Gabriel Knight (1993) Repaired Speech

The CD release of Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (1993) features a terrific vocal cast. Unfortunately - due to what I believe was a mistake in their DPCM encoder - the resultant speech audio is full of clicks, pops and crackles. This persists across all known releases of the original game, including the current GOG release (ScummVM-based).

After studying the issue, I wrote a tool which decodes, repairs and re-encodes the waveforms - converted finally into a delta patch for the RESOURCE.AUD file. The patched file should work for DOS, Windows, and ScummVM versions of the game. It doesn't fix every audio issue in the game, but it makes a huge difference!

INSTRUCTIONS

You will need something which can apply LZMA-compressed xdelta patches, such as Delta Patcher (grab the appropriate file your machine, e.g. windows_bin_x86.zip). Many other implementations exist for various platforms.

Further instructions appear on the download page.

DOWNLOADS

Naturally, this is a free mod - but if you'd like to drop me a tip, it'd really help me out - and helps itch.io pay for bandwidth!