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Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch => Projects & Creative => W.I.P Forum => Topic started by: Metallix on September 11, 2013, 01:03:59 AM
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Why? Because I can.
Calling all voice actors!
Get ready to show your best impressions, because it's time to do something about that pesky announcer (or lack thereof.). If you caught the previous Zandronum update packed in with v3b, you probably noticed the announcer folder and voice-overs in the game. While nostalgic and occasionally humorous, the guy seemed out place in 8BDM, so I got rid of the folder. The next time I booted up the game, however, I started to miss the poor Quake guy! Can you believe it?!
Regardless, I suddenly found myself wondering about how the Doctors Light and Wily would call upon their robots in the tournament. Then I thought, hey, let's see if we can't let the Docs take the booth, so to speak.
So, in short, I want to organize a small mod to replace the default announcer voice with custom-made clips of Light and Wily. In solo modes, the player can obviously choose either one to commentate on their matches, but I'd like them to be assigned to their respective teams and have clips for team-based matches such as CTF*, if that's even possible.
* IE: Stuff like: "Wily's team has taken the flag!" "Which one of you scrap-brains dropped ze flag?!"
So, if there's interest, I'll need to recruit two or three gentlemen to help me get this tiny thing out there. I'm looking for a Light and a Wily (and possibly Cossack and Mr. X) to do some voice work. If you'd like to volunteer your vocal chords, shoot me a PM and maybe a sound byte or two, and we'll talk.
For the good Dr. Light, I am looking for;
- a calm, older gent with a bit of weight on him.
- something like PU or MHX voice; Proud and firm.
For the fanatical Dr. Wily, I seek;
- grizzled, maniacal, possibly German accent (a'la Ruby-Spears).
- able to get really pissed-off at his idiotic creations.
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I NOMINATE JAXOF7
SO FUCKING HARD
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I would lend my talents but I don't have a mic that doesn't suck
I could buy one though but I don't know what a good mic is
Nonetheless I'll be keeping an eye on this project
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I used to have a decent Wily thing going on, not so much now.
We need some mm8 Light up in here though.
Or British Doctor Light.
British Doctor Light is nice.
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Kackebango as Wily
YD as Light
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Oh damn, this is cool.
But try not to make German Wily sound like Will Ferrel's role in that Producers movie.
I'll put a video of it.
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Bare with me for a moment.
I'm given the idea of a Clyde von Belmont announcer because of this.
So I thank you for that.
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What Wily's voice would be like.. yeah, I don't know.
Bare with me for a moment.
I'm given the idea of a Clyde von Belmont announcer because of this.
So I thank you for that.
hey so to be honest, I don't think anybody would really care to help with that
His own workplace has suddenly vanished because it was just too uninteresting to keep onto and he sort of lost his place in EXISTING within the community as a little character--
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It vanished because people were uncreative and didn't want to bother thinking of new products.
Also I never asked for help with it, I can just do it myself.
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Of course we need Dr. Cossack ("Our comrades have taken the enemy's flag") and Mr. X announcers. Mr. X should be the total opposite of Dr. Wily, while being a pretentious multimillionaire in the process ("Good job, fellas. My money was well spent.")shutupi'lljustleave
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Perhaps non-team modes could have Chest, Ripot and Plum voices as announcers as well?
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I'd love to help out but I can't into german and I certainly don't have an old man's voice.
YD would make a pretty good Light though.
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Wow, that was fast. Nice to see there's interest, here. I'm actually surprised that no one has really done anything like this yet but whatever.
Of course we need Dr. Cossack and Mr. X announcers.
I considered that. At the moment, I'd prefer to start with just Light and Wily, since most modes don't even use the extra two teams. Really, when was the last time you even saw 4-team hosted?
Then again, the more options, the better. I'll say future version, most likely.
Chest, Ripot and Plum?
... I wasn't aware that they actually had voice actors, but I've never played B&C, so.
Why stop there, even. Auto, Reggae, and Roll might make decent announcers as well. Again, plans for future releases. shut up I love Reggae
We need some mm8 Light up in here though.
why you mother Actually, I can do a half-decent Elmah Fwudd, so I may just do that myself...
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Be vewy vewy quiet.. .. we captoed the ehnummy fwag!
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I'm up for seeing what you Wily voice actors come up with.
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Not sure my pure french accent will look like mad scientist or old wise man, so I'll just say here that you could eventually ask some help on Overclocked Remix. In a thread where their community did a remix battle based on Robot Masters' themes, some artists put voice clips in their remixes.
EDIT : It's my 100th post so let me do something great.
Like.... I have no idea....
LONG LIVE MIGHTY NOUMBE--
and yay for me.
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Dr. Cossack should be a calm middle-aged man with a russian accent (except he doesn't talk like the Heavy but actually a more fluent english), a raspy voice and an obsession with comradeship, work and collectivism (quotes like "we did it", "we got the flag", "we've failed", "we've done the motherland proud" or "they got the flag, liquidate them!").
Trust me, I know my commies.
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I would do it if my voice didn't sound like tengu's
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Unfortunately, all I've got is an internal mic, and I'm pretty sure my voice is too youthful sounding for this project anyway.
Regardless, I'll be keeping an eye on this one. I'll definitely be using this mod when it comes out.
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Maybe someone could also do Protoman?
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IIRC Zandronum doesn't have support for team-specific announcers. This would still be cool though.
I've been thinking of recording some stuff on my crappy headset mic just to test the waters for a non-specific announcer, though.
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I can sorta into German but my mic sucks unbelievably immense toids so I'll hold off.
Good luck with this thing, though.
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Chest, Ripot and Plum?
... I wasn't aware that they actually had voice actors, but I've never played B&C, so.
Why stop there, even. Auto, Reggae, and Roll might make decent announcers as well. Again, plans for future releases. shut up I love Reggae[/quote]
Well they were removed completely in the US version of X Collection (minus the Wily Cutscene having Ripot still). I know Plum had interviews with the characters near the end so she had a voice (the soundtrack has them all). And I think coming up with mock up versions for ones we don't know easily could end up well if the VAs do a good job.
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There's a lot of potential for announcers from other series like the Sage Trinity from MMZXA, Tron Bonne from MML, Ciel and Dr. Weil from MMZ, the Navigators and Sigma from MMX...
On a somewhat different note, maybe someone could either do an impression of Rucks from Bastion. Or rip soundclips from his DOTA 2 announcer pack.
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This could work as an optional voice for whoever you choose.
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Oops. I checked the post from master of time and thought it was still alive. Sorry!
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There was a talk about this kind of thing recently though so I will give him that.
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I thought I originally reported Master of Time, my bad.
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I thought I originally reported Master of Time, my bad.
You may have. I'm just apologizing for posting here