Hello all, this is my first attempt at a pinball mod and it's a fairly ambitious one at that...
First things first this mod will require the new Pinsound board to work (http://www.pinsound.org/), without it there is no mod. This board is used to replace legacy sounds in Williams Terminator 2 with new updated sounds so is an essential prerequisite.
The concept of this mod is to replace Arnold's classic callouts with much better quality callouts. I think Arnold himself has moved on from 1991 and doing pinball voice over work so I've been searching for an alternative... Last year I heard about a guy called David Andrew Brent who is a voice actor/impressionist who does an AMAZING Arnie impression. Have a listen:
I dropped an email to his agency to ask if he would be available to create some custom sound clips in his Arnie voice. My intent being to ask him to repeat the classic T2 pinball phrases as well as a few new ones :0) This is the crunch... He's prepared to do it, but for a professional fee of $1200.
This is too much for me to bear the brunt of alone so I was wondering if there are any other T2 owners who are going to buy a Pinsound who want to club together to get this done. Imagine playing a pimped out T2 with the movie score in the background in stereo (all through the Pinsound board), HQ sound effects with authentic sounding HQ Arnold callouts:
Or another option in Pinsound, you could even keep the classic legacy music and sound effects but have the HQ callouts. Either way it will bring this game into the 21st century and I'm sure the end result will be nothing short of outstanding given the quality of his voiceover.
For those thinking this is a lot of money I totally agree. An alternative is to rip some voices from the movies which will also be good and a lot cheaper, but it's the custom phrases which will be difficult to replace.
Please leave a note in this thread, or drop me a pm if you prefer, to let me know if you would be interested in this idea so I can start a list of potential contributors. Obviously the more people that buy in the cheaper it will become for each person overall.
Callouts intended to be replaced: http://www.pinsound.org/pinballs/wpc-dmd/terminator-2/#voice
Note: the intent of this proposal is not to make me profit, simply to cover the costs of getting the voice over done.
Cheers, Kris