Subtitles during CutScenes in Broken Sword

[panthael]

Hi,

As a new user of this forum, I would like first to thank all the ScummVM team to give us the opportunity to satisfy our nostalgy


After some researches in this forum, I didn't find the answer to my question.

With Broken Sword (1 and 2), I would like to have the subtitles during cutscenes.
I have downloaded the cutscenes here in this weksite (Broken Sword 1 Cutscene Pack (English, DXA compression) ) and I cannot have the subtitles, either in English or French.

Is there a way to get them ? (Because I don't understand everything of what they say)


Thanks in advance for your answers

[eriktorbjorn]

With Broken Sword (1 and 2), I would like to have the subtitles during cutscenes.
I have downloaded the cutscenes here in this weksite (Broken Sword 1 Cutscene Pack (English, DXA compression) ) and I cannot have the subtitles, either in English or French.

Is there a way to get them ? (Because I don't understand everything of what they say)

Broken Sword 2 gets speech and subtitles from the game's data files, so that should work already in the same language as the rest of the game.

In Broken sword 1 the speech is part of the cutscene's audio track, and there were originally no subtitles. ScummVM has an undocumented feature that allows you to create a separate subtitles file for a cutscene, but I don't know if anyone ever used that.

[panthael]

OK, thanks for your answer !

[panthael]

Hi, it's me again with my annoying cutscenes subtitles issues ^^

I have the same problem with Beneath a steel sky (the one from the Ubuntu repositories)

I start the game, and they all speack english but without subtitles during the big intro and I can't get a word :s.

Is there a way to get the subs, or it's not possible ?
(did the CD downloadable here allow me to have the game in french ?)


Thanks in advance

[eriktorbjorn]

Is there a way to get the subs, or it's not possible ?
(did the CD downloadable here allow me to have the game in french ?)

I don't think Beneath a Steel Sky has any subtitles for the CD version's intro, and I don't know if there ever were any versions with voices recorded in other languages.

It's not much of a workaround really, but if you use the --alt-intro command-line option, ScummVM will play the floppy version intro. This does not contain much of the back story (I believe a printed version was originally included with the game), and does not have any voice-overs. But it does have subtitles, and some pretty nice music.

(There is no GUI option for setting the "alt intro" flag. The only games that use it are Beneath a Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen.)

[panthael]

OK, thanks

[laffer]

In Broken sword 1 the speech is part of the cutscene's audio track, and there were originally no subtitles. ScummVM has an undocumented feature that allows you to create a separate subtitles file for a cutscene, but I don't know if anyone ever used that.

Is it still undocumented? Is there any way to learn how to do this? I'd love to create subtitles for the cutscenes!

[eriktorbjorn]

Is it still undocumented? Is there any way to learn how to do this? I'd love to create subtitles for the cutscenes!

The format for Broken Sword 1 subtitles is quite simple: The file has the same name as the cutscene file, except it's a text file, e.g. intro.txt. Any line that begins with a "#" is a comment, and any other lines consist of start frame, end frame and text.

This is as far as I ever got with intro.txt:

Code: Select all

45 110 Paris in the fall. The last months of the year, and the end of the millennium.
# TODO: Need to find the character code for an accented E here.
120 200 The city holds many memories for me: Of cafes, of music, of love...
201 230 ...and of death.

[laffer]

Thanks!

Is there a way to open the cutscene files in an editor, vdub or something? Would be very convenient so I could pinpoint exactly at what frames to start and end a line.