> > Too bad Papy didn't use simple to get at .wav files for the voice stuff.
> But I have a question for you. Why would they use a NASCAR driver as
> the voice? An experienced spotter in real life would be a better
> choice.
he was chosen.
The format of those files isn't terribly hard to reverse engineer if
you're so inclined. We don't intend to make it easy to reverse engineer,
but the primary reason that we pack up all the files into large .dat
files is to save space on your hard drive (allocation block overhead for
small files is terrible).
I haven't looked through the spotter .dat file, but I bet if you loaded
it into a sound editor as a raw file with the appropriate settings,
you'd figure out the format PDQ...
Well, it does take some non-trivial amount of time to record, sample,
normalize and equalize the sound snippets. But you are correct, there
would be very little additional code for that...
---Jim Sokoloff, Papyrus