Chalenge's Sick Puppy Sound Pack - repaired and filled in

[steely07]

In memory of Chalenge.

Chalenge gave us the Sick Puppy Sound Pack back in 2019, and a lot of us still fly with it. Over the last few weeks I've been going through it to fix the things that had crept up on it, and to fill in the planes it never covered, so it can keep being flown. With Fuji's permission, here it is for everyone.

The sounds are Chalenge's. Every plane he covered plays his engines, and the planes added since are built on his own designs. Please always call it Chalenge's sound pack.

Download: Chalenge's Sick Puppy Sound Pack - fixed v17
(one zip, about 215 MB - install instructions are on the page and inside the zip)

What's been fixed

• Levels evened out between planes, so the one "your engine" slider works for all of them. Cruise matches stock.
• 64 engine loops that clicked or pumped at the loop point repaired.
• Planes that come into view already flying no longer play a start-up first.
• Start-ups and shut-downs capped at each engine's full-throttle level (no more F4U "thunder"), and WEP you can actually hear.
• Every sound now stops when the game switches it off - no more "... not stopping" messages in the text buffer (the stall buffet, and tank engines and tracks after a shut-down). Thanks to Fuji for reporting those.
• The M4A3(76) tracks now follow the tank's speed (they were silent).
• About 50 planes the original pack didn't cover now have engines. The WWI planes stay on stock sounds.

Install
Close the game, make a folder CustomSounds\Desktop inside your Aces High III folder, and copy the four .bank files from the zip into it. To go back to stock, just delete or rename that folder.

Credits

• Chalenge - the Sick Puppy Sound Pack and everything in it.
  
• Mitsu - engine loops from Mitsu's Sounds Collection (AH2) for the planes Chalenge's pack lacks.
  
• The recordists of the IL-2 1946 "412 Soundpack" - the Tu-2S, Me 262, Ar 234 and C.205 engines. The pack doesn't name them and I couldn't find out who they were. I salute and thank them, and I'll gladly add their names if they make themselves known.

If anything sounds wrong, tell me which plane, inside or outside view, and what it was doing (start-up, cruise, WEP, gear, shut-down...) and I'll sort it.

<S>
Steely

[The Fugitive]

Thank you for doing this. I have always loved Chalenge's sound pack but the issues made it tough to use.

I have been running this pack for a week or two and it is awesome! Steely is being very humble in the work he put into this and I thank him, but as he says it is and always will be Chalenges's Sound Pack!

Thanks again Steely!  <S>

[Dadtallica]

Can’t wait to check this out

[Banshee7]

  . This is awesome!  I need to come back and give this a try! I always loved his sound pack!  Thank you steely for putting in the work! 

[Kini]

Great work! Thanks for putting the time in.

[Animl-AW]

Way cool

[SIK1]

Steely, thanks for putting the effort into fixing the issues with Chalenge's sound pack. 

I'm looking forward to trying it out.

 

[JimmyD3]

ON Ndisles last night in the T34/85, I kept getting the "Alert/T34/85/track sound......." tried to make a screen shot but didn't get it. It filled up my text buffer. Tried to do a ".resetv 3" it cleared one line and started doing it again. I also noticed I lost my ability to adjust my gun range settings.

Logged off, removed the sound pak, when I logged back on, every thing worked fine. FYI, every time I have tried to use the sound pak, these are the issues I run into. If I need to repeat the test, let me know, I will strive to help anyway I can.

[steely07]

Kenai, were you in the T34, or was it an enemy one, or another player, might sound dumb, but if you can let me know, that'd be great!, also, were you shutting down the engine and restarting it if you were driving the T34, or were you just cruising along?

I think it can be fixed, more info is better than less

Salute

Steely

[JimmyD3]

Steely07, I was in the T34, engine off in a stand of Bamboo. I suspect the enemy GV in front of me was a T34.

[The Fugitive]

Steely07, I was in the T34, engine off in a stand of Bamboo. I suspect the enemy GV in front of me was a T34.

You know if you had FILMed that you would KNOW what the enemy in front of you was. 

[JimmyD3]

You know if you had FILMed that you would KNOW what the enemy in front of you was. 

Steely07/Fugitive, I have the film, let me know where to send it.

[The Fugitive]

Steely07/Fugitive, I have the film, let me know where to send it.

You know where to send it for me, been asking for films for a year now!   

[steely07]

The film would be helpful, if it's too big to attach here, you can use gofile it's a free file host, don't need an account, just goto page, upload and copy me the download link https://gofile.io/

[steely07]

also, looking into this now, I had a suspicion that one might be an issue, but I can't spawn 2 t34's and control their engines to test myself.

I may temporarily just remove it, so game can use the default one until I can fix (if I can fix)