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[PhrozenDragon]

This thread contains all music, all speech files, sound effects, links to all videos, monster animations, item images and other images found in Diablo I. All these files have been extracted from DIABLODAT.mpq found on the Diablo I CD.

Music
Speech Files
Cinematic
Graphics

Music
Download Link: Diablo I Music.rar
YouTube Link: Diablo I Music

Countains all music (6 tracks, but still) from Diablo I, all converted to .mp3 format.

Cinematics
Download Link 1: Diablo I NPC Speech.rar
Download Link 2: Diablo I Character Speech.rar
Download Link 3: Diablo I Sounds.rar

Contains all speech files from Diablo I. NPC Speech contains all speech by the townspeople and by the books found in the game, Character speech all speech by teh three classes (rogue, sorceror, warrior) and Sounds contain all sound effects, including monster deaths (for those of you who want to hear Knights dying once again). SOunds also include monster speech, like Snotspil and Gharbad's dialogue.

Interesting things here:

• It appears that Izual was supposed to appear in D1, as there's a file bearing his name in the files.¨¨
  
• Another leftover sound is someone, probably a warlock (whatever that is in the Diablo Universe), who tempts the player into releasing him from his prison.

Cinematics
YouTube Link: Diablo I Cinematics

All cinematics can be viewed on our YouTube page.

Graphics
Wiki Link: Category:Diablo I Images

All graphics and animations for D1 can be found in the above link eventually. It'st ill under construction (i.e. things are still being uploaded to the wiki). But eventually the page will contain all monster animations, item images and NPC's.

Edited by PhrozenDragon, 25 January 2011 - 05:35 PM.

[SandyTheSandman]

PhrozenDragon, on 24 January 2011 - 05:42 PM, said:

Interesting things here:

• It appears that Izual was supposed to appear in D1, as there's a file bearing his name in the files.

I would think there wasn't anywhere appropriate to slot him in, so they left him for D2
Thx for the sounds files, they're great.

[PhrozenDragon]

SandyTheSandman, on 24 January 2011 - 07:39 PM, said:

I would think there wasn't anywhere appropriate to slot him in, so they left him for D2
Thx for the sounds files, they're great.

Probably. There another cut one, wlock01.wav (warlock?), which appears to be an imprisoned demon that temps the player to release them from their prison.

He sounds much more ominous and bad ass than Snotspil to say the least

[Siaynoq]

I've known for a long time about the cut content from Diablo 1. But I thought it was Inarius, not Izual that was going to be in the game. The manual referenced him quite heavily. I believe he will make an appearance in Diablo 3.

I also wonder what the game would've been like had they not cut Tremaine out of the game. I figured he was probably a rank or so lower than Lazarus and managed to escape corruption but had become paranoid and stricken with neurosis after the whole corruption of the Cathedral.

[Don_guillotine]

Siaynoq, on 25 January 2011 - 06:02 AM, said:

I've known for a long time about the cut content from Diablo 1.

Basically all Hellfire content is content cut from Diablo I. AFAIK only that annoying organic lair (the festering nest) was completely their own creation. The other new level is partially recycled material. They also polished some of the unfinished animations etc. that were cut from Diablo I.

[PhrozenDragon]

Siaynoq, on 25 January 2011 - 06:02 AM, said:

I've known for a long time about the cut content from Diablo 1. But I thought it was Inarius, not Izual that was going to be in the game. The manual referenced him quite heavily. I believe he will make an appearance in Diablo 3.

"How much suffering mortal does it take, before you loose your grace? Let me show you." - izual01.wav

It's possible either Izual or Inarius spawned from the concept of the other, as both are angels who betrayed heaven, though one did it for personal flaws while the other might have been corrupted and/or evil/demonic at heart. Both could at one point have been slated for the game, but Blizzard has a habit of not changing their file names (Anya is known as Dreya in the Diablo II files, among others), so if the file is named Izual, it was probably intended for him in the beginning. Whether Inarius is a by-product of Izual that was created to expand on the fallen angel concept, or simply never got into production we'll probably never know though.

Siaynoq, on 25 January 2011 - 06:02 AM, said:

I also wonder what the game would've been like had they not cut Tremaine out of the game. I figured he was probably a rank or so lower than Lazarus and managed to escape corruption but had become paranoid and stricken with neurosis after the whole corruption of the Cathedral.

Tremaine?

[Siaynoq]

PhrozenDragon, on 25 January 2011 - 05:41 PM, said:

Whether Inarius is a by-product of Izual that was created to expand on the fallen angel concept, or simply never got into production we'll probably never know though.

Mm, probably not. Regardless though. Inarius will totally be in Diablo 3.

PhrozenDragon, on 25 January 2011 - 05:41 PM, said:

Tremaine?

He's the guy in my sig. He was meant to be an NPC in Diablo but didn't make the final cut. There might even be a speech file or two for him.

[Gheed2010]

Don_guillotine, on 25 January 2011 - 10:20 AM, said:

Basically all Hellfire content is content cut from Diablo I.

Do you have any supporting documentation on that, or is that just a theory?

http://en.wikipedia....gistic_Software

[Don_guillotine]

Gheed2010, on 25 January 2011 - 08:40 PM, said:

Don_guillotine, on 25 January 2011 - 10:20 AM, said:

Basically all Hellfire content is content cut from Diablo I.

Do you have any supporting documentation on that, or is that just a theory?

http://en.wikipedia....gistic_Software

Following monsters were made but didn't make the release and were cut. They are in the game files. Most of them were enabled in Hellfire:

• Unraveler - found in Hellfire and Diablo II instead
  
• Goat Lord
  
• Incinerator
  
• Bone Demon
  
• Invisible Lord
  
• The Arch Lich Malignus
  
• Devil Kin Brute

Many other monsters are modified versions of work Blizzard had done. For example the end boss, Na-Krul is obviously an edited model of Diablo.

Many spells are slightly modified versions of original spells:

• Ring of Fire
  
• Lightning Wall
  
• Immolation

Both Hellfire levels use the same map generation tools the original levels did. They just replaced the graphics. The Demon Crypt reuses the tile set for the Church, but with no shrines and libraries. Also minor changes.

Rumor has that Blizzard made some of the tiles for the Nest, but scrapped them as they reused the idea in Diablo II. (Along fe. the two cut quests, in where the player killed Izual and Andariel).

The new levels have some pathfinding issues because the algorithms weren't changed to suit the new levels.


Do I need to think of more content that was reused content from the original Diablo? Mostly cut and disabled, but you can find them in the game files.

[Gheed2010]

Wow, nice work.  Of course, putting models, animations and backgrounds together is real labor (and at least the monk and Na-Krul probably involved some significant work), even if it's based on a template, but I think it says something that 'Hellfire' is the last title listed in that article on Synergistic, and that Bliz has more or less pretended that it never existed and has never licensed out their IP to an outside studio since that time (and may not even be outsourcing pre-production cinematic stuff again after that leak a few months ago).

[Don_guillotine]

Gheed2010, on 27 January 2011 - 05:49 PM, said:

Wow, nice work.  Of course, putting models, animations and backgrounds together is real labor (and at least the monk and Na-Krul probably involved some significant work), even if it's based on a template, but I think it says something that 'Hellfire' is the last title listed in that article on Synergistic, and that Bliz has more or less pretended that it never existed and has never licensed out their IP to an outside studio since that time (and may not even be outsourcing pre-production cinematic stuff again after that leak a few months ago).

Yeah. I was too young to have too much first-hand memories back then, but my interpretation of Hellfire is that it was more Sierra trying to cash on the success Diablo generated, and Blizzard just having to follow the contracts they originally had to sign. And then they made sure they never signed such outsourcing contracts again.

The general consensus is that Blizz had a lot of ideas when making D1, but decided to release the game as we all know, and a lot of the surplus ideas made the core for what we know as D2.

[Gheed2010]

Don_guillotine, on 27 January 2011 - 06:24 PM, said:

The general consensus is that Blizz had a lot of ideas when making D1, but decided to release the game as we all know, and a lot of the surplus ideas made the core for what we know as D2.

There isn't much to the original D beyond 'Real-time Rogue'.  D2 was much, much more ambitious in scope (and much less focused as a result IMO).

[Don_guillotine]

Gheed2010, on 27 January 2011 - 06:29 PM, said:

There isn't much to the original D beyond 'Real-time Rogue'.  D2 was much, much more ambitious in scope (and much less focused as a result IMO).

What I meant is that at some point they seem to have tried to expand the game from its original premise (simply: a hero, a dungeon, a town). Then they instead cut what little they had started to expand and ported them into DII.