Resident Evil 1.5 WIP Spoiler Thread (Post your screenshots, findings, observations)

[SonicBlue]

So Gemini, what's your f'n problem? Did you write the emulator? Is the author of the emulator a close friend of yours who's angry now? Do you have any disadvantage by Dark Biohazard POSSIBLY having the emulator? Just wondering why you're getting so worked up about this, no offense.

The emulator doesn't have any particular characteristics, except the fact that can load stuff without the need of making an .iso, with this, someone working on the build, or any other game can actually edit data on the fly (after recompiling it).

If you have fallowed what happened (with Colvin trying to sell the build along with a "special" emulator) you will find out that the same emulator is being used by Martin, where did he find that?

Colvin gave it to him, along with the TEAM build, because without the emulator it cannot run (as Colvin stated). They were working together behind this mess? Did Martin actually bought it from Colvin? Anyway they were working behind the scenes maybe for hack out part of the content and claiming that this is the 40% build, and sell it, who knows.

[Gemini]

Is the author of the emulator a close friend of yours who's angry now?

This and the fact of being involved in a gigantic fraud on eBay, definitively something disgusting when you consider how pSX Author has been involved as well into this shit without even knowing - also the fact that Martin's been denying even after my source told me otherwise doesn't make it better. Now if dragging in the mud a former Psygnosis developer for personal monetary gain is nothing to you, I really dunno what to tell you.

Isn't that what PCSX Rerecording does?

http://code.google.com/p/psxjin/

http://code.google.com/p/pcsxrr/

More or less, but his hacks have been confirmed to work only on pSX, so it's not PCSX what he's been using so far.

[Lebowski]

This and the fact of being involved in a gigantic fraud on eBay, definitively something disgusting when you consider how pSX Author has been involved as well into this shit without even knowing - also the fact that Martin's been denying even after my source told me otherwise doesn't make it better. Now if dragging in the mud a former Psygnosis developer for personal monetary gain is nothing to you, I really dunno what to tell you.

Of course it is. But I didn't know these facts before, so I asked. Consider my post as non existent then.
But please, can you just PM him or contact him any other way? We really don't need more drama here.

[Gemini]

No worries about that, I can understand my posts could sound weird without knowing all the background facts. As for this being posted here under the light of sun, I made my posts public because people should be informed about this shady crap happening behind the scenes. I even posted it all in various degrees of information revealed, but it seems like the other part likes to play dumb enough to force me to go full public about the pSX question.

[doriantoki]

Well, it's a little annoying, and shady yes, but ... what are you going to do? The parties involved can just deny deny deny till the cows come home. And even if they admitted, what then?

[Gemini]

I guess it would show at least some respect to somebody who's been unawarely involved.

[Aydan]

I always wondered what happened to PSX v1.14... I love using 1.13 although it has a few little issues. One I recall was RE2 needing to save on memory card 2 otherwise it'd crash, as well as the ending themes playing over each other. did 1.14 fix that stuff? Just curious.. I'd love to be able to use the most updated version of the emu but since it's only a little collectors item between a few I guess I'm out of luck... ePSXe it is (shudder)...

Anyway, been a long time lurker, loving 1.5, yeah it's buggy, yeah it's been tampered with but lets face it, i've been able to run around all the locations as well as get more info on cutscenes among other things which is amazing after so many years of waiting and lurking. I remember first joining Bioflames in 2005 and learning about it all as well as all the things people were finding out... good times..

Shame about all the drama but hey ho it makes for good reading... Is there any footage of psx1.14 out there? I know I'll never get it but it'd be nice to see what was fixed or updated with it I guess. A shame the author just left it really, he was doing such amazing work with it.. hopefully he's okay though and nothing health related happened.

[Enigmatism415]

No worries about that, I can understand my posts could sound weird without knowing all the background facts. As for this being posted here under the light of sun, I made my posts public because people should be informed about this shady crap happening behind the scenes. I even posted it all in various degrees of information revealed, but it seems like the other part likes to play dumb enough to force me to go full public about the pSX question.

If this is an issue truly worth raising publicly, then either provide the people with full disclosure or keep it entirely private. You can't persuade a jury of your peers if they don't have exhaustive evidence at hand.

[jam287]

I guess it would show at least some respect to somebody who's been unawarely involved.

While you may be right in what you are saying, I think you have said enough. The discussion has gone way off-topic because of this squabble and now I think everybody knows Dark Biohazard may have illegitimately obtained psx 1.14. However, I am glad that he is using it for his hacks as it gives the rest of us more playability out of the game while we wait for a more finished version to release.

[Gemini]

You can't persuade a jury of your peers if they don't have exhaustive evidence at hand.

It's not like any other type of evidence has been provided to make me think the opposite, except for a bunch of rather unbelievable excuses. An anonymous source, which is extremely reliable, informed me about this when the name of pSX surfaced, not to mention the way too many shady coincidences: it's more than enough to me for making people know about this crap about the 1.5 fiasco caused by Colvin.

I always wondered what happened to PSX v1.14... I love using 1.13 although it has a few little issues. One I recall was RE2 needing to save on memory card 2 otherwise it'd crash, as well as the ending themes playing over each other. did 1.14 fix that stuff? Just curious..

I remember pSX Author mentioning this to me long ago. If memory doesn't fail me, I have done some tests on the Director's Cut version with 1.14 and it had no issues, while the vanilla RE2 had problems after the violence disclaimer.

[Enigmatism415]

It's not like any other type of evidence has been provided to make me think the opposite, except for a bunch of rather unbelievable excuses. An anonymous source, which is extremely reliable, informed me about this when the name of pSX surfaced, not to mention the way too many shady coincidences: it's more than enough to me.


I remember pSX Author mentioning this to me long ago. If memory doesn't fail me, I have done some tests on the Director's Cut version with 1.14 and it had no issues, while the vanilla RE2 had problems after the violence disclaimer.

I'm not saying that I don't believe you (I've had my fair share of anonymous sources as well), but to expect that other people will take your word on blind faith in your anonymous source alone is unreasonable at best. I have reason to believe that what News Bot reports is legitimate even though he can't provide any hard evidence, but I wouldn't blame anyone for taking what he says with a pinch of salt.

[Aydan]

I remember pSX Author mentioning this to me long ago. If memory doesn't fail me, I have done some tests on the Director's Cut version with 1.14 and it had no issues, while the vanilla RE2 had problems after the violence disclaimer.

Ah cool! I know in 1.13 the original RE1, RE3 both work perfectly, it's just RE2 that has a few issues, the dual shock edition removes the memory card issue although it still retains the music playing over the credits issue.

With 1.13 and ePSXe the DIRECTORS CUT has an issue where the sounds for the opening movie as well as the guy screaming play even though you bypassedit to get to the main menu. It's cool it's been fixed though.

I really wish pSX was still around :/ I love the no hassle no nonesense approach.. Since you're a friend of pSXAuthor can you confirm he's okay health wise? I'm hardly expecting anything anymore but just curious since sometimes great dev's disappear due to unknown reasons.

Also if it's not any issue, is there anything significant it fixes? The recording feature means nothing to me really I'm so sorry if I'm being a pain,

[Aydan]

If at all possible, someone please change the title of this thread to pointless PSX 1.14 chatter, please.

This thread is filled with so much side tracking which is one way or another related to 1.5 being released just ride the wave to the next location xD

[Gemini]

Since you're a friend of pSXAuthor can you confirm he's okay health wise? I'm hardly expecting anything anymore but just curious since sometimes great dev's disappear due to unknown reasons.

He hasn't been around on MSN for over 2 years now, probably too busy with his work at EA. I even tried reaching him at different emails, but most were expired or there was no answer at all. :/

Also if it's not any issue, is there anything significant it fixes? The recording feature means nothing to me really I'm so sorry if I'm being a pain,

Most of the fixes were related to synchrony issues in the CPU core. I don't have a list as I kept bugging him with stuff going async while testing the recording feature, so most of that was lost in chats. What I remember, tho, was a nice filter feature he was going to add through DirectX shaders - not really a fix, but it's still an improvement (and he was using my Tales of Phantasia translation for those tests ).

I have reason to believe that what News Bot reports is legitimate even though he can't provide any hard evidence, but I wouldn't blame anyone for taking what he says with a pinch of salt.

I wouldn't have problems believing what News Bot reports here and on Project Umbrella directly from CAPCOM developers. I mean, he's always been talking about facts, not cheap speculation. My anonym source is as trustworthy as News Bot, so at least to me, what he/she refers is 100% correct information with no doubt about it. If people don't really believe it, it's not that much of a big issue; at least this has made it to the public. Believe it or not, it's up to you, but it certainly reveals some shitty shadows on somebody who has taken part in a big scam. He's hacking 1.5 for the public? Big deal about changing a few values around without not even caring about something called ECC/EDC, and it doesn't change all the shit done behind our backs.

[Black~Crow]

The emulator doesn't have any particular characteristics, except the fact that can load stuff without the need of making an .iso, with this, someone working on the build, or any other game can actually edit data on the fly (after recompiling it).

If you have fallowed what happened (with Colvin trying to sell the build along with a "special" emulator) you will find out that the same emulator is being used by Martin, where did he find that?

Colvin gave it to him, along with the TEAM build, because without the emulator it cannot run (as Colvin stated). They were working together behind this mess? Did Martin actually bought it from Colvin? Anyway they were working behind the scenes maybe for hack out part of the content and claiming that this is the 40% build, and sell it, who knows.

More Conspiracy theories! Well, anyway, I just hope this released RE 1.5 prototype demo is not a scam. I know the models and textures are real, and backgrounds (most?), but no dates on the rare RE 1.5 material looks really suspicious. Please don't tell me this is all fake!