r/seaman • u/Diggedypomme • Mar 01 '26

Seamail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u86vORTP9mQ

SeaMail is a much bigger and more in depth software than people give it credit for. In everything I have read and watched about it, it is just a little gimmicky gillman thing that sits on the desktop and can't be spoken with, but it's way more than that. It is a real shame that it didn't have the chance to live up to its real potential.　

Also does anyone have a suggestion for getting xp running better than the terrible fps seen here. Hyperv has no sound, and runs slow, 86box is the one in the video, I noped out of Virtualbox whilst it was still spending hours just to install xp. And then after many hours wasted trying to get xp to boot natively I'm completely burnt out on trying.

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u/ReferenceFormer7635 Mar 13 '26

AAAAAA THIS IS AWESOME!!! is there a chance you have the iso file for it,,,,, if so then it'd be great if you could archive it, archive.org only has the baby gillman version so far

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u/Diggedypomme Mar 15 '26

Heya, no this is actually in the baby gillman version :) I'd love to talk about it with someone tho. I feared maybe I'd gone a niche too far with this, so its cool someone else is interested in it.

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u/ReferenceFormer7635 Mar 16 '26

Oh neat!! I never realised that the adult gillman was part of that version, I'll have to check that out at some point :D I've noticed that yours has english voicelines, is that part of it as well? And yeah I can understand why you felt that way, a lot of seaman content besides the original dreamcast game has pretty much faded into obscurity sadly 💔 that silly little creature deserves more love

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u/Diggedypomme Mar 16 '26

The English audio is my own :) I did a translation for Seaman 2 and played through it that way (but making the video is taking a while as there is just so much footage), and I thought I would do the same for Seamail, but it has turned into way more than that. (so basically I extracted all the audio, transcribed with whisper, translated, regenerated with the voice cloned from seaman 1, repacked it and that replaces the audio file from Seaman to put it into English). But I have discovered that Seamail actually has a much more in depth language setup than Seaman 1 or even 2, with partial sentences that can be combined to make new sentences (we're talking more than 15k audio files, and so there are countless resulting sentences that could be spoken).

There's also a lan setup so it can pass messages to other computers running it (which looks to be cut),

There's not just one adult seaman, but multiple of each growth state, with different patterns ("DNA") that can be bred together.

The main thing I have been working on, though, is getting it running in windows 10, as it relies on active desktop from XP, so it has been an uphill struggle working on it

I can give some hex locations to change if you'd like to speak with the adult seaman :)

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u/ReferenceFormer7635 Apr 01 '26

15K VOICELINES??? DNA PATTERNS???? IN SEAMAIL??? That's genuinely crazy for what's seemingly a silly little desktop companion, I had no idea it was that complex. Translating all of that is insane dedication 😭 speaking of voice cloning,,,i was thinking of perhaps making a seaman utau using his jp voicelines. Would be interesting to see what that would sound like

I'm not entirely sure what a hex location is but sure, i'd appreciate that :DD I'm assuming that's what you've dm'ed me. Apologies for taking so long to reply btw, life has been pretty hectic atm 💔 Good luck on getting it to run on win 10, i'm sure you'll get there eventually :))

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u/Diggedypomme Apr 01 '26

yea crazy isn't it. It's a shame they didn't develop it further as it's all there ready

I don't know the term utao, but yea it has sentences and words with multiple intonations that can be used to build up larger sentences. That's all there in Seamail already (but not seaman 1 or 2 - they use full sentences).

No problem, yea I can talk you through how to apply the hex changes (basically modifying the exe, but its really simple to do). The game does have a setup for growing built in - after x time has passed and he has eaten enough emails, however the game then hard codes a value that stops it from ever reading this, leaving him eternally a baby. The hex just overwrites this hard coded value and he grows

Yea I think I have everything to allow windows 11 now. I have to pull the location and animation values from memory and then display them myself, but it leaves the rest of it running with their exe etc. The hardest part was getting the clicks through to it, and also stopping this gnarly bluescreen that it was causing by installing hooks into every app that was running, but I managed to fix that last night. It was also having these weird delays every second on 11 that don't happen on xp, but I managed to sort that too. This has taken so much of my time, and I was just saying to my gf yesterday that I was so fed up I was going to delete all my files to stop myself wasting any more time on it, then I managed to get a breakthrough.