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Old 14-05-22, 06:26   #21
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This project just made me realize Charles is never spoken of by name in TR: Chronicles... Huh. Justice for Jean at last, it seems. Thanks for this, ATRF. I'm happy to see more mods for TRV.
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Old 14-05-22, 11:27   #22
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This project just made me realize Charles is never spoken of by name in TR: Chronicles... Huh. Justice for Jean at last, it seems. Thanks for this, ATRF. I'm happy to see more mods for TRV.
You're very welcome!

I've noticed too that Charles' name wasn't mentioned at all. Interestingly, the only namedrop Charles Kane ever gotten gamewise was during the LAU trilogy.
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Old 14-05-22, 14:15   #23
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Not surprising though, really. Charles Kane was added very, very late in development as a stand-in for Jean, as we all know nowadays. Jean actually made it all the way to beta before they had to remove him, and there were even some beta versions of the game that leaked out that still had him in the game.

They probably just hoped no one would notice since they really didn't want to be working on Chronicles in the first place.
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Old 15-05-22, 08:50   #24
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there were even some beta versions of the game that leaked out that still had him in the game.
This really blow my mind and doesn't get talked about enough. Core seriously released a beta product, which had silent FMVs, to general circulation. Do we even know what territories it was released to or anything about the fallout?
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Old 15-05-22, 09:45   #25
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This really blow my mind and doesn't get talked about enough. Core seriously released a beta product, which had silent FMVs, to general circulation. Do we even know what territories it was released to or anything about the fallout?
Actually the beta FMVs do have audio - they're mostly either the TR1 main theme or TR4 jeep music, so basically placeholders. The Core logo FMV has the usual music. Edit: On some versions of beta there's dialogue in the first cutscene between Winston and Father Patrick, but there's no dialogue for the news reporter on the tv.

(Sorry my bad for saying the beta FMVs had no audio, I kinda wrote the op in a rush.)

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Old 19-05-22, 12:54   #26
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Good news everyone, perryloo have successfully modded Jean-Yves into the TRC title screen, I think his model was imported from TR4.

I've tested the Title.trc level mod and everything seems to be in perfect working order. I'd recommend using this level mod alongside the FMVs from this project. This way we can have a faithful restoration of Jean-Yves in TRC.

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Old 28-05-22, 10:26   #27
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Hey, I’m just catching up with everything on here and this is fantastic! I saw that you’ve done the same with subtitling the AoD FMVs and you did a great job there too. This is great to see
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Hey, I’m just catching up with everything on here and this is fantastic! I saw that you’ve done the same with subtitling the AoD FMVs and you did a great job there too. This is great to see
Welcome back Ameliorator

Thank you for your thoughtful comment, I appreciate it. All the classic games need subtitles imo. I'm also planning to add subtitles to the TR4 movies as well, but first I'm actually remaking the videos for this project because there's room for improvement
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Old 28-05-22, 12:58   #29
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Welcome back Ameliorator

Thank you for your thoughtful comment, I appreciate it. All the classic games need subtitles imo. I'm also planning to add subtitles to the TR4 movies as well, but first I'm actually remaking the videos for this project because there's room for improvement
Aw thank you haha

I was wondering if you would be doing the rest of the classics but just TR4 is fine by me lol. I always found it strange that the TR2 FMVs don’t have any dialogue but I like it. It makes them feel really stylised and it leaves more room for imagination. These Chronicles ones look good but if you think you can make them even better then I’m looking forward to seeing that
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Aw thank you haha

I was wondering if you would be doing the rest of the classics but just TR4 is fine by me lol. I always found it strange that the TR2 FMVs don’t have any dialogue but I like it. It makes them feel really stylised and it leaves more room for imagination. These Chronicles ones look good but if you think you can make them even better then I’m looking forward to seeing that
Actually it's more of a technical update for the TRC videos, visually these won't be different. I'm using a different approach with combining video and audio using a video editor, previously these were combined using the bink converter. The video editor allows me to combine video and audio with more precision which is why I'm re-doing all the videos. I'm also working on the subtitles again so that they sync with the voices even better.

I'm actually happy TR2 has no dialogues because that means less work for me XD But yeah you do have a point about leaving room to imagination
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