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Original Bosco Voice Mod

By Benjamoose

How to restore the original voice acting/subtitles for Sam & Max: "Save the World" & "Beyond Time and Space".

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Languages: English

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Guide Index

Overview

Step 1 - DOWNLOAD THE FILES

Step 2 - ORGANIZATION

Step 3 - EXTRACTION

Step 4 - PREPARE THE INSTALL

Step 5 - INSTALLATION

Step 6 - LAUNCH AND TEST!

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Step 1 - DOWNLOAD THE FILES

Open your browser, and navigate to:

https://gamebanana.com/sounds/50534

Scroll down the page, then download the .zip file for each season you want to modify, in the mod's download section.

Step 2 - ORGANIZATION

Place the newly downloaded .zip somewhere that you can easily access it for the rest of this guide.

I recommend a temporary folder on your desktop.

Step 3 - EXTRACTION

Extract the .zip file into this location. You should end up with the following files:
- An "Archives" folder, containing 5 or 6 ".ttarch2" files (one for each episode).
- A matching set of "_resdesc.lua" files
- An "INSTALL-INSTRUCTIONS.txt" file.

You can safely delete the "INSTALL-INSTRUCTIONS.txt" file if you intend to continue using this guide, along with the original .zip file.

As long as you end up with a single "Archives" folder containing the mod files, you're good to move on.

Step 4 - PREPARE THE INSTALL

Leaving the files we just downloaded for now, let's go and get our game folder ready.

Navigate to the install location of your copy of the game.

If you own the game on Steam, you can jump straight to this location by right-clicking on the game and selecting properties...

...then clicking on "LOCAL FILES" in the left section and then finally clicking on "Browse...".

If you own the GOG version, you can find this same location by right-clicking on your game shortcut and navigating manually to the location listed under "Target".

Note: I don't own the game on GOG, so this is an unrelated game choice to demonstrate this :-).

If you're in the correct location, you should see an "Archives" folder located in the same place as either "SamMax100.exe" or "SamMax200.exe:" depending on which season you are currently installing the mod to.

Step 5 - INSTALLATION

In a separate explorer window, browse to wherever you left our modded files in Step 3.

Drag the modded "Archives" folder into an empty spot in the game's root folder. It will then merge automatically with the game's version of the "Archives" folder.

Step 6 - LAUNCH AND TEST!

If you did all of the above correctly, you should now hear the original Bosco audio whenever talking with Bosco in-game, along with matching subtitles!

If for some reason it didn't work, simply delete the files you just installed and try again.

If you bizarrely prefer the original theme tune (or you're just nostalgic for it) try out my classic theme restoration mod (currently only for Season One):
https://gamebanana.com/sounds/50632

19 Comments

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Benjamoose [author] 10 Jun, 2023 @ 3:45am

@Exterminate749

From Skunkape's blog post for the remaster of Season One:
"The bottom line is he was voiced by a white actor doing a stereotypical impression of an African American that made us cringe fourteen years later. We wanted to make this right by casting a black actor in the role."

I don't entirely disagree with that reasoning to their credit, but I'm not really a fan of the idea of editorializing finished art produced in another era.

This mod is the best of both worlds in that it allows everyone, regardless of their views on the changes, to purchase and enjoy the remasters.

Exterminate749 3 Jun, 2023 @ 4:20pm

why was bosco recast?

Benjamoose [author] 23 Apr, 2023 @ 11:18pm

@hjk321, @julayla18
The mod has now been updated to not only include season two, but subtitle fixes too!

It also now longer replaces stock archives and now instead runs modded archives alongside the base game, meaning no more file replacing and smaller overall mod file size!

@Rockman
I work with audio professionally. A group and I are currently working on a larger evolution of this mod and we are currently working on improving the audio for that project. Stay tuned!

Benjamoose [author] 3 Jan, 2023 @ 10:26am

@Rockman Indeed! The sad part is, there are actually a handful of completely uncompressed original Bosco lines in the new game's archives.

In the original game, there were unused audio files for each character. Stuff that was likely removed from cutscenes or didn't make the final cut, but was then left in the game files.

When they uncompressed all the audio for the remaster, they also uncompressed EVERY audio file, including the ones that went unused originally. Then, when they recast Bosco, the only replaced the Bosco audio files with the new voice actor on the sound clips that were used in-game.

Long story short, the unused Bosco lines in the remaster are the original voice actor and are uncompressed.

Rockman 2 Jan, 2023 @ 2:09pm

Wow that quality change is jarring as hell lol. I can't believe the original audio was that low quality

julayla18.gamehag.com 1 Jan, 2023 @ 6:23am

*reads previous reply* Aw dang. Sorry to hear that. Hope you'll eventually get Season 2 when the time comes. I mean it's currently on sale right now, if you ever wanna get Season 2.

Benjamoose [author] 30 Jun, 2022 @ 6:49am

@hjk321

No updates unfortunately. I still don't own season two so haven't really made it a priority.

hjk321 30 Jun, 2022 @ 12:09am

Update on season 2?

Demon Cyborg 27 Apr, 2022 @ 5:08am

thanks for this!

Benjamoose [author] 14 Dec, 2021 @ 11:39am

@Snake

It's definitely something I'd be interesting in having a crack at.

Unfortunately though, I don't currently own the second season's remaster.

Whenever I pick it up though, I'll consider it.

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