/vr/ - Retro Games

I've been trying to figure out the best version of RE1-3 for the past few weeks during downtime between work so I thought I'd post this to help

RE1
- The original us playstation version is to my knowledge the only game that has the original mode with Chris that doesn't have an auto-aim assist, making it the most challenging version. While the PC port has this as well as the uncut intros and skippable door animations, it's not reliable enough to run nowadays. There is a great mod called Classic Rebirth but unfortunately this only runs on the Japanese version, which has auto-aim built into it as well as Japanese difficulty, however you can apparently unlock US difficulty if you complete the game once according to the modder
- There's a great hacked version of the Director's Cut called the "Ultimate Director's Cut" for the ps1 which has the uncut intros and a "deranged" mode which cuts out content making it more of a challenge, it also has a disc 2 which includes a maze mode and a pretty faithful version of the Battle Mode from the Saturn. I wouldn't recommend trying to play the original game through this hack however as the modder has fucked with some of the rooms and you can get yourself locked out. The soundtrack is also the original.
- There's a PSX version with the remastered fmv's and original soundtrack. However, I'd avoid this because the pleb made a new skin for Jill in the arranged mode but fucked it up completely and she just starts ragdolling out when reloading sometimes or when entering rooms

RE2
- Unless you have access to the dreamcast, it is hands down the sourcenext version with the classic rebirth mode. Fixes the broken songs, has a nightmare mode which makes it nigh impossible to go back to the original game because it's way too easy. There's literally nothing any other version of this game has over this unless you like n64 funsies or dreamcast's 60fps