Speech Problem in Full Throttle

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Oddysee
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Speech Problem in Full Throttle

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Hi there. I recently got the latest version of ScummVM (I was quite behind) and it seems to have caused a problem with Full Throttle.

When the game starts, the log window says "WARNING: Language file is forced to be ignored!". The game runs the intro normally but when I get into gameplay and right-click on an object, no speech can be heard and the log window say "WARNING: startTalkSound: SFX file is not open!" Can anyone help please? It was fine on the previous version of ScummVM.
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eriktorbjorn
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Re: Speech Problem in Full Throttle

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Oddysee wrote: When the game starts, the log window says "WARNING: Language file is forced to be ignored!".
I believe that just means that ScummVM isn't trying to load a file with translated subtitles since the game is in English, and the English texts are part of the game scripts, not a separate file. (For Full Throttle, it looks like the function doesn't do anything regardless.)
Oddysee wrote:no speech can be heard and the log window say "WARNING: startTalkSound: SFX file is not open!" Can anyone help please? It was fine on the previous version of ScummVM.
Usually, I'd guess that you didn't copy the sound file (usually named "monster.sou") from your CD, but you say it worked with the previous version and I'm not aware of any changes lately that would cause it to break. (Of course, just because I'm not aware of it doesn't necessarily mean it didn't happen.)
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Post by Oddysee »

You were exactly right. Somehow, the monster.sou file was not in the directory. So, I copied it from my CD again, put it back in the directory and now speech works fine again. Thank you very much. :)

I am confused though. For it to work before, the monster.sou had to be there right? So either I deleted/removed the file from the directory myself for whatever reason and don't remember doing it or something happened when I installed the latest version of ScummVM that caused the deletion of Full Throttle's monster.sou file. I highly doubt the latter explanation. Would that even be possible?
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Oddysee wrote:You were exactly right. Somehow, the monster.sou file was not in the directory. So, I copied it from my CD again, put it back in the directory and now speech works fine again. Thank you very much. :)

I am confused though. For it to work before, the monster.sou had to be there right? So either I deleted/removed the file from the directory myself for whatever reason and don't remember doing it or something happened when I installed the latest version of ScummVM that caused the deletion of Full Throttle's monster.sou file. I highly doubt the latter explanation. Would that even be possible?
No. ScummVM is designed so that it doesn't change the original game data files in any way.
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Oddysee wrote: I am confused though. For it to work before, the monster.sou had to be there right?
As far as I can tell, yes.
Oddysee wrote: So either I deleted/removed the file from the directory myself for whatever reason and don't remember doing it or something happened when I installed the latest version of ScummVM that caused the deletion of Full Throttle's monster.sou file. I highly doubt the latter explanation. Would that even be possible?
I believe that the only files ScummVM is able to remove are save files.
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