Replaying: Resident Evil 1 (Original)

[Dot50Cal]

I'm starting up this topic so I can keep track of my progress. It'll also be used to jot down some interesting notes as I go through the various versions of the game. I'm starting off with the original Playstation version. After that, I'll be moving into the Japanese, and then British versions. Rounding out that will be the famed German release, which has the full color intro.

Following that, I'll move off the Playstation and into the PC era, where I have a number of Japanese editions and one US. I also have a nice German one which should be very interesting to check out.

Finally, I'll tackle the Saturn releases.

I'll make a separate topic when I begin Directors Cut, but that'll be a ways off since this is what I'm currently looking at for the original release.

Special note: This officially marks (or, re-marks) the beginning of the Resident Evil 1 section

[Canas Renvall]

Awesome! I was so happy when I found the long-box version of RE1 at a garage sale for $3... Makes me wanna play it again, too.

[psx-collector]

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[Vixtro]

Just please let me know if the intro is uncut on your PAL Sega Saturn copy, there's a few PAL copies around that have it.

As a Sega Saturn collector I'm interested in tracking it down.

[consoul]

Rounding out that will be the famed German release, which has the full color intro.

Hey Dot, are you saying the original German Resident Evil (not the DirCut) has the full color intro? I know the German Director's Cut does, but I haven't heard anything about the original Deutsch Edition before.

[Veris]

I remember how hard the original RE was.

[Stars1356]

as I go through the various versions of the game

You have all these different versions of the game? Wow thats awesome, I only have the US versions of RE games. Dot do how do you play the pal and Japanese verisons? Modded PS1?

[Ridley W. Hayes]

"This officially marks (or, re-marks) the beginning of the Resident Evil 1 section "

Time to blow the dust of my copy then .

[Dot50Cal]

Hey Dot, are you saying the original German Resident Evil (not the DirCut) has the full color intro? I know the German Director's Cut does, but I haven't heard anything about the original Deutsch Edition before.

Yep Edit: Wait, I'm not sure now. Probably not. Its the PC German release which has it in color, I know that for sure.

You have all these different versions of the game? Wow thats awesome, I only have the US versions of RE games. Dot do how do you play the pal and Japanese verisons? Modded PS1?

I'm using a modified PS3 to capture in 720p, then I downscale to 320x240 (for the PS1 titles, since thats the resolution they really run in). This way, I have the actual hardware taking the footage and making it progressive rather than having to deinterlace it myself.

[missvalentine]

Special note: This officially marks (or, re-marks) the beginning of the Resident Evil 1 section

Cool, so is there gonna be a section for each game? What exactly is gonna be in these sections?

[Dot50Cal]

Pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about the game . I really can't wait to get into the PC versions. Now that Meg has released that patch which fixes the frame rate problems, it should be great to finally play through it and get the PC exclusive weapons.

[REmaster]

Pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about the game . I really can't wait to get into the PC versions. Now that Meg has released that patch which fixes the frame rate problems, it should be great to finally play through it and get the PC exclusive weapons.

Wuh? What are they? I'm a RE1 fanatic and I did not know of this
REmaster my ass...*hari kari's himself*

[Vixtro]

Wuh? What are they? I'm a RE1 fanatic and I did not know of this
REmaster my ass...*hari kari's himself*

Jill gets a Mac 11 whilst Chris gets a SAW M249 light machine gun.

[rewak]

I never understood how to unlock those without a hex editor or a save editor. I remember one of the old PC magazines that had cheats printed how to get them with a hex editor, so even they didn't know how to do it properly Quick question, whats with the 2 PAL Playstation releases with the different SLES numbers? Am i right in assuming one is the edited release with green blood? Or was that just a PC thing?

[Anders]

Quick question, whats with the 2 PAL Playstation releases with the different SLES numbers?

Back in the PS1 days, each different regional release would get a different SLES code, as there was only one language on each disc. SLES 00227 is French, 00228 is German, 00200 is English (released in every region which did not get their own language on the disc).

There is even an SLES 00200 disc released in Spain and Italy with those two languages on the insert, but the disc is identical to the UK disc, and has only English on the disc.

For late PS1 and PS2 games one disc usually had all the languages on the same disc, so all regions got the same disc packed with an inlay in whichever language, and with a different barcode.


So, if there is just one tiny difference, a disc will get a different SLES code even though it's the same game. Usually the only difference you'll find on such discs is the language, in this case the German disc does have a bit different content other than that, too.

[TheSelfishGene]

No love for Deadly Silence?

[Dot50Cal]

I don't have a reliable way to capture that right now, so for the time being its being left out.

[alf717]

So let me get this straight you are going to capture every play through from each version. Consider your server bandwidth dead when I download all of these. What sparked your interest in RE all of a sudden? RE: DC dual shock got me on my survival horror kick but as of now I'm playing Parasite Eve 2. Anyway, have you gone though all of your copies of RE before or will this be a first?

[missvalentine]

Jill gets a Mac 11 whilst Chris gets a SAW M249 light machine gun.

Oh Man! HAHA An M249, that would take all the challenge out of the game though. It's got like a 100 bullet drum mag. it would blow everything away. I guess a MAC 11 would be ok though, since it would be just like the RE2 machine gun.

Can't wait to see all this Dot.

[Dot50Cal]

I have only occasionally played some bits of the games I have. I'm really anticipating the Saturn releases, since the Battle Game is something I've only played once or twice.

I beat my first game tonight at around 4 hours and 30 minutes. I kept dying too. This game is quite hard, especially when Hunters corner you . Thankfully, that play-through has pretty much all the item/enemy locations for the site, so I don't have to go to every single room multiple times anymore ;). Now its just a matter of finding all of Jill's scene variants.

One cool thing I found that I never saw is when you are on the 2nd floor East Wing. When you are at the point where you can walk down the stairs to the first floor (the Botany Book room is next door), theres a zombie thats on the 2nd floor near the one room that leads to the bedroom and the fish tank room. I left him alive this time, and ran into the room. I read the Researcher's Will, where he explained that he'll be taking his own life in an effort to stop becoming a zombie. I guess it failed, because as soon as I left the room and headed for the bedroom, he opened the door (the zombie near the stairs) and came in for me. Pretty cool thing that I never noticed.

I always thought the zombie that comes into the dining room was the only one that opened a door at you.

Another thing I noticed was Plant 42 is incredibly hard to hit with any kind of Bazooka round. You are supposed to use Flame Rounds on him, but only his tentacles can be hit by them and they move around a lot. I died 2 times on it

In one of the researcher letters, its mentioned that "a man with sunglasses" stopped him from leaving the grounds. Was it ever mentioned that Wesker was head of security for the Arklay facility? Might just be a coincidence, but it seemed to imply that Wesker was on-site during the outbreak, handling security.