The Secret of Monkey Island Ultimate Talkie Edition

WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT?

  • It builds a talkie version for DOS and ScummVM out of the Special Edition.
  • No dead ends.
  • Higher quality and some additional sound effects from the SE.
  • Music support for MT-32, brand new General MIDI and AdLib. Including Stan's theme and the extended LeChuck theme.
  • ScummVM support for both, the old CD audio tracks and the SE tracks.
  • Spiffy close-up.
  • Plenty of original bugs fixed.

REQUIREMENTS

  • The Secret of Monkey Island - Special Edition PC version installed.
  • xWMAEncode.exe from Microsoft's DirectX sdk.
  • Approximately 1 GB temporary disk space, 194 MB for DOS, 825 MB for FLAC and 168 MB for Ogg Vorbis version.
  • Windows XP or later.
  • And finally, any device able to run SCUMM V5 games.
  • A VGA compatible graphics card for the DOS version.

INSTALLING IT FOR SCUMMVM

  • Remove any previous version of this patch from your game folder.
  • Extract MI1_Ultimate_Talkie_Edition_1.02.zip and put the MI1_Ultimate_Talkie_Edition_Builder folder where you have Monkey1.pak installed.
  • Get a copy of xWMAEncode.exe and put it inside the tools subfolder. (The file is not included for legal reasons.)
  • Run install_flac.bat for highest quality audio and wait for the MI1 Ultimate Talkie Edition to be created.
  • Alternatively run install_ogg.bat to get a smaller, but data reduced monkey.sog instead of monkey.sof. This might be preferable on devices with small storage capacity.
  • Optionally, if you prefer having the SE's extended environment tracks in the main game folder, so they will play in every music mode, run extended_SE_tracks_to_game_folder.bat
  • Now add the game as usual, plus the extra path of the music version of your choice.
  • Your original files won't be altered.

INSTALLING IT FOR DOS

  • Remove any previous version of this patch from your game folder.
  • Extract MI1_Ultimate_Talkie_Edition_1.02.zip and put the MI1_Ultimate_Talkie_Edition_Builder folder where you have Monkey1.pak installed.
  • Get a copy of xWMAEncode.exe and put it inside the tools subfolder. (The file is not included for legal reasons.)
  • Run install.bat and wait for the MI1 Ultimate Talkie Edition to be created.
  • Your original files won't be altered.

DOWNLOAD

MI1 Ultimate Talkie Edition 1.02.zip (3.50 MB). Make sure to read the readme.txt for further details.

DirectXsdk2009.zip (388 kB): The Microsoft DirectX SDK includes the required xWMAEncode.exe. This is provided here for your convenience only. You are still required to agree to Microsoft's DirectX SDK EULA.

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