Biohazard 2 Beta 1 (Very first beta)

[biohazard_star]

The "Beta 1" background for the morgue is still present on the Trial Disk. I guess they're from the same era of development then?

[Biohazard 1995]

Beta-V1
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[Chris' Boob]

Oh it's Marvin that said it...I thought someone said Kendo said it too <_<

[biohazard_star]

I really believe it was just a "place holder" being used until they put the actual statue in that spot. The lid kind of looks like it does open, maybe that's where the item can be found after completing the puzzle? but i'm heading more towards it being a place holder.

The set-up looks pretty final to me. The box itself is a unique item. I think it's more likely that they just changed their minds and decided that a huge ass statue with a hidden compartment is a lot less inconspicuous than a big locked chest.

[Marvin]

don't forget the fact that the biohazard 2 trial witch contained backgrounds for 1.5 (leftovers of same project in development environment, they dint RESTART the project so to speak), thus anything not made to final build can be considered as either 1.5 or stuff intended to be for new resident evil 2. What I am saying is that we have no certanity except the general style of 1.5 compared to retail. But the lab area as we know has a LOT of similarities, thus I dare to say that even the retail lab is pretty much 1.5ish...

I've never noticed this before. I didn't want to quote the whole picture but in the beta pictures of the red jewel, the king guy and the licker, on the mounted wall, there is no king guy, but there's a odd-looking chest in front of where it would be.

Was this what the inventory chest was going to look like or something else?

And is there a video or anything that shows Kendo telling Leon/Claire to shoot him in the head? First I've heard of it, until now.

I really believe it was just a "place holder" being used until they put the actual statue in that spot. The lid kind of looks like it does open, maybe that's where the item can be found after completing the puzzle? but i'm heading more towards it being a place holder.

Seems like they just retextured the box to match the wall. The lid doesn't match the color of the rest of the box, so I think it could be a 3d object.

This is what leads me to believe the item you receive from the puzzle is found inside of it, the lid opens or unlocks after putting both of the "hearts" in place.

[Darkside05]

Don't think it could be an inventory box, it would be such a pointless odd spot to put a box between two puzzle statues.

[biohazard_star]

Seems like they just retextured the box to match the wall. The lid doesn't match the color of the rest of the box, so I think it could be a 3d object.

[Biohazard 1995]

I've never noticed this before. I didn't want to quote the whole picture but in the beta pictures of the red jewel, the king guy and the licker, on the mounted wall, there is no king guy, but there's a odd-looking chest in front of where it would be.

Was this what the inventory chest was going to look like or something else?

And is there a video or anything that shows Marvin telling Leon/Claire to shoot him in the head? First I've heard of it, until now

Beta Marvin Scene

[Chris' Boob]

I've never noticed this before. I didn't want to quote the whole picture but in the beta pictures of the red jewel, the king guy and the licker, on the mounted wall, there is no king guy, but there's a odd-looking chest in front of where it would be.

Was this what the inventory chest was going to look like or something else?

And is there a video or anything that shows Kendo telling Leon/Claire to shoot him in the head? First I've heard of it, until now.

Nice pictures!

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The top picture (with Moths) and the Botton 2 Picture are from the same (Sublevel) Area.
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Well done, very interesting to see that beta2 had some 1.5 elements left. I've never ever noticed this.

[Enigmatism415]

Nice, I didn't know about the slightly altered camera angles. I was hoping that there was a fleshed-out version of the boiler room that had the double-door instead of the elevator:

[biohazard_star]

Does anyone have the background files of this beta? I'd really like to see the area beyond that double-door (I hope it's like a textured version of the BH1.5 one).

Do you mean the boiler room with the lift and the box puzzle?

The boiler room in Beta 2 is actually a bit different from the version in final. The lighting and some of the textures are different. But the biggest difference is that it's still using almost all of the camera angles from the untextured version from 1.5. The room in the retail version has the camera angles tweaked a bit. The Beta 2 version is probably the closest to how the finished version in 1.5 would've looked like:


1.5/Trial > Beta 2 > Retail (note the camera angles)

[Enigmatism415]

Does anyone have the background files of this beta? I'd really like to see the area beyond that double-door (I hope it's like a textured version of the BH1.5 one).