How to install a dub pack

There is no installer, and no import wizard to go looking for. A dub pack is a folder of plain files — a video, an audio file and a small text file per line, and a couple of files describing the pack itself — and installing it means putting that folder where the game looks. Everything below is where packs come from, where they go, and the two pitfalls behind nearly every “it does not show up”.

Where packs come from

GameBanana is the centre of it: the Choicer Voicer modding scene publishes there, and it is where the community's tools live as well. Packs also circulate from ChoicerVoicer.com — you will see both named in Voxalike's own import screen, which warns against loading them without converting the video first, for reasons further down.

And you can make your own, from any clip you have the right to use. That is a separate guide — three ways to make a pack — and it is easier than it sounds.

Installing for Choicer Voicer

1. Download the pack. It will arrive as a .zip.
2. Unzip it. The folder goes into the game, not the zip — a zip sitting in the packs directory is invisible to it.
3. Find the voice packs directory: it is the folder that already contains the tutorial pack. On Linux it lives under ~/.local/share/, but the exact path varies by build, so finding the tutorial pack and putting yours beside it is the reliable way.
4. Restart the game. The pack appears in the list.

Installing for Voxalike

Voxalike loads packs through its own import screen — but the pack still has to speak its format. The line files are identical between the two games; the video is not. Voxalike wants H.264 in an mp4, and packs published for Choicer Voicer carry Ogg Theora, which is exactly what its import screen is warning about.

Converting is one ffmpeg command — the format comparison has it, in both directions — and the PartyDub editor opens either kind of pack and exports back to either, if you would rather not touch a terminal.

Installed, listed, but missing from Dub mode

The pack shows under Standard and is simply not there in Dub or Freestyle Dub. That is the Theora requirement, not a failed install: Standard never opens the video, the Dub modes do, and the engine decodes Theora only. The fix is a re-encode, and it has its own guide — your pack shows in Standard but not Dub mode.

Test it before the game night

Solo Dub Mode exists for exactly this. Thirty seconds in it tells you the video plays, the lines fire and the backing track is there — which is everything a room full of people would otherwise be waiting on you to discover.

And if the pack you want does not exist yet, the editor is the fastest way to make it: drop a clip in, mark who speaks when against the waveform, and export for either game.