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[Rostiger]

Hey everbody!

While working on the last animations of GK, it came to my mind that we don't have any kind of soundeffects for IB yet. I was wondering which way we should pursue with their style and which things need to be set in sound at all.

There are many different characters each with unique moves and I think their personality should be emphasized by matching sound effects, thus acting as another part of the association to the original character.

A possible option would be to use sfxr. I'm not sure if the 8-bit flavor fits too well to the overall style though, but an advantage would be that you can have a high output pretty quickly and cover many different aspects of a character.

A feasible better solution would be to get as many sounds from the original games and re-use them as they are. I don't think there would be much sense in "remixing" the originals, since many sound effects don't jump at the player as much, thus making a collage a thinkable option. But I could be totally wrong here too...

Also that would mean contacting all the developers again and begging for their sound effects, which doesn't make it sound a too appealing option.

Another way would be to find sounders who have played the original games (and know what it sounds like) and want to have their own take on the sounds and record, mix.. and whatever is necessary to get new and fresh sound effects.
But this is probably the most involved way and I can't imagine many people wanting to take that task upon them.

So what do you think? 

[Soulliard]

Another possibility is to use edited sounds from sources like FreeSound (with proper crediting, of course). I think it would be best to use the original sounds where possible and permissible, but these sounds could fill the gaps.

For characters that use 8-bit sound effects (like Lameza), sfxr could be used instead of FreeSound.


Honestly, I think the best possibility would be to try to get the developers to give us a few of the most distinctive sound effects for the character (like Naija's beast roar and plant growth), and use FreeSound resources for more generic sounds (like Naija's kicks).

I'm no audio guru, though, so someone else probably knows better.

[William Broom]

I think we should at least try to get some distinctive sounds for each character. One of the things I really liked about Smash Bros was the authentic sound effects like the 'dingdingding' of coin blocks and the the 'hyaa' of Link's spin attack.

Some of the sound effects I think are memorable enough to be worth seeking out:
- The bonesaw sounds, obviously.
- The 'shing' sound from Lugaru that plays when you kill an enemy. This could be the sound effect for Turner's counter.
- The 'chugchugchug' of Quote's Machine Gun
- The 'pyeeew' of Quote dying
- The rapidfire explosions of bomb blocks in Bonesaw (which, admittedly, was originally taken from Kirby)

[Rostiger]

Sounds like a reasonable idea, but it will be harder to get some sounds than others. For example I can't imagine Nicalis giving out sounds (if Pixel permits Cavestory usage at all), but I guess someone needs to get back to them anyway, since things have fallen asleep quite a bit in this department.

Another example where it might be hard to get original sounds for is Nikujin, but I might be wrong.
Anyway, this would be a perfect task for people who want to contribute, but don't know how. Just the question how to communicate this to the community?

[Rostiger]

So, yeah, before this thread disapears in the forums abyss, I wanted to ask if there are people who would like to help us out on this?

Here's a list on the characters and creators we could start out with:

Naija (Derek or Alec)
Golden Knight (Xerus)
Nikujin (Uta a.k.a. Ikiki)
Dwarf (Bay12)
Turner (Wolfire)
Trilby (Yahtzee)
Liero (Joosa Riekkinen)
Xoda (Konjak)

[godsavant]

I think we should start at home w/ GK, Naija and Xoda.

[Soulliard]

First milestone should be done soon. Could anyone make some basic collision sounds for the release?

[J.W. Hendricks]

What about just getting the sounds from the games themself? And if we need some effects that aren't in the games, we'll simply find them or make them.

[Soulliard]

Yes, that would work fine. So long as we have sounds one way or another, it's all good.

[Yellowboy]

I think that we should also include crowd effects, and make sure that they are right. I looked around in Freesource, but I didn't find anything near as good as we can make it. I've got a Rock Band microphone that works well for voices, but then we'd need somebody else to do clapping. (I guess if we make crowd effects then we're including chants?)

The reason why I suggest this is when I played the original Smash Brothers. Anybody who played Melee/Brawl first never got a chance to hear what a good gasp from the crowd does for the game's addictiveness. When I think about it, I played a lot more matches on the original than on Melee; the crowd sounded better. BRING BACK AWESOME CROWDS!

[Karuvitomsk]

^^^ Oh god would this be rad. 

[hyperduck]

I will give crowd effects a go next week after my last exam if you like, sounds like a good experiment, might not work but i'll do what i can.

[Soulliard]

Cool idea, but we're really getting ahead of ourselves here. We don't even have basic punching sounds yet.

[hyperduck]

I could punch somebody if needed.. just need to remember to record it.. might just do it anyway.


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Nah but i hear ya, i'm gonna be experimenting with this anyway, so if i get anything worth hearing, ill throw it on here for the game. Otherwise, keep working on the steel frames of this motherfugger.

[Yellowboy]

http://www.stonesbucket.com/sound-packs-flash-animation-sfx-free-sounds-free-sfx/action-pack/

This is perfect.

[Soulliard]

Those are some great gun sound effects. Combat sounds aren't perfect, but will do for now. Explosions are a little complex, but that's nothing Audacity can't fix.

[Soulliard]

Could anyone point me in the direction of good sound effects for Naija's seed summon and shield song?

[Soulliard]

Now that I think about it, I'll also need a sound for the death worm exiting the sand, and a quaking sound for right before he exits.

[-Frikman-]

2 things:1) BONESAWWW IS READY! (i got the sound directly from a video so maybe you'll listen the public yelling) http://www.mediafire.com/?5uzrroynoog
2)[N the way of the ninja] sounds http://www.mediafire.com/?zzzzoizjmc0

[mokesmoe]

I think we should just have someone with a powerful voice redo it.