Info about Resident Evil 1.5

I know its a longshot, but what are the chances of capcom following or being aware of this leaking?

If they could see how popular this is turning out to be, and how much the fans want a true return to RE. Do you think they could listen to the fans and see that there is still a demand for the old school games?

I would imagine 2D pre-rendered backgrounds would look like absoloute sex in 720/1080p, they already almost nailed the atmospherics perfectly in RE:Make

 

A big thanks to whoever released this to the community! This meant so much to me Been following the RE 1.5 movement for a few years now and thinking it would never see the light of day until Bzork and his mastermind team set up the restoration, I had no hope in seeing a build being leaked....but now....we have it!

Ok, so playing it so far - yes it is quite damn buggy.
However apply the patch as mentioned above from The Horror and that seemed to have fixed a few things as far as I can see.

But from what I can tell from just messing about with this -
1. Have fun killing the Zombies at the front door in Elza's scenario. Fired around 150 Pistol rounds into them and they keep getting back up
*Edit - they randomly disappear after a while. I had it on the inventory screen, went back into it and half of them are gone.
2. Only weapon I have got to work so far is the SIG P228 and the Knife playing as Elza. Haven't tried Leon yet.
*Edit - Beretta M93R works fine. Except Elza holds it up in the air, but it fires as whatever you are aiming at I suppose.
3. Chief Irons spazzes around his office when you go in there (Via the Debug Menu). Fun to see him contort and reappear at random places in the room. Also you can climb up on something that appears to be a big switch thingo. But no use for it as of yet.
4. I have yet to work out how to jump down from things in certain areas. Whereas in Garage A or B, you can climb on an invisible thing and walk around.
5. Doors seem to lead back to the start - may have been fixed now since I applied the patch.
6. Yes you can get weapons, only the two I mentioned above. Go to inventory, press select (should hear a sound), then L1/R1 to select weapon. Triangle to load ammo.
7. Working in pSXFin no problems. Apart from that crashing, but that's the build we have currently.

Hope more people keep messing about with this build - quite a few interesting things I have discovered. So nice to finally have a build of 1.5.

Once again - thank you to the uploader.....have a feeling it may have been Mr.BZork that gave us this little treat.
(Hehe, now those guys who had the 40% builds and wanting to sell them for a few grand are now worth jack..)

 

phenom

Could you please provide a link to the said patch? Thanks.

 

I hope not, unless the voices are the original japanese/english voices recorded by Capcom, id rather just have subtitles. It's nice that there is a project to try and 'fix' this build, but it's not going to be authentic, and it's going to be full of non-original content. I'd rather just have the original build untouched apart from the debug menu being enabled (If it's not already). Hope they do actually release the fixed and original builds together...

 

This is a game they binned 15 years ago, and if I'm not mistaken a good two thirds of the people who worked on it are no longer with capcom (don't quote me on that though).

If they did take an interest in making these games again in HD I could see them starting off meaning well, then someone would say something during a meeting like "hey wouldn't it be great if..." and we'd end up with Resident Evil: Zombie Bowling for £49.99 with additional £30 worth of DLC.

"We've thought of a never before use for the move controller! You stick it up your partners arse and stand on one leg before you bowl!"

 

I think that "big switch" is supposed to be the item box, there are a few more in the game. Not sure if those are just placeholder graphics/models though becaue it looks wierd

 

Just discovered the Birkin/Monster boss in the Warehouse as Leon, pretty cool - he even said "Sherry" as he arrived and when i killed him!

 

I know he's supposed to say Sherry but I can only hear "Sandy"

 

If anything comes of this restoration project, my hope is that a later build - preferably the Bioflames or Complete Disc footage source copy - surfaces as a result of its owner feeling their prized item is no longer the holy grail it once was now 1.5 is out there in some form...

 

That makes you wonder, if someone sold a 1.5 disc now how much would it go for? The 40% build I mean. Of course the 80% is still worth something.

Why people that own these things aren't selling them now while they're still worth something is beyond me. Everything gets out there eventually, you're not the only one and you're not sitting on a secure nest egg that you'll be able to cash in on anytime you want.

 

Mother of VR missions!

 

Have the team found a way to port 1.5 data into Dino Crisis 2's engine? That would at least explain the moving camera and polygonal backgrounds!

 

The Dino Crisis 2 engine shouldn't allow cameras to work like that. Definitively looks like they were able to get the game to work with a nice clone of the RE4 camera.

 

you can get that camera in retail, but nothing is textured.

 

Delacroix - Lionheart posted the link about two pages ago but here it is again - http://www.the-horror.com/forums/showthread.php?9991-RELEASE-Biohazard-1-5-Hacks
I played through it a little bit, I still can not find how to jump down from the top of RCPD with John (Kendo). He jumps and I get there and I am stuck, go back and go through an invisible door which brings me back to the same area. Nevertheless - still fun to play around with this

Also @ Bransworth - The 40% build would be worth jack now. We got it after all these years and these guys that sat on them now have a disc that's worthless practically. Anyone can now burn this to a disc and print some old label on it and call it the 40% build so....for them it's worth nothing. As you said though, the 80% is still worth something, but it won't be too long till we see the kicking around the internet, then the restored version from Mr.BZork.

 

this "the team is stealing from retail!" has to stop.
holy hell.
Zork himself talked about a coder on the team doing that. They are goddamn impressive.

 

To be honest this Magic Zombie Door build is like someone put the PSM build in a blender. While I personally find some aspects of it fun to mess around with it hasn't changed the way I value the real thing as you can make clear comparisons where things have been changed or broken from the teams work. The PSM build was a much better working product than this and is absolutely 100% authentic, unlike the build that was leaked a few days ago. Perhaps when they release the final build might the discs value be gone but I don't see this hacked up build devaluing the real thing, as it's still a unique piece despite how similar the two builds are.

Me I'm personally holding back from putting too much attention into analysing this build because I know it's not the real thing, many questions I have I still have to wait for answers for. I'm still looking forward to the day I get to explore the original build just to see how Capcom intended the game to be and how they left it at this time of development. That's something this build doesn't offer and untill the day it gets out out there to the people, still something I'd value. Maybe not quite as valuable as it once was but still highly valuable.

 

you referring to my post? because that is not what i said.

i just stated a fact, i don't understand how you can take that so offensively.

 

Nah, he's referring to other people always stating that crap when it comes to 1.5. Reiterative nonsense.

 

No not you, lol.