RE1.5 BSS pictures.

[Alzaire]

WOW, sweet pictures. I wish I had the demo for this. I think it was in a Playstation Underground cd.

Demo for 1.5? Doesn't exist, there was never a public playable demo.

The trial disc the backgrounds came from being included with RE Director's Cut.

[RPD490]

Well not the English Version, just the Japanese.

[Darkmoon]

No Japanese demo either. The only thing that was released was a beta version for review to several magazines, which is the version that is usually in circulation. There are a few copies from Capcom, and those discs may well have been copied themselves, so the number of 1.5 discs out there is not actually known. But those are the only things out there...there was never a demo of 1.5, despite rumours to the contrary.

[Alzaire]

I think he might have meant the backgrounds were only on the Japanese trial disc and not the English trial disc. In which case, I think they were on the English trial disc too if I'm not mistaken. I know they were not on Beta 2 though, or retail.

As for review copies, yeah at least one or two old non-final beta review copies from magazines exist (not really in circulation atm), and a final beta copy exists somewhere in Japan (not in circulation either). There may be a few more copies, it's hard to say. Most people who have them don't really talk about em, else we'd know more about them and the game.

[kevstah2004]

What build is the one with Claire beta 1?

http://uk.media.psx.ign.com/media/000/000504/vids_1.html

Ign and it's earlier incarnations PSXPOWER, Ultra Game Players all had trailers of it
does anybody have a higher quality version than what is currently at ign?
didn't GameSpot or a magazine get any early trailers?

[Harry Mason]

I think he might have meant the backgrounds were only on the Japanese trial disc and not the English trial disc.

No, he was talking about Playstation Underground 1 disc 2 of 2. It had the Resident Evil 2 Sneek Peek video...

[Harry Mason]

I was looking at the known RPD map today and grabbed some video screens and posts of the inventory and figured this mock up of how the map comes out on the screen with the inventory border...

[Alzaire]

It's nothing that's really been talked about, but I figured it was because most people thought it was kinda obvious the map took the full inventory screen up like that.

But still a good observation and mockup inventory and such. Always nice to see someone interested in exploring details of 1.5.

[Harry Mason]

I've tried some new techniques for straightening photos.



*messed around some today and found this shutter that I never noticed before by layering the photo over the same scene with Leon and Marvin

[Harry Mason]

Tried to make something interesting out of this shutter release in the basement.






the blood looks a little off though...

[doomed]

http://www.x-cult.org/newegg/games/123/Resident_Evil_2/

Look to the right.

I suggest you guy go through every single section from the left to the right.

Excellent website! Thanks for this!!

[Harry Mason]

I was looking through the .STR files on Bio 2 trial and found this

So I put it together...

After putting it together I searched for this door in all the versions but came up with nothing maybe it's from 1.5. Anyone know this?

[Alzaire]

Resident Evil 1



Same door for sure, though the one from the .str is slightly different (probably a beta piece).

[kevstah2004]

The section with the battery hole near the lift in re1 also looks similar to the 1.5 shutter area 0:47s http://www.bioflames.com/mediafiles_7.htm
I haven't played re1 for a while but I seem to remember there being an underground section with grays walls as well, I think was the door with the keypad lock opposite the stairs.
They've reused the floating wooden box puzzle in nearly every game as well.

[Dot50Cal]

Resident Evil 1



Same door for sure, though the one from the .str is slightly different (probably a beta piece).

Its from directors cut. That whole room was re-textured and had new camera angles. Probably the most significant change besides the closet.