Data File Compression

[Vorph]

Hello there,

will there be (or possibly is already) a compression tool for:

SAGA Engine: Inherit the Earth & I have no mouth...
SIMON: The Feeble Files

Vorph

[eriktorbjorn]

will there be (or possibly is already) a compression tool for:

SAGA Engine: Inherit the Earth & I have no mouth...
SIMON: The Feeble Files

There is a "compress_saga" tool, but since the SAGA engine does not contain any support for playing compressed sound effects yet, I don't know if it works at all. I imagine that the "compress_simon" tool could be adapted for The Feeble Files but no one has done so yet.

I wouldn't be surprised if they were made to work eventually, but getting the games to run at all probably has a higher priority. The Feeble Files seems fairly playable now (though I don't know enough about the game to say for sure), but IHNM definitely isn't yet.

[Kirben]

will there be (or possibly is already) a compression tool for:
SIMON: The Feeble Files

I just added support for compressed speech files in the PC versions of the Feeble Files. Use the next daily snapshot of ScummVM and tools.

The Amiga and Macintosh versions already have zlib compressed speech files, with additional ADPCM compression used in Macintosh version.

[FeebleFiles1]

mhmmm strangely in the todays subbuilt the speech isnt working now for me. neither the greetings in the oraclae is working yet

[Kirben]

mhmmm strangely in the todays subbuilt the speech isnt working now for me. neither the greetings in the oraclae is working yet

This is a recent regression, due to a typo in code and will be fixed in the next daily snapshot of ScummVM.

[Vorph]

Thanks alot,

compressed the Feeble Files (OK - Floyd, the German Version) using the compress_simon tool. Seems to work fine.

Keep up the good work

Kind regards, Vorph

[@xel]

compressed the Feeble Files (OK - Floyd, the German Version) using the compress_simon tool. Seems to work fine.

How did you make that?

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compress_simon Voices2.wav

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ERROR: Unexpected data at offset: 0!

The compress_simon.exe and lame.exe are in the same directory.
Compress_simon.exe worked perfectly with Simon 1 (CD, DOS & WIN, German) and Simon2 (DOS, CD, German).

[Kirben]

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compress_simon Voices2.wav

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ERROR: Unexpected data at offset: 0!

The compress_simon.exe and lame.exe are in the same directory.
Compress_simon.exe worked perfectly with Simon 1 (CD, DOS & WIN, German) and Simon2 (DOS, CD, German).

Make sure you are using the latest version of the compress_simon tool from snapshots or SVN. The older version in 0.8.0 tools package will not work with The Feeble Files.

[@xel]

Thank you very much for your advise.