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First post, by curagea

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I'm using Windows XP Home and SCUMMVM 0.7.1, trying to run Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. I keep getting the error message "Warning: loadVOCfromstream: Invalid header", followed by "startSFXsound failed to load sound!" Everything, including the music, works fine, except the talking. I have read the readme of SCUMMVM, which says the file monster.sou is required for speech. I do have the file in the game directory, but the talkie still doesn't work! Help!

Reply 1 of 8, by HunterZ

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Here is what's in my directory, in case it helps to compare file sizes, dates, etc.:

 Directory of D:\oldgames\ScummVM\games\atlantiscd

02/21/2005  05:17 PM    <DIR>          .
02/21/2005  05:17 PM    <DIR>          ..
04/17/1993  03:00 PM            20,736 ADLIB.IMS
05/05/1993  03:00 PM            12,035 ATLANTIS.000
05/05/1993  03:00 PM         9,823,920 ATLANTIS.001
05/05/1993  03:00 PM           128,283 ATLANTIS.EXE
05/20/1992  03:00 PM               766 ATLANTIS.ICO
05/18/1992  03:00 PM               545 ATLANTIS.PIF
06/13/1995  06:16 PM            52,527 BootDisk.exe
05/17/1993  06:49 PM             4,932 HELPME.DOC
05/17/1993  08:11 PM            19,767 HELPME.EXE
01/07/2003  05:02 PM               171 iq-points
05/05/1993  03:00 PM       149,867,609 MONSTER.SOU
05/21/1993  01:20 PM             5,225 Readme.txt
04/17/1993  03:00 PM            18,976 ROLAND.IMS
04/17/1993  03:00 PM            18,976 ROL_330.IMS
04/17/1993  03:00 PM            18,976 ROL_332.IMS
04/17/1993  03:00 PM            18,976 ROL_334.IMS
04/17/1993  03:00 PM            18,976 ROL_336.IMS
04/17/1993  03:00 PM            20,062 SPEAKER.IMS
              18 File(s)    160,051,458 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  90,996,989,952 bytes free

I'm using a recent CVS daily build (from the SCUMMVM site) and it works fine last I tried (beat the whole game).

Did you set it up in the launcher GUI so that it was able to auto-detect which game it was? That might help.

Otherwise, my guess is that either your monster.sou or SCUMMVM is corrupted.

Reply 2 of 8, by eL_PuSHeR

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SCUMMVM is a windows application.

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Reply 3 of 8, by curagea

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I noticed that the monster.sou file I have is 65 megs in size. Is it supposed to be that size, because I read somewhere that the file should be at least 130 megs or something like that.

Reply 4 of 8, by HunterZ

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Well it looks like mine is almost 150, so...

Reply 5 of 8, by curagea

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YAHOO! I changed the file monster.sou to monster.sog, and now there's speech! Originally, the file was monster.sog, but I changed it because I read it wouldn't work as .sog. Guess I shouldn't mess around.

Reply 6 of 8, by HunterZ

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Weird. You using some weird version or something?

Reply 7 of 8, by Reckless

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Sounds more likely to be an illegal download to me... I'm guessing the .sog file is the speech file recompressed in OGG format and would have to have been done manually and therefore 'known about'

Reply 8 of 8, by HunterZ

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Ah, I see. I haven't messed with using OGG/MP3/FLAC to compress my SCUMMVM game sounds, so I didn't even think of that.

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