Ghostbusters Video Game - PC Video List [UPDATED]
This is a list of the video files found on game disc of the PC version of Ghostbusters: The Video Game. Inside the 2.1 Gigabyte file setup\data.cab are 52 Ogg Media video files (.ogv), which are the cutscenes and menu backgrounds. The video is 1280x540 running at 29.97fps, and the audio is stereo sampled at 48000Hz. You can play these files in any Directshow-based media player, such as Windows Media Player or Media Player Classic (or many others), if you install the Directshow Filters for Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Theora and FLAC. Details have been kept as spoiler-free as possible, especially since I'm trying not to spoil the game for myself, too (I only listened to snippets of the dialog in the videos just to get a sense of what each video is about).
[UPDATE] I have uploaded some of the video files to YouTube. Click on the colored file names to view those videos. If you have the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox and Seamonkey, and the YousableTubeFix plugin, you can download the MP4 HQ HD files direct from each YouTube page (where available). For some reason, most of the videos would lose the dialog when uploaded, but the music and sound effects would remain. It did this when I uploaded a test file to Daily Motion as well. It probably has something to do with the Ogg Media format. I believe the .ogv files used in the game contain multiple audio tracks. The dialog is available in several languages and the game somehow knows which language track to play, probably based on the language settings in Windows. When I tried to play the files once in Windows Media Player, it played all audio tracks at once, so that confirms it for me. This would likely be the reason why he video sharing sites dropped the dialog when I uploaded these files. The ones that uploaded correctly were the ones with either no audio, no dialog, just dialog, or unused videos (those not used in the final game). So those are the only ones available for viewing. The unused video files are cs_cem_02.ogv, cs_fh1_01.ogv, cs_fh5_01.ogv, cs_h1_05.ogv, cs_par_06.ogv, and cs_par_07.ogv. Two of these are pre-vis cutscenes, two are alternate scenes from the deleted parade section (the dialog was reused in two museum cutscenes), one is an alternate scene of everyone getting into Ecto-1 and racing out of the firehouse, and the last is a rough version of the opening Janine scene. Details are in the list below. The quality of these six videos is substandard compared to the actual in-game cutscenes. You can tell that they weren't finished. Proton Charging has a write-up on the two unused parade scenes, and you can view comparions between the original parade scenes and the replacement museum scenes here and here.
8 comments
Comment from: idude [Visitor]
hey i got a question...is it just me but when im playing the pc version my load screen is just the trademark ghostbusters sign...no awesome audio...or cool loading video...just the symbol and no audio...
any ideas? Thanks
Jun. 17, 2009 @ 16:11
Comment from: spookcentral [Member]
[UPDATE - 8/10/2009]
I got the PC game to install and load up into the first playable portion of the game. Then after 10 or 15 seconds, it freezes. I don't know why, but it does. I'll have to see what I can do to fix that. Anyway, I can tell you that the FIRST loading screen on the PC is indeed just the logo on black with "Loading..." in the upper left corner. You're not doing anything wrong, Idude. However, that's not to say that the gameplay & equipment montage video (loading.ogv) isn't a loading screen shown later on in the game. Maybe it has to be unlocked or something. Of course, maybe it's not used at all in the PC game, and is yet another unused video on the game disc. Interestingly, the file load.ogv, which is an audio-less almost-still shot of the inside of the firehouse on the side of Ecto-1, is NOT a loading screen as I surmised in my videos list (from the file name), but rather the Start Game menu background.
Jun. 17, 2009 @ 16:41
Comment from: abefroman [Visitor]
Can anyone tell me what directory these should be in? I had to unpack everything to a central directory (had the install problem where it got to 99% and bailed). Game plays great, but I get no cutscenes at all. Are they supposed to be in a dir like \cutscenes or \movies?
thanks!
Jul. 3, 2009 @ 19:20
Comment from: spookcentral [Member]
On the game disc, the videos are in the Setup directory inside a file named data.cab.
If you install the game, the videos will be located here: C:\Program Files\Atari\Ghostbusters\Video
Jul. 4, 2009 @ 04:27
Comment from: abefroman [Visitor]
AH HA! Finally! Nothing was working right, I wasn't getting any cutscenes or anything. Now this game finally works. thanks!! Do the .POD files go in a different directory, or do they stay in the game directory? (C:\Program Files\Atari\Ghostbusters)
Thanks again!
Jul. 4, 2009 @ 12:11
Comment from: spookcentral [Member]
If installed correctly, the .pod files would, indeed, be in the game directory with the other game files.
For the record, here's the file list of correctly installed files: C:\PROGRAM FILES\ATARI\GHOSTBUSTERS\ common.pod GameuxInstallHelper.dll ghost_w32.exe ghost_w32.fpt lang.ini language.pod paul.dll readme.rtf w32art.pod w32art02.pod w32desnd.pod w32ensnd.pod w32essnd.pod w32frsnd.pod w32itsnd.pod w32model.pod w32musnd.pod w32set.pod w32set02.pod w32sound.pod xinput1_3.dll C:\PROGRAM FILES\ATARI\GHOSTBUSTERS\VIDEO\ attract_vid.ogv cs_cem_02.ogv cs_cem_06.ogv cs_cem_07.ogv cs_ext_01.ogv cs_fh1_01.ogv cs_fh1_01a.ogv cs_fh1_02.ogv cs_fh4_01.ogv cs_fh5_01.ogv cs_h1_05.ogv cs_h1_06.ogv cs_h1_07.ogv cs_h2_01.ogv cs_h2_02.ogv cs_h2_03.ogv cs_li_01.ogv cs_li_02.ogv cs_lib_01.ogv cs_lib_04.ogv cs_lib_05.ogv cs_mus_01.ogv cs_mus_02.ogv cs_mus_03.ogv cs_mus_03a.ogv cs_mus_03b.ogv cs_par_06.ogv cs_par_07.ogv cs_ts_05.ogv cs_ts_07.ogv cs_ts_08.ogv extras.ogv fh02_scene.ogv fh03_scene.ogv fh04_scene.ogv fh05_scene.ogv gb01.ogv gb02.ogv gb03.ogv gb04.ogv gb05.ogv gb06.ogv gb08.ogv gb09.ogv gb10.ogv gb11.ogv gb12.ogv home.ogv load.ogv loading.ogv logo.ogv options.ogv
Jul. 7, 2009 @ 05:49
Comment from: gb24 [Visitor]
are the .ogv videos with sound or without? i opend them with the vlc-player i can watch the video but i haven't any sound? i've also installed the directshow filter codec, what i made wrong? please help me.
Jul. 30, 2009 @ 09:03
Comment from: spookcentral [Member]
GB24
I installed the directshow codec, which auto-associates .ogv files with Windows Media Player (v9 on my system). If I play them in Windows Media Player 9, like the codec wants me to, they play fine with sound and everything. If I play them in the open-source Media Player Classic (my favorite player), most videos won't play at all. Just out of curiosity, I tried out VLC Player a few weeks back, and like you, they played with no sound. So if you're like me and you don't like Windows Media Player, install the codec and play those .ogv files - and only those files - in Windows Media Player.
Aug. 10, 2009 @ 21:48
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