The N64 Port of Resident Evil 2 is WILD
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- This video (hopefully) covers everything about the N64 port you could ever need to know.
As obsessed with Resident Evil 2 as I am, there’s only two versions of it I never got to play. The N64 Port, and the Dreamcast Version. The N64 version eluded me for years because I’ve exhausted all emulation attempts, it just doesn’t work and left me with the only option of buying an actual N64 and playing it from there.
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Shout out to the dude that gifted the 64. Legendary move, friend. Keep up the videos!
I wish I could get one for free... with a select few games that'd keep me entertained for years.
@@varosanchez1 "me, having grown owning the game, never selling it" : what the hell are these guys saying lol
Sure, but I mean that dude, just like us, can play any N64 game in higher resolution on PC whenever he wants so, yeah.
@@BalboaBaggins Better than pirating games, if you ask me.
@@MLPIceberg No, lower resolution.
I first watched my friend play RE2 on PS1, and later played it to death on my N64. I suspected back then this was a special port given the amount of exclusive content it had compared to my friend’s version. I am so thankful to Angel Studios (Rockstar San Diego) and Capcom for giving me the opportunity to play this incredible game on my N64 as a kid.
I had it on PS1, my favorite ever. I saw it came out on N64 and even remember thinking as a kid that it would be terrible because it was on one cartridge. I regret never trying it.
@@alexbee3997 I recommend Evil Tonight, It's basically a sprite based Resident Evil.
Calm down, it's a video game
@@IliadDreyfus-js9oe If you are going to make these kinds of statements, why in the *world* are you watching these kinds of videos that are ALL ABOUT the intricacies of games? 😂
The Dreamcast version was pretty good also having the battle game and a playable Chris Redfield and additional features for the VMU (ammo/health display).
Chris was in the PC version of 2 as well I think?
@@GatorShins-CovenDev I think he was in the Sourcenext version if i recalled, i could be wrong.
Dreamcast RE2 also had Nightmare difficulty mode, which I don't think any of the other RE2 ports had.
Chris was in the original in extreme battle aswell
@@frombuenosaeris Dreamcast RE2 was basically a straight port of the PC version, both share the same features.
I just found a copy of this yesterday as well as the ps1 versions, and feeling the cartridge in my hand is so weird knowing that i have this impossible port in my collection. Also comparing it to other N64 cartridges its slighter heavier :) great video
I appreciate that you mentioned the surround sound. I just started playing Resident Evil games recently and playing them with surround sound has been a huge advantage to be able to actually pinpoint where a zombie is!
This was my first RE game. 20 years later and I'm a superfan. I specifically remember playing a randomiser game that gave me nothing but magnum bullets and red herbs. In the police station before you get the magnum. Had to play about half the game without health or ammo.
Great video! I was one of those weirdos whose only hands-on experience playing the game growing up was on N64 lol. I remember being amazed with how they managed to compress the cutscene videos down so much even though (as you noted) it gets extremely noticeable from a resolution/framerate perspective. I don't remember if it was just my imagination but the cartridge literally FELT heavier in the hand than other games, and that for some reason impressed upon me the technological achievement of the port (and RE2 as a whole). It also supported a higher definition 640x480 mode that the Playstation didn't, so that was neat.
I also, weirdly enough, grew up to prefer the 1st person controls based on their objectively quicker turning capabilities. I don't dislike the standard tank controls and over the years adjusted better to them, I just preferred the instant-turning as I was not very good at video games lol. Unfortunately the only way I could figure out how to beat it was by using a guide, but I still had a blast experiencing the whole thing with all scenarios. Good to see more people recognizing the N64 port for what it was.
I’m a big Resident Evil fan and this was my first RE game I played. All I had was an N64, so when this came out I was excited. It birthed my fascination with the series. Your video brought back nostalgia. I haven’t played RE2 on other systems and while I remembered all the features you talk about, I didn’t know they were unique to the N64 version.
I remember getting this port day one. It was pretty cool to see the whole game on one cart. Not enough people have played re2 on the n64.
I mean cartridge capacity was limited, but the console had literally twice the processing power, with PS1 being a 32 bit system & N64 being a 64 bit system.
It’s so wild because everyone says they never played this version but it’s the only version me and my friends had
The N64 RE2 was my first ever Res Evil game. It's been quite a ride ever since. Had no idea how special it is since it's just sitting in my parents attic
In addition, I can say that a lot of data is duplicated in the game. For each room, copies of effects and sounds are stored, for each zombie model, copies of animations are stored. This is due to the operating principle of the CD drive; it is faster to read data linearly in one packet, rather than drive the drive head back and forth. Based on the PSX specification, moving the head and searching for a sector on the disk can take up to 1.5 seconds; cartridges do not have such shortcomings. On PSX, all backgrounds were stored in MDEC format and decoded by hardware directly during rendering, this allowed saving a lot of RAM by storing only the MDEC version. But in addition to the backdrops, there were also “mask” tiles with their own depth, in 95% of cases they were identical to the backdrops, but had their own transparency channel (black colorkey), and such a thing could no longer be decoded in hardware, so they were stored as regular RAW (TIM 4 -bit), and often such room masks took up more space than the backdrop itself. The N64 did not have hardware decoding and there was more memory, so the backdrops were unpacked directly into RAM when changing the view, and the masks were simply bit-based and the main color was taken from the backdrop. Each RE2 disk also has 75 MB of junk data to fill up the space.
And about the code, it is really disgusting, judging by the leaked debugging symbols of the beta version, Japanese was used even in the names of functions (naname, hishi, koban, etc.), which is reflected in the total non-acceptance of the English language by the local tribe. All enemies had their own code designations, script functions were also called esp_00, 01, 02 in accordance with the instruction code, player state handlers were also called pl_mv01_w0_t6, etc. Moreover, they packed all the enemies into a couple of large files and hardcoded the offset in them to the data of a specific zombie in the form of a table! You wouldn’t wish understanding this to your enemy.
It should also be said that they still call the scripts of opponents and player states that way. In DMC 4, everything is the same.
It is also noteworthy that in the code Ada is referred to as Aida.
I moved to a new home and went back to mom's home to rummage through my "hoarded" stuff. I found my 64 with RE2 and Goldeneye in pristine condition, along with my Dreamcast with my Sonic Adventure games and Code Veronica. Thank you, little me, for saving that for present me.
This was my first entry way back in the tail end of 1999. I was 7 years old at the time. Our dad was never particularly worried about violence in movies and games, he always figured we were smart enough to treat the matter seriously enough. He played through it first just to make sure and then said I could play if I wanted to. He told me that if I get scared that its my choice to do so. I did and I was scared but I had a great time too. Its still probably my favorite entry other than 4.
The N64 version was the version I grew up with, and I loved it. Whenever I'd talk to my PS friends they'd have no idea what I was talking about when it came to randomizer/blood settings.
This is the only version of the game I was able to play back in the day. Glad you got to give it a shot.
N64 RE2 was actually my first Resident Evil i ever played. The fact that i could turn the blood purple was actually how i talked my mom into letting me keep the rental and not have to give it back haha (Blockbuster)
9:13 hold on, on the ps1 version you will also get MG bullets if you have the gun already.
Literally grew up only having the 64 version and thinking that was the main one i always assumed that was claires actual insignia thats cool
It's really cool that the Resident Evil 2 N64 port, has all of these cool options and add-on's that make the Resident Evil 2 N64 port a truly unique game on it's own, thanks for showing us all the cool things that the Resident Evil 2 N64 port can do Ink Ribbon you did a real nice job 👍
I'm glad that you enjoy the N64 port I got into the series because of this game still my favorite version.
I grew up with this version, not having a Sony till ps4. I used to think this might have been an inferior version but it’s actually real cool to know it was unique to the point of groundbreaking or one of a kind in some ways. Thanks
The only reason the PS1 version was split into 2 discs was the audio tracks, that was long confirmed with the original dev team. That does not take from the effort that was put into porting the game, but still, single-disc PS1 games that were compressed into N64 cartridges are not that unheard of.
In relation to the tank control issue, where you mentioned changing direction when the screen changes, if you keep hokding the direction you were moving before the screen change. You won't change direction unexpectedly. 😃
I have never played this in PS or anything else, only on N64, to date this is my favorite game of all time, the gameplay, the content, everything about this game is PERFECT for me.
Interestingly enough, with the invincible code on, William's first form can still randomly kill sometimes for some reason.
this version is the most technical achievement in the history of video gaming
This was the first version I played. It was fun to learn about all the stuff that’s not in every other version. I think your assumption that the n64 couldn’t play videos came from the fact you never owned one! It was a beast!
I played ps1 version and then n64 version when they both came out, I was amazed at the n64 version.
The Randomizer might have perfect use to alter blood and violence whenever a teen plays the N64 port of RE2 in front of a younger sibling. I'm also thankful that there's costumes and story details that aren't in the PS1 or Dreamcast port; either way, RE2 N64 isn't the best port out of the rest, but I'm still impressed that Capcom was able to shove plenty of Resident Evil 2 Vanilla's content onto a cartridge in spite of the N64's power being less strong than it's competitors at the time.
This was the first RE game I ever played, and for a time as a Nintendo kid this was the only RE game that was even available to us. We later got that gameboy color game, so that was pretty exciting. And eventually 0 came out on the GameCube too. We were truly blessed when 4 was positioned as a GameCube exclusive, it was a big shift from the time when we basically had no RE available to us whatsoever
I got this for my first n64 a long time ago. Still have that copy and 64 to this day.
That's the version I made at the time, on my japanese N64. That's the game which made me love the Biohazard franchise. Well until the 4th... 😅
Until my time in college, I grew up 100% a Nintendo Fanboy.
So yes, yes this version of _RE2_ was not only my 1st playthrough, but my 1st "Resident Evil Franchise" experience!
This was my first exposure to the re series !
I think the blue saturation over those particular images is to signify a memory etc. Luckily they didn't make it black and white.
This was the first Resident Evil game I ever played and it was for the N64. I beat it so many time with my cousin and it was fun
Me and my bud happened upon a copy at a retro store and we went halvsies on it price wise. Great investment, playing randomizer mode and suddenly having 22 flame rounds turned a rough start into a cake walk. Very fun edition!
I have a N64 emulator on my phone and have actually beaten RE2 several times. It definitely works.
This was my very first experience with RE2, and I'm grateful for it.
My snobby friend showing off his ps1 version almost shat himself with envi, when he started playing my N64 version!😂🤣🤣🤣👍
Wild as in technical marvel! Definitely one of my favorite ports of RE2!
Imagine only playing the n64 version and then you finally play re2 on playstation. This was me and I was very confused.
Are you aware of the German PC version of RE2?
It was censored in the most hackneyed way. Gray blood spray and green blood pools and I'm pretty sure some content was entirely cut, but you could still explode zombie heads by stomping on them and that would use the regular red blood. And it *still* got the highest age rating (USK 18).
I honestly wish there was a definite version of the resident evil trilogy. Instead, capcom would probably just give us the playstation ports of the trilogy.
I had this game and I remember the controls were all backwards.
Kind of a missed opportunity to start the video talking about how amazing of an accomplishment it was to get RE2 on the N64, then not go into any detail about how that was actually accomplished
I had the Dreamcast version of RE2. AFAIK, it's the same as the dual-shock version of the PSX version, though it might have a higher resolution.
i luaghed a lot when this remake forst came out. i had a blast finding all the differences
I started with a PS2 and played the Playstation 1 version. They are basically the same.
I had so many opportunities to get this game for super cheap, but now just the cartridge goes for ~$60 on average.
Wait what? I managed to play Resident evil 2 on n64 a couple years, i will give a try and edit later
What Angel studios achieved when fitting 1.4GB in a 64MB cartridge was no wizardry. Both CDs share more than 80% of the same content. Plus, back then at the PS1 golden years, most CD programmers didn't care much about data compression. So, angel studios, (obviously making some sacrifices) just started to do for a cartridge, what, later (at least here in Brazil motherland of piracy) would become the standard: stretching the lifespan of this medium (CD) by using data compression optimization. No wonder, after that, Sony started to compressed 3 or more games of a same saga, like Crash bandicoot trilogy, in only one disc. But the pioneer in this game-ish stuff, certainly is Angel studios, when it comes to data storage optimization.
Ink ribbon I once played Resident Evil 2 on that very same system and while you do get invincibility you have to be careful with it because the way it works is yes you'll take damage and then you'll mediately recover all helped as though the character had taken aid spray. This can be overridden if you are attacked fast enough case and point I was playing at Sherry running through the sewers and got killed by the roaches in the B scenario because they attacked her so often and so fast it overrode the cheat she couldn't heal from the injuries
I played the shit out of this game on my N64 back in the day.
Super interesting.
As someone who played this specifically on the Dreamcast, I sort of scoffed at the idea of playing it on my brothers *cough* "inferior" *cough* N64. I just assumed the 128 bit sega meant everything was better. lol
This was how I first played RE2, was on the N64 😅
The love that a secondary studio brought in showed and all of these different options in this classic compared to games today where micro transactions would be charged for any of these or more likely not even put in because the greedy execs are more interested in the money then the customers
Man this was a pain to play with the controller as a kid
*plays randomizer again, gets 1 shot in the first five pick-ups
Never understood why RE 1 & 3 never got released on N64!
not ALL items are randomized.. only ammo and healing items
I know Switch Online isn't the best, but I hope they add it there
Solid video. Very thorough.
I was envious of PS owners because of this game. And I couldn't believe this came out on N64. I played it to death.
I'm one of those weird ones I guess lol. I didn't even know there WERE other versions of RE2 besides the N64 version until I was like 12. Oh blue/green blooded zombies, how I miss thee
If they game came out in 1998 it wouldve sold like goldeneye
1.4 gigs into 64mb? Great Scott
My friend had the N64 copy of RE2. For some reason, I remember the Main Hall of the Police Station being darker in the N64 version. Am I remembering this right?
Grew up with the N64 port
I grew up on the PlayStation version double disk then I eventually got a N64 and a copy of it good thing I did too let a friend borrow my PSX version and never got it back had no clue about the cheats for unlocking hunk and tofu now I want to fire it up and try them out thanks bud!!!
Man I really wish they make this port on Steam PC. I would insta buy.
Dual shock version has infinite ammo code but thats all
64/14=4,57% and not 10%. That is less than 5%. At 02:32.
my favorite port of RE2 a rare case of a port better than the PS1 verison
Condensing 1.4 GB into 64 MB I swear they were using Pym particles from marvel.
I played the hell of this game back in the day, funny thing I didn't own it I rented it from Blockbuster XD
I always stuck with PS mostly, I had original NES & SNES, the new remakes I've been using PC
Just tested it and emulated just fine for me. You probably just didn't have it configured correctly or weren't using the correct plugin. Not every emulator is created equal either.
N 64 version was the only one i played my cousin had it
I wish this would come to Switch Online
I love the N64 version of the game. It's Resident Evil on the same system as Zelda! Lol jk it does help that it's the best game of the trilogy. Wish we got 1 and 3 tho it woulda been fun to speed run them.
Dolby 5.1 on an N64 port??? No way
I’ve probably played the DC version most, but now I’m wondering which version I found the submachine gun ammo in. Possibly the HD PC upgrade? It’s the only version I’ve played recently but I swear I found the ammo in other versions and definitely not the N64 version. What do you find in the secret room if you already have the sub in the PS1 version??
In some ways this verison has the best graphics. Those character models are a nice improvement
There's actually more to the backstory of this game's development than you might think. I don't know if this interview still exists anymore or where to find it, but many years ago there was an interview done with one of the developers involved with this port and they talked at length about the challenges they faced in making it.
The biggest challenge they had was in compressing the audio (which you'll notice in the audio quality compared to the other versions). They were basically stymied, but someone managed to send them Chris Huelsbeck to help them out. If you don't know who that is, he's an old-school German game designer and musician/composer who worked on stuff like Turrican, The Great Giana Sisters, and the Rogue Squadron games. The man is an incredible musician and was able to help them overcome the technical hurdles with the audio of the game to actually fit it on there, albeit in a compromised state.
For being a port this game had a much more interesting development history than people realize.
I heard they did some trick with the FMVs where they like cut out some amount of frames out of each second of video, as well as reducing the color depth and shrinking the videos themselves down to a smaller resolution, then scaling them up. Like every trick in the book to make them look shockingly good
Certainly if you compare them to the titantron videos from the WWF games back then
@@knightshousegames lol damn that takes me back...
@@kyrozudesoya1829 I just remember the girl flapping her arms at like 2 frames a second in Chris Jericho's entrance video in Wrestlemania 2000, and it always cracked me up.
Liar
@@knightshousegames That’s basically what I remember from the interviews I’ve seen/read about how they pulled it off. They developed some new codecs for very advanced compression but it still wasn’t enough, when they hit upon the idea of removing frames then playing them back in a way that doubled them up so the eye wouldn’t notice or something like that. It’s a wild achievement to pull off from a technical perspective.
Props to the development team. Turning a 1.4 gig game into 64 mbs is a crazy feat.
that's wrong tho, the entire game actually fits in roughly 760 mb, it was due to some audio errors that were too expensive to fix that the game came out in 2 different discs, still what they did to make the game fit in a n64 cartridge is amazing
@@yosoydave8521 repeating what someone said in shittier drawn out or mundane terms to make yourself feel@home is “amazing”
@@yosoydave8521 The final product is 1.4GB isn't it?
Fixing the issue Capcom couldn't for this port was part of the development and greatness of this port.
@@xmaverickhunterkx not really, 1.4 gb is the total capacity of both discs, and of course games never use all the space, in reality disc 1 only needs 370.8 mb and disc 2 needs 373.51 mb, if they fixed the issue, they could perfectly fit both versions on a single disc, as i said it's still some serious engineering shit to manage to fit everything in a cartridge
@@yosoydave8521 I understand your point, but you kinda dodged mine lol.
On the blue-scale thing, I can answer that one from modding Fire Emblem GBA: the more colors there are in an image, the more space you need for each color. A palette is limited to 16 colors so to get a LOT of colors, you then need to split it into tiles and have each tile get a palette with the colors it uses that aren't shared. Reduce the colors and you can share the same group of colors with more tiles, reducing how much data you need for images in general, since you need less palettes for it.
According to The Cutting Room Floor, the blue tint is actually an error, caused by the red and blue channel information being swapped. You can see things that are supposed to be blue are tinted red instead.
The images are apparently all in JPEG format.
A 16-bit palette is limited to 15 colors, and then a "16th" for transparency. This mostly goes for Super Nintendo, GBA... It's not the same for every console.
I started watching this a long time ago, took a break, and finally came back. I don’t remember the reference to blue scale.
Not only they managed to make a 2CD game playable on ONE DAMN CARTRIDGE, but also added cool exclusive features????
Absolute legends
Just imagine if more companies had contracted them
@@djhero0071 what would it be like ?
@lamiamekni2802 Final Fantasy VII, Chrono Trigger, all the Capcom fighters, and probably so many more games could've been brought to the system. The library on the N64 punched way above its weight for the amount of support it had but I wonder how many games exclusive to the PlayStation could've been ported with the right amount of optimization and compression knowledge, and willingness to go for it. The ports probably wouldn't have been NEARLY as good as the PlayStation counterparts but at least the N64 wouldn't have been looked down upon as much as it was.
@@djhero0071 also I have a question about the whole fifth generation of consoles
@@djhero0071maybe the n64 shouldn’t of been a piece of crap that used cartridges instead of CDs. The N64 could’ve been so much better and had a real library of games if it wasn’t for Nintendo making it a cartridge system
This is the version I grew up with and still love it the most of all :) REALLY WANNA PLAY AGAIN SOME DAY
I had the Dreamcast version
Do it tomorrow. Why wait to do what makes you happy?
I had an N64 with RE2 and always pulled it out once in awhile to play it. Sadly, I think my family members who were drug addicts stole it from me and sold it for their addiction.
Randomizer mode needs to be a thing for ALL RE Games
@@InkRibbon Don't stop there. Give us "Resident Evil Maker"!
Always thought the EX files were the best addition to this version. Loved seeing Rebecca's Report and how she wrote off Billy as being dead to keep him from being pursued by police.
Isn't that in Resident evil 0?
Sorry I was incorrect, my memory failed me lol. I forgot this version tied them all in so well. I literally played this version around the time that it was released so... many years ago LOL
I loved that too!! I rlly liked that little detail even tho she spelt his name with a k in coen instead lol
@@Juggalo42240 so it’s not Resident Evil 0? Lol
She did spell his last name wrong in the memo.
RE2 on N64 was my “officially” first time playing RE, and I’ve never looked back since then~ I used to change the blood colors whenever I would die… 😅
Same bro ! It was my neighbors my pops went and got it for ps1
Same here.
Dude this was the first survival horror game I ever witnessed as a kid and it was on the Nintendo 64 resident evil 2 I'll never forget especially the infinite ammo cheat & the infinite life cheat
I would change the blood to green or blue cuz it just stood out so crazy to me
For me as well
why
A moment of silence for all the viewers who watched this on their televisions and nearly had a heart attack at 0:01.
aint funny
I remember watching my older cousin playing RE2 on his PlayStation growing up. I only had Nintendo consoles as a kid, and it was the first time I saw a mature game with realistic characters in a captivating, haunting setting. I asked for it like a year later for Christmas when I saw it came out on N64. My 13 year old self was ecstatic and proceeded to suck at the game for a couple years until my critical thinking skills kicked in during puberty. Now RE2 is one of my favorite games of all time, and the N64 version introduced me to the series and has made me a lifelong fan :)
Same! I rented this game from my local Mom and Pop video shop and loved it, the foreboding atmosphere, the fixed camera angles constantly changing, just the experience of my first survival horror game! And I too have been an RE fan for decades now. Plus the infinite ammo/health cheats always made sure I never got stuck due to anything other than some of the puzzles for the first time.
I will never forgive myself for getting stuck on RE3's water sewage puzzle though, I had to buy a strategy guide just to start playing it again and even then hindsight about your older brain vs your babby brain is always gonna be 20/20 but realizing you could just brute force it - I dunno, maybe I was overthinking it too much?
RE2 being on two discs was a mistake. Close to launch they realized the audio files were too big. They decided that they didn't have time to compress them being already delayed and over budget
yep.
bad compressing on most psx titles.
some games are ridiculously large in size when they shouldn't.
some even have unnecessary files that are never used by the cpu.
..to deter piracy maybe ?
Yeah, I remember watching a video about that mistake, since they didn't have the time nor the budget, they decided to release the game as 2 discs, but the overall experience could fit in just one.
Most of the audio in RE2 PS1 is sequenced samples, that doesn't take too much space. Dialogs though are streamed XA ( yellow book) audio, that is as compressed as it could.
What really takes a lot if space are fmv, wich are stored at 30 fps 320x160 resolution at 24 bit color depth. Indeed the N64 version cut the fmvs framerate to 15 fps and reduced the resolution to 288x144 to fit into the cartridge.
@@jsr734 and it doesn't make it less appealing. fmv's are nice.. but once they've been watch a number of times, we'll all skip them. so they don't weight much in the balance for my rating of a good game.
if they cut important playable scenes like the real final boss William birkin in the underground train, then it would really bothers me.
Wow 2 disks 😲 much value
This is one of the reasons I consider RE2 the greatest of the franchise, at least from the tank controls era. The fact that it was so popular and sought after that it was condensed so it could be made for the N64 is very telling. I remember being so stunned by this game the first time I saw video of it and I recall how amazing it was to make this happen.
The book Itchy, Tasty explains some of the specifics of how they pulled off this game. It’s a really good read/listen (as it has an audiobook) so I don’t want to spoil it!
Link?
Available in hardcover hopefully?
Lol, it's a file in the game of a guy who got bit, turns zombie, and somehow writes about eating people, feeling itchy, and eating tasty (People).
@@luketrochinski3954nope it’s an actual book lol. I wanna get a copy myself.
@@luketrochinski3954
They are talking about a book, not the file from re1.
4, itchy, tasty
I grew up playing this version as opposed to the much more known PS1 version. Watching those cutscenes on an N64 was insane to me at the time.
The blue tint in the loading screen is just another way to save space. And a clever one too!
Generally you display images in 3 channels: R for Red, G for Green and B for Blue, and that's why it's called RGB. Generally each channel has 8 bits to work with (making it 24 bits in total for each pixel), but it doesn't have to be this way.
If you remove R and G, you end up with only a blue channel, thus saving 16 bits for each pixel in the image. This adds up to a LOT, because essentially you're cutting off 66% of the size of the whole picture!
But why blue specifically? Because it still manages to look ok. There are papers out there that test how our eyes perceive change in colorspaces, and the red and blue channels are the ones we notice the most. If it was all red it would probably look too agressive, and green would just make it weird. Blue has a nice feel to it and still works, so that's probably why they went with blue.
I also think I read somewhere that red isn't the best color for improving human night vision but a soft blue is.
@@randomlyentertaining8287 Fire/EMS here: it's the easiest hue on the eyes comfort-wise in low light condition, too.
When we get calls in the middle of the night and audio tones wake us up, we have soft blue LED light strips inside our regular fixtures that light up the whole station at my department. Fun facts!
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I thought we were perceptive to green, due to nature.
@@Web720 You're right, the other guy is just full of shit.
someone mightve already commented this but I think it's very important to note that the ps1 release didn't actually have to be 2 discs. according to an interview I read the main reason it ended up as a 2 disc game is because near the deadline where they had to push the build out they realized they hadn't compressed the audio files enough to fit the whole game on one 700MB disc and didn't have enough time to correct it. Also if you download a ps1 rom of the game it's only 376MB for Leon and 379MB for Claire. Most games do not use the full storage capacity and when you consider that most of the files are the same since both discs largely use the same map the actual total game size is far less than 1.4GB. great video but I felt compelled to point out the math error. no matter what it's an impressive port
So long story short, it *actually had* to be 2 discs. Cool.
@@hyakugame the matter is it wasn't compressed from 1.4Gb It would make 755 mb, but the assets between the discs are still reused (sprites, textures, some sounds, etc) so it would be even less
They wouldn't have even had to compress the audio to N64 levels to fit things, but then the cutscenes being 30 FPS probably did a number on size. There's a lot of reasons why not many PS1 games had cutscenes as smooth as RE2's, and RE3 compromising on that was a pretty good sign that they learned to optimize a bit better.
Quiero decir que el juego comprimido pesa 748 MB por hay y los dos discos practicamente tienen reutilizado todo exepto los trajes y cinematicas creo
My question is if they used two discs like they had to was the audio still compressed? No need right as they have lots of mb left 😮