Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction - Opening Cutscene (Dialogue Track Only)
Channel: Shoug Hell
Date: 29/05/2021

Bored last night, I decided to rip my Tools of Destruction PS3 disc and take a peek through the files. I was most curious about the game's various pre-rendered cutscenes, and after I got into them, I made a very interesting discovery. Within each Bink video file is an overwhelming amount of mono audio tracks, and out of curiosity, I listened through most of them. The first six tracks are Music/SFX combined tracks for 5.1 surround sound, which makes sense given the hardware, but I didn't seem to hear any voices in any of these tracks...until I checked out the further tracks in the file. Every other track after the initial six was actually a completely isolated dialogue track, one for center-focused dialogue, and another for panning dialogue (left, right, surround, etc), and the reason there was so many is because there are two vocal tracks for every language supported by the North American physical copy of the game: English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Sami, Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese, with there also being a dedicated video file for every FMV which is altered to use Ratchet's Japanese design. Using a program called RAD Video Tools, I ripped each track to a .wav file along with the video only to an mp4 file, and mixed it all together in Vegas Pro 17. I've isolated the English dialogue track as a small test of this, hope you all enjoy!

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