PCM and it doesn't even play.  It's just static.

[winstrol]

I used voxstudio. But it also worked with the windows's sound recorder.
Also, you need to modify the file format 106 (hex 6a) to 1.

[Teancum]

Do they sound fine in ZSM Editor?  Maybe I need to try them in-game.

[winstrol]

nop. In zsm they will sound really bad. Only sound good in game.

[Teancum]

*EDIT*

Figured it out.  I'll do regular PCM for all the sounds.

[Teancum]

Yeah, I'm trying to do it with x_voice.  Doesn't seem to work, but I'll try some other things.

[winstrol]

But it worked with regular sounds for you?
test_m http://www.sendspace.com/file/ojwbh1
original file http://www.sendspace.com/file/j2qixh

[Teancum]

Ugh... can you upload the source .wav and your compiled test zsm/zss file so I can look at it?

[winstrol]

it's the files i uploaded above

Edit: i tried the same file with x_voice and it sounded bad. Gonna try to figure out why.
Edit2: Seems like this only works for .zsm files. But i could make it run with x_voice.. how? just renamed it to x_voice.zsm and worked fine.

[Teancum]

So all we have to do is rename x_voice.zss to x_voice.zsm.  Simple enough.  Is it possible to get that to work with zss files too?

[winstrol]

so for the _v.zss files is the same of x_voice.. it only works when renamed to _v.zsm
but for some reason the sound only get played once.. and it don't play anymore.

[Teancum]

I'm going to try putting all of [character]_v's events (like RESPAFFIRM) into [character]_m.zsm.  If that works then we only need to worry about x_voice.

*edit*

That works.  Sortof.  The sound (in my case RESPAFFIRM) plays perfectly, but after that nobody else's voices will play.