1.5

[Mr.Pyramid]

What I don't understand is why Capcom have been so secretive in regard to 1.5. What exactly is it about this game that offends Capcom so much? I would love to play it but a book or a DVD clearing up some of the games mysteries would satisfy me.

[fujin78]

i think for capcom japan
re1.5 is over
they will never talk about this old game now in 2010 !!
shinji mikami doesnt work for this compagny !
but maybe capcom still have the demo cds or something like that

[alf717]

Thanks Abbatoo! I missed out on all the stuff that went down in 2007. I was able to get most of the stuff but those pics are great! Hope someone can come forth and show off the picture you request as well.

What I don't understand is why Capcom have been so secretive in regard to 1.5. What exactly is it about this game that offends Capcom so much? I would love to play it but a book or a DVD clearing up some of the games mysteries would satisfy me.

They must not be proud of something with the game or maybe some deal went south that caused the game to be scrapped. I don't know, but I do know I just wish more info could be shared about it. The topic gets avoided a lot if it is ever brought up at Capcom Unity. I guess for them it is just a closed chapter in their book and they just don't have time or are not allowed to talk about it which makes sense. I wonder if any Biohazard/Resident Evil artbooks have ever been released? I'd love to see some sort of the art book similar to the Mega Man Official Artwork books but all about RE1.5 and why they really went the way they did.

[Harry Mason]

No problem.
Now if only someone could post that tiny pic of Elza getting her arms torn off by a man spider...

Thanks for posting those pictures I have never had a chance to see what he posted on his site. This is really the first time I have ever seen any of the bloody clothes, the Elza picture looks like the entrance to the warehouse before the elevator fight..Leon's looks like the first floor hallway leading to the broken backdoor shutter.

What's the picture of Elza getting her arm ripped off?

[Borman]

I was just going to ask about the bloodied Elza

[OKeijiDragon]

What I don't understand is why Capcom have been so secretive in regard to 1.5. What exactly is it about this game that offends Capcom so much?

I would assume that this was a project that Capcom feels wasted a lot of money and resources on something that even though would see the light of day in a much different form, they probably feel that RE2 would have earned even more revenue if it hadn't scraped it the first time, with all the massive hype surrounding it and all.

And it turned out that 1.5, and every numbered titles after that, would not be something that could be hashed out every ten-to-twelve months like how they hashed out the original Mega Man NES, Mega Man X SNES, and of course the Street Fighter 2 games. Resident Evil 2 was meant to come out about exactly one year after the first game, then they decided to delay it for another nine-to-ten months.

Mikami-san, Kamiya-san and the rest of the team wanted to make RE2 special, and not feel like RE1 with extra levels and characters. They wanted to retain everything that made everything in the original shine, such as individually unique rooms & areas. Interior & atmospheric-wise, 1.5 looked very static, something that Kobayashi said left them "in utter shock and disbelief" and feeling that "this is not Resident Evil, this is not what it should be". Ironically, RE4 as we all know looks even of a real RE game then 1.5!

Also,

What's the picture of Elza getting her arm ripped off?

[Harry Mason]

I would assume that this was a project that Capcom feels wasted a lot of money and resources on something that even though would see the light of day in a much different form, they probably feel that RE2 would have earned even more revenue if it hadn't scraped it the first time, with all the massive hype surrounding it and all.

And it turned out that 1.5, and every numbered titles after that, would not be something that could be hashed out every ten-to-twelve months like how they hashed out the original Mega Man NES, Mega Man X SNES, and of course the Street Fighter 2 games. Resident Evil 2 was meant to come out about exactly one year after the first game, then they decided to delay it for another nine-to-ten months.

Mikami-san, Kamiya-san and the rest of the team wanted to make RE2 special, and not feel like RE1 with extra levels and characters. They wanted to retain everything that made everything in the original shine, such as individually unique rooms & areas. Interior & atmospheric-wise, 1.5 looked very static, something that Kobayashi said left them "in utter shock and disbelief" and feeling that "this is not Resident Evil, this is not what it should be". Ironically, RE4 as we all know looks even of a real RE game then 1.5!

Also,

I think the million sales mark of the first Resident Evil had more impact on the decision than the lame excuses Capcom made up for scrapping 1.5

[RetroRain]

Now if only someone could post that tiny pic of Elza getting her arms torn off by a man spider...

Could you go into further detail regarding this tiny pic you are referring to? Is that true, that an actual death scene in 1.5 involves the man spider ripping a character's arms off? I never heard about this before. If so, that makes 1.5 all the more sweeter.

[Vixtro]

Now if only someone could post that tiny pic of Elza getting her arms torn off by a man spider...

Is that the pic that the Curator was using for an avatar on the Playstation Museum forums?

If so, I saw it but for some reason I never thought to save it unlike all the other pics the Curator posted. I'm sure some people saved it though.

[abbatoo]

Is that the pic that the Curator was using for an avatar on the Playstation Museum forums?

If so, I saw it but for some reason I never thought to save it unlike all the other pics the Curator posted. I'm sure some people saved it though.

Yep, that's the one I'm looking for. Here's hoping someone will upload it soon.

@Logical Operand: What Vixtro said. It was just a small gif image that Curator used as his avatar before he pulled the plug on the PSM forums. If memory serves me correctly, it shows Elza in the process of getting her arms torn off (she's in a pose similar to Sheva in this video or Leon at 0:30 in the 1996 September trailer). Curator might have also said that this was an instant death move that could happen anytime, regardless of your character's health.

[Enrico Marini]

Wish I had said image but the whole Curator thing happened so quickly, one day it was all going swimmingly and the next, everything was removed. I didn't save any information. Moral of the story, save everything.

[Vixtro]

Wish I had said image but the whole Curator thing happened so quickly, one day it was all going swimmingly and the next, everything was removed. I didn't save any information. Moral of the story, save everything.

Yeah I think the reason I didn't save it at the time is because I (and I guess most others) thought we were going to get a wealth of information/pics/videos of 1.5 so why save a little avatar? I mean the guy posted a YouTube video, pics on his website article (that he updated with the wounded/bloody shots of Leon and Elza) and posted tid bits on the forums so naturally I just expected more to come.

lesson learned though ay.

This was on of the images he posted on the forums, I'm sure some of you have seen it a few times:



It's special because it's pretty much the highest quality image of 1.5 we have, it is a high quality Bitmap image, not a low quality pixelated jpeg like all the other images the Curator posted.

Because the text had no pixelation around it, it was easy to contrast out into this:



Oh and while I was digging in my 1.5 folder I found this:



I think that was the avatar the Curator used after the aforementioned one, I don't remember saving it but it's there so.

[Harry Mason]

Yeah I think the reason I didn't save it at the time is because I (and I guess most others) thought we were going to get a wealth of information/pics/videos of 1.5 so why save a little avatar? I mean the guy posted a YouTube video, pics on his website article (that he updated with the wounded/bloody shots of Leon and Elza) and posted tid bits on the forums so naturally I just expected more to come.

lesson learned though ay.

This was on of the images he posted on the forums, I'm sure some of you have seen it a few times:



It's special because it's pretty much the highest quality image of 1.5 we have, it is a high quality Bitmap image, not a low quality pixelated jpeg like all the other images the Curator posted.

Because the text had no pixelation around it, it was easy to contrast out into this:



Oh and while I was digging in my 1.5 folder I found this:



I think that was the avatar the Curator used after the aforementioned one, I don't remember saving it but it's there so.

Wow that avatar is clean as fuck thanks for sharing
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[RetroRain]

I don't remember him using that image above for his avatar, whether he actually did or not, but I do remember him posting that on his 1.5 page at the PlayStation Museum. Thanks for re-posting it!

If Capcom is not going to release this game, they should at least make a new game just like it. And I'm sorry Capcom, Resident Evil 3 (Mikami's 1.9) and Dino Crisis 1 & 2 don't count.

They should make 2 new characters, that have no relation with the original characters, they are casual survivors, male and female, set in a city that has realistic modern environments, and has all of the features that were present in 1.5. It doesn't even have to be a part of the Resident Evil series. Give it a new name. They already spread most of the stuff from 1.5 into all of the games, so why not?

It's not like they are doing anything interesting with Resident Evil except ruining it, which is what drew my attention back to 1.5.

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