Hey guys! Thanks for hanging out! Make sure to check out Mono Memory's RE remixes. They are amazing! ruclips.net/video/XWW2aqq3SGE/видео.htmlsi=V6P5BHWkneWsiK2Q
A thing to note about Dolphin is most builds on the site past standard 5.0 feature a Auto updater which can be used to auto-update to the latest dev version or latest beta version on boot up so you don't have to download it again to keep it up to date. The dev version is for all up and coming features the Beta is basically the latest universal stable build I do dev but if your net playing with a friend on Linux they are forced to Beta so Beta is recommended to be on for that while not important for this video it is important to keep in mind for any multiplayer games you have plans to play on your emulator with friends. Emulation just is to good not to look into because the dev teams behind it do there hardest to make sure the emulator is fully accurate to the Gamecube/Wii. And unfortunately with the gamescapes game preservation rates at its lowest in a long time because the Eshop for WiiU/3DS was taken down Jailbreaking/Emulation is unfortunately becoming the only feasible way to fully be able to play some of these games. Also another thing to note about the homebrew channel from my experimentation is it accepts FAT32 formatted cards usually those by default can only be formatted if there 32GBs or lower but Homebrew channel actually accepts multiple partitions of FAT32 up to if I recall correctly 8 separate partitions what this means theoretically cards of 256GBs or less are allowed so long as they are partitioned into 32GB blocks in the FAT32 format. Some Partitioning software can even partition larger cards into FAT32 while keeping it all in one block which I assume is multiple Partitions layed out in a single array but none the less done right you can use a larger SD Card and its worked beautifully for me. I will say this does increase load time as the card now has to load all the partitions used instead of a single partition for the cost of space but this load time from what I seen mainly only effects loading software and games to use in homebrew channel and as far as I can tell no bearing on the games ability to load or the time it takes to load is effected.
This remake is still the peak of all remakes. The visuals are still amazing to this day, the content added doesn't ruin the original experience. In a world full of remakes currently, I don't think any have topped this.
@@ModelJames13 I once heard they planned on making RE2 remake with the same style as this as an option but apparently it was too hard to make. Just a rumor though.
@@golemofwill4728I once heard that RE2 remake was going to contain a finished-up version of RE 1.5 as a bonus. No....... wait...... that was in my dreams. 🤩
After playing the original so many years ago, when you play remake for the first time it’s jaw dropping. From the brutal intro to the old and new sections it’s perfect
@@AvalancheReviews I believe THIS game for MANY gamers is our first TRUE REMAKE. Not remade, not upscaled but a game where the player who played the original up and down opened the door AFTER Ken's body and said "Where the F am I?" After seeing that coffin open the Crimson Head comes out and says "WTF is that?!" and the genuine fear that you ignore the burning body's mechanic cause you thought it was flavor text. STILL to this day my favorite game in the entire RE series
It’s also worth noting that the remaster of the remake has a few music tracks that are sped up and out of pitch. Notable examples are the guardhouse theme, the mansion basement theme, and both laboratory themes. Capcom has never said why this is the case, and has never fixed it.
@@joshtheryuk This is not the case as all the tracks would be playing fast as a result. Also the glitched tracks are the same no matter what framerate you play at.
@@ThotdFan127 Yeah and later in the video i realized frame rate was 30 both on Gamecube and the Remaster. So i dunno. All i know is that i wish they put more effort into this remaster, compared to the RE0 Remaster this one is very meh.
Another mod for the PC version is the "RE1 real time graphics mod" that allows you to fix the crushed black levels in the PC port to look more like the Gamecube original.
@@scottsspot I don't see why they couldn't theoretically "have a place" anywhere. People say this stuff, but honestly developers/publishers haven't even tried to give us a modern take on this stuff for 20 years, so who knows? There have been examples of "dead" mechanics and genres coming back and being very successful in recent years.
Brilliant coverage! Would like to add that on lower end systems, the PC version use to slow down a lot. Like dramatically. This was because the rendering resolution of backgrounds would always be the highest available regardless of resolution selected. Thankfully there is a fix for that.
I love how thorough, concise and honest you are, with the comparisons, your thoughts, the jokes, everything! I know I basically do this everytime, but you're awesome! Thanks for being yourself!!
For the remake remaster, I like a control scheme that I’ve discovered in Shenmue!! It’s where you make right trigger your movement and then you just steer the character with either the joystick or the D pad!! It works excellent with tank controls, because it frees up your thumb constantly having to hold up!! It makes it to where you walk by pressing the trigger down halfway and you run by pressing it down all the way and then all you have to do is steer everything else is still the same!
That was also a option on the Gamecube and is how I played it the first time. It took good advantage of the controller's triggers. It's basically how a car controls, but it works very well.
Yeah brother, lot of weird negative energy been in the air and seeing this video brought me back to some good times lol even if brief. Well put together as well
It’s super crazy to see that how much they’ve re released this game on so many ports over the years, and my first experience is with the PS4 version. Here I thought that RE4 got so many ports.
I have a personal tradition of replaying REmake and OG RE2 around September-October and this video came at the perfect time as an excuse to finally use the upscale project, being a fellow pc snob myself. That being said, best RE game bar none and also one of the best games ever made!
@@AvalancheReviews Good to know I'm not the only one. I have connected the OG trilogy with late summer-fall, 4-5 with spring and 7-8 with winter. Guess I'm weird!
You're take on playing it emulated in Dolphin missed that you can play at 1x resolution and also have it super-sampled (SSAA), so that both the 3d and 2d elements are treated together. It's basically what you were asking for in the video, but just didn't get the combo quite right. The shadow maps looking pixelated is because you disabled the GameCube's native texture filtering when you set Texture filtering to Forced-Nearest instead of leaving it on on Default. Anyway, nice video. Cheers.
Yeah, I was playing with this on other games and the results are very interesting. On Wind Waker, the original Depth of Field gets reduced with each increment of resolution. By the time you get to IRx4, the effect is unnoticeable and is better to just turn it off using a code. But on IRx2 and SSAAx8 (or even 4) you almost get the best of both worlds, the resolution is clean enough with the close elements and the DOF is still there. Now I'm curious on how the RE remake may look with this setup.
I'm surprised no one remember Fear Effect which had, by far, the best use of FMV backgrounds. The game was really short but was also something like 4 discs long because of all that looped data smashed in to it.
RE oldhead here but definitely not a techhead so I didnt quite grasp everything you were saying but still found your video enthralling with the depth of information included here into the making of this game. Great video.
At this point it's easier to find out which projects got preserved properly and assume everything else got trashed. I do wonder how 'lost' some of the component parts of these games actually are. I've worked professionally creating artwork for publication and generally artists and production staff keep their own backups of work, sketches and notes etc. An industry that didn't chew up and spit out staff, maintaining good relations with them could probably access a wealth of assets and supplemental materials when panic sets in years later when you've suddenly got to deliver a remaster on time at a set budget.
The GC Resi's are unbelievably pretty games, particularly RE Zero.. I was a hardcore Sony pony in my youth and seeing how much more capable my mates Nintendo was than my PS2 the first time we played Zero _really_ pissed me off 😂 The tasteful, little animated elements in the prerendered backgrounds (swinging chandeliers, flickering candle flames, lightning through the windows).. wow one of my absolute favourite looking and *feeling* game of all time ❤
A year ago I have left comment to Shiryu (the mod creator of the Resident Evil REupscale mod) about the progress on his mod; especially considering the fact that it's been almost 3 years since there's been any updates to the project, I have asked if it was dead. He told me that it is not dead, but he's currently not working on it and doesn't have the time to do so. Also, his GPU is on it's last leg (it was 6 years old and he get BSODs under heavy load) and can't afford a new one. I don't know what he's up to now in days but hopefully he's doing alright!
Look avalanche, if taking Raid as a sponsor means more RE clone and RE retrospective videos then go for it dude….we all have bills to pay and bellies to fill. Some of us work so much and are often so busy that the only time we have for ourselves is watching nostalgic RUclips vids about things that remind us of better days when we were younger. Also is great ASMR for some reason the RE music sound effects and the smooth voiced commentary really helps me chill out when I’m stressed. We get so much content for free off RUclips and we can deal with sponsor reads and you deserve some payment for all the work you put in. Everyone knows about raid shadow legends at this point anyway so we are numb to it and it’s easy money for you to make more of these vids
I appreciate that! And honestly, I'm just sort of lucky that I don't necessarily need to do stuff like that. As a personal thing, I wouldn't feel right telling people to play a game I can't stand. Maybe one day I'll have to change that policy, but for now, I'm enjoying not having to do ad reads.
I was going to post a comment in Raycevick's new video about how cool it was that Avalanche poated something new... but then I realized probably nobody there would get it.
Honestly it still pisses me off how the Game Cube was viewed as the biggest console flop. With RE4, RE:make, Wind Waker, Eternal Darkness, Smash Bros Melee, Metroid Prime and it fits in to a lunch box how dare anyone look down on it 😮💨
I think it was the disc format that killed it for 3rd party devs. Less than half the storage compared to Xbox and PS2 makes it a less attractive platform for devs.
The one thing I want is a re-remake (or remaster) of the RE remake where they change the color palette to more than just white, beige, brown, gray, and black. Because if you compare the original RE to the remake, it was surprisingly colorful.
I was in my 20s when the game cube came out and loved that system and getting all the resident evil games was fun. But the remake was ahead of it's time lots of people still don't know it came out for the game cube and started the remake movement that we have today.
This remake is the only one that still scares me each time I play it. Every once in a while though, I read people on Twitter saying they want a remake of the first game. Yet it already been done and will hold up for far longer then the current remakes coming out of Capcom. Those same people are blind to anything made pre 2000 or really, really don't understand what survival horror is meant to be and definitely not RE fans. The remake of 2, 3 and 4 fall into action category more then horror, once your pass the first playthrough.
I agree the GC controllers analog stick could be better, but, there is one thing about the GC controller that I love for RE games. Remake, 2, 3, and CV all let you move forward with the right bumper, with a light press for walking and full press for running. Up on the stick is disabled and I love moving this way, only having to turn with the stick and hold a bumper to move.
Having essentially woken up right to the line "...that makes these videos so much fun to listen to as you're trying to go to sleep" I feel slightly called out😅
best part of these vids is the analysis of video resolutions across ports and systems, as someone who captures on real hardware it can be such a pain to determine if the weirdness you see is a result of your capture hardware chain, your captures software settings , or just how it looked in the original game. second best part is how he pronounces picture like “pitcher” four hundred times and episode.
Have to admit, the jump from N64 to the GameCube makes GameCube games look a decade ahead of its time. It actually is impressive what they were able to accomplish in the next generation of consoles.
Checking the updates on the JP site for REmake was the highlight of my week… the first tour video we got of the main hall and Spencer mansion took my breath away… even watching that video today takes me back to those same feelings. Glad to know I wasn’t the only one living that experience!! 💙 Also- the switch doesn’t have achievements… those pop ups are allllll Capcom and in game
I truly was one of the most memorable moments in my life. Like, I was obsessed with RE1 and out of nowhere this thing gets announced. I checked that site every waking moment, looking for new trailers. Brings a smile to my face.
Best remake ever. I was so eagerly anticipating its release back on gamecube. Pouring over those screenshots in magazines. I absolutely loved it. Resi 2 remake was great too (more a reimagining than a remake really but still fantastic) however without a shadow of a doubt resi 1 remake is the pinnacle of how to do a remake imo.
There is also a mod that lets you change shaders on fly that fix the issue you mentioned and also some that make it look more like original version. Definitely worth checking. It’s not anything to do with reshade either. It’s something that makes in engine changes.
Overall a great technical comparison of versions. I recently went back to the original on dolphin, using the native resolution but with super sampling and a crt filter enabled, and the game holds up great. There are a few more differences between the original and remaster that could be mentioned. 1. The MO disks are no longer based off of the gamecube design, and are now redesigned to be more generic looking. 2. There is at least one outdoor background with an error in the remaster, where the devs accidentily cut off a tree asset, but can only be seen in 4:3 aspect ratio. 3.If a room is too small, like the east wing save room, the widescreen option will completely cut off some of the background details, with no panning and scanning. 2. A new very easy difficulty was added, which many people now mistake for easy mode due to how difficulty options are described in game. 5. The PC version can run at up to 120fps with the variable refresh rate option. It's great to see someone who loves this game so much put in this much effort, you got a subscription from me.
That music at the beginning is so eerie and I love it. RE Remake is one of my favorite entries in the series and I recently picked it up again for the Switch. To me the game is perfect, great controls, scary enemies, the score and the fixed camera angles worked with those earlier games.
My first approach to the RE Remake was on a friend's GC but i couldn't really play it myself till years later through a really bad emulator then eventually got Zero and Remake on the wii and now pretty much own it on every platform it has been released lol
I just found this video (and channel) randomly to have on in the background as i worked... I just spent maybe 55 minutes watching the video and the other 8 doing my actual job, weirdly addictive to see how the re-makes evolves whilst staying the same. True though, it will forever be the god of remakes.
The interesting thing about the remaster is that some of the rooms were redone in full 3D like the main entrance hall along with those FMVs that they replaced which they did have a few dev diaries talking about that stuff. Funny enough I played the PS3 port first since I initially imported my copy which came with additional FMVs you could view on your PC and the inclusion of Wesker's Report which isn't on the western port to my memory.
Oh, god. Remember when we would watch Real Media encoded videos at the lowest bitrate possible. I still remember wasting my time on a cyber cafe back in 2001 watching the RE1 trailer time and time again.
Do you always say "pitcher" instead of "picture" in all of your videos? Or is it just me hearing things? 😂 Anyway thanks for your content and especially for diving deep in all those technical aspects! 👍
The crimson head mechanic is the best idea from the remake and I’m baffled why it was never brought back or expanded upon. Unless you count RE6 and the jaavo cocoon transformations but that’s it.
I myself prefer simply supersampling the image with maybe 2x resolution scale when emulating. This way the image gets really nice, smooth and anti-aliased but not get overly sharp with textures and other assets revealing their old age. Dolphin and Duckstation work pretty well like that. Unfortunately PCSX2 does not support supersampling like that.
You probably talk about it (Im still watching), but my biggest source of confusion with trying to get new comers to play RE1 Remake is having to explain that Modern controls on the analog stick are not Tank Controls. After that it is actually trying to explain that RE4 still has Tank Controls. Outside of that, RE Remake is my third favorite game of all time. Ive done everything in this damn game. I wish I had the Music Videos I made with the preview footage. I had Rollin' by Limp Bizkit synced almost percectly to commercial footsge.
This remake makes me think about 2 things in the current 2023 state of gaming. 1) What if Mikami did go back to direct Remake 4 like he did Remake 1? He was busy with Ghostwire from my understanding. And unlike Re2/3, 4 was already over the shoulder therefore ruining it would be way harder than making it great IMO. Yet I wonder if Mikami would have changed Remake 4 more or would have made it more faithful. Something very funny IMO cause the copy paste was the game at its best, the village, water room, Verdugo etc. 2) Is Remake 1 comparable to the phenomenon of GTA San Andreas. People forget that San Andreas is basically one of the last AAA games with “old graphics”. If Re1 got yet another now 3rd person remake. Would it be Re1 + Lisa + new extras… or would it be a cut like Re2/3 did for those with eyes.
I would assume they would give it the 2r and 3r treatment. Over the shoulder and all that. And since we basically have a perfect remake of the game already, I'm fine with them trying it out. If they fail, we still have this incredible game to play. Not a bad scenario.
When Paramount queried the feasibility of a blu ray remaster of TNG it hit a resolution brickwall : shot on 35mm but every episode cut for video broadcast. They could've just crossed some fingers, hit 'render' and taken some serious naps. Instead they dropped $24+ million recutting each episode from the 35mm masters p r e c i s e l y matching what was broadcast. It's the only Picard you need to see.
Thank you very much!! Ever since I moved to Japan, buying gas has become a thing of the past. Which lets 10 bucks stretch a whole lot further. Much appreciated man!
In regards to the emulation piece and the contrast between the 2d and 3d elements. One thing that helps with this is to install reshade and throw a solid CRT filter on top of it (they're in the retroarch section). Something like CRT Lottes works really well for gamecube . Set the resolution to match your game resolution or even below like 720p and you'll get a very sharp and convincing image!
You forgot or didn't know, but the RER remaster has some peculiarities within the soundtrack, it was speed up and high pitched for some reason compared to the original gamecube, making the mod that fixes this and the REupscale project essential for a enhanced experience.
I really don't care how fluid the game goes cause I'm used to play games "the way I can play it" being it for not reaching the minimum or recomended specs of the game or the game having flaws and I don't have the patience, time or money to discover which one of these are my problems. But watching how fluid goes RE on this video... DANG it looks good.
I wish they would remake this but use all 3D graphics, giving us the option of classic fixed camera or RE4 style camera. XSX and PS5 can do these pre-rendered graphics in or close to 4K in real time so why not. Capcom can then port that version for the next 20 years.
Thanks for the video, Is it just me or do your newer videos over the last year or so have a echo every time you speak but in your older videos your sound more distant but no echo. could just me be but something I noticed. Thanks for the work.
I finally got the only version of resident evil one that I had never played, resident evil deadly silence for the DS to play on my new 3DS LL modded and I have to say I absolutely love it!!!! Even if I did have to sell one of my kidneys to get it…. I love how you can skip the door animations and even though it kind of goes against the challenge of the original, I love that they made it to where you can use the knife without having to have it equipped!
That posterization banding in the CG sequences on PS4/5 probably has something to do with the color space or decoding used. I’d be interested to rip the raw sequences from the PS3 and PS4/5 versions to see how they were encoded.
Between REmake and Metroid Prime on the Gamecube, I always thought it must've been the most powerful console of its generation. Cool to learn that a lot of this was due to efficient development, clever tricks, and hardware limitations.
i just did a comparison review of this myself between the og and the remake, the only complaint i had about the remake was a recording thing, even when using a controller, i could not get the game to stop using the mouse cursor. drove me nuts. i did a complete no deaths no saves run, on hard only to watch it back and notice the cursor coming up from the corner. didn't notice while playing because, well, resident evil...
As a person who played PS3,PS4, and Xbox one, I deadass enjoy the PS3 version more because it’s darker and the assets or pre rendered backgrounds aren’t bad, they just add to the aesthetic. Yeah the frame rate is usually mid 20s to high 20s but you get the old DualShock feel as well idk maybe I’m weird🤷🏽♂️
I'm glad you covered the PS3 version. I've been playing my PS3 a lot lately and I've been combing the ancient PS3 store for things to fill my hard drive up. After what you've demonstrated, I won't be adding RE Remake to my PS3 library. It's good to be comprehensive.
Hey guys! Thanks for hanging out! Make sure to check out Mono Memory's RE remixes. They are amazing!
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Wow! he doesn't talk about the xbox 360 or xbox one versions and how it looks on a series X.
A thing to note about Dolphin is most builds on the site past standard 5.0 feature a Auto updater which can be used to auto-update to the latest dev version or latest beta version on boot up so you don't have to download it again to keep it up to date. The dev version is for all up and coming features the Beta is basically the latest universal stable build I do dev but if your net playing with a friend on Linux they are forced to Beta so Beta is recommended to be on for that while not important for this video it is important to keep in mind for any multiplayer games you have plans to play on your emulator with friends.
Emulation just is to good not to look into because the dev teams behind it do there hardest to make sure the emulator is fully accurate to the Gamecube/Wii. And unfortunately with the gamescapes game preservation rates at its lowest in a long time because the Eshop for WiiU/3DS was taken down Jailbreaking/Emulation is unfortunately becoming the only feasible way to fully be able to play some of these games.
Also another thing to note about the homebrew channel from my experimentation is it accepts FAT32 formatted cards usually those by default can only be formatted if there 32GBs or lower but Homebrew channel actually accepts multiple partitions of FAT32 up to if I recall correctly 8 separate partitions what this means theoretically cards of 256GBs or less are allowed so long as they are partitioned into 32GB blocks in the FAT32 format. Some Partitioning software can even partition larger cards into FAT32 while keeping it all in one block which I assume is multiple Partitions layed out in a single array but none the less done right you can use a larger SD Card and its worked beautifully for me. I will say this does increase load time as the card now has to load all the partitions used instead of a single partition for the cost of space but this load time from what I seen mainly only effects loading software and games to use in homebrew channel and as far as I can tell no bearing on the games ability to load or the time it takes to load is effected.
hey you might wanna give kabus 22 a chance
Now do every port of re zero
This remake is still the peak of all remakes. The visuals are still amazing to this day, the content added doesn't ruin the original experience. In a world full of remakes currently, I don't think any have topped this.
I feel like the Dead Space remake probably comes the closest. It's a fucking tough bar to clear. That's for sure.
Agreed. It’s the peak of gaming for me. Perfection.
The saddest part is we should've gotten RE 2 & 3 like this but Capcom ruined it.
@@ModelJames13 I once heard they planned on making RE2 remake with the same style as this as an option but apparently it was too hard to make. Just a rumor though.
@@golemofwill4728I once heard that RE2 remake was going to contain a finished-up version of RE 1.5 as a bonus. No....... wait...... that was in my dreams. 🤩
This is still one of the most beautiful games ever developed in my opinion
I could not agree more.
Same it’s still the best remakes ever made.
No doubt!!
Facts !
the Redfield bloodline, never die. Capcom must need to continue.
After playing the original so many years ago, when you play remake for the first time it’s jaw dropping. From the brutal intro to the old and new sections it’s perfect
10000000% yes! The jump from the original to the remake, it was like these visuals may as well have been real.
This remake screwed my head up I was expectingnto do the same exact things only to find myself get lost in the mansion that's been completely rebuilr
This is one of the most beautiful games IMO to this day! Amazing what can happen when love is poured into a project.
@@AvalancheReviews I believe THIS game for MANY gamers is our first TRUE REMAKE. Not remade, not upscaled but a game where the player who played the original up and down opened the door AFTER Ken's body and said "Where the F am I?" After seeing that coffin open the Crimson Head comes out and says "WTF is that?!" and the genuine fear that you ignore the burning body's mechanic cause you thought it was flavor text. STILL to this day my favorite game in the entire RE series
It’s also worth noting that the remaster of the remake has a few music tracks that are sped up and out of pitch. Notable examples are the guardhouse theme, the mansion basement theme, and both laboratory themes. Capcom has never said why this is the case, and has never fixed it.
Maybe music was tied to frame rate? Sounds silly but it's all i can think of.
Thank you! This was exactly what I wanted to comment sadly the only fix is to play the PC version and download the normalized music mod.
@@joshtheryuk This is not the case as all the tracks would be playing fast as a result. Also the glitched tracks are the same no matter what framerate you play at.
@@joshtheryukThat would only apply on the PC version, then. It's the only one that runs higher than 30.
@@ThotdFan127 Yeah and later in the video i realized frame rate was 30 both on Gamecube and the Remaster. So i dunno.
All i know is that i wish they put more effort into this remaster, compared to the RE0 Remaster this one is very meh.
7:02 Fun fact about the dagger. If you blew the head of a zombie when you stabbed it. You can get the knife back.
Another mod for the PC version is the "RE1 real time graphics mod" that allows you to fix the crushed black levels in the PC port to look more like the Gamecube original.
how is switch /ps4 version in this regard, blacks also bad on these?
Pre rendered backgrounds are a lost art form. I'd love to see them make a comeback.
They have in some indie scenes but main stream. Nah I wouldn't bet my bottom dollar. Still, I love how REmake is for the most part ageless
It's a damn shame Capcom lost the high res assets of the beautiful backgrounds
they don't really have a place in modern AAA games, but maybe those PS1 style horror games could do it
@@scottsspot
I don't see why they couldn't theoretically "have a place" anywhere. People say this stuff, but honestly developers/publishers haven't even tried to give us a modern take on this stuff for 20 years, so who knows?
There have been examples of "dead" mechanics and genres coming back and being very successful in recent years.
You should check out Tormented Souls if you haven't already.
Great video, kinda surprised you didn’t talk about the Xbox 360 version, most tend to forget the same was even released on that console.
Brilliant coverage!
Would like to add that on lower end systems, the PC version use to slow down a lot. Like dramatically. This was because the rendering resolution of backgrounds would always be the highest available regardless of resolution selected. Thankfully there is a fix for that.
I love how thorough, concise and honest you are, with the comparisons, your thoughts, the jokes, everything! I know I basically do this everytime, but you're awesome! Thanks for being yourself!!
For the remake remaster, I like a control scheme that I’ve discovered in Shenmue!!
It’s where you make right trigger your movement and then you just steer the character with either the joystick or the D pad!!
It works excellent with tank controls, because it frees up your thumb constantly having to hold up!! It makes it to where you walk by pressing the trigger down halfway and you run by pressing it down all the way and then all you have to do is steer everything else is still the same!
That was also a option on the Gamecube and is how I played it the first time. It took good advantage of the controller's triggers. It's basically how a car controls, but it works very well.
It's been a really rough week. This is the escapism I needed.
Get over it
Glad to marginally improve things for ya.
Yeah brother, lot of weird negative energy been in the air and seeing this video brought me back to some good times lol even if brief. Well put together as well
I'd love to see a VR version of this game.
Let's hope the REmake of the Remake doesn't get made too soon. More work for Jared if it does!
It’s super crazy to see that how much they’ve re released this game on so many ports over the years, and my first experience is with the PS4 version. Here I thought that RE4 got so many ports.
Capcom is nothing if not predictable. If there's a game in their library, they're gonna try and re release it.
I have a personal tradition of replaying REmake and OG RE2 around September-October and this video came at the perfect time as an excuse to finally use the upscale project, being a fellow pc snob myself. That being said, best RE game bar none and also one of the best games ever made!
I have a similar tradition. There's something about the weather getting cooler that makes me want to play classic RE games.
@@AvalancheReviews Good to know I'm not the only one. I have connected the OG trilogy with late summer-fall, 4-5 with spring and 7-8 with winter. Guess I'm weird!
Lol currently doing this. a little over halfway with REmake planning to play everything in Canon order all the way up to village
You're take on playing it emulated in Dolphin missed that you can play at 1x resolution and also have it super-sampled (SSAA), so that both the 3d and 2d elements are treated together. It's basically what you were asking for in the video, but just didn't get the combo quite right. The shadow maps looking pixelated is because you disabled the GameCube's native texture filtering when you set Texture filtering to Forced-Nearest instead of leaving it on on Default. Anyway, nice video. Cheers.
That deflicker thing is cool as all hell. I've been playing with it a lot lately.
Yeah, I was playing with this on other games and the results are very interesting. On Wind Waker, the original Depth of Field gets reduced with each increment of resolution. By the time you get to IRx4, the effect is unnoticeable and is better to just turn it off using a code. But on IRx2 and SSAAx8 (or even 4) you almost get the best of both worlds, the resolution is clean enough with the close elements and the DOF is still there.
Now I'm curious on how the RE remake may look with this setup.
Fitting the entire RE1 on the DS was pretty awesome in its own right too
It is the best way to play the original, for sure.
Yes
I gotta say, I REALLY respect Avalanche for avoiding ad reads… especially ones for companies/publishers that they would never use themselves.
I'm surprised no one remember Fear Effect which had, by far, the best use of FMV backgrounds. The game was really short but was also something like 4 discs long because of all that looped data smashed in to it.
Shame we never got a proper 3rd game. A remake like this for Fear Effect would be awesome too
RE oldhead here but definitely not a techhead so I didnt quite grasp everything you were saying but still found your video enthralling with the depth of information included here into the making of this game. Great video.
At this point it's easier to find out which projects got preserved properly and assume everything else got trashed. I do wonder how 'lost' some of the component parts of these games actually are. I've worked professionally creating artwork for publication and generally artists and production staff keep their own backups of work, sketches and notes etc.
An industry that didn't chew up and spit out staff, maintaining good relations with them could probably access a wealth of assets and supplemental materials when panic sets in years later when you've suddenly got to deliver a remaster on time at a set budget.
I find myself feeling the same way. Like someone had to have backed up their own work.
The GC Resi's are unbelievably pretty games, particularly RE Zero.. I was a hardcore Sony pony in my youth and seeing how much more capable my mates Nintendo was than my PS2 the first time we played Zero _really_ pissed me off 😂
The tasteful, little animated elements in the prerendered backgrounds (swinging chandeliers, flickering candle flames, lightning through the windows).. wow
one of my absolute favourite looking and *feeling* game of all time ❤
I'm primarily a Switch player, so it's good to know REmake wasn't botched on there. Might pick it up. 👍
It's a great port honestly.
Nothing like when Jared uploads a hour long Resident Evil video on a rainy weekend.
The definition of the word cozy
A year ago I have left comment to Shiryu (the mod creator of the Resident Evil REupscale mod) about the progress on his mod; especially considering the fact that it's been almost 3 years since there's been any updates to the project, I have asked if it was dead. He told me that it is not dead, but he's currently not working on it and doesn't have the time to do so. Also, his GPU is on it's last leg (it was 6 years old and he get BSODs under heavy load) and can't afford a new one. I don't know what he's up to now in days but hopefully he's doing alright!
Look avalanche, if taking Raid as a sponsor means more RE clone and RE retrospective videos then go for it dude….we all have bills to pay and bellies to fill. Some of us work so much and are often so busy that the only time we have for ourselves is watching nostalgic RUclips vids about things that remind us of better days when we were younger. Also is great ASMR for some reason the RE music sound effects and the smooth voiced commentary really helps me chill out when I’m stressed. We get so much content for free off RUclips and we can deal with sponsor reads and you deserve some payment for all the work you put in. Everyone knows about raid shadow legends at this point anyway so we are numb to it and it’s easy money for you to make more of these vids
I appreciate that! And honestly, I'm just sort of lucky that I don't necessarily need to do stuff like that. As a personal thing, I wouldn't feel right telling people to play a game I can't stand. Maybe one day I'll have to change that policy, but for now, I'm enjoying not having to do ad reads.
I was going to post a comment in Raycevick's new video about how cool it was that Avalanche poated something new... but then I realized probably nobody there would get it.
Ha! I still don't hear any similarities in our voices, but I love the meme it's become.
@@AvalancheReviews It's not like you guys sound identical, but it's pretty similar.
I really need to catch up and watch your videos because you do great work Jared. Thanks for the upload brother!
Glad you liked it man!!
Honestly it still pisses me off how the Game Cube was viewed as the biggest console flop. With RE4, RE:make, Wind Waker, Eternal Darkness, Smash Bros Melee, Metroid Prime and it fits in to a lunch box how dare anyone look down on it 😮💨
I think it was the disc format that killed it for 3rd party devs. Less than half the storage compared to Xbox and PS2 makes it a less attractive platform for devs.
The one thing I want is a re-remake (or remaster) of the RE remake where they change the color palette to more than just white, beige, brown, gray, and black. Because if you compare the original RE to the remake, it was surprisingly colorful.
Another great video. Here's hoping you cover Resident Evil Death Island soon.
I was in my 20s when the game cube came out and loved that system and getting all the resident evil games was fun. But the remake was ahead of it's time lots of people still don't know it came out for the game cube and started the remake movement that we have today.
The possibility of this game one day being available in VR is astonishing.
This remake is the only one that still scares me each time I play it.
Every once in a while though, I read people on Twitter saying they want a remake of the first game. Yet it already been done and will hold up for far longer then the current remakes coming out of Capcom. Those same people are blind to anything made pre 2000 or really, really don't understand what survival horror is meant to be and definitely not RE fans. The remake of 2, 3 and 4 fall into action category more then horror, once your pass the first playthrough.
I agree the GC controllers analog stick could be better, but, there is one thing about the GC controller that I love for RE games. Remake, 2, 3, and CV all let you move forward with the right bumper, with a light press for walking and full press for running. Up on the stick is disabled and I love moving this way, only having to turn with the stick and hold a bumper to move.
Having essentially woken up right to the line "...that makes these videos so much fun to listen to as you're trying to go to sleep" I feel slightly called out😅
Ha! Hey, I probably couldn't get to sleep without long form youtube content. It puts me right out. I'm right there with ya.
I’ve been waiting so long for another RE Retrospective. Did a double take when it popped up in my feed. ❤
best part of these vids is the analysis of video resolutions across ports and systems, as someone who captures on real hardware it can be such a pain to determine if the weirdness you see is a result of your capture hardware chain, your captures software settings , or just how it looked in the original game.
second best part is how he pronounces picture like “pitcher” four hundred times and episode.
You know I gotta watch whenever my boy uploads - cheers, Jared!
Have to admit, the jump from N64 to the GameCube makes GameCube games look a decade ahead of its time. It actually is impressive what they were able to accomplish in the next generation of consoles.
Checking the updates on the JP site for REmake was the highlight of my week… the first tour video we got of the main hall and Spencer mansion took my breath away… even watching that video today takes me back to those same feelings. Glad to know I wasn’t the only one living that experience!! 💙
Also- the switch doesn’t have achievements… those pop ups are allllll Capcom and in game
I truly was one of the most memorable moments in my life. Like, I was obsessed with RE1 and out of nowhere this thing gets announced. I checked that site every waking moment, looking for new trailers. Brings a smile to my face.
I DO NOT remember Barry saying mellow yellow. I'm gonna go out and get me a can of fizz.
Best remake ever. I was so eagerly anticipating its release back on gamecube. Pouring over those screenshots in magazines. I absolutely loved it. Resi 2 remake was great too (more a reimagining than a remake really but still fantastic) however without a shadow of a doubt resi 1 remake is the pinnacle of how to do a remake imo.
There is also a mod that lets you change shaders on fly that fix the issue you mentioned and also some that make it look more like original version. Definitely worth checking. It’s not anything to do with reshade either. It’s something that makes in engine changes.
Overall a great technical comparison of versions. I recently went back to the original on dolphin, using the native resolution but with super sampling and a crt filter enabled, and the game holds up great. There are a few more differences between the original and remaster that could be mentioned.
1. The MO disks are no longer based off of the gamecube design, and are now redesigned to be more generic looking.
2. There is at least one outdoor background with an error in the remaster, where the devs accidentily cut off a tree asset, but can only be seen in 4:3 aspect ratio.
3.If a room is too small, like the east wing save room, the widescreen option will completely cut off some of the background details, with no panning and scanning.
2. A new very easy difficulty was added, which many people now mistake for easy mode due to how difficulty options are described in game.
5. The PC version can run at up to 120fps with the variable refresh rate option.
It's great to see someone who loves this game so much put in this much effort, you got a subscription from me.
I would 100% support a Raid Shadow Legends ad from you. You deserve it.
That music at the beginning is so eerie and I love it. RE Remake is one of my favorite entries in the series and I recently picked it up again for the Switch. To me the game is perfect, great controls, scary enemies, the score and the fixed camera angles worked with those earlier games.
My first approach to the RE Remake was on a friend's GC but i couldn't really play it myself till years later through a really bad emulator then eventually got Zero and Remake on the wii and now pretty much own it on every platform it has been released lol
17:08 you losing the original footage for this game is poetic as Capcom lost the original source code too 😂
Lovely to have ya back mate.
Amazing video as always. I wish i knew about the deflicker filter on the wii back when i was using it all the time. Love the emulation stuff too!
I was blown away by that deflicker stuff. Been messing with it ever since. So damn cool!
I just found this video (and channel) randomly to have on in the background as i worked... I just spent maybe 55 minutes watching the video and the other 8 doing my actual job, weirdly addictive to see how the re-makes evolves whilst staying the same. True though, it will forever be the god of remakes.
"... that usually make these videos so fun to have playing while you're trying to go to sleep." I feel personally attacked.
The interesting thing about the remaster is that some of the rooms were redone in full 3D like the main entrance hall along with those FMVs that they replaced which they did have a few dev diaries talking about that stuff. Funny enough I played the PS3 port first since I initially imported my copy which came with additional FMVs you could view on your PC and the inclusion of Wesker's Report which isn't on the western port to my memory.
RE's remake gotta be one of the besr remakes in gaming history
Period!
Thanks for that heads up on the Wii flicker filter setting. Gonna see if that's available on my loader
Can't believe I 'forgot' how brilliant the inventory/health/map interface is, don't think it's been done in such a way since.
Oh, god. Remember when we would watch Real Media encoded videos at the lowest bitrate possible. I still remember wasting my time on a cyber cafe back in 2001 watching the RE1 trailer time and time again.
Do you always say "pitcher" instead of "picture" in all of your videos? Or is it just me hearing things? 😂
Anyway thanks for your content and especially for diving deep in all those technical aspects! 👍
The crimson head mechanic is the best idea from the remake and I’m baffled why it was never brought back or expanded upon. Unless you count RE6 and the jaavo cocoon transformations but that’s it.
I myself prefer simply supersampling the image with maybe 2x resolution scale when emulating. This way the image gets really nice, smooth and anti-aliased but not get overly sharp with textures and other assets revealing their old age. Dolphin and Duckstation work pretty well like that. Unfortunately PCSX2 does not support supersampling like that.
This guy gave me nightmares of being chased through sewers and destroyed buildings by metro/stalker enemies (it was awesome)
And what about the changes of the OST in Remastered version? They fuck so many iconic themes...
This remake should be on the top of the list of any remakes made in video game history like EVER
Dude Congrats this is the most Completed Port Review I've ever seen. I love it so perfect! You are a Beast.
Now that's what I like to hear!
shoutot to the MOE SHOP wallpaper, my man has taste
The re1 remake showed just how much power the gamecube really had
Your videos are really calming. I'm happy that I stumbled upon your channel.
Yeah I thought it was clever to not put the jump scare back in lol I was ready for it lol
always glad to see another edition to the Best Resident Evil Retrospective
You probably talk about it (Im still watching), but my biggest source of confusion with trying to get new comers to play RE1 Remake is having to explain that Modern controls on the analog stick are not Tank Controls.
After that it is actually trying to explain that RE4 still has Tank Controls.
Outside of that, RE Remake is my third favorite game of all time. Ive done everything in this damn game. I wish I had the Music Videos I made with the preview footage. I had Rollin' by Limp Bizkit synced almost percectly to commercial footsge.
This remake makes me think about 2 things in the current 2023 state of gaming.
1) What if Mikami did go back to direct Remake 4 like he did Remake 1?
He was busy with Ghostwire from my understanding. And unlike Re2/3, 4 was already over the shoulder therefore ruining it would be way harder than making it great IMO.
Yet I wonder if Mikami would have changed Remake 4 more or would have made it more faithful.
Something very funny IMO cause the copy paste was the game at its best, the village, water room, Verdugo etc.
2) Is Remake 1 comparable to the phenomenon of GTA San Andreas.
People forget that San Andreas is basically one of the last AAA games with “old graphics”.
If Re1 got yet another now 3rd person remake. Would it be Re1 + Lisa + new extras… or would it be a cut like Re2/3 did for those with eyes.
I would assume they would give it the 2r and 3r treatment. Over the shoulder and all that. And since we basically have a perfect remake of the game already, I'm fine with them trying it out. If they fail, we still have this incredible game to play. Not a bad scenario.
I never had any issues with the steam release, except for the mouse cursor hanging out on the screen if you use a controller
41:40 - Don't be so sure. I sill haven't finished it, and now I might return to it.
I see you have fallen right into my masterfully laid trap.
one of the most underrated channels on youtube! good day!
Well thank you very much!
My god dude. Still getting this much mileage out of Resident Evil. How is this possible.
When Paramount queried the feasibility of a blu ray remaster of TNG it hit a resolution brickwall : shot on 35mm but every episode cut for video broadcast. They could've just crossed some fingers, hit 'render' and taken some serious naps.
Instead they dropped $24+ million recutting each episode from the 35mm masters p r e c i s e l y matching what was broadcast. It's the only Picard you need to see.
Thank you for telling raid shadow legends to fuck off. Here's an eighth of a tank.
Thank you very much!! Ever since I moved to Japan, buying gas has become a thing of the past. Which lets 10 bucks stretch a whole lot further. Much appreciated man!
@@AvalancheReviews Just wanted to say thank you while I got it bruh. Appreciate you and thanks for not selling out. Keep at it. 👍👍
39:34 the bottom right brush looks like someone clicked on a still image and start moving it with a cursor in little semicircles. lol
In regards to the emulation piece and the contrast between the 2d and 3d elements. One thing that helps with this is to install reshade and throw a solid CRT filter on top of it (they're in the retroarch section). Something like CRT Lottes works really well for gamecube . Set the resolution to match your game resolution or even below like 720p and you'll get a very sharp and convincing image!
You forgot or didn't know, but the RER remaster has some peculiarities within the soundtrack, it was speed up and high pitched for some reason compared to the original gamecube, making the mod that fixes this and the REupscale project essential for a enhanced experience.
Still waiting for that Fatal Frame retrospective
I really don't care how fluid the game goes cause I'm used to play games "the way I can play it" being it for not reaching the minimum or recomended specs of the game or the game having flaws and I don't have the patience, time or money to discover which one of these are my problems. But watching how fluid goes RE on this video... DANG it looks good.
17:18 yeah the pause between scenes were that bad that RUclips forced in an ad there lol
HAAAAAAAA!
I wish they would remake this but use all 3D graphics, giving us the option of classic fixed camera or RE4 style camera. XSX and PS5 can do these pre-rendered graphics in or close to 4K in real time so why not. Capcom can then port that version for the next 20 years.
Thanks for the video, Is it just me or do your newer videos over the last year or so have a echo every time you speak but in your older videos your sound more distant but no echo. could just me be but something I noticed. Thanks for the work.
I would love to hear a conversation about survival horror between you and goodbadflicks.
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Xbox series s/x has many xbox, 360, and one games on it including Remaster. it even has auto hdr for it.
I finally got the only version of resident evil one that I had never played, resident evil deadly silence for the DS to play on my new 3DS LL modded and I have to say I absolutely love it!!!!
Even if I did have to sell one of my kidneys to get it….
I love how you can skip the door animations and even though it kind of goes against the challenge of the original, I love that they made it to where you can use the knife without having to have it equipped!
That posterization banding in the CG sequences on PS4/5 probably has something to do with the color space or decoding used. I’d be interested to rip the raw sequences from the PS3 and PS4/5 versions to see how they were encoded.
New intro who dis
Great video as always! Great seeing a breakdown of one of my all time favorite games. Also nice Moe Shop background. And nice Crowbar.
I put Crowbar lyrics in my scripts sometimes too. There's a surprising amount of heavy metal hidden in these videos. HA!
This is the game I normally play around Halloween, it's become a little tradition at this point for me.
Between REmake and Metroid Prime on the Gamecube, I always thought it must've been the most powerful console of its generation. Cool to learn that a lot of this was due to efficient development, clever tricks, and hardware limitations.
47:08 I mean damn he's right. I thought the video had frozen or an ad was about to pop up.
i just did a comparison review of this myself between the og and the remake, the only complaint i had about the remake was a recording thing, even when using a controller, i could not get the game to stop using the mouse cursor. drove me nuts. i did a complete no deaths no saves run, on hard only to watch it back and notice the cursor coming up from the corner. didn't notice while playing because, well, resident evil...
As a person who played PS3,PS4, and Xbox one, I deadass enjoy the PS3 version more because it’s darker and the assets or pre rendered backgrounds aren’t bad, they just add to the aesthetic. Yeah the frame rate is usually mid 20s to high 20s but you get the old DualShock feel as well idk maybe I’m weird🤷🏽♂️
I'm glad you covered the PS3 version. I've been playing my PS3 a lot lately and I've been combing the ancient PS3 store for things to fill my hard drive up. After what you've demonstrated, I won't be adding RE Remake to my PS3 library. It's good to be comprehensive.
Well that makes the effort worth it. Glad to help with the search.
Re1 remake Jill valentine still looks fine asf❤️