Recover the old voice lines

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Hi everyone,
Does someone know if there is a way to get back the old voice ?
I don’t understand why they have been working on that when some other points of reforged are… well you know

So if you have some trick, like changing game files or anything else let us know please !

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Most voice lines are the same as the original. The only really removed/changed ones were due to either oversights at the time, or other legal reasons.

The exception to this are foreign localizations. For some reasons some of the locales were completely redubbed, possibly due to contractualissues with the original dubbing.

For custom maps you can always import the original files from a CD copy of Warcraft III Reign of Chaos and The Frozen Throne with the latest stand-alone patch installed onto it from before Reforged.

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I doubt it is by contract. Because they are the same dubbing artist.
Only they put more pressure and limits on the artists and the dubbing was much worse.

The originals had more freedom to make jokes and were made thinking that it was going to be an RTS.

I don’t know if you know the case of “Jack the dog” in Latin Spanish.
More or less it seems that the same thing happened.

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Fix for v1.32.7 (and upcoming patches?):

For Windows:

Download this and run it to fix the problem: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjKrdUvE60XngWbIuWQcDhYewXml?e=M04nlZ
It adds the registry entry “Allow Local Files” and sets its value to 1.

You can also add it manually of course, just open “regedit.exe”, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Blizzard Entertainment\Warcraft III, create a “DWORD-value (32-bit)”, call it “Allow Local Files” and set its value to 1.

//If the key “Warcraft III” doesn’t exist, then just create it

MAC tutorial: https://youtu.be/8s53BHfKPLs

Linux tutorial: https://www.reddit.com/r/WC3/comments/hs6p7f/w3champions_lutris_and_the_registry/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

Check “Fix for v1.32.7 (and upcoming patches?)” above

Move the folders “Sound”, “Units” and “movies” to the folder “_retail_” (in your game directory). → ?:\Warcraft III\ _retail_

//If the folder “_retail_” doesn’t exist, just move the folders to the folder “Warcraft III”

Source: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/warcraft3/t/classic-pre-reforged-voices-fix-fixed-v1327-problem/24741?u=saido-21984

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THX ! Yeah i’m from the “exception” from foreign localizations. New french voices are not the same at all

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Yes, i did that tutorial recently for changing to the old original voices and it worked just fine.

The tutorial is here:

If you struggle some where feel free to ask as the tutorial can be a little confusing.

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Without the old client I can’t bring back the original Italian dub… why Blizzard did sucha useless thing? They already had the foreign dub…

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Old Voices Tutorial:

V1.27b Tutorial:

You can download there the RoC & TFT clients (v1.27) & patches. Download & install both clients for your prefered language and download & install the latest TFT patch (v1.27b) for the language you chose. Now you have the files you need.

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In German and many others it is totally not the same. Here is the Link where I complained about Cairnes new voice: Seriously. Who took Cairnes new german Voice?
It whas because of three reasons.
First they promised new epic voiceover but forgot the epic from time to time.
Second they wanted to have the voices fit on the voices and names from WoW. For example Sylvanas has now the same voice as in WoW and the orcs talk not about Grom Hellscream but Grommash Höllschrei.
Third and this is the mainreason. The last three tutorial missions where only voiced in english. This is because they first voiced them on the english demo but later found out, that on the CD is not enough space. So they cut the last three prolog Missions which explain how the Orcs meet the Darkspeartribe before they even got voiced in other languages.

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