The Gamecube version is the best way to replay this game right now because of the ability to inject custom backgrounds using Dolphin. It's not exactly a remaster, but it's definitely a huge improvement.
Plus GC is the only version which lets you skip the in-engine cut scenes if you want to. No other version does that.
Capcom would do well to release something of an ultimate collection of RE games on PC, but these games aren't that hard to track down. The PS3 might be "ancient", but it's the one console that can play more RE games than any other out there outside of homebrew solutions. It has RE1 to 6, CVX, RE1HD, RE0HD, Revelations 1 and 2 and both Chronicles games (and Operation Raccoon City, I guess).
I think you need to type @ + the username (no space between). Like Anthony Hopkins. You then choose the user from the drop-down list.
Are there even PS1 games on PS Now?
If you are curious, I can fill you in on a few interesting facts about RE2 on GBA that have never been made public. PM if you like.
Those backgrounds look like garbage. It is just the originals with Gimp's "oil painting" filter applied, and stretched to a higher resolution. It would be amazing if someone actually did a proper remaster of these images some day. And then injected them into the GCN version. That would be worth playing. This is actually even less attractive than the "smoothing" filter the PS3 applies to PSX games.The Gamecube version is the best way to replay this game right now because of the ability to inject custom backgrounds using Dolphin. It's not exactly a remaster, but it's definitely a huge improvement.
Plus GC is the only version which lets you skip the in-engine cut scenes if you want to. No other version does that.
I completely understand. Not everyone will be a fan of these kind of extreme filters.
The dolphin fork Ishiruka also has 'standard' smoothing options that try their best to clean up the image as it is without adding any filters.
Look at the Hamburger sign or the cars in the bottom of the image.
Normal:
With smoothing applied:
WHEW look at those pants! WEEEERKMy old image comparisons from NeoGAF....
Those are the direct texture rips from both the N64 and PS1 versions. The N64 game definitely took a hit here, and there is also less texture variety in zombies too overall. And yeah, those Leon Kennedy leg textures.... But all things considering, the N64 port of RE2 is a miracle in itself, the game really lost very little in the port to the N64. I believe there are a few seconds of FMV missing from the N64 game overall, and doesn't have any of the additional features from the Dual Shock version of RE2. But the game is all there.
RE2 on the N64 was the first Resident Evil game that I played from beginning to end. I remember buying it for $10 from a "previously played" bin from a Hollywood Video rental shop. I actually played the game using nothing but the N64 d-pad too on both Leon and Claire's quests, and I had no problem with it at all. Objectionably it is one of the worst home ports, besides the Game.Com version. But it was fine, otherwise. Angle Studios did such a bang up job with the port. I also cant believe how good the music was too, even if the voice audio did suffer from compression and lower bit rate.
Yes they are. The PS1 lacks subpixel accuracy. Just look at Leon's arms, for example. They don't gently move as he breathes, but rather wobble constantly. The PS1 was basically incapable of rendering stable 3D like the N64 and Dreamcast did. The texture warping and lack of bilinear filtering are additional problems on top of that.
The N64 version's character models were very different.
The N64 version's character models were very different.
N64 Leon is 1,031 polygons.
PS1 Leon is 407 polygons
The increased polygon helps make character joints less obvious. But one underrated truth about character models is that texture quality (and in modern games, shader work) trumps raw poly counts. Having to fit textures into 64x64 (at most) tiles caused severe issues. Especially since every additional texture split introduced overheads.
Thanks for the answer and by the way is the ending of your DF Retro RE2 video a hint of a similar video of RE1? ;-)
