Where should I advertise auditions for the Xanadu dub?

[Desh]

There's a guy on this forum that could probably get Ron Jeremy to do a few lines.

[sirhcman]

The Xanadu English dub-project is getting close to liftoff.

Getting enough skilled actors and actresses to make this work is going to be tough.

I am going to send you a PM about a girl who might do it.. I think she has done some voice acting before

[LentFilms]

You can also directly contact amateur actors/actresses. The way the Ys IV dub got a lot of its talent was from sending emails to people, telling them about the project and inviting them to audition while suggesting what kind of roles you'd think they'd be good for based off their demo. We didn't contact any high profile actors, mainly people who do parody dubs or other fan stuff, and not a lot of people responded but I think we got some of our best actors/actresses by asking directly.

I think you should definitely ask Sonicshadows and Haushinka to reprise their roles as Arios and Ishtar. They both did a great job in the old dub and did some great work in the Ys IV dub as well.

[DarkKobold]

I have a friend who has an incredible range of voices he does, and they are really good. He'd probably be totally down to contribute. Bishop of Bishop Bros. Probably the nicest person you could ever meet.

[spenoza]

Racketboy would be a good place for this, but make sure to put it in the Creator's Corner subforum. It'll end up there, anyway, cause I'll probably mod it there.

[NightWolve]

Looks like you covered the known places like Voice-Acting Alliance which is where the 2nd and 3rd Ys IV dub directors I met turned to. That place wasn't as well known when I first tried to get it done with Justus J, and we just hit the Ys forums, about it, along with Justus' friends, which is how we got the actor for Dogi. Too bad his girlfriend at the time didn't finish Karna, as I liked her much better than the replacement BurntLasagna found years later.

Anyway, all the best!

[NightWolve]

What's his rate again, $100 bucks per line ?

[Lost Monkey]

Pretty much. Hah. Not sure if his agent would insist on more since this is something that would be distributed on disc or whatnot... And the attention it would bring to the project might be unwanted.  But damn that would be funny.

Bring Ron Jeremy into it and I start siding with ashrion...

[Necromancer]

Bring Ron Jeremy into it and I start siding with ashrion...

Indeed.  It'd be funny, of course, but he'd be a better fit (so to speak) on a translation of Hi Leg Fantasy or Steam Hearts. 

[SamIAm]

There's a guy on this forum that could probably get Ron Jeremy to do a few lines.

There's a cocaine joke to be made there somewhere.

Anyway, there aren't any parts that someone with his voice could fill.

Sorry Ron.

I think you should definitely ask Sonicshadows and Haushinka to reprise their roles as Arios and Ishtar. They both did a great job in the old dub and did some great work in the Ys IV dub as well.

I'll be contacting them, definitely.

Hasn't Haushinka done professional work before?

I'll still be opening up all parts for auditions. For one thing, I think it will encourage more people to send in takes in general. There won't be a fix in, either; when it's over, I'll give each part to the person who seems most suited to it.

However, there is a very good chance that we'll be using some of the same actors and actresses from the old dub. 

[sirhcman]

The Xanadu English dub-project is getting close to liftoff.

Getting enough skilled actors and actresses to make this work is going to be tough.

I am going to send you a PM about a girl who might do it.. I think she has done some voice acting before

and.... I got busy at work and never sent it I just did now though!

[elmer]

The Xanadu English dub-project is getting close to liftoff.

Excellent!!! 

However Elmer, if the subs insertion on SGX/SCD combo you evoked in another thread is doable without not much work, it would be more than awesome!!! 

The advantage of a potential SGX dub, is that there's all this extra RAM, extra VRAM, and extra sprites available that the game knows nothing about, and so won't interfere with.

But it would still be a major hack to get it working in the game.

The biggest issue is that each of the visual sequences uses 2 different methods for controlling the overall sequence timing, and there's only one of those that I could sensibly hack into. That could make the subtitle timing a bit iffy, and bad subtitles that drifted off-sync would be terrible.

And anyway, apart from ashrion, most folks (IMHO) would prefer to have an English dub if it's done well, and I have total faith that SamIAm will do a great job of it.

You will have two choices:

1. Use the dub.
2. Print out the script and read it while you play.

Yep, that's always been SamIAm's goal. If you don't want to hear English voices in the game, then you'll just be able to install the English text patch without the dub.

Subtitles are impossible on this hardware and with these two games. There are no resources to do it with.

That's exactly the problem from my POV ... where is the memory supposed to come from for the graphics for the subtitles, and how are they going to be displayed without breaking Falcom's original timings for the cutscenes???

I can see how it *might* be possible with the extra hardware of the SuperGrafx, but I really have trouble believing that it's possible on the base PCE.

I would much rather do subtitles myself. It is much easier for me. However, I want people to be able to play the games without using a paper script.

Honestly, I'd probably prefer subtitles, too. That's how I prefer to watch most foreign movies, unless the dubbing is done exceptionally well (like Cowboy Bebop).

I'll do a little more research, but I really don't hold out much hope.

[esteban]

ASIDE: I just rewatched Cowboy Bebop over the summer...wow, it really was so much fun. It held up better than I thought it would (I was worried that I had oversold it...)

[jtucci31]

I can't believe we are at this stage! This is so exciting. It may have already been mentioned before, but I know the game will probably call for a ton of different voices. If you can get each unique voice for all that would be pretty sweet!

If there's anything that is non-actors can do, I'll gladly pitch in

[SamIAm]

If we don't get anybody to double-up whatsoever, then there are 58 parts. 30 male, 28 female.

Maybe only 1/3 of those have more than two or three lines total, however.