Old Sounds for Current Version?

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McMick
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Old Sounds for Current Version?

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I really like almost all of the new stuff in the latest builds of BfW, but I really am just sour on the new sound effects. Is there a way to get the old ones back? Like from around the time when wolves howled instead of whined when you killed one? Can I just grab an old version and swap the sound files out?
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Re: Old Sounds for Current Version?

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As long as the new files have the same names as the ones they replaced, you should be able to simply swap them. If they don't, it gets a bit more complicated.
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Re: Old Sounds for Current Version?

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It's pretty easy to do with a one-line shell script:

for i in $(find -name '*.ogg'); do cp $i /path/to/other/wesnoth/data/dir/$i; done
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Re: Old Sounds for Current Version?

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You can just drag, drop, and rename (if needed) the files to overwrite the ones you don't like. As far as I know, the game just looks for the file name, it doesn't use ID3 tags or anything like that.
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McMick
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Re: Old Sounds for Current Version?

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Thanks for the help, guys, it's appreciated.
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