Biohazard guidebook

[Anonymous No.10236854]

Guess just what got scanned?

https://archive.org/details/BioDCOfficialPerfectGuideInsideofBio/page/2/mode/2up

[Anonymous No.10236857]

>>10236854
I was hoping it would have more artwork.

[Anonymous No.10236868]

>>10236857
This is specifically the guide for the Director's Cut as the original had its own guide. I hope both get scanned!

[Anonymous No.10236875]

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[Anonymous No.10236881]

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[Anonymous No.10236898]

>>10236881
These are nice drawings

[Anonymous No.10236903]

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>>10236903
>>10236898
Original Re1 art is actually hard to come by.

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[Anonymous No.10236924]

>>10236923
the scanner is based out of Russia, and scans a lot of PS1 era "Survival Horror" game guides. he stopped scanning last year, but has come back.

[Anonymous No.10236927]

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[Anonymous No.10236930]

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[Anonymous No.10236932]

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[Anonymous No.10236938]

A lot of Engrish in this guide.

[Anonymous No.10236948]

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[Anonymous No.10236949]

>>10236854
Neat

[Anonymous No.10236953]

>>10236948
the whole guide uses the framing device of a report on the Mansion incident.

[Anonymous No.10237010]

I vaguely remember an official English translation of this guide getting released a long, long time ago. I want to say Sony was trying to do some kind of ebook service on PS3 or Vita and this was one of the books available on it. I specifically remember it was this kind of ugly barebones version and not the cool original one with all the extra art.

[Anonymous No.10237054]

I saved some decent scans of pages from the original 1996 book from a random thread on here once and made these for fun/practice awhile back.

[Anonymous No.10237058]

Wish I had more but it's just these two. They're crooked and not the best scans anyway so hopefully someone does a nice one of this book.

[Anonymous No.10237079]

>>10237058
>>10237054
Yes, hopefully BigManJapan scans them. He did one of each for Silent Hill 1-4, and a Biohazard 2 book. I'd like to see the differences between the original and Director's Cut Famitsu book. And if there's any more character art.

[Anonymous No.10237093]

>>10236854
>it was all a lie
Wtf???

[Anonymous No.10237119]

>>10237079
I have a physical copy. Sadly there's not really much character art in it. There's some more pseudo-anatomical drawings for the major monsters like in those 2 pages though. Things like a drawing of Yawn's skin talking about how it secretes mucous similar to an amphibian and a comparison of a normal shark's snout and Neptune's. There's also a cool little sketch of a Hunter taking a dude's head off similar to the drawing of the Cerberus attack.

[Anonymous No.10237335]

>>10236854
This is so cool. Any other guidebooks for the other re games?

[Anonymous No.10237482]

>>10237335
Not RE but I shill this one any chance I get because it's fucking fantastic. I would kill for a similar book covering any of the old RE games. It has a section with storyboards for all the CGI sequences and a bunch of concept art of the maps showing how they plotted out the camera angles and designed the rooms.
https://archive.org/details/ParasiteEveNewType

[Anonymous No.10237939]

>>10237482
New Type did a handful of video games for some reason, and I'd like to see those other books scanned.

Retromags has scanned a few of the GameFan guidebooks, but not all. Their RE book has a lot of art and RE1 concept art is hard to come by.

[Anonymous No.10237940]

>>10237939
https://www.retromags.com/files/category/329-gamefan-books/

[Anonymous No.10237952]

>>10237335
A bunch have been scanned lately. A lot of the American guides are pretty meh - just barebones guides and some concept art. The Japanese are by far the most interseting but the least scanned.

https://e-hentai.org/?f_search=parody%3A%22resident+evil%24%22+artbook

[Anonymous No.10237970]

>>10237952
Material relating to the original game is most interesting, since it went through a few revisions, and they hadn't settled on a formula yet. Like the original push for the logo was the title with an eye behind it. It's also why the title screen has the freeze frame on Chris' eye. A lot of eye imagry but they dropped it for the sequel.

[Anonymous No.10237971]

>>10237970
Speaking of, they story boarded all the cinematics but have never seen them posted anywhere.

[Anonymous No.10237973]

>>10237971
these were thrown in almost as an aside. Shame I'd love to see them. The Parasite Eve 100% book has a whole section just to the storyboards whereas this was just kinda thrown in for two pages in a guide as an afterthought.

[Anonymous No.10237982]

>>10237973
Another question I had was: why are so many of them wearing vests? The answer: The Thing (1982). Barry Burton is just George Bennings from that film, orange vest included.

It should not be under-estimated how massively influential The Thing was to Japanese media and horror. you also see designs lifted from it in Japanese games for literally decades.

[Anonymous No.10237983]

>>10237982
Bennings in comparison. For Re, the dogs in Re4 are directly taken from the Dog Thing in the film.

Other shoutouts:
>Dog in Paraiste Eve is also the Dog Thing
>Deep Fear is basically The Thing x The Thing

[Anonymous No.10237986]

>>10237982
Bennings in comparison. For Re, the dogs in Re4 are directly taken from the Dog Thing in the film.

Other shoutouts:
>Dog in Paraiste Eve is also the Dog Thing
>Deep Fear is basically The Thing x Abyss

[Anonymous No.10237989]

>>10237982
The Thing, Aliens and Commando all probably had a bigger impact on video games than movies.

[Anonymous No.10238018]

>>10236857
>>10236857
>wesker, barry, and brad are all the same age
how?

[Anonymous No.10238026]

>>10238018
Yeah I thought Brad was 28. I think 38 is "old but not geezer" for Japanese games. They try to appeal to teens so make their cast as young as possible. Jill is impossibly young for being some Ex-Navy SEAL (who don't accept women but whatever). Rebecca has a masters in Chemistry and is hired for a police special forces team at only 18.

Mikami btw supposedly does not like Rebecca and didn't want her in the game. She's clearly a cutesy kawaii type to appeal to fans. Mikami instead wanted some cyborg hulk and a wise cracking Eddie Murphy character, so it's nice to see that he was over ruled.

[Anonymous No.10238029]

>>10237482
love that retro fanservice

[Anonymous No.10238047]

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>>10236927

No english versions?

[Anonymous No.10238049]

>>10238047
>does this japanese only guidebook from 1997 have an english version

Do ya think?

[Anonymous No.10238079]

>>10238018
Being born the same year.

[Anonymous No.10238090]

>>10238029
whatever do you mean?

Also this book made me realize how close Aya looks to Cloud. It's obvious since Parasite Eve famously spun off from FF7's development. And to tie this into Resident Evil, Kenichi Iwao was scenario writer for Resident Evil 1. When he joined Square, he told the interviewer he was a big fan of the Parasite Eve novel. Square then took their abortive FF7 draft idea of a New York city blond haired detective and combined it with the Parasite Eve liscense.

It's a WEIRD ass adaption since it's not an adaption of the novel, but a sequel that changes so much it might as well be an original title. Kenichi Iwao then went on to direct Parasite Eve 2 with a draft storyline of his Resident Evil 2 sequel idea. Which I think would have been a totally kick ass sequel idea.

[Anonymous No.10238095]

>>10238090
Personally this image is the sexist Aya Brea image out there.

[Anonymous No.10238201]

https://www.residentevillive.ru/article/book.php

A Russian fansite has a bunch of scans. Low quality, with water marks, but you take what you can. If someone is willing to re-scan "The Story of Biohazard" book that'd be swell.

[Anonymous No.10238224]

>>10237982
resi is a mashup of a lot of things. They dress like that because of a random Stallone movie

[Anonymous No.10238287]

>>10238224
Cobra?

I wonder if that's an inspiration for Wesker.

[Anonymous No.10238296]

>>10238224
Speaking of, yeah video games are a bit derivative and heavily mashup television and movies from the 80's and 90's. Video games were my first experience with body horror and I thought it was really cool, until I saw they took it all from the Thing.

Ryu's modern design is just Guts, and other characters like Makoto is just Ryunuske from Urusei Yatsura in a Karate Gi. Pretty much everything is borrowed or taken from something else.

Entire sequences and scenes are taken from the Stallone Judge Dredd scene for Resident Evil.

[Anonymous No.10238391]

>>10237054
Interesting them addressing the clay virus. I wonder if it sheds some light unto the importance of Black Tiger to the t-virus research.

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[Anonymous No.10238759]

Pretty cool that Kenneth's chewed off face was an intentional homage to the farmhouse corpse in Night of the Living Dead.

[Anonymous No.10238956]

>>10237054
Wow, the entries in this original one seems a lot more detailed than the Director's Cut book. Was considering doing some English edits of this one that just got uploaded, but will probably just wait and see if he uploads the original now.

[Anonymous No.10239259]

>>10236857
>>10236868
>Arpha
>Blavo

[Anonymous No.10239489]

>>10238095
You mean, the sexiest image of vydia out there! Aya Brea gave me the butterflies as a teenager.

[Anonymous No.10239532]

>>10238090
Kenichi Iwao didn't work in Parasite Eve 1, though.
But yes, Parasite Eve 2 is probably the closest we will ever get to a spiritual successor of Resident Evil 1's main storyline and ideas from its original writer. I know some Parasite Eve 1 fans hate the abrupt changes from one game to the other and detachment from Eve's character but I personally loved it. Nails down the lunacy and depravity of mankind ascending to become Gods by creating a new evolved offspring and shedding its humanity perfectly well.

[Anonymous No.10239932]

There's a little bit of cool pre-production art in this old US Director's Cut guide too.

[Anonymous No.10239940]

That dude on top with the goofy ass shoulder stinger was the original Tyrant sketch.

[Anonymous No.10240264]

>>10239932
>>10239940
Yeah, I'd love to see that book scanned completely alongside the Persona book. GameFan only made a handful of guides, but they tended to be chock full of pre-production and promotional artwork.

https://www.retromags.com/files/category/329-gamefan-books/

[Anonymous No.10240325]

>>10239932
There's pencil art in the same style of a zombie kid too. There's an old magazine interview where Mikami or one of the other devs mentions they decided against adding them in because it was considered distasteful.

[Anonymous No.10240556]

>>10240325
I mean why would there be kids at a research facility anyway

[Anonymous No.10240832]

>>10236923

16 feet? In the original resident evil that thing looks more like only 10 feet.

[Anonymous No.10240835]

>>10240832
I think Famitsu is just bullshitting some impressive numbers. It says the Crow is 15lbs, which means it oculdnt god damn fly. A common raven is like 2kg.

[Anonymous No.10240851]

>>10240556
To research on them.

[Anonymous No.10241009]

>>10236857
>posittion: BUM

[Anonymous No.10241154]

>>10240325
Interesting that Chimera was thought up as a zombie mutation rather than its own creature and eventually that idea was thrown back in Remake.

>>10240556
Because the t-virus research was conducted on children and prisioners.

[Anonymous No.10241193]

>>10240556
Bring Your Kid to Work day unfortunately coincided with Experiment With the Zombie Virus day.

[Anonymous No.10241228]

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>>10236930
very cool looking art
>>10237940
>Turok guide has smilodons on cover
shame the game didn't include them

[Anonymous No.10241348]

>>10236881
Aawwww he's smiling :)

[Anonymous No.10242839]

>>10241228
Yes.

[Anonymous No.10242843]

>>10236881
Cerburus weighs more than the 6'5" zombies. Weird.

[Anonymous No.10242859]

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[Anonymous No.10242879]

>>10236857
From just playing the game, I'd peg them more like
>Wesker : 38, sure
>Chris : 35
>Jill : 27
>Barry : 48
Joseph and Brad are just whatever, I guess, though I'd put Brad a bit on the younger side since his most memorable character trait is fleeing.

[Anonymous No.10242913]

Maybe it's just me, but something about the concept art and background material for RE1 feels way more sinister than the sequels. It doesn't really come through much in the game itself though. Except maybe for the weird religious passages on the Lab passkeys.

[Anonymous No.10242932]

>>10242913
Well, the whole plot of a group of researchers covertly creating, keeping, and living near (and if the Keeper's Diary is to be believed, getting used to the horrors to the point that they deal with it rather nonchalantly) all manner of viral and animal abominations before eventually losing control of, and ulitmately dying to, the very virus and creatures they created is pretty dark, in a way that goes beyond simply seeing zombies and monsters shambling about.

[Anonymous No.10242945]

>>10236868
Why doesn't Edward have a pic

[Anonymous No.10242986]

>>10242945
canceled by the ADL

[Anonymous No.10243013]

>>10242913
>>10242932
What did RE1 do better than its sequels

[Anonymous No.10243018]

>>10238713
Was RE 1.5's blue tint inspired by Terminator 2?

[Anonymous No.10243024]

>>10236868
It always left a strong impression on me how much effort they put into the character designs of the various STARS members. I remember reading about them in the manual and expecting to interact with them more in-game, but you find most of them mutilated before you ever even see them. Really enhanced the horror of the game way more than if they had just been generic grunts.

[Anonymous No.10243032]

great thread

[Anonymous No.10243035]

>Beretta M96F
>Python revolver
Is Captain Brenten a descendent of Barry?

[Anonymous No.10243261]

>>10239940
>That dude on top with the goofy ass shoulder stinger was the original Tyrant sketch.

Still better than any calarts character

[Anonymous No.10243496]

>>10243024
It builds to the mythos of STARS as well as heighten the tragedy. You don't really see or know anything about the researchers, guards, or admin, at the facility, but you see and know the STARS.

[Anonymous No.10244275]

>>10236923
>>10240832
Typical sharklet inflating his length and weight on his Umbrellabook profile. When will they learn it doesn't fool anybody?

[Anonymous No.10245491]

>>10236923
>3530 lbs
Kek.
Even the "REmake sux" kids have to admit that REmake handled Neptune much better than the original

[Anonymous No.10245571]

>>10245491
I really like the expanded aqua ring area, but it also ties into one of my disappointment with the remake. Look at these two >>10236920 and >>10236923. They're fucked up genetic freaks. Yawn is some mix of amphibian and snake according to the text and Neptune has a really messed up head compared to a normal shark. It would have been cool as hell to see that concept art brought to life with the graphics the Gamecube was capable of, but they're literally just a normal snake and shark scaled up in the game.

[Anonymous No.10245804]

>>10245571
I don't get why Neptune is literally just a normal shark but big in the remake but my guess for Yawn is that they thought the original's colors were too flashy for the style they were going for (very muted colors in general)

[Anonymous No.10245815]

The full book has a little drawing with some notes that say Neptune no longer has gills and mutated a new organ that lets it breathe oxygen in and out of the water. It also says that's why they were able to survive after the water drained. Hopefully it gets scanned soon because it's very cool.

[Anonymous No.10246343]

>>10244275

How can that thing can eat an entire human?

[Anonymous No.10246371]

>>10246343
By digesting it.

[Anonymous No.10246383]

>>10243013
everything aside from graphics and gameplay

[Anonymous No.10246730]

>>10236923
Is SHARKSNAKE some kind of weird Engrish or is it actually meant to be a snake crossed with a shark?

[Anonymous No.10247208]

>>10246730
Likely yes. Yawn is a snake mixed with an amphbian.

[Anonymous No.10247437]

>>10236857
>>10237982

Never ceases to amaze me how many character designs from video games are either "basically David Bowie" or "literally David Bowie." I think Wesker's design here falls into the latter.

[Anonymous No.10247452]

>>10247437
David Bowie x Cobra.

[Anonymous No.10247484]

>>10247437
>David Bowie is Wesker
>Bennings is Barry Burton

Can we solve the rest of the designs? They feel like they're likely just as derivative.

[Anonymous No.10247630]

>>10247484
Joseph Frost's design kind of gives off the same vibes to me as earlier Billy Kane or Axl Low designs. I wonder if they are at all derived from the same inspiration. Ortherwise it might just be a long durag. I love Chris's hairstyle in these illustrations and Jill's gigantic shoulder pads look super goofy.

[Anonymous No.10247649]

>>10236868
>Blavo Tea0m

[Anonymous No.10248076]

>>10247630
What is the practical use of such giant shoulder pads? In case of shoving down a thug or a door or something lol?

[Anonymous No.10248179]

>>10236898
Yeah. It's a shame the franchise dropped 2D promo art by the time Nemesis and Code: Veronica came out.

[Anonymous No.10248203]

>>10247437
Well at least Wesker has some testosterone to his appearance. Bowie was a preening limpwristed heshe faggot who looked like he had to wear Depends due to taking more poles than Hitler.