[Scummvm-devel] Displaying subtitles in voice-only games

[Travis Howell]

On 22/12/2010 7:32 PM, Ori Avtalion wrote:
> Simon 1&  2 can also be put on that list. It has speech and subtitles,
> but enabling both is disabled. The English subtitles are missing for a
> few audio sentences, and in general the subtitles seem to cause a few
> problems with audio stopping at the middle of sentences. (As has been
> discussed in bug reports, and perhaps on this list).
>
> I did a comparison of the game's script with that of the Hebrew
> version, which does have subtitles enabled w/ speech. IIRC, There is
> very little difference between the two, and I doubt the problems with
> speech cutting off don't happen there as well.

The English and German versions of Simon the Sorcerer 1 (CD) actually 
removed the string ids from scripts, and the strings from the data 
files. So adding back the missing subtitles would not be possible, 
without major changes (updating the majority of scripts) to the data 
files. and there are timing differences in the scripts too.

Simon the Sorcerer 2 (CD) already offers subtitles, with or without 
speech enabled. The speech cut offs are a limitation of the game engine, 
and can be reduced by extending the delay for subtitles.