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Post by DollyPrince on Oct 8, 2016 14:19:14 GMT -7
For WoW Teddy, this would be very hard to do. I don't think anyone in this era has recreated the animation signals before, besides cutting and pasting them from WoW tapes. I know how the animation coding works, and which frequency does what, but I don't see how to recreate this data code, especially for 2nd and 3rd generation Teddies. It would be very hard to animate properly, especially to the quality of WoW tapes.
However, someone in the 1980s did do this! There are very rare unofficial story tapes made to work in WoW talkers. They are not licensed, and have completely different voices and stories than the real tapes. So it is not impossible.
But, in the case of Yes! Teddy, anyone can make a tape for him! It is easy even for beginners. Yes! Teddy responds to high pitched sounds. A lower sound will make him close his eyes, a higher sound will make his mouth move. You can make the animation coding even just using a keyboard!
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Post by late2theparty on Oct 9, 2016 5:04:27 GMT -7
What I have wondered about but not looked into is whether a WoW Tape could be copied/re-recorded with access to the proper recording equipment. It does seem that with access to a machine that could copy the tracks from a tape onto a fresh cassette, this is readily possible. That would allow for preservation of originals without concern for the wear on tapes that is inevitable. I doubt this could be done commercially though as it gets into copyright issues.
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Post by corgiluver on Oct 9, 2016 9:22:25 GMT -7
A long time ago I tried ripping a teddy tape into audacity and then transferring the audio (including the animation signal track) onto a new cassette. It caused Teddy to animate very strangely/spuratically. The reason it didn't work is because Teddy ruxpin tapes have some extra tabs punched out on the spine of the casing. If I recall from research they correspond to a switch inside him, so unless you transfer the audio onto one of these special cassette housings it won't work.
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Post by DollyPrince on Oct 9, 2016 13:44:10 GMT -7
If you have a 1st gen, it will work. 1st gens usually have no tape recognition.
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Post by corgiluver on Oct 9, 2016 19:12:54 GMT -7
That's odd because I tried it with a first generation.
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Post by DollyPrince on Oct 9, 2016 20:19:23 GMT -7
There are some rare Teddies who appear as first generation, but do have the tape recognition. It looks like a little square switch at the bottom of Teddy's cassette player. It is very rare for this to be functioning.
More likely, the tracks were not recorded properly. The animation coding must be on the right, and the audio on the left.
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Post by corgiluver on Oct 10, 2016 14:52:24 GMT -7
Yeah, I probably did it wrong, it was a while ago. But I'm curious why would all tapes have these tabs punched out if most 1 gens don't have the switch?
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Post by DollyPrince on Oct 10, 2016 15:01:28 GMT -7
Yeah, I probably did it wrong, it was a while ago. But I'm curious why would all tapes have these tabs punched out if most 1 gens don't have the switch? Because it was originally planned for all of them to have the switch. The 1st gens who have the switch (I call them pre-1st gen), were the first production Teddies made. WoW stopped this function because it was too expensive, but added it again to the later generations. |
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