Best voices on the Turbo and/or PCE?

[Joe Redifer]

I may have asked this like 10 years ago, but what game(s) do you think has the best voice quality on the Turbo? I know Andre Pansie Kiss Boxing has been mentioned (or was it Champions Forever?), but is there anything else you feel is technically impressive for the system? Spoken phrases are best. In English or Japanese, it doesn't matter.

And duh, no CD games!

[Damon Plus]

I've always thought Chase HQ had some pretty good voices before each level.

[DragonmasterDan]

I may have asked this like 10 years ago, but what game(s) do you think has the best voice quality on the Turbo? I know Andre Pansie Kiss Boxing has been mentioned (or was it Champions Forever?), but is there anything else you feel is technically impressive for the system? Spoken phrases are best. In English or Japanese, it doesn't matter.

And duh, no CD games!

Blazing Lazers very clearly says things like "Homing Miss Isles".

[Necromancer]

Soldier Blade ain't bad.

[Gentlegamer]

Will Pcenginefx get a credit on the Game Sack episode that uses this info?

[Lost Monkey]

TV Sports had pretty nice voice.

"Boo! ...ghost..." (TV Sports Hockey)

[seieienbu]

Street Fighter 2 springs to mind, obviously.  It sounds pretty accurate to the SNES version at least.  Strip Fighter 2 has a bit of spoken audio though I dunno if you'd want to use it for gamesack...

[xelement5x]

I may have asked this like 10 years ago, but what game(s) do you think has the best voice quality on the Turbo? I know Andre Pansie Kiss Boxing has been mentioned (or was it Champions Forever?), but is there anything else you feel is technically impressive for the system? Spoken phrases are best. In English or Japanese, it doesn't matter.

And duh, no CD games!

Blazing Lazers very clearly says things like "Homing Miss Isles".

In their defense, Miss Isles is worth homing in on.

[BigusSchmuck]

World Class Baseball? lol

[Black Tiger]

Champions Forever is great and technically runs samples in 6 channels at once.

Lots of Japanese games have samples which sound good, but it's hard to judge because I'm not fluent. Then there are the games with good quality samples all round, but the voices are filtered to sound like a robot (like Fighting Run).

Maybe try to isolate voices from Twinbee and Parodius or the Fire Pro games. Chase HQ is pretty good and the samples are long. SCI might have some too.

I hear different variants of the same story from different people, but the samples might sound better coming out of a CG2 or SGX or perhaps only those systems hooked through a CD-ROM.

What is most impressive and should be noted in any kind of discussion or comparison, is how many decent samples are being played at once at any given time and whether the music has to stop to do it. A Genesis game halting everything to run a single clear sounding sample isn't anywhere near as impressive as a PCE game running 3 - 6 decent samples at once without stopping anything. Especially since the PCE cpu handles all the sound on top of everything else.

[Necromancer]

Does Insanity count?  I know it's on CD, but are the voices adpcm?

[ClodBuster]

What is most impressive and should be noted in any kind of discussion or comparison, is how many decent samples are being played at once at any given time and whether the music has to stop to do it.

Now that you've mentioned it, memories of Bart Simpson's Escape from Camp Deadly on the GameBoy come back to my mind. It had voice samples, and everytime one was played, the game stopped.

[bob]

World Class Baseball? lol

OW-2!

[Joe Redifer]

Great suggestions. Did not know Champions Forever had so many simultaneous PCM samples going on. I'll check out Fighting Run. And I'll run, not walk in order to get my hands on World Class Baseball. Insanity doesn't count nor does Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective.

Will Pcenginefx get a credit on the Game Sack episode that uses this info?

Sure if you send me the physical game!

[VenomMacbeth]

Shubibinman 2/Shockman has pretty good quality samples, although they're quiet.