CS1: Game does not play dialogue 'bloops' when a voice file is referenced but does not exist.

[AdmiralCurtiss]

This mostly matters when using JP audio, since all referenced files should exist in English.

This might be connected to #23, not sure.

[AdmiralCurtiss]

(note: this can and probably should be done without IO by checking the loaded t_voice.tbl)

[richardziegler]

I believe the function that determines if the game should load a sound effect, english voice, or japanese voice file is at: 0056f6c0 in ed8.exe.

[AdmiralCurtiss]

Mhm, appreciated, but I don't think that's quite what we need here. That function takes a parameter that already knows whether it's a sound effect or a voice (and which one, for that matter) and returns the path on disk for it. What this needs is the code that sets the flag for whether a textbox should produce bloops per character or not -- presumably it should be in the vicinity of the code that parses the voice clip ID from the text.

[richardziegler]

Mhm, appreciated, but I don't think that's quite what we need here. That function takes a parameter that already knows whether it's a sound effect or a voice (and which one, for that matter) and returns the path on disk for it. What this needs is the code that sets the flag for whether a textbox should produce bloops per character or not -- presumably it should be in the vicinity of the code that parses the voice clip ID from the text.

Ahhh, okay. Understood. If I have time this weekend I will see if I can dig deeper and see what I can find from xrefs of that function.

[AdmiralCurtiss]

Some notes: (all addresses refer to CS2 English 1.4.2)

• The function at 0x571620 seems to handle the parsing of the commands from a given text string.
• In particular, the case at 0x57296f is responsible for the voice line command. If you always follow the jump at 0x572971 (which skips that part of the code and ignores the command) you always get bloops instead of voices.

[AdmiralCurtiss]

The MOV at 0x572a06 sets the flag. 0 -> bloops, 1 -> no bloops. The voice itself doesn't affect this directly, you can have both voice and bloops if the flag is set to 0 but the voice command is still processed.

[richardziegler]

The MOV at 0x572a06 sets the flag. 0 -> bloops, 1 -> no bloops. The voice itself doesn't affect this directly, you can have both voice and bloops if the flag is set to 0 but the voice command is still processed.

In the scenario where the flag is set to 0 and the voice command is processed - that should/would play the voice in game, correct? Or does this need to be tested?

[AdmiralCurtiss]

It both plays the voice and generates the bloops, yes.

[AdmiralCurtiss]

I think it's the function at 0x5780e0 that you're searching for -- that is, for #115. If I'm interpreting this correctly, that function returns at any given timepoint whether the mouth should be animating or not.

e: equivalent code in all the games, I think:

CS1: 0x5f8750 CS2: 0x5780e0 CS3: ~0x140317832 CS4: ~0x1402f8e22