On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 12:30:23 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > James 'Ender' Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A lot of dialog lines don't match the subtitles exactly, and > > we have no intention to fix this upstream. > > I don't really have that much to do with the BASS engine, but... > > Actually, there is a mechanism in place for adjusting the subtitles. > It's mostly used for the control panel, but I did make a correction to > the German translation, based on a bug report. (I think Joey used to > say that you were 21 meters up in the air, rather than 120, or > something like that, but it's been a while...)
I suspected it couldn't be too difficult, even though it sounds
awkwardly contorted (I still cannot imagine why are all these
workarounds needed in order to do what should be a simple string
substitution...).
>
> However, and this is by no means obvious, while there is only one
> audio track there are actually two different sets of English subtitles
> in the game: "English (GB)" and "English (US)". The GB subtitles for
> the "Mr. Cool" scene are:
>
> Foster: How can I get out of the City?
> Mr. Cool: Have you thought about DEFECATION?
> Foster: Don't you mean DEFECTION?
> Mr. Cool: What? Isn't that what I SAID?
> Foster: I asked you about LEAVING the City...
> ...not BODILY PROCESSES.
> Mr. Cool: You're not making SENSE!
> ...and anyway, you CAN'T leave the City.
> There's a RESTRICTION on travel.
>
> The game is made by a British company, so the GB subtitles are
> probably the ones that are closest to the recorded voices. Apparently,
> in this case the US subtitles were rewritten.
Wow! That's really unbelievable!
And I've just checked it by myself!
I had noticed that there are two English variants for the sky subtitles
by reading /usr/share/doc/scummvm/README.gz, but didn't think they could
differ so much...
Anyway I thought I was seeing the british english subtitles, since I had
no language option for sky in my .scummvmrc
[scummvm]
versioninfo=0.7.1
[sky]
subtitles=true
and /usr/share/doc/scummvm/README.gz states that English (Great Britain)
is the default...
Now I've just set
[scummvm]
versioninfo=0.7.1
[sky]
language=gb
subtitles=true
and got different subtitles (surprise! apparently English USA is the
actual default!).
Mmmmh, I think I've just found a bug in ScummVM documentation...
Do you need a separate bug report against scummvm?
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:-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-)
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