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I wanted to post this here some time back but I kept forgetting it.
Reading an article on the web about one of the beta versions of the original Resident Evil, a user left this at the comment section.
Judge yourselves, here it goes.
Chris Wilkinson
03-07-2009 at 15:00
Bio hazard sega saturn special limited release — it was released under the label director’s cut July 24-31 1997 a different mode from playstation with different curscenes. The cd was the as the black & sliver Jap & HK import version, but the copyright wasn’t by “Sega Ltd” I t was by Capcom Ltd & Virgin Interactive co Ltd the serial number on disc was different it wasn’y T-1219G it was something else can’t remember. This version contain extended uncut cutscenes in intro 1mins 30 seconds. als the cutscenes when game were different, you hear barry crashing through the dinning room, when you walk into that first room the windows smashed on the left side. The zombies are harder, your dead after one bite. You have added cutscenes within the game on the back of the box it said in english that you would find a survivor in the mansion? the box had the mansion on the front with the room looked like it has been destroyed, with plants growing through the ceiling and a gun layin on the ground circled in the light shinging in the room?
Here is the page to the comment:
For what this person is saying, I understand the following.
There was a special edition of the first Resident Evil released only in Japan for the Sega Saturn that ALSO wore the Director's Cut label, BUT it was DIFFERENT from the Director's Cut version of Resident Evil that was released for the PlayStation, the one we know and have played.
He did write his comment in a very ambiguous fashion.
He talks about a different mode that did not appear in the PlayStation version. What is it? An ALL-NEW mode or the existing and well-known Battle Game of the Saturn version?
He also talks about different cut-scenes. He mentions the FMV scenes being uncut like in all other japanese versions of the game (nothing really new or different here) AND ALSO extended real-time scenes, new ones apparently, if Barry did crash into the mansion and the dinning room windows being broken from the start.
He mentions the physical aspects to identify this version of the Saturn disk from the regular version. The different serial number, the lack of "Sega Ltd." in the copyright text and the presence of the "Capcom Ltd. and Virgin Interactive" one instead.
However, he doesn't not mention the CD saying "Biohazard Director's Cut" or anything like that.
He talks about zombies killing you in one bite. I DO HAVE something to say about this. Back in late 2001 or early 2002, in a Resident Evil board just like this one, just some months after the Resident Evil Remake for the GameCube was announced, came a news update on the game announcing the Crimson Heads, "that originally came from the Saturn version of the original 32-bit Resident Evil". Ever since, not a single video, coverage or review on Resident Evil for Saturn has shown any mention or evidence of the Crimson Heads being present or part of the game. I have seen the Hunters with different sound effects and skins (don't remember their name) in the Underground, I've seen zombie Wesker at the end of the Battle Game, I've seen the Golden Tyrant, but I've never seen a single thing leading to the presence of the Crimson heads in the Saturn version of the game.
His description of the alleged boxart sounds like a room from the guardhouse with plants coming out of the ceiling.
The rear boxart allegedly mentions a survivor to be found in the mansion, that makes me think about the guy that hanged himself to death in the Resident Evil Remake at one of the guardhouse bedrooms, killing himself just two days before the events in the game.
I haven't been able to find ANY information on this alleged version on the web, not a single RE fan site I've seen has a word on it.
Does anyone know anything about this?
Is this true or just more rumor-mongering or made-up claims like the people in the 1990s and 2000s that claimed to have a copy of RE 1.5 but nobody saw them or anything about them. I remember reading at least once on the web, YouTube if I recall right, a comment saying the Battle Game of the Saturn version was present in the PlayStation version and could be accessed through GameShark codes. It just sucks when people love to spread bullcrap on the web becasue they have nothing else to do.
This is highly unlikely and also probably off-topic, but I wonder if any of these claims and features of the known released Saturn version of RE1 were in fact parts planned for Resident Evil Dash? Who knows.
I wanted to post this here some time back but I kept forgetting it.
Reading an article on the web about one of the beta versions of the original Resident Evil, a user left this at the comment section.
Judge yourselves, here it goes.
Chris Wilkinson
03-07-2009 at 15:00
Bio hazard sega saturn special limited release — it was released under the label director’s cut July 24-31 1997 a different mode from playstation with different curscenes. The cd was the as the black & sliver Jap & HK import version, but the copyright wasn’t by “Sega Ltd” I t was by Capcom Ltd & Virgin Interactive co Ltd the serial number on disc was different it wasn’y T-1219G it was something else can’t remember. This version contain extended uncut cutscenes in intro 1mins 30 seconds. als the cutscenes when game were different, you hear barry crashing through the dinning room, when you walk into that first room the windows smashed on the left side. The zombies are harder, your dead after one bite. You have added cutscenes within the game on the back of the box it said in english that you would find a survivor in the mansion? the box had the mansion on the front with the room looked like it has been destroyed, with plants growing through the ceiling and a gun layin on the ground circled in the light shinging in the room?
Here is the page to the comment:
For what this person is saying, I understand the following.
There was a special edition of the first Resident Evil released only in Japan for the Sega Saturn that ALSO wore the Director's Cut label, BUT it was DIFFERENT from the Director's Cut version of Resident Evil that was released for the PlayStation, the one we know and have played.
He did write his comment in a very ambiguous fashion.
He talks about a different mode that did not appear in the PlayStation version. What is it? An ALL-NEW mode or the existing and well-known Battle Game of the Saturn version?
He also talks about different cut-scenes. He mentions the FMV scenes being uncut like in all other japanese versions of the game (nothing really new or different here) AND ALSO extended real-time scenes, new ones apparently, if Barry did crash into the mansion and the dinning room windows being broken from the start.
He mentions the physical aspects to identify this version of the Saturn disk from the regular version. The different serial number, the lack of "Sega Ltd." in the copyright text and the presence of the "Capcom Ltd. and Virgin Interactive" one instead.
However, he doesn't not mention the CD saying "Biohazard Director's Cut" or anything like that.
He talks about zombies killing you in one bite. I DO HAVE something to say about this. Back in late 2001 or early 2002, in a Resident Evil board just like this one, just some months after the Resident Evil Remake for the GameCube was announced, came a news update on the game announcing the Crimson Heads, "that originally came from the Saturn version of the original 32-bit Resident Evil". Ever since, not a single video, coverage or review on Resident Evil for Saturn has shown any mention or evidence of the Crimson Heads being present or part of the game. I have seen the Hunters with different sound effects and skins (don't remember their name) in the Underground, I've seen zombie Wesker at the end of the Battle Game, I've seen the Golden Tyrant, but I've never seen a single thing leading to the presence of the Crimson heads in the Saturn version of the game.
His description of the alleged boxart sounds like a room from the guardhouse with plants coming out of the ceiling.
The rear boxart allegedly mentions a survivor to be found in the mansion, that makes me think about the guy that hanged himself to death in the Resident Evil Remake at one of the guardhouse bedrooms, killing himself just two days before the events in the game.
I haven't been able to find ANY information on this alleged version on the web, not a single RE fan site I've seen has a word on it.
Does anyone know anything about this?
Is this true or just more rumor-mongering or made-up claims like the people in the 1990s and 2000s that claimed to have a copy of RE 1.5 but nobody saw them or anything about them. I remember reading at least once on the web, YouTube if I recall right, a comment saying the Battle Game of the Saturn version was present in the PlayStation version and could be accessed through GameShark codes. It just sucks when people love to spread bullcrap on the web becasue they have nothing else to do.
This is highly unlikely and also probably off-topic, but I wonder if any of these claims and features of the known released Saturn version of RE1 were in fact parts planned for Resident Evil Dash? Who knows.
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