Hypothetically speaking, if someone were to go to Japan and attain RE 1.5 80% build..

[Mr.BioHazard]

I can confirm.

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[Dracarys]

I'm positive some people on the RE community might already have the 80%

I can confirm.

[Ultimacloud123]

How many days will it take till we get our hands on the 80% build...........the world may never know.

[Unmasked]

I actually had a friend from Texas tell me the RE Zero 64 cartridge (yes the cartridge) was sold at a local pawn shop to a friend of his. This friend unfortunately didn't know the rarity and value of the beta and sold it to Blockbuster Video when he got bored of it. When I told my friend the rarity of Zero-64, he was shocked and didn't even know that Zero for 64 was a cancelled game. He knew of Zero on the Cube, but always had assumed it was a remake of the 64 version. I'm not sure how a cartridge version of it could exist apart from being some sort of press only release, maybe it was a hacked homebrew cartridge?

Also, a guy I met at E3 some years back was going to mail me "RE 1.5" for free. He too didn't know the value and rarity of it but when he described the game it sounded exactly as if he were describing 1.5. The guy was in his 40's and had been going to E3 since it first began, so I truly believe he might've obtained a copy of 1.5. He said it "played like RE2 with the same character, but all of the locations were different" in his own words. He also said it was a rare "press only" copy. He gave me his info and site URL and promised to mail it to me, but when I emailed him he didn't respond. One weird thing he told me though is that it was for the PC and only worked on PC (possibly he meant emulator?). He could've been talking about the Biohazard Trial, which to my knowledge contained footage of 1.5? Either way, that would've been a nice rare steal as I seem to recall Biohazard Trial Edition being pretty rare and valuable as well.

My uncle worked on 1.5. Im not even japanese but who cares? I got even the Helena Harper build.

[randomwab]

I actually had a friend from Texas tell me the RE Zero 64 cartridge (yes the cartridge) was sold at a local pawn shop to a friend of his. This friend unfortunately didn't know the rarity and value of the beta and sold it to Blockbuster Video when he got bored of it. When I told my friend the rarity of Zero-64, he was shocked and didn't even know that Zero for 64 was a cancelled game. He knew of Zero on the Cube, but always had assumed it was a remake of the 64 version. I'm not sure how a cartridge version of it could exist apart from being some sort of press only release, maybe it was a hacked homebrew cartridge?

Also, a guy I met at E3 some years back was going to mail me "RE 1.5" for free. He too didn't know the value and rarity of it but when he described the game it sounded exactly as if he were describing 1.5. The guy was in his 40's and had been going to E3 since it first began, so I truly believe he might've obtained a copy of 1.5. He said it "played like RE2 with the same character, but all of the locations were different" in his own words. He also said it was a rare "press only" copy. He gave me his info and site URL and promised to mail it to me, but when I emailed him he didn't respond. One weird thing he told me though is that it was for the PC and only worked on PC (possibly he meant emulator?). He could've been talking about the Biohazard Trial, which to my knowledge contained footage of 1.5? Either way, that would've been a nice rare steal as I seem to recall Biohazard Trial Edition being pretty rare and valuable as well.

No offence, but for someone who has been around the community for so long, it's incredible how naive you're coming off here. After years of fake betas and "My friend's uncle got rare butter when he was in Japan" stories, you're posting a story about Zero 64 cart being sold to Blockbuster video in earnest? What year is it? Did he say how much Blockbuster game him for his mutant, unlabeled cartridge? You know they look substantially different to retail carts, right? And I mean, that 1.5 story...seriously? Weren't you a Bioflames guy? What is this.

[VirusPunk]

Also, what happened to the guy who showed images from RE Zero N64 some months ago via Twitter? He's gonna make a video, share that beta or what? I dont remember his name but has a Sonic on his avatar.

About any other 1.5 beta...fuck, i want to get them too!

I actually had a friend from Texas tell me the RE Zero 64 cartridge (yes the cartridge) was sold at a local pawn shop to a friend of his. This friend unfortunately didn't know the rarity and value of the beta and sold it to Blockbuster Video when he got bored of it. When I told my friend the rarity of Zero-64, he was shocked and didn't even know that Zero for 64 was a cancelled game. He knew of Zero on the Cube, but always had assumed it was a remake of the 64 version. I'm not sure how a cartridge version of it could exist apart from being some sort of press only release, maybe it was a hacked homebrew cartridge?

Also, a guy I met at E3 some years back was going to mail me "RE 1.5" for free. He too didn't know the value and rarity of it but when he described the game it sounded exactly as if he were describing 1.5. The guy was in his 40's and had been going to E3 since it first began, so I truly believe he might've obtained a copy of 1.5. He said it "played like RE2 with the same character, but all of the locations were different" in his own words. He also said it was a rare "press only" copy. He gave me his info and site URL and promised to mail it to me, but when I emailed him he didn't respond. One weird thing he told me though is that it was for the PC and only worked on PC (possibly he meant emulator?). He could've been talking about the Biohazard Trial, which to my knowledge contained footage of 1.5? Either way, that would've been a nice rare steal as I seem to recall Biohazard Trial Edition being pretty rare and valuable as well.

[Canas Renvall]

you do know he was correct? it was spread out more than that at the time actually.

I can confirm this. One of the mods who got a hand on it (forget if people know who so I won't name names) ended up showing a couple of people on Skype, myself included, and streamed a playthrough of the build he had, the 40% build. Black Crow was nucking futs, but at the very least he was half-right about that.

[Vixtro]

Before the Playstation Museum incident back in late 2007, was it even known that there was a 40% build of 1.5?

I only remember, besides the alpha, the 80% build that Inflames (Kim) had received many pictures of, from a source who had the build, as early as 1999 (I think?).

[Carnivol]

Its guarded by an army of doges tho, very viscous ones to!

So that's what Hachiko's up to these days.

[Unmasked]

Also, what happened to the guy who showed images from RE Zero N64 some months ago via Twitter? He's gonna make a video, share that beta or what? I dont remember his name but has a Sonic on his avatar.

About any other 1.5 beta...fuck, i want to get them too!

[VirusPunk]

I'm positive some people on the RE community might already have the 80%, the 20% Grant Bitman build even, and all the other rare RE betas. Raise your hand if you remember when Dot50Cal posted his Resident Evil collection, seeing all those blacked out and censored discs? Not to mention, wasn't it Darkmoon who confessed to already owning the 40% long before it leaked?

These betas aren't as rare as people seem to think, if they were, their values would be equivalent to stuff like NES World Championships, which are far more common in people's collections.

Call it paranoia, but I'm certain most "rare betas" are already among a few of us RE fans. I don't even think going to Japan would even be a requirement. I wouldn't at all be surprised if it's sitting in some American pawn shop somewhere collecting dust with a price tag of $20 bucks, mislabeled as a Resident Evil 2 demo.

[Deathlygasm]

Its guarded by an army of doges tho, very viscous ones to!

[Carnivol]

lmao! Pretty sure Capcom HQ is located in Osaka and not Shibuya though, : P

The closer to HQ you get, the higher the percentage.

[Lead belly]

Yeah. Japan is the place to be.
That's why THIA has relocated their HQ to Shibuya, to intensify the search for 1.5 ... lo and behold, first thing we find is good ol' 1.5 dispensers. Every single street corner has one of these. So much 1.5 you'd ever want.
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And as if that's not enough, there's plenty of pure vanilla to be had too! By the truckload, in fact!
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And to think someone probably paid like ten thou worth of today's money for that thing!

Man! Even crates!
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Everyone sells this stuff ... clearly, it's a conspiracy! Don't believe me? Look! Even WALKER is written on these magazines!
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Japan? More like Nippon 1.5!

lmao! Pretty sure Capcom HQ is located in Osaka and not Shibuya though, : P

[Deathlygasm]

So it looks like the 40% build got around a ton and was bound to leak at some point. Seems the 80% build however very given out very limitedly and pherhaps only a handful of people have seen or touched it outside of Capcom.