Roblox players recently reported that the sound the character makes when dying was replaced with another. In the midst of confusion from the Roblox Twitter account, the explanation was given that said sound called «oof» (surely with the name now you know what it is) had been removed from the game due to a licensing issue.
But, it’s worth asking… What led Roblox to remove the Oof sound without any agreement? Even more so considering that this sound effect has become virtually inseparable from the game. We summarize everything that has happened to get to this point.
Tommy Tallarico speaks, the creator of the Oof sound
The effect of Oof sound less than 3 seconds long It is a true Internet meme, to the point that just by listening to it we know that we are in the presence of Roblox.
So much so that, in an interview with Joe Rogan, Post Malone confesses that together with his producer Louis Bell they prepared a complete set of two hours for Coachella based on the Oof sound.
Tommy Tallarico is a music producer for video games and he was the one who created the Oof sound.
Thus, the history of the decline of Oof comes from the beginning of 2020, when the producer and creator of music for video games, Tommy Tallaricorecognized that said sound effect was from his work and that It was a commission for the video game Messiah (which at the time happened without pain or glory).
At that time Oof had also been briefly removed from the game until Tommy and Roblox developers reached an agreement in which the creators would pay $1 for the sound.
In any case, the sudden disappearance of the Oof from the game and the announcement of Twitter by the Roblox directive already makes us assume that this agreement is out of force. Now we will have to wait if it is born another agreement or if Oof will be permanently out of the game.
How to add Oof sound to Roblox on Windows?
Despite all the problems that around oofplayers have not been sitting idly by and we now have a safe way to get him back into the game.
Here we explain how to do it in a few steps on a Windows computer. But first a word of warning, it’s never recommended to alter the original game files, and despite our proven methods, there are always certain risks involved (in addition to possible penalties from the game).
Instructions to add the Oof sound to Roblox
The files inside the “sounds” folder on the Roblox installation site are the sound effects for the game.
- From the desktop of your PC, right click on the icon «Roblox Player» to display the list of commands. From that list select the option that says “Open file location«.
- The system will open the folder where the game data is stored (installed), double click on the first folder, the one called «content» and then enter the folder «sounds«.
- You will find that in the sounds folder there are all the sound effects of the game, and there is also the substitute for the Oof sound (it is under the name of «ouch«).
- Delete that file and now replace it with the classic Oof (you can download it from some Internet pages, but we also recommend that you take a look at the KreekCraft’s Twitter).
- Finish by renaming the new file you just copied, you should name it «ouch«. Please note that the game only recognizes sound files in «.ogg» so if you copied an .mp3 file you will need to use a converter like this one here.
- This trick also works to change the death sound in Roblox to any other, just remember always rename file to ouch and that it is in .ogg format.
And with this we end this little journey after the removal of the Oof sound from Roblox. By the way, here at Androidphoria we always bring you things about Roblox like the best shooters available or the best adventure games.
