to Dominic Armato: can we have the stump joke voiced, please?
Is it possible to ask Dominic politely, if he might voice the stump joke for a fan patch? (The Classic Talkie CD Edition Project over at LucasForums, to be exact)
After all, he is known to be a fan himself, and he even voiced that awesome april fools joke some years ago. If he agrees, that would be awesome.
Just in case, the text goes like this:
"Hey!"
"There's a hole at the base of this stump!"
(Guybrush is reaching the stump.)
"Wow! It's a tunnel that opens onto a system of catacombs!"
"I think I can squeeze through--"
(The game requests disk 22, disk 36, and finally disk 114. Guybrush stands up.)
"Oh, well. I guess I can't go down there."
"I'll just have to skip that part of the game."
Here is a video of that particular scene: Youtube video
After all, he is known to be a fan himself, and he even voiced that awesome april fools joke some years ago. If he agrees, that would be awesome.
Just in case, the text goes like this:
"Hey!"
"There's a hole at the base of this stump!"
(Guybrush is reaching the stump.)
"Wow! It's a tunnel that opens onto a system of catacombs!"
"I think I can squeeze through--"
(The game requests disk 22, disk 36, and finally disk 114. Guybrush stands up.)
"Oh, well. I guess I can't go down there."
"I'll just have to skip that part of the game."
Here is a video of that particular scene: Youtube video
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That april fools joke represented a special situation in which, as far as I suspect, special approvals were given. What you are asking for are lines from an actual LucasArts product, which they specifically took out from the Special Edition (with a good reason, so that fans stop calling them and ask them about the special disks
If you really really really want or need these lines, may I suggest two options:
- You should ask LucasArts for approvals, then ask Dom if he wants to record those lines. Be aware that LA doesn't usually say yes to fan projects.
- You could get someone else to voice those lines, mimicking Guybrush's voice. While it's not the same thing, you can avoid the entire "Please LucasAts ohpleaseohpleaseohplease!" routine.
- Eat chicken soup. While it's irrelevant to your situation, it's actually quite good, especially when you've got a cold.
Due to the strange laws in the voice acting business, some voice actors are totally okay to record for fans while some voice actors are also totally okay to record for fans but can't do that.
Best of luck, dude!
Don't even try to steal my almost 7 year old idea:
A good impersonator would sound a lot better than this.
Someone who has contact to Dominic could ask if he may voice those lines. If not, he could also ask how exactly that April fools joke was arranged. Maybe that would help.
Something I find odd. Eventhough they removed the stump joke, they keep making jokes about it. Joke which someone who didn't experience it in the first game won't get.
We felt the same way when we did the April Fools joke for Mixnmojo back in the day. Our April Fools wasn't done maliciously, it was done for fun, and we wanted LucasArts to be in on the joke. Fortunately they thought it was a funny idea and gave it the okay.
So, my prediction is that you'd need to get permission from everyone involved before you get a voice read, but who knows.
That's what they do in (really bad) callcenters to generate an audible proof that you agreed to any sort of contract which you actually didn't.
While thinking that it might be a fun idea, I don't really see those few lines are so important they need to be recorded.
The April Fools joke was great. Dom was such a good sport to do it. I liked his version of Largo.
I'd love for Monkey Island 1 SE to get a version where you can play it in classic mode with the voices without doing 10 different steps. It worked so well in MI2 SE. Stump joke too, I thought that was funny. When they got to "Insert disk 82" I was like no way this game has 82 floppy disks. Disappointed when they got rid of that for the CD version.
Much easier than it was a few weeks ago. You'll get a ready to run DOS version. It also runs in ScummVM with some extra sounds and SE music.
It's not illegal to mention things, but we live in kind of a paranoid world. I'm sure they removed the reference unprovoked because they felt it wasn't worth the risk of Nintendo being angry, not because Nintendo actually threatened them or anything.
Where can one get said zip file? And how do you get it to run on ScummVM? I would love to play the original with the voices!
There is a detailed readme file with it, although there really is nothing special required to do anymore.
I would love it if upon a second attempt at the stump joke, you could fall through and land inside the Goodsoup Crypt.
You'd see Minnie the ghost and then scramble back up the crack.
All you'd need is footage from CMI, a voice recording of Guybrush screaming fearfully perhaps, and the MI:SE sprite.
Or not...
I am somewhat certain that this joke is not part of MI1:SE, because again this game is not on discs, and the joke is lost on regular players, and not the all time fans that we are. But then I guess that is the reason for this thread I guess?
Create a folder and put all the files in that folder.
Rename the executable and it'll work.
Fantastic work by the way LDL.