Replaying: Resident Evil 1 (Original)

[imacwesker]

Thanks John. I wonder why I thought these radio dialogues were different

[Dot50Cal]

Various ways, I had them all mapped out years ago but I lost the files. Just now re-figuring things out. Theres a LOT of pathways and its gonna be fun to map them all out for the site

[imacwesker]

I remember working on this a few years ago. I wanted to show the differences between the Japanese and the Westerner versions of the game (zombies animations, mostly) and all the various paths that the gamer could choose, with Jill and Chris. Then I dropped the whole idea and closed SurvivHor

[Trent]

Dot returns from his WoW vacation.

[Hunk]

How to extract the seven .rar files , As they terminated by a number not by the .rar extension ??? And can you confirm it is not an april fool joke ?

[Dot50Cal]

I remember working on this a few years ago. I wanted to show the differences between the Japanese and the Westerner versions of the game (zombies animations, mostly) and all the various paths that the gamer could choose, with Jill and Chris. Then I dropped the whole idea and closed SurvivHor

Hahha, its how I feel after doing this

[Rombie]

Apparently it was a screw up on Capcom US's part (Director's Cut). The game had to be changed for some copyright and or localization reasons, and they accidentally put the old cutscenes back in when they submitted it to the ESRB. By the time someone noticed it was already on store shelves, lol. They tried to make up for it by putting up the uncut intro on the official site, but it was ages ago and I dont think anyone has a copy of what they posted anymore.

Jerome, heres those scenes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zbFKBO7KOE

I don't have it anymore, but all it was was a 3 or so MB Quicktime version of the opening sequence only on the Capcom website years back was what they put up due to that. The video size and quality of course was exceptionally low grade given the average internet connection in that time. I'm thinking literally something like maybe a 200x130 sized image.

I still don't believe that Copyright story to this day, even though that was the official line Capcom took (blamed Sony specifically for it too).

[Guest]

Did the German version have the uncut FMV (the decapitation one)? Surely the uncut intro FMV is more brutal that that... :/

[kevstah2004]

All BIOHAZARD versions carry uncut b&w prologue.
All BIOHAZARD versions carry uncut first zombie encounter, also uncut on all Deadly Silence versions including Resident Evil.
Resident Evil French / German Director's Cut carry uncut colour prologue.

They didn't even fix it for the US Director's Cut Dual Shock version

[Upaluppa]

German Director's Cut carry uncut colour prologue.

Wow, isn't it ironic that the country with the tightest censorship rules concerning videogames got the only truly uncut RE Director's Cut version?
I really wonder what went wrong when Capcom put this game together and started shipping it...
(I always believed that Capcom had tons of dark secrets to hide, especially with their RE series. This is just another one)

Edit:
Apparently the head falling into a pool of blood scene is still CENSORED, even in the German Director's Cut which has the color intro.
No clue if the smoking scene in one of the endings is in there, but it seems unlikely.

[kevstah2004]

Uncensored on all BIOHAZARD versions irc, you can use this to check the german / french versions

http://kenai.com/projects/jpsxdec/pages/Home

[Upaluppa]

Uncensored on all BIOHAZARD versions irc, you can use this to check the german / french versions
http://kenai.com/projects/jpsxdec/pages/Home

That's correct, in all three Japanese releases (original, DC and Dual Shock) all FMV's are uncut.

It would be interesting to have a complete list of which versions contain which videos!
The censorship isn't the only difference, the music during the character cast differs from release to release, for example!
(I prefer the original Japanese one, "I got a shotgun! - AAARRRGHHH" is just hilarious!)

And thanks for the link to that converter!
I'll be sure to give it a try but it'll have to wait until tomorrow, it's getting a bit late...

[kevstah2004]

Night then

DM3 = First Zombie Encounter
P? = Prologue
ED1 = Bad Ending Chris

DM5, DM9, DMA are missing from all versions hopefully some version will leak that contains them.

Chris didn't have a neptune video.

[Guest]

You know the Plant in the fountain room? If you try and shoot it you get a message pop up saying, I guess something like, "it has no effect," is this a good representation of this message? If not, anyone know what the message means? I'm playing through a Biohazard build so can't make out text...

[kevstah2004]

Correct.