15 years of Resident Evil (here's to 15 more!)

[Carnivol]

Has it been that long already? Yup!

Today marks the 15th Anniversary of the release of the original Resident Evil on the PlayStation! Amazing, isn't it? I'm pretty sure we've actually got forum regulars who're younger.

So where are we now - 15 years later?

Here's a "top of my head" list of what's at least on the horizon;

We've got not just one, but TWO films coming out;
-Resident Evil - Damnation, which is a CG movie set in the game universe and thus likely to be just as canon as the previous CG movie.
-Resident Evil 5, which will be the fifth movie in the movie franchise. Scheduled for a late 2012 release. Not sure if this has a proper name yet.

We've also got a fistful of games and rumored games coming out (pardon me if I'm forgetting anything special or a billion mobile productions);
-Resident Evil - Mercenaries 3D, which is a handheld "mercenaries mode"-only for the new 3DS. Features both new and old stages and characters.
-Resident Evil - Revelations, which is a handheld (again, 3DS), story-driven game set somewhere before the events of Resident Evil 5.
-Resident Evil - Portable, which is ... uhm ... who knows. Originally announced for the PSP and then just went radio silent. Maybe it's moved to the NGP? Very old rumors suggested an Outbreak-ish game for the PSP.
-Resident Evil - *something something*, which is, well, a title only rumored to be in development by none other than one of the SOCOM devs. If all rumors are to believed, it might be an Outbreak-ish affair. Could this and portable be one and the same? Either way, listing this since after the Dead Rising / Blue Castle rumor thing turned out to be very much true ... I'll honestly believe anything as long as Capcom's name is associated with it.
-Resident Evil 6, which is not even announced, but... hey... we all know it'll happen. It's just a matter of WHEN!


Community wise, what's going on these days?

The chaps over on Project Umbrella (http://projectumbrella.net/) are ever so busy with their research. Churning away at any piece of research and story content they can find, in order to piece together the most extensive wiki-presentation of what's what, who's who and the like for the Resident Evil universe.

The people of the Resident Evil Center (http://www.residentevilcenter.net/) continue to amaze me with their efforts and I love their burning passion.

I'm not sure what's going on the other sites and communities around the globe, such as REfan, BHF and Biohaze, but I'm hoping everyone's doing great and celebrating this 15th Anniversary with style. At least I couldn't help but notice that Yama and cvxfreak is at least marking the occasion with once again whipping up a pretty impressive thread over on NeoGAF (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=424998).

And I guess we shouldn't forget about Jerome's hard work on the Patient Zero movie project (http://refanfilms.com/). They've got a total of 6 Behind the Scenes sequences up now, and recently announced that the release has been pushed into September. If you're on Facebook, I strongly suggest that you help spread the love for their hard efforts at Resident Evil Fan Films by liking their Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/refanfilms) :)


Now, where were we?

As you probably could guess based on the sloppiness of this post... we sadly didn't really get a chance to properly whip anything special together for this occasion, but here's where the site stands at the moment; Our moderators are doing a fantastic job keeping an eye on things, I'm trying to pretend I have a social life (whilst at least attempting to maintain contact with people and keep track of their whereabouts), Dot50Cal's in the middle of relocating again (hopefully for the last time this time) and everyone is very much looking forward to getting whipped back in action by him.

Hopefully, once we're well into April, we can get a few of our rather shamefully delayed releases and projects whipped off the ground again and start properly updating things around here again. (And, yes, I know we've probably been saying that for a while now). And, uh, speaking of releases... this (http://www.hidden-palace.org/) certainly seems attention worthy too. Right?


Happy birthday, Resident Evil! :)


PS: Sorry about the lack of a Jill Sandwich -> Jill Pie -> Cream pie competition. You're free to post pictures of your delicious cakes and pastries if you'd like, and I'll see if I can dig out something to reward you with for efforts (as if being encouraged to eat cake/pastries wasn't reward enough). No guarantees, but it'd probably have to be something unRElated. Sorry.

[Zombie Fred]

Nice to see this thread on celebrating its 15th birthday today. Best wishes and good fortunes to the series going forward and hope for the community and its fanbase to still be strong for future titles :)

[Jill4EverSTARS]

15 years is a great feat considering its a series with a story besides mgs I can't think if a longer running series that has a continuing story

[Shinobi X]

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/4912/biohazard15thanniversar.png
- _-

[cvxfreak]

Whoa, nice cake! Looks delicious. :D

Thanks for the shoutout for the thread on NeoGAF! Although I don't get to post much here these days, I still love the THIA community too. :)

[CrimsonElder]

Ohh nice cake, is that a mini beer in the Crimsons Heads hand?

[Jill4EverSTARS]

Awesome cake LOL watch out or that Crimson Head will eat it all

[Scream]

Happy Birthday RE! A bit sappy there Carnivol though. My post would go something like this...

How the RE Community has failed

- RE 1.5 still not publicly released.
- Capcom do not listen to its hardcore fans (evidence - RE5 and upcoming games). Hence awful state of series..
- Still disorganised, we don't even know what REfan is doing! (according to Carnivol :))

OK maybe I'm not involved much anymore to comment but what the hell..

Project Umbrella is great for covering the current RE canon. And you were right to include Jerome's projects, it's not enough for 15 years however. There needs to be more RE projects but we're not that sort of community whom are exceptionally skilled in coding and stuff. Timing and resources does not permit much action in this area - hopefully it can change in the future somehow. For example, if someone could create an engine similar to RE3/RECV and create some decent games for it we would have something very similar to old-school RE and could start doing our own canon or whatever we wanted (alt-timelines perhaps? :)). And no need to wait for Dark Biohazard or whatever. Let's face it, the current RE games are really crappy right now.

[Darkmoon]

Who do I deliver the birthday spanking too? And do I use the cricket bat or the one designed to rend the flesh from bone with but a strike?

[Saint_Eve]

Congrats you guys. 15 years is a long time here is to 15 more. Thanks for keeping the original game alive with those early builds.

Also second everything that Scream posted, agreed on every point.

[Shinobi X]

Whoa, nice cake! Looks delicious. :D Thanks cvxfreak !!! & i hope everything is fine for you in the Archipelago ^^ !



Ohh nice cake, is that a mini beer in the Crimsons Heads hand?


No not a mini beer :lol: ..let's just call this ''fireworks'' for the party :D
http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/6039/clipboard01k.png


Awesome cake LOL watch out or that Crimson Head will eat it all Thanks =) hehe Crimson Head is one thing , but let me tell you worse happened :nervous:
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/4912/biohazard15thanniversar.png

This being said, i strongly agree with scream's last words

the current RE games are really crappy right nowwhether one's disagree or not, for me the series turned to shit with RE4. Most of the succession from there have been irrelevant to my interest. I enjoyed some of the spin of titles like; Outbreak , UC & Darkside.. but that's about it. 4&5 killed everything i loved in the franchise. The new entries doesn't raise anything close to anticipation in me & from the look of the overall decisions made in the past decade...it looks like i will be biting my nails for a long time for ''anything (solid) yet to be unveiled set in the old school's viral universe'' ;(

Happy Birthday Resident Evil ^_^
Can't believe 15th years has passed since we first set foot in that mansion.Time flow fast!

[ZodiarkEclipes]

Has it been that long already? Yup!

Today marks the 15th Anniversary of the release of the original Resident Evil on the PlayStation! Amazing, isn't it? I'm pretty sure we've actually got forum regulars who're younger.

So where are we now - 15 years later?

Here's a "top of my head" list of what's at least on the horizon;

We've got not just one, but TWO films coming out;
-Resident Evil - Damnation, which is a CG movie set in the game universe and thus likely to be just as canon as the previous CG movie.
-Resident Evil 5, which will be the fifth movie in the movie franchise. Scheduled for a late 2012 release. Not sure if this has a proper name yet.

We've also got a fistful of games and rumored games coming out (pardon me if I'm forgetting anything special or a billion mobile productions);
-Resident Evil - Mercenaries 3D, which is a handheld "mercenaries mode"-only for the new 3DS. Features both new and old stages and characters.
-Resident Evil - Revelations, which is a handheld (again, 3DS), story-driven game set somewhere before the events of Resident Evil 5.
-Resident Evil - Portable, which is ... uhm ... who knows. Originally announced for the PSP and then just went radio silent. Maybe it's moved to the NGP? Very old rumors suggested an Outbreak-ish game for the PSP.
-Resident Evil - *something something*, which is, well, a title only rumored to be in development by none other than one of the SOCOM devs. If all rumors are to believed, it might be an Outbreak-ish affair. Could this and portable be one and the same? Either way, listing this since after the Dead Rising / Blue Castle rumor thing turned out to be very much true ... I'll honestly believe anything as long as Capcom's name is associated with it.
-Resident Evil 6, which is not even announced, but... hey... we all know it'll happen. It's just a matter of WHEN!


Community wise, what's going on these days?

The chaps over on Project Umbrella (http://projectumbrella.net/) are ever so busy with their research. Churning away at any piece of research and story content they can find, in order to piece together the most extensive wiki-presentation of what's what, who's who and the like for the Resident Evil universe.

The people of the Resident Evil Center (http://www.residentevilcenter.net/) continue to amaze me with their efforts and I love their burning passion.

I'm not sure what's going on the other sites and communities around the globe, such as REfan, BHF and Biohaze, but I'm hoping everyone's doing great and celebrating this 15th Anniversary with style. At least I couldn't help but notice that Yama and cvxfreak is at least marking the occasion with once again whipping up a pretty impressive thread over on NeoGAF (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=424998).

And I guess we shouldn't forget about Jerome's hard work on the Patient Zero movie project (http://refanfilms.com/). They've got a total of 6 Behind the Scenes sequences up now, and recently announced that the release has been pushed into September. If you're on Facebook, I strongly suggest that you help spread the love for their hard efforts at Resident Evil Fan Films by liking their Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/refanfilms) :)


Now, where were we?

As you probably could guess based on the sloppiness of this post... we sadly didn't really get a chance to properly whip anything special together for this occasion, but here's where the site stands at the moment; Our moderators are doing a fantastic job keeping an eye on things, I'm trying to pretend I have a social life (whilst at least attempting to maintain contact with people and keep track of their whereabouts), Dot50Cal's in the middle of relocating again (hopefully for the last time this time) and everyone is very much looking forward to getting whipped back in action by him.

Hopefully, once we're well into April, we can get a few of our rather shamefully delayed releases and projects whipped off the ground again and start properly updating things around here again. (And, yes, I know we've probably been saying that for a while now). And, uh, speaking of releases... this (http://www.hidden-palace.org/) certainly seems attention worthy too. Right?


Happy birthday, Resident Evil! :)


PS: Sorry about the lack of a Jill Sandwich -> Jill Pie -> Cream pie competition. You're free to post pictures of your delicious cakes and pastries if you'd like, and I'll see if I can dig out something to reward you with for efforts (as if being encouraged to eat cake/pastries wasn't reward enough). No guarantees, but it'd probably have to be something unRElated. Sorry.

Let me make an advice to this point on.

As for Resident Evil Portable OR anything that is a spin off to outbreak it is confirmed as a rumor it will never happen why because its obvious they are more focused to the other Resident Evil Titles

1. Resident Evil: Revelations.

2. Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3D.

3. Resident Evil 6.

4. Resident Evil Damnation. " CGI Movie "

That is all reason why I said because I do alot more research then anyone else as far as I do remember reading back in those months to a year ago.

So please do not look for false info that maybe a rumor because those psp rumors aren't coming true and we all know that.

[Saint_Eve]

Portable - yes
Outbreak related - no

I doubt we will ever see much more of Outbreak but portable seems to be all the rage these days, at least for Capcom.

[rehunk88]

AMEN !!!!

[ZodiarkEclipes]

Portable - yes
Outbreak related - no

I doubt we will ever see much more of Outbreak but portable seems to be all the rage these days, at least for Capcom.

Actually maybe a Rage but its even doubtful they'll even put it out I mean come on....The title's of what we see coming out this years seems to be the only thing they are focused on.

Its obvious I like this idea of them not thinking about Portable, or another outbreak...this is what they need to do is to move on from outbreak and portable.

Portal is a life of being hard without a portable version makes life much easier than what we all have to deal with.

[MarkGrass]

It's really nice to see some old names around here, again - St. Eve, Scream, etc.... Hello! :)



And.... why isn't anyone talking about this (http://www.hidden-palace.org/)? o_o

[Carnivol]

^Yeah. Really nice to see some irregulars/former regulars pop up :D

Dunno if it´s just lurking, suddenly thinking of us or seeing the 15th anniversary come up that has brought you guys here, but regardless; it´s good to see you around! (Hah! St.Eve´s not posted in like two and a half year!)

Also, that´s one fine cake, Shinobi! Is that your handy work?

[Mr. Spencer]

Christ, fifteen years. Well here's to fifteen more!

[DeadArtist]

Happy birthday and all, but I really wish that we wouldve gotten an announcement for a new game for this year (at least for PS3 / XBOX) . I just really don't know if I should get the DS just for 2 Resident Evil games. I got the Wii for different games ... now it's just standing there, haven't played it in months.

[fffour]

Damn, 15 years. I was 12 when I got it, and it was so epic.

[Shinobi X]

Carnivol > 40% my hand / 60% my girlfriend hand ! After i fucked up the spencer's mansion roof top color (wanted to make it black , but turned brown) >_< she took control and did the lower half of the mansion and most of the overall little details :lol:

We used simple tools for the cake (spoon , butter knife , toothpick etc..)
We had no fancy tools & no past experience in B-Day cake & icing color mixtures, so it was trial & error ; one drop of this & that.. repeating the process to get as close as possible color result ! took about an hour & half including baking in pyrex 2.8l ! Ended up better than i expected. we will make others as it's low cost 7$ and quite fun to make.here's most of what we used & what's left of it as we speak
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7375/caketools.png :P

as for membership , on my side i've been looking at the horror is alive website since as far as i can remember , one day it stopped working for a while , so i came back way later when it was back from the dead, reading some news and good forum threads mainly on the old school RE stuff / Collection Section / 1.5 etc.., i finally registered this month as a member. 15th Anniversary closing by motivated me to participate in the field ;).

[Zombie Fred]

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b183/Ganado_Gareth/remakedolphin.png

Playing remake on the Dolphin in celebration of its 15 birthday. Damn this game still looks good.

[aris13]

^Even with prerendered backgrounds it still looks amazing.
http://h-4.abload.de/img/re4e08-3tsgc.jpg

[GEORGE TREVOR]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ~ Thanks to all the staff at THIA, PU, BIOHAZE, & ReCenter, all of whom seem more aware of today's significance than Capcom. There have been highs {Remake} and lows {as highlighted in Scream's insightful post on page 1} There are many potentially good developments on the horizon, and I am confident that Biohazard 6 will bring the series back to its origins, as so beautifully realised in Remake.
I can still remember the opening musical score when I entered RPD's main entrance hall for the first time, like it was yesterday....Capcom will do well to match the atmospheric heights of Biohazard 2, but it is possible if they reign in the mindless violence, with a focus back to survival horror.

[Carnivol]

And, oh, yeah, I guess I´ll update the main post to mention some of the other fan efforts.

Can´t believe I forgot about Dark Biohazard, and I guess a tiny shoutout to hacking communities is in place too (even though, as Scream say, the talent pool in the RE community isn´t nearly as impressive and capable as in certain other communities.)

[MarkGrass]

the talent pool in the RE community isn´t nearly as impressive and capable as in certain other communities.

I beg to differ.

http://pmandin.atari.org/dotclear/index.php?2008/08/18/21-en-perso-engines-reevengi


I feel that I must remind everyone, hacking/modifying RE/BH games isn't exactly what I would call "simple". All file formats are custom, unlike *game title* that exists within *game community*.

Not to mention, hardly anyone in this community cares, anymore - they'd much rather spend countless hours "shooting everything in sight" *cough* new RE/BH games *cough*, as if they were zombies, themselves.

[imacwesker]

Thanks for advertising my project, Carn :)
Happy birthday to everyone in the RE community :)

[DXP]

Can't believe its already being 15 years since the first game scared the crap out of me >.< still trying to decide which version to start playing tonight caught between basic RE1, DC or saturn version, anyway thanks to THIA for pretty much keeping me informed about anything resident evil related since I first joined, and happy birthday Resident Evil here is to another 15 years of scaring the crap out of new blood :P

[Mr. Spencer]

It's nice how this anniversary is bringing people together, old fans and new fans alike.

[REmaster]

It's nice how this anniversary is bringing people together, old fans and new fans alike.

Indeed, it's nice to see everyone come together before we're forced back into the shadows. Looking forward to the 20th anniversary, who knows where the series will be then...maybe dead?!

NRdg1MOYxHo

[Canas Renvall]

Yup, I've decided that since I'll be out to dinner, I'll be playing RE: DS as my "original RE1" playthrough. It looks great on my DSi XL. :P

[Jill4EverSTARS]

Im playing remake with Jill in the fatigue costume LOL the orange tinted goggles are strange

[Mr. Spencer]

Indeed, it's nice to see everyone come together before we're forced back into the shadows. Looking forward to the 20th anniversary, who knows where the series will be then...maybe dead?!

NRdg1MOYxHo

"Seriously, that's all he was, he was just a dick. They cut his whole body off."

[Project Omega]

Happy birthday, Resident Evil!

[GuardhouseMusic]

And.... why isn't anyone talking about this (http://www.hidden-palace.org/)? o_o

I just started playing that beta...holy crap! I heard about the early build with the charge up knife slash, almost ten years ago. This is a real treat, and quite a way to celebrate the 15th anniversary.

Once my 3DS arrives, I'll definitely look into picking up Deadly Silence.

[LeechCharmer]

Happy 15th Birthday Resident Evil! It's been fun. :)

[Michael]

Thanks for the mention guys, and mainly Carn for the support. We're preparing a project we wanted to give you (THIA) as gift. The fansites are here to support us, share and enjoy. I hate exclusives and envy, it's possible to compete from the effort and sharing.

A preview for you THIA from reCenter:

http://i51.tinypic.com/709itw.jpg

Its the Rebecca's Diary but made in JPEG files (print it to make a book for collectors) with better background, you'll see.

Carn, I'll contact you in some days to full project (gift) delivery.

Happy 15th birthday Resident Evil, hoping 28th for french Playstation Official Magazine.

[Zombie_X]

Yeah the Beta is pretty cool. I think I'll stream both versions tonight on Justin.TV.

[Carnivol]

I beg to differ.

http://pmandin.atari.org/dotclear/index.php?2008/08/18/21-en-perso-engines-reevengi

Although that's awesome, it's still nothing compared to what I've seen "community people" do to various titles on a multitude of platforms.

[DONNIemo]

Heres to 15 more. XD

[MarkGrass]

Although that's awesome, it's still nothing compared to what I've seen "community people" do to various titles on a multitude of platforms.

Then, why don't you try to do something better, yourself? - _-

As i've said before, some file formats are pretty tough to decipher, not to mention there's hardly anyone interested in BH/RE modification.

It's not like this is a FF community with a trillion members who have no lives outside of their fantasy-rpg worlds. :rollseyes

[Delta]

It's awesome to see the community doing cool things for the anniversary while the company that makes the product ignores it. here's for another 15 years of survival horro-err...action!

[Pikminister]

Because change is good... Here's to another 15 years of change....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/pikminister/dante-change.jpg

:P

[Dot50Cal]

Its nice to see some old faces (Saint Eve, WOAH!). Good stuff on that release :)

[Rombie]

For those asking, in regards to REFan... if you visit the website you'll see what we're doing, or what we're not to be exact. There is no more information (mostly outdated) on the site anymore, and Roody has left the forum there for those who still visit. In short, I've finished running a website on the series after around 13 years of doing so.

I'd orignally planned a post celebrating the 15 years and discussing the operation of website but I wasn't entirely sure. And then Roody seems to have just gone ahead on the forum thing early anyway of his own chosing, so yeah... thats it.

Thanks to everyone who supported the site for all the years it was around and myself through various sites, it's a shame it finished with such a wimper but it's time for me to move on from it.

If anyone wants me for future items or discussion on the series, I'm still around and I'm happy to write for people where they may want... just shoot me a message or an e-mail or something.

Cheers to 15 years!

[TheSelfishGene]

Happy birthday Biohazard. Thank you for the good times :) Here's hoping there's many more

[Saint_Eve]

Hey guys! Yeah, its been a while hasnt it? Its good to see all the old members here.

Rombie: its sad to see REFan go, but its good that you are sticking around, I wonder how many resitez era sites are still around, those where the days.

Also, in order to play those protos I had to dig up an old PSX that is not modded and now im attempting to swap disks by hand (no gameshark unfortunatley).

[Scream]

And.... why isn't anyone talking about this (http://www.hidden-palace.org/)? o_o
This is awesome! Thanks for bringing it up - will check it out now... Yeah we should also thank MarkGrass for all his hacking/coding efforts. Well done! :)

I hope the next 15 years will be even better for RE, if we can handle the change and learn from our mistakes.

Cheers.

[Kaneco]

Hurray!!!...to some great 15 years!

Well, the latest years haven't been so nice for the latest games but the heck with that!...
I wouldn't take any of the games back, I found some sort of enjoyment even from the
crappiest tittles of the series! =D

Happy 15th!!!

Hey Rombie, I loved REfan way back when I visited everyday sometime in the early 2000s and even New-Blood before you guys merged.

I just loved the website's layout and media, with all the gameplay videos, intros/endings/cutscenes & AMVs. =D

Resitez.com used to be the affiliates website from where I got to any of the RE fan community based sites.
I just checked (after many years) and it just redirects to your REFan site. xD

[Carnivol]

Then, why don't you try to do something better, yourself? - _-

As i've said before, some file formats are pretty tough to decipher, not to mention there's hardly anyone interested in BH/RE modification.

Touchy much, are we?

What little I've poked around on the early REs myself (and what little I've bothered to check up with others who're a tad bit more seasoned than myself) indicates that pretty much everything in terms of PS1 era Resident Evil is mostly just a simple mixture of plain formats and out-of-the-box stock formats. Only thing really tricky at first sight is how at least the console versions get all butt hurt when certain types of data is altered, but at least the Spanish and Portuguese fan-translation teams seems to've quickly worked their way around those (I'd say possibly by either manually tracing the madness or comparing things to the Russian bootleg translations)



It's not like this is a FF community with a trillion members who have no lives outside of their fantasy-rpg worlds. :rollseyes

This so called "FF community" is (to my knowledge, anyway) mainly limited to a gazillion Final Fantasy VI/III hacks (mainly thanks to a mixture of a set of flexible tools people have made in the past, based on reverse engineering and understanding of the game, and incredibly well written documentation that makes it a cakewalk for even a beginners to achieve some decent stuff), a set of "enhancement" and "compatibility" hacks for the PC version of VII (and some translations on the PS1 version, iirc.), some old Final Fantasy Tactics stuff, a good set of translation projects spread out on a multitude of languages and across titles on various platforms (of which some are fairly simple stuff and others downright malevolent) and a couple of mention worthy TCs (such as Dragoon X Omega II).

Of course, going to the point of labeling them all the "FF community" and a bunch of "no life" is being plain ignorant and what I'd dare to call pretty insulting, especially considering how well most of the technically adept ones document their work, share their knowledge and interact with members of various communities (u jelly?). So they're not worthy of any kind of praise? I'd say these supposed "no life" are probably no different on the "no life"-o-meter from most people you see around these parts.

[MarkGrass]

@Rombie - ...sad to read about REFan. Best of luck with future endeavors! :):)


What little I've poked around on the early REs myself (and what little I've bothered to check up with others who're a tad bit more seasoned than myself) indicates that pretty much everything in terms of PS1 era Resident Evil is mostly just a simple mixture of plain formats and out-of-the-box stock formats. Only thing really tricky at first sight is how at least the console versions get all butt hurt when certain types of data is altered, but at least the Spanish and Portuguese fan-translation teams seems to've quickly worked their way around those (I'd say possibly by either manually tracing the madness or comparing things to the Russian bootleg translations)

Apparently, you've only 'poked around' with BioHazard 1 / Resident Evil 1, for the PSone. Yes, most of the files are pretty common, but from BioHazard 2 / Resident Evil 2 forward, most files are proprietary and cannot be easily reverse engineered. Not to mention that crazy little thing called "file compression", which in CAPCOM's case, usually tends to be proprietary, as well.

And for the record, text translation happens to be the easiest modification for the PSone Classic versions. If *person* knows how to use a hex editor and a texture creator, *person* can make a language translation.

...You talk big about this kinda stuff an some-what 'diss the BH/RE community, yet, you don't really take any action to better the situation (like, trying to reverse engineer, write apps, documentation, etc).


This so called "FF community" is (to my knowledge, anyway) mainly limited to a gazillion Final Fantasy VI/III hacks (mainly thanks to a mixture of a set of flexible tools people have made in the past, based on reverse engineering and understanding of the game, and incredibly well written documentation that makes it a cakewalk for even a beginners to achieve some decent stuff), a set of "enhancement" and "compatibility" hacks for the PC version of VII (and some translations on the PS1 version, iirc.), some old Final Fantasy Tactics stuff, a good set of translation projects spread out on a multitude of languages and across titles on various platforms (of which some are fairly simple stuff and others downright malevolent) and a couple of mention worthy TCs (such as Dragoon X Omega II).

...yeah, because writing pages upon pages of file format documentation and completely reverse engineering PC video games isn't the slightest bit of time-consuming. :rollseyes It's taken most communites many years to get where thery're at, not mention, most member counts are insanely large and their member actually care about modification.


Of course, going to the point of labeling them all the "FF community" and a bunch of "no life" is being plain ignorant and what I'd dare to call pretty insulting, especially considering how well most of the technically adept ones document their work, share their knowledge and interact with members of various communities (u jelly?). So they're not worthy of any kind of praise? I'd say these supposed "no life" are probably no different on the "no life"-o-meter from most people you see around these parts.

I just used the FF community as a reference. I could have just as easily referred WoW junkies, but that'd be too easy. Harsh/Insulting? Yes? True? Maybe, I don't know for sure - I have a life outside of the internet/pc/cellphone, but I do know what i've read+seen for myself... though, I never said that they don't deserve praise - you tried to say it for me. Contradictory to say, I happen to really like certain FF games, plus, their communities continue to do a great job with modification, they're 'tightly-knit', extremely outgoing and supportive. That most certainly deserves praise. What else can I say? I'm an ignorant, bipolar asshole.

"u jelly"? I assume that is some internet term for the phrased question "Are you jealous?", in which case, I most certainly am not. In fact, i'm not sure what I should be "jelly" of? :uhh: And the "no life"-o-meter? Yeah, i've noticed that some post counts are getting pretty high...






rants and stupid stuff aside, Happy-belated-Birthday, Bio Hazard | Resident Evil! Thank you for stealing many years of my life, money and self-loathing pride. :)

[Carnivol]

And for the record, text translation happens to be the easiest modification for the PSone Classic versions. If *person* knows how to use a hex editor and a texture creator, *person* can make a language translation.

Yeah, but (sadly), not all games are such an easy joyride to edit text in :/
(which is why I bring up fan translations as one of the prime samples of what insane amount of talent is sometimes required to do what seemingly appears to just be a task for Notepad and friends)


...You talk big about this kinda stuff an some-what 'diss the BH/RE community, yet, you don't really take any action to better the situation (like, trying to reverse engineer, write apps, documentation, etc).
I'm pretty sure I've several times in the past expressed my basic casual interest in the series. :lol:

Should we ever get 1.5, you might see me shine ^_^


What else can I say? I'm an ignorant, bipolar asshole.

In all seriousness, know it's personal (might've forgotten if it's already mentioned), but are you ... bipolar? (Got a couple of local friends whom are ... rollercoasters.)


"u jelly"? I assume that is some internet term for the phrased question "Are you jealous?", in which case, I most certainly am not. In fact, i'm not sure what I should be "jelly" of? :uhh: And the "no life"-o-meter? Yeah, i've noticed that some post counts are getting pretty high...

Actually, I was fetching that from someone else. Shall not dive deeper into it - PM me if you for some reason would end up loosing sleep over it. ;D
Anyway, yeah! Some members (me included) have rising post counts, but, hey, gotta be "around" a little to stay in touch with people (especially when other mods/staff are busy/away/etc) :lol:




rants and stupid stuff aside, Happy-belated-Birthday, Bio Hazard | Resident Evil! Thank you for stealing many years of my life, money and self-loathing pride. :)

That's the spirit! Time for celebration :D

[MarkGrass]

Should we ever get 1.5, you might see me shine

God Speed.


are you ... bipolar/rollercoaster?

Not sure why it's personal for you, but... very much so, yes.


Actually, I was fetching that from someone else. Shall not dive deeper into it - PM me if you for some reason would end up loosing sleep over it. ;D

Not a fucking chance. :rollseyes

Though i've gotta say... It's one thing to hide behind a PC monitor, but to shit on someone, through someone else's alias? That takes a true, gutless-fucking-coward. And this is the person I should be "jelly" of? Wow. Yeah, I can definitely understand that "no-life-o-meter", you mentioned before.


That's the spirit! Time for celebration

...soooo, how about that bottle of Slivovitz... ?

[Carnivol]

People will forever be one of the greatest puzzles of all. That's about all I can say.


God Speed.
It's of course a bloody huge IF. I've also got some of the finest on the sideline to provide additional tech support :lol:



...soooo, how about that bottle of Slivovitz... ?

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