You can take a look at these tools:
https://github.com/BLooperZ/nutcracker
They can already decode/re-encode SAN videos for FT, DIG, COMI and Outlaws.

please feel free to contact me for further help

Cool idea, thank you for doing that.

For injecting the modified Spiffy close-up,
You can try this tool: https://github.com/BLooperZ/nutcracker
Which is able to modify the backgrounds and rebuild game resources.

Feel free to contact me for further help.

I don't think the problem is with the encoding tool, but rather it might be the image editor. try using "Graphics Gale" as it does not do palette optimization like most image editors (GIMP) (written from my experience translating this game to hebrew, also had some backgrounds turning green...

Hi, this tool: https://github.com/BLooperZ/nutcracker was used for hebrew fan translation if COMI (v8) and spanish fan translation of Pajama Sam (HE) can probably help (it can replace V8 background and much more) It's documentation currently not really helpful feel free to contact me if you need fur...

Hi, You can find mapping of remastered edition audio files to SOU offset here (these are the same offsets as original game, just that the audio files names can provide some context: actor + scene): https://github.com/BLooperZ/remonstered/blob/develop/dott/monster.tbl You'll also be able to extract t...

FT reMONSTERed is now released (https://github.com/BLooperZ/remonstered), along with easier to use version for DOTT It includes Speech from FT remastered as used in DOTT, and the audio of cutscenes down-mixed* to stereo. *I am not so sure about the ffmpeg configuration I have used, there seem to be ...

Hi, I have recently managed to update the custom tools so they are able to inject texts into Woodruff, I assume the same method might allow to inject the translated text into this game as well.
is there any progress on the translation?

Thank you for testing it on Mac. Regarding music support, I'm afraid it falls under 4.3. Does ScummVM support using MP3/Ogg/FLAC files instead of the original MIDI music? . Anyway it seems to require major changes on ScummVM itself and not just game data. +SirYodaJedi - Thanks for opening the ticket...

Thank you for testing it. I have tried the FLAC version with ScummVM 2.1.0 (Official x64 build on Windows 10) and it works, so I couldn't reproduce this error. Can you please provide more information of the system you have tried running with (which OS, which ScummVM build, which ffmpeg build)? (or m...

Another update:
Build script for DOTT is ready (DOTT reMONSTERed)!
You can find it along with instructions here: https://github.com/BLooperZ/remonstered

Update: I have managed to build monster.so3 (SFX + Speech) with the high quality sounds from DOTT remastered (and lip sync tags extracted from original SOU). It works and sounds great in ScummVM. Still need to automate the build proccess. FT is coming along too... Should require a quite different pr...

It seems possible... do you mean speech (I don't think it's in higher quality), SFX or music?

Thank you Fred_PJ for working on this rare game. Attaching extracted texts from TOT files (you can copy & paste this to spreadsheet to ease translation). Also, can anyone confirm if the text on these two screens (and the ending screen) is part of the background images or editable text strings? I...

Hi, I've solved the same problem this way: dumped original CD edition (I've used scummrp but should be the same with scummpacker, I assume) using ScummEditor I've replaced the title image of CD edition (not Ultimate Talkie Edition) dumped edited version (with the image replaced) to another directory...

Magic Tales Demos in Hebrew (from Hebrew CD of "The Little Samurai"):
https://letsupload.co/2BI6/mtales-demo-he.7z