Biohazard 1 Beta,08/04/1995 (read post #100)

[OKeijiDragon]

So I've also rediscovered some hacking codes that allow you to play as either Jill or Barry in that RE1 proto I posted above:

It's been a while since they were reported when the proto surfaced, but eh. I wonder what that sound is when Barry dies...

[OKeijiDragon]

Hey peeps. So I uploaded a video about the earliest known leaked Resident Evil 1 prototype dated Aug. 4, 1995, with room number IDs documented and a brief tour of the mansion and its differences. With closed captioning commentary. Hope you like.

[News Bot]

I just double-checked the source video file. Technically, it's actually 59.94FPS. I set the framerate to 60FPS on Photoshop. The video "deinterlacing bobbing" occurs before the importing though.

The source video actually being 59.94FPS seems very unlikely, it sounds like you just recorded at that and the capture device filled in the rest with duplicate frames. It was most likely 23/25/29FPS natively.

[OKeijiDragon]

Are you sure you're actually recording at 60fps and it's not just recording at 30fps with every frame duplicated?

I just double-checked the source video file. Technically, it's actually 59.94FPS. I set the framerate to 60FPS on Photoshop. The video "deinterlacing bobbing" occurs before the importing though.

[News Bot]

My Blackmagic Intensity Pro always captures at 60fps, using duplicate frames to achieve it. It's an extremely counter-productive method of recording. You can easily resolve it however through AviSynth, using the "AssumeFPS(30)" function. It automatically deletes duplicate frames and brings it back to a natural FPS.

[Carnivol]

I had this horrible "ghosting" problem with previous software before but when I switched to AmaRecTV it solved all my issues.

That's a curious one. Ghosting like that either appears due to a deinterlacing error (wrong frame order being joined) or because of improper framerate conversion (telecyne) (Like a 23.97 reel being converted to a 29.97 VHS). the VHS release of Super Mario Bros - The Great Rescue of Princess Peach suffers heavily from this shit, iirc (every "filler" frame is a horrible ghost mess, but in motion it looks fine -- technically, filtering out that shit should be possible, so it might be what AverMedia is doing ... not sure. Would be curious to test if I get a new setup made in my new studio)

[News Bot]

Are you sure you're actually recording at 60fps and it's not just recording at 30fps with every frame duplicated?

[OKeijiDragon]

Lots of good questions Carnivol. It's actually been months since I've recorded these clips and it's only till recently I started uploading some on YouTube. Here we go:

You seem to be using some sort of horrible pixelation/sharpening filter (or maybe it's your capture setup doing it 'cause you're forcing 640x480 or something on the source?) which heavily affects that actual quality/look of things (Kinda pointless to capture the full "feel" of VHS/analog playback at 60 FPS if the stream itself doesn't have the analog visuals/presentation preserved...) other than the odd tracking error and interlacing issue, anyway.

I've been recording at 640x480p60 with S-Video, taking that source and resampling(right word here?) it on Photoshop CS6 and outputting it at 1920x1080p 60fps with little problem. I recorded the clip (well, several VHS tapes actually) this way when I switched to a video recording software called AmaRecTV. I've also applied only a little bit of Unsharp Mask and Noise Reduction. Other than that, this was honestly the best I could do to make it as good as it could be and the footage we see was how I saw it on my TV before I uploaded onto YouTube.

I just recalled how many times I had to redo the re-rip process, across several days (for the Capcom 2000 tape, weeks) of my free time, over and over again, until I was just to be able to get the quality of the tapes that I wanted. It wasn't exactly what I'd call fun.

You also seem to have a lot of tracking errors in some of those recordings. Don't think any of mine ever had that ... Were your tapes faulty/damaged or is it your system not being able to do solid tracking adjustments on the fly?

The VHS tape itself is fine. This Panasonic VCR is what I play the tapes on and I would always check on the VCR headers itself to clean it with a piece of cloth. I seem to recall seeing an improvement, but not a big one. I do see this tracking error issue in many other tapes though... then again, I've read that VHS tapes do deteriorate over time and I've had this VHS player for almost 20 years. Of all the years spent watching Disney tapes on this thing in my early youth, it never really let me down (until now?). The remote I still have has a manual tracking adjustment function, but I always have to play with it until I see only just a minimal amount of error. I wish it could adjust automatically. If I missed something that should fix this tracking issue, I'd definitely love to hea----

(Maybe re-record those segments with manual tracking and then slice things together?)

Christ. I don't know.

Your equipment's totally doing a better job at grabbing the colors. My main issue was an incomplete profile for video conversion, so the profile itself made stuff a bit ... muddy.

I actually have another VCR. It's one of those Magnavox VHS/DVD combo players with S-Video and HDMI inputs that sold at Walmart overpriced. The colors and contrast actually came out worse on that thing, so I stuck to my Panasonic PV57670.

More thing I'd like to share, I had this horrible "ghosting" problem with previous software before but when I switched to AmaRecTV it solved all my issues. It could even record at 60fps with ease. I can't even keep messing with VirtualDub for the life of me.

[Carnivol]

Thought it was the resulting nature of recording the VHS at 60fps. Sorry!

Recording VHS footage at 60 FPS is a curious idea. Never really thought of doing that, but have been tampering with the idea of revisiting some of my old VHS tapes. Your equipment's totally doing a better job at grabbing the colors. My main issue was an incomplete profile for video conversion, so the profil itself made stuff a bit ... muddy. You seem to be using some sort of horrible pixelation/sharpening filter (or maybe it's your capture setup doing it 'cause you're forcing 640x480 or something on the source?) which heavily effects that actual quality/look of things (Kinda pointless to capture the full "feel" of VHS/analog playback at 60 FPS if the stream itself doesn't have the analog visuals/presentation preserved ... other than the odd tracking error and interlacing issue, anyway. You also seem to have a lot of tracking errors in some of those recordings. Don't think any of mine ever had that ... Were your tapes faulty/damaged or is it your system not being able to do solid tracking adjustments on the fly? (Maybe re-record those segments with manual tracking and then slice things together?)

[OKeijiDragon]

You remastered it? it's full of deinterlacing bobbing.

Thought it was the resulting nature of recording the VHS at 60fps. Sorry!

[Mikhail]

I wrote a write-up of this V-Jump build on my blog The Game Informant and the "remastered" 1995 footage I uploaded for YouTube. Formal topic ASAP.

You remastered it? it's full of deinterlacing bobbing.

[OKeijiDragon]

I wrote a write-up of this V-Jump build on my blog The Game Informant and the "remastered" 1995 footage I uploaded for YouTube. Formal topic ASAP.

[Dark Biohazard]

Does anyone have ISOs or PSP Eboots of the betas they would be willing to share?

Right here:

http://www.the-zombie-x.net/eboot/

[Mr.BioHazard]

Does anyone have ISOs or PSP Eboots of the betas they would be willing to share?

[Burt Mustin]

I think it should be noted that there never was a "co-op" build. Those early videos of Chris and Jill were just like the later section in the game where the partner character briefly follows you.

A full-on 'co-op' experience sounded sketchy from way back. Any idea regarding story elements/scenarios concerning those particular co-op events that never made it to final?