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Posted November 15, 2019
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scottrrr: Sorry, it's not Google Drive but I've had this file for a long time and I've uploaded it to Mega.
Thanks! +1
Posted November 18, 2019
Any way to do this manually if the .bat file is failing to recogniuze the VPatch.exe as a command?
Posted November 20, 2019
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Robot_Dan: Any way to do this manually if the .bat file is failing to recogniuze the VPatch.exe as a command?
Not that I'm aware of sorry, but make sure you've extracted NormalityUsVoices_RunMe.BAT and NormalityUsVoices_VPatch.exe to the Normality install folder (i.e. the one with NORM.EXE and NORMAL.GOG in it) before running the bat file. I've just tested it again and it worked fine.
Hopefully that was your issue, if not then I'm afraid I can't think of what else it would be.
Posted January 26, 2021
All prior links above are dead.

I did have success with this one - https://www.dropbox.com/s/n5tl8eusz1h2qhi/NormalityUsVoicesPatch.zip?dl=0

Which I got from Steam, and is based on the patch mentioned here, but Steam concentric.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/400370/discussions/0/517142892069690417/?ctp=3

So not having the game yet, I don't know what the differences are.

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Yep I bought the game and it worked well. So it would seem the patch works with either the GOG version or the Steam one. I also made the SB16 config file changes to get stereo sound, and that worked too. Enabling stereo sound - small guide

I will probably whip up a little EXE file to make the sound changes and give button toggling between US and UK voices ... stay tuned as I will possibly do that tomorrow.
Post edited January 27, 2021 by Timboli
Posted January 27, 2021
As promised, I have made a little program to toggle between American and British voices and select Stereo or Mono sounds.

See more detail and download link here - https://www.gog.com/forum/general/voices_selector_for_the_game_normality
Posted December 29, 2021
Just a heads up if anyone is interested, you can buy the zoom plarform version and they have both the uk and us versions as installers.

https://www.zoom-platform.com/product/normality
Posted August 19, 2023
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Sweetz: After buying the GoG version of Normality and finding out it had the inferior UK version voice acting and not the excellent performance of the Feldmeister, I was pretty disappointed. Having my mind set on playing the game as I remembered it from my childhood, I hunted down a physical copy of the US version (which thankfully is still available 2nd hand at reasonable prices on EBay).

I have now made a patcher that will convert the GoG UK version of the game to the US version.

Get it here: http://www.filefactory.com/file/70vqkrkmpqh5/NormalityUsVoicesPatch.zip
Scroll down and select "Slow Download", make sure not click one of the fake download ads these sites are riddled with (AdBlock helps a ton for that).
Last upload date: 6/8/2013

Alternate community hosted download, see this post: http://www.gog.com/forum/normality/to_get_us_voices/post37

Install instructions are in the Readme file.

If anyone can handle more permanent hosting duties I'm sure the community would be thankful if you could do so and please feel free to distribute this patch as desired. Unfortunately, FileFactory will drop the file after 90 days of non-use and Normality isn't a super popular game; plus you know, most of these free file hosting sites are ad riddled nightmares.

----Original post follows for history (this can be ignored)----

I've looked into what it would take to get the US voices into the GoG version of the game - and while the solution is quite easy, it's unfortunately not one I'm particularly comfortable distributing.

You see, like most games of the era, Normality installs very little to the hard drive and reads most everything from the CD. The voices are unfortunately one of the things kept on the CD. The GoG version of the game runs through DosBox by mounting an ISO of the CD - which GoG sort of humorously tries to hide by renaming the .ISO file to a .GOG file.

So I made an ISO of my US version CD and replaced the GoG one; I also found I had to replace the game's main executable (one of the things which *is* installed) and that resulted in the US voices! Did some further checking to be safe, and apart from the exe, none of the other "installed" files are different between the versions.

So basically, getting the US voices just involves replacing 2 files in the GoG install. The problem is that one of those files is the game's disc image - which I don't really feel comfortable about making publicly available. If anyone at GoG wants to contact me, I'd be more than happy to provide them the US version ISO so they can make it available in an official manner.

What I would recommend to anyone that wants the US voices is that they send a message to GoG using their contact form (put it under "Other" I guess) requesting the US voices and pointing them to this post.

In the meantime, if anyone is *really* hard up for getting the US voices, send me a private message here and we'll see what we can work out.
The link is down does aynone have it
Posted January 23, 2024
Just a heads-up for whoever is reading this and wonders why the subtitles are the UK ones, the methods described above are missing one file, LANG.DAT, which handles... the subtitles.

For more info read the post that I made in @Timboli 's thread about his excellent tool:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/voices_selector_for_the_game_normality/post3

Also, please don't forget to thank @Timboli, IMHO he deserves at least that much!
Post edited January 23, 2024 by KeyperOS
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