Melnorme PC Dialogue Restoration/Alternate Voice Mod (Standalone) for UQM/UQM HD/UQM Remix
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Version 1.4UQMS
By Soul Reaver
meet_soul_reaver@hotmail.com


Introduction
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Unfortunately, the Melnorme alien from Starcontrol II had a number of lines in the PC version that were never voiced in the 3DO version, and thus are omitted from 'The Ur-Quan Masters' as well.

Some of these lines are actually significant to the gameplay, so their omission bothered me a lot.

I attempted to imitate and recreate the Melnorme's voice (in a similar way to what I did for the missing Mycon dialogue) but I was unsuccessful.  However, I never really liked the Melnorme voice anyway - I felt it was too flat and unemotional, and lacked comic timing - so I decided to re-record all of his lines, including the ones missing from the 3DO version.  I'm not a professional voice actor or a professional sound editor, but I think the end result is still an improvement.

The goals of this mod were (in order of importance):
1. Restore plot/game-critical information from the PC version (eg, the MetaChron)
2. Ensure dialogue is consistent with in-game lore
3. Keep as many jokes in as possible
4. Restore PC dialogue if it is different from 3DO dialogue


Installation
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IMPORTANT:
- This version of the addon should only be used with The Ur-Quan Masters/The Ur-Quan Masters HD/The Ur-Quan Masters HD Remix!
If using the (recommended) Ur-Quan Masters Megamod (available here http://uqm-mods.sourceforge.net/Releases), download the MMAddon version instead (or just install it automatically using the MegaMod's installer)

Installation of the mod varies depending of if you are installing it for original 'The Ur-Quan Masters', the HD version, or the HD Remix version.  If you are concerned with following the below instructions, be sure to back up any of the files before modifying them:

The Ur-Quan Masters (0.8.0):
- Navigate to where you have installed the Ur-Quan Masters, to content/packages/
- Rename uqm-0.8.0-content.uqm to uqm-0.8.0-content.zip
- Extract the contents of this .zip to a folder somewhere (let's call this uqmcontent).  You can delete uqm-0.8.0-content.zip at this point.
- In uqmcontent, navigate to base/comm/melnorme.  Replace the melnorme.txt file there with the one included in this package.
- Recompress the contents of uqmcontent into a .zip file
- Rename this zip file to uqm-0.8.0-content.uqm.  Put this file back into the content/packages folder in your The Ur-Quan Masters install directory.
- Navigate to where you have installed the Ur-Quan Masters, to content/addons/
- Rename uqm-0.8.0-voice.uqm to uqm-0.8.0-voice.zip
- Extract the contents of this .zip to a folder somewhere (let's call this uqmvoice).  You can delete uqm-0.8.0-voice.zip at this point.
- In uqmvoice, navigate to 3dovoice.  Delete the melnorme folder, then replace it with the melnorme folder included in this package.
- Recompress the contents of uqmvoice into a .zip file
- Rename this zip file to uqm-0.8.0-voice.uqm
- Put this file back into the content/addons folder in your The Ur-Quan Masters install directory.


The Ur-Quan Masters HD:
- Navigate to where you have installed the Ur-Quan Masters HD, to content/base/comm/melnorme.  Replace the melnorme.txt file there with the one included in this package.
- Navigate to where you have installed the Ur-Quan Masters HD, to content/addons/
- Extract the contents of 3dovoice.zip to a folder somewhere (let's call this uqmvoice).  You can delete 3dovoice.zip at this point.
- In uqmvoice, delete the melnorme folder, then replace it with the melnorme folder included in this package.
- Recompress the contents of uqmvoice into a .zip file.  Name this file 3dovoice.zip
- Put this 3dovoice.zip folder back into the content/addons folder in your The Ur-Quan Masters HD install directory.

The Ur-Quan Masters HD "Remix" version:
- Navigate to where you have installed the Ur-Quan Masters HD Remix, to content/packages/
- Rename uqm-content.uqm to uqm-content.zip
- Extract the contents of this .zip to a folder somewhere (let's call this uqmcontent).  You can delete uqm-content.zip at this point.
- In uqmcontent, navigate to base/comm/melnorme.  Replace the melnorme.txt file there with the one included in this package.
- Recompress the contents of uqmcontent into a .zip file
- Rename this zip file to uqm-content.uqm.  Put this file back into the content/packages folder in your The Ur-Quan Masters HD Remix install directory.
- Navigate to where you have installed the Ur-Quan Masters HD Remix, to content/addons/
- Rename 3dovoice.uqm to 3dovoice.zip
- Extract the contents of this .zip to a folder somewhere (let's call this uqmvoice).  You can delete 3dovoice.zip at this point.
- In uqmvoice, navigate to 3dovoice.  Delete the melnorme folder, then replace it with the melnorme folder included in this package.
- Recompress the contents of uqmvoice into a .zip file
- Rename this zip file to 3dovoice.uqm
- Put this file back into the content/addons folder in your The Ur-Quan Masters HD Remix install directory.


Feedback, bug reports
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If you find any issues with the new dialogue (eg, mistimed text or other problems), please contact me at meet_soul_reaver@hotmail.com with as much detail as possible of the problem and when it occurs.  I'll try to fix the issue if possible.

If you just want to say thanks, I welcome those emails as well!