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Tagman115 4 Jan, 2021 @ 11:36pm
[MOD REQUEST] Higher quality voice lines/sfx
I noticed while playing that most voice lines and battle sfx are extremely low quality for the PC version. I found this [onedrive.live.com] while googling which seems to have every audio file except for pre-rendered cutscenes at console quality.

It would be really great if these could be put into the PC version cause there is such a big difference between the two.
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Surihix 24 Aug, 2021 @ 7:14am 
The PC version has an higher quality music, sfx, and voice overs compared to both the console versions. you probably got confused with the pre rendered cutscene audio, as they are the ones on PC that have an lower quality audio.

Well that is also an non issue as of now if you are using my FMV audio mods for XIII-2 and LR. XIII-1 also has an similar such mod by another modder as well, so audio wise the PC ports are better or on par with the console versions.
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Tagman115 25 Aug, 2021 @ 12:51pm 
Are you sure? I've compared PC and console playthroughs and I can definitely notice the audio quality dip. In some cases it's fine (I mainly remember battle and overworld voices being fine) but in a good deal of cutscenes there's a massive difference. Here's a cutscene that stood out to me:
PS3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CtEQ3GYCao
PC: https://youtu.be/dtAsCuOFOKI?t=2102
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Surihix 25 Aug, 2021 @ 11:36pm 
Originally posted by Tagman115:
Are you sure? I've compared PC and console playthroughs and I can definitely notice the audio quality dip. In some cases it's fine (I mainly remember battle and overworld voices being fine) but in a good deal of cutscenes there's a massive difference. Here's a cutscene that stood out to me:
PS3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CtEQ3GYCao
PC: https://youtu.be/dtAsCuOFOKI?t=2102

I am gonna check that cutscene out ingame on PC and see if it does sound like that on my end. In the video it does sound like the audio is being muffled a bit and this I believe is due to the surround sound implementation on PC which is not good.

From what I have found digging around the game's sound files for speech, music, sfx and voiceovers the PS3 version uses MPEG layer 3 for audio and I assume the file is in mp3, while the PC version uses ADPCM and I assume the file is in .wav. all of them are stored in scd container files which is a propreitary
The file on PC has a higher bitrate than the PS3 one and I would naturally say the one with the higher bitrate clearly wins out. but after hearing some of the speech files multiple times, I wasn't able to hear any difference in the quality and I would assume my headphones aren't really that good at identifying the quality difference here.
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