If you want to get into Resident Evil and want to start from the beginning, the HD remaster of the Gamecube remake of Resident Evil 1 is on Steam.

It is often considered one of the greatest remakes of all time and widely thought to surpass the original while preserving everything that made the original great (with the exception of the cheesy FMV cutscenes and dialogue. The remade dialogue is still cheesy but not nearly as funny) unlike the 2/3 remakes that change the games completely.

Technically Resident Evil 0, the HD remaster of which is also on Steam, is the actual beginning of the story in terms of the series’ timeline but I would not recommend it to a newcomer. Consider it advanced studies to come back to later.

The only main games which do not have modern PC ports on current storefronts are 2, 3 and Code Veronica and there are multiple ways to experience each on PC.

I grew up with the PS1 so I tend to just emulate those versions for 2 and 3, which is honestly rather painless with Duckstation, but there are plenty of other ways. You could also emulate the Dreamcast or Gamecube ports of said games, and I believe the GC version has a mod for HD backgrounds.There’s also the Classic Rebirth Patches for the Japanese-only PC ports which can be found floating about online.

As for CV, you have the original Dreamcast version and the Code Veronica X port for PS2 and the later HD ports of CVX for Xbox 360 and PS3. All four can be emulated, though IIRC there’s issues with emulating the 360 version. Also some people are not fans of the changed lighting in the HD remake in general. I just emulate the PS2 version with PCSX2

Are these compatible with the randomisers, Classic Rebirth Patches and other mods people have made over the years or do you still need to track down the old Japanese SourceNext ports?

Edit: Just checked and these are just the old US PC versions made to work with modern systems. That means no mods and that for the best experience you’ll still need to pirate the Japanese PC ports

I saw a glow-worm some years ago. I thought someone had dropped a glowstick until I took a closer look

Definitely not too common in Finland

I’m not saying using colourful euphemisms for death isn’t funny, I love wordplay. It’s just depressing when people start doing it subconsciously because of shitty algorithms that don’t even work because people will indeed just sidestep them by being creative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0

I don’t have an issue with new slang, I do have an issue with people modifying the way they speak and write because of corporate content moderation and internalising those restrictions

I mean, I have been saying “lol” out loud in real life for the majority of my life

I just find it incredibly depressing there’s a generation growing up whose vocabulary is being directly influenced by Google’s bots

It’s just so fucking grim. In 10 years everyone is going to talk like they’re trying to trick ChatGPT into saying something naughty

It’s like if you took the World of Warcraft “fantasy races based on lazy ethnic stereotypes” thing but forgot to make them blue trolls or pandas to obfuscate the racism. On the other hand, I guess it’s about what I would expect from fucking Conan, a pulpy property that began in 1932

What was up with 90s Cartoon Network and queer devil characters? You had Him from Powerpuff Girls and (less overtly) Red Guy from Cow and Chicken (who’s buttcheeks were always out, but that was like half the characters on that show)

Glowing lettering makes it easier to pick out an obscure symbol you barely use on your keyboard

I don’t get why seemingly every one of these media outlets that are formed by people who got fired from some failing company reference that fact in their names

Ahem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjatō

Anybody who’s somebody knows that ninja swords are straight and have square tsubas. Here is HISTORICAL NINJA, Rikimaru from the Tenchu video game series with his ninjatō:

Just ignore this bit please:

Historically, there is no physical evidence for the existence of this “katana-like short sword legendarily used by ninja” before the 20th century,[13] though it is believed that the designs demonstrated by alleged replicas are based on the design of wakizashi or chokutō swords or the swords associated with ashigaru.[1]

They’ll rename them hero swords

And they move??? 🤯

I like parts of this story. I think it’s funny and great that this ragtag group of Japanese misfit game dev amateurs stumbled onto a huge hit by cobbling together a bunch of game design ideas from different popular games from the past decade and sprinkling Pokemon on top of them. This hacked together Frankenstein of a meme game has probably outsold FFXVI by now

Apparently the CEO couldn’t get hired by big Japanese studios, then found out Steam would let anyone sell games on there

I also like that their character designer is some high school dropout who they found working at a 7/11 near their office

On the other hand, from the CEO’s NFT and AI tweets and his own admission that he’s more interested in chasing trends than innovative, boundary-pushing game design he kind of seems like an opportunistic rise and grind dipshit

They’re a Japanese company that’s used to closed console ecosystems. I think they just legitimately hate the idea of a bunch of unwashed randos getting their grubby hands all over their code, especially when it has the potential of eating into their DLC profits. Why would a PC gamer buy red orbs in DMC5 with real fucking money when they could just use CheatEngine, or pay to edit their character in one of the Monster Hunter games when they could just get a mod to do that? I believe things like the nude Chun Li tournament thing or modders making Patreon bank from porn mods for the new RE games also get on their nerves, but it’s mostly about protecting their bottom line

Apparently Capcom sees PC as a big focus now, and as could be seen from that presentation they did last year they have a major bug up their ass about piracy and cheating that are endemic to the platform and are seeking ways to mitigate them as much as possible.

I assume all this looks very decisive and proactive to some fossilised Capcom higher-up somewhere

I decided to try XEMU again on the latest version and it’s almost there on both games. The gameplay is smooth with no visible graphical glitches and I could even bump the internal resolution to 3x with no discernible effect on framerate.

Here’s what they look like running ideally:

DOA3

DOA2 Ultimate

Unfortunately certain 2D particle, screen and stage effects completely tank the framerate and so do big sweeping camera angle changes during replays and story mode cutscenes.

Here’s what that looks and sounds like

Still pretty impressive. You also weren’t kidding about it being DOA2 in the DOA3 engine, they look and play the same and have the exact same main menu

Didn’t check the settings in DOA1 but the age meter was definitely in the PS2 version of Dead Or Alive 2. I think it was just a bounce strength slider with a weird name. It maxed out at 99

I played a ton of DOA3 with friends and siblings on the original Xbox but never had DOA2 Ultimate. We assumed it wouldn’t have had the new characters from DOA3 so we just kept playing DOA3 instead. I actually downloaded roms of both DOA3 and DOA2U a while back and tried them out with Cxbx-Reloaded and Xemu but sadly the emulation wasn’t quite there yet, at least on my machine.