How to get the old bubble chat

Hello! This is a post for get the old chat bubbles as some people prefer them.

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Difference of the style

You may be saying that the new ones are identical to the old ones but they just are rounded and with a modified tail. Yeah, that’s true, however some people prefer the old ones.

New Ones

Old Ones

This is the difference of them, as I said earlier, they’re similar.

Getting the old bubbles

This is the final step to get the old bubbles, It’s very simple and not even takes 1 minute!

1. Make sure to have the chat version to the Legacy one
When you create a place, you will have the TextChatService version, which is the new one, however, the old bubbles does not support the new service.

To switch to LegacyChatService, simply select the TextChatService object in the explorer and set the ChatVersion to LegacyChatService

2. Getting the chat modules
Finally, this is the step to install them.
Simply click Play in the top of your place to play the place in studio.

After you did that, simply open the Chat in the explorer, select the ClientChatModules folder then copy it to your clipboard by doing CTRL+C or by right clicking it and select “Copy”.
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After that, click “Stop” located in the topbar to get back to developing

Then, paste the folder in the Chat located in the explorer, open the ChatSettings script and copy those settings:

Boom! You now have the old bubbles!

Pro Tip

Want to hide the chat history? Simply set the module.ClassicChatEnabled to false!
With this module, you can also customize the chat how you like it!

Hope this helped you!

:zap: Faster Mode (Recommended)

There is also a faster mode on how to do this, here’s how:

First of all, you have to make a LocalScript and put it inside of ReplicatedFirst. After that, type the following code in the LocalScript:

game:GetService("Chat"):RegisterChatCallback(Enum.ChatCallbackType.OnCreatingChatWindow, function()
	return {
		BubbleChatEnabled = true, 
		ClassicChatEnabled = true
	}
end)

I hope this helped you!

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Thank you for the tutorial! I will try this out when I have some times :smiley:

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This looks great! Especially for games that aim to have an old roblox look to them. Keep up the good work!

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this doesnt work on my side, ive tried everything but nothing works, i cant modify the legacy chat anymore, i think it on roblox’s side, or maybe it just me idk

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its not working for me too, i think roblox removed the feature to have them

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ill make a community resource for a new version of this. i found the old scripts on accidnet

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For some reason it works on some games of mine but not on others.

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After a lot of tinkering, I figured out you simply need to uncheck “BubbleChatEnabled” in Chat. Then it should work.

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That is so true king speak ur facts :crown:

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Oh yeah sorry about that lol, I forgot i had “show hidden folders” disabled

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Thank you for this, I actually faced many issues few months back about this issue, guess now I can finally use the classic chat instead of modifying new one to mimic old style.

What you have to do in go to the Model tab and then to Service and insert ‘Chat’ then you disable the BubbleChatEnabled box. Then I used the Faster Method as Jonathan explained.

LegacyChatService is being deprecated soon, so this might stop working anytime soon.

More info below