Resident Evil Series Canceled Prototypes

[Anonymous No.7770365]

What are the chances we'll ever get to see any of the Resident Evil betas? Almost every game in the series had some form of canceled prototype and all of them seem interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSW5F_OlQqM

[Anonymous No.7770389]

[Anonymous No.7770475]

[Anonymous No.7770484]

>What are the chances we'll ever get to see any of the Resident Evil betas?
You can see them everywhere, they generally tend to be Resident Evil fans.

[Anonymous No.7770501]

>>7770365

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[Anonymous No.7770542]

The RE0 train beta is my white whale.

[Anonymous No.7770553]

>>7770542
I think its the least known about RE prototype

>>7770484
He think, he cute

[Anonymous No.7770559]

>>7770553

A guy's been scanning issues of The PlayStation and Sega Saturn magazine.

https://archive.org/details/@gamebookscaner

[Anonymous No.7770574]

>>7770365
The pre-redo RE2 is out there. RE0? Not very likely, I'd think, but you never know.

[Anonymous No.7770583]

>>7770574
Also, something to keep in mind is that CD protos are generally more plentiful - cheap to burn, easy to distribute, no real need to have them returned. So there is a better chance of having multiple instances of said CD protos floating around among journalists, devs, collectors, etc. Carts, on the other hand, were more expensive and more reusable, so they tended to be overwritten, and a better chance that a company would want them returned so they could be reused. Obviously many cart protos are out there and many have made it into collectors hands, but I'd wager the odds are a bit less of any particular build/game turning up, especially if there isn't hard evidence that the build were ever sent out to the press.

[Anonymous No.7770596]

>>7770559
Thanks Anon, I'll check this out

[Anonymous No.7770602]

>>7770365
Translation for those interested:
>Resident Evil Zero
>There is no end to the horror! Just after Capcom introduced you to the Resident Evil franchise, a continuation specifically made for the Nintendo 64 is scheduled for this year. We have investigated Resident Evil Zero for you.
>The 3D action adventure Resident Evil Zero, which is expected to release in Japan this summer already, is primarily set within the narrow wagons of a derailed train. The majority of the passengers is infected with Umbrella Corporation's T-Virus and has mutated into drooling zombies. You start the adventure in the role of special agent Rebecca Chambers but over the course of the game you'll also encounter the burly military officer Billy Cohen. You can switch between these two characters at certain points: While the petite Rebecca is well-versed in the usage of herbs and keys, Billy is best suited for situations when the hungry undead are scratching at the next door and packs of hellhounds prepare to jump at your throat. Apart from this back and forth, the item management has also been redesigned: Now you can deposit items at any place. But be careful: Much of the rendered scenery is buried under trash and rubble. Unless you perfectly memorize where you've left additional ammo, you'll be in dire straits!

[Anonymous No.7770658]

>>7770602
Thanks for the translation

[Anonymous No.7771527]

>>7770475
>la "precuela" de RE2
kek

[Anonymous No.7771531]

>>7770365
>naruhodo... [ S . T . A . R . S ] ka...

[Anonymous No.7771697]

>>7770365
Interesting. I had no idea RE 0 was going to be an N64 exclusive

[Anonymous No.7771786]

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[Anonymous No.7771869]

>>7771786
>>7771789
This game looked so fucking good. I still like RE4 as we have it, but does anyone feel a bit of sadness at the lost potential of this game? I love the idea of a fixed camera with over the shoulder aiming. I think it could be argued that it seemed a bit strange with the dolls and ghosts that it was a bit off from a Resident Evil game, but the atmosphere looked great to me and like an interesting departure. I get they wanted to mix things up. This could have been the ultimate culmination of survival horror, maybe I'm being way too optimistic, but I can't help but feel a bit sad and wonder.

[Anonymous No.7772150]

>>7771869

As good as RE4 was, it undeniably took the series in a different stylistic direction. The closest thing we have to the originally-envisioned "gothic horror RE4" is the first DMC.

[Anonymous No.7772159]

>>7772150
That's pretty true honestly, and DMC1 even gives some pretty great atmospheric vibes. I do like DMC3 and 4, but I think it has to be admitted that once again a series with interesting potential was taken in a completely different direction. That being said at least we actually have DMC1 released.

[Anonymous No.7772176]

>>7771869
It looks fun to play but not replay. I think it was canned for a reason.

[Anonymous No.7772197]

>>7771789
Worst game of the entire franchise and franchise killer, especially since the sequels after this game got progressively worst(RE Village is an FPS game now)

[Anonymous No.7772290]

>>7772197
Yes, yes, we know. Give it a rest.

[Anonymous No.7772309]

[Anonymous No.7772325]

>>7772290
Nah bruh, I'm going to continue speaking the truth and using my right to free speech. RE4 sucks balls.

[Anonymous No.7772331]

For me it's obvious that RE0 was built on the N64 version of RE2

>RAM expansion pack
>same title menu asking about the same "violence" and "blood colour" settings when starting a new game
>zombies and dogs models obviously based on RE2, animations of protags also

It would have been great.

[Anonymous No.7772352]

>>7770389
>>7770365
>>7770475
>>7770658
Do you name and issue number of these magazines?

Here is one from Joypad #095.

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[Anonymous No.7772636]

>>7772371
>get N64 or get out
holy shit bro, it was a long time since i read something badass from a videogame company. I really miss that era of the industry, whether ads on TV and the magazines had a kickass and unruly way of marketing. Just remember all those TR or Crash spots...

Anyway, i havent played RE0 yet but im amazed at those sprites where becca fights against zombies. They are like fucking tall trees and lil becca trying to kill them looking up at them rooted eyes. I always had a sensation of inferiority while playing with Jill but this seems more terrorific.

[Anonymous No.7772806]

>>7770365
>Enge Angelegenheit
>Frühjahrsputz?
>HÄNDE HOCH!
I'd like to ask some shit like "why were german journalists so cringe back then" but they still are fucking cringe. Just like their whole YouTube scene.

Anyway, i would probably give my duodenum away to play this version of the game. Looks fucking sick, looks fucking piss!

[Anonymous No.7772982]

>>7772371
>>7772636

I miss that EXTREME/'FUCK YOU' marketing so much. About mid 2000s it was old and was becoming a joke but living in world we do today, I would love to see this kind of marketing revived.

[Anonymous No.7773053]

There is a video on youtube of the devs playing the N64 version of RE0, at one point before the train starts, they enter a very small wagon and you can see zombies roaming outdoor through the window.

I thought that was a great touch. In the final game it's kinda stupid like she just enters the train and won't leave.

[Anonymous No.7773069]

>>7773053
Also, all we ever saw is the train segment of that version, but there must have been a lot more made before the switch to GCN. There is a background of the institute showing on the gore warning at the start of that version at least, plus those concept art >>7772331 >>7772309

Plus, they did start making FMVs for the N64, even if they were made in-house it's not something you do early on. I'm confident there was a lot more to this version than we've ever been shown.

Gotta wonder what happened for the game to remain in dev hell for so long though. Did they have a poor team, poor planning, both? It looks like at first, they based the game on RE2 N64 too so they had a LOT of important programming work cut out for them. They had the engine. Then, the final version probably benifitted from REmake as well.

Perhaps the game remained in dev hell so long that, once dev of REmake started, they just had no other choice than to switch to GCN because it would pale in comparison.

[Anonymous No.7774587]

bump for this >>7772352

I can probably find the issue numbers for some of them but I need the magazine names for those at leasts >>7770475 >>7770658

[Anonymous No.7774673]

>>7770602
>primarily set within the narrow wagons of a derailed train
I wonder if that is what they were told or just what they surmised based on screenshots and footage. Might've been a much less expensive game than what we wound up with.

[Anonymous No.7774871]

Biohazard 0 Wii Official Guide (also available on archive.org) has more concept arts and/or of better quality

[Anonymous No.7774872]

>>7774871

[Anonymous No.7774874]

>>7774871
>>7774872
it goes on

[Anonymous No.7774876]

>>7774872
>>7774871
>>7774874
it's crazy how much colours the environmental concept arts had and all we got in the end game is brown with bits of red (which they faded out in the HD remaster)

[Anonymous No.7774972]

>>7772806
90s german video game mags were ultra cringe.

[Anonymous No.7775068]

>>7774872
Was that long haired dipshit planned to be in the N64 version aswell?

[Anonymous No.7775617]

I pulled the RE0 concept art from the Crimson Head site and put it in an imgur album so it's easier to look through. They're varying quality, but at least they don't have a retarded watermark stamped all over them.
https://imgur.com/a/XJOjtcq

[Anonymous No.7775630]

>>7775617
nice

[Anonymous No.7775759]

>>7772325
Cool nobody's talking about the RE4 that happened.

[Anonymous No.7775771]

>>7774876
>>7774874
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[Anonymous No.7775813]

>>7770542
I'd settle for the RE1 protos used by Gamefan, the ones in which item boxes do not break the fourth wall and in which they apparently have a translated version of the Trevor Files.

Hell, I'd even settle for any RE3 proto. Apparently Joypad had a version with debugging features similar to the ones found in the RE2 proto, with which you can cycle through items in the inventory.

[Anonymous No.7775835]

>>7775813
I call that the magazine prototype of RE1 and that's what I've been looking for too. It sounds like it's similar to the timed demo dated 1/15 but if you look at the guides based on it, there's different item and enemy locations in some places.

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[Anonymous No.7777701]

According to this interview

http://web.archive.org/web/20020607010538/http://xengamers.com/sections/news/7261/

they changed to GameCube because
>lack of space on cartridge
sounds like a partial truth to me

also in the interview he pretty much admits thaty benefitted from REmake

[Anonymous No.7777746]

Had RE0 been released on Nintendo 64 in 2000 (which was the original plan, before the GameCube and REmake released) , I genuinely believe it would have sold more units than the final game did on GameCube.

Note only because more people had a Nintendo 64 in 2000 (about 30 millions) than any GameCube ever sold (21 millions), but more importantly in 2000 survival horror was at its prime. Silent Hill, Dino Crisis, Resident Evil 3 had all released in 1999. There were also successful derivatives like Parasite Eve II.

However, by the time the GameCube came out, players and reviewers alike were starting to get sick of the AITD/RE style of survival horror, saying pre-rendered backgrounds and tank controls are a thing of the past.

The HD Remaster also outsold the original RE0 on GC almost 2 to 1, although that doesn't include sales data from the Wii version, it pretty much confirms the game came out at the wrong time and on the wrong platform.
I'm sure on N64 RE0 could have sold around 2 million copies.

[Anonymous No.7777789]

>>7772150
G-Spencer gives me the chills.

[Anonymous No.7777834]

>>7777746
Or, you know, if it released on ps2, pc and xbox

[Anonymous No.7777839]

>>7777834

You're forgetting the time table. Outbreak series out-performed on PS2. The year 2000 would have been the best time to release 0. There was a decline in interest for the genre with the next generation.

[Anonymous No.7778040]

>>7770365
I'm still mad we never got Rebecca changing her outfit as the game goes on and Edward losing his hand.

[Anonymous No.7778987]

>>7774587
It's interesting how the prerender model for Rebecca has never quite matched up with her in-game appearance.
Cool to see a still from one of the original CG cutscenes, too. Looks much closer to the REmake era stuff.

[Anonymous No.7779190]

Not RE but... pic related is the true holy grail

[Anonymous No.7779317]

[Anonymous No.7779320]

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[Anonymous No.7779329]

Crazy how much cover RE0 N64 got.

[Anonymous No.7779821]

>>7778040
Probably looked too much like Jill

[Anonymous No.7779850]

>>7775068
Yeah as far as I can tell, Marcus and his silly outfit and leeches were always part of the game. So was Billy. I honestly feel like it was more or less doomed to be a mess from the start. There's some interviews with the developers on youtube that were done to promote the HD re-release where they talk about how everyone thought Billy was bland and he couldn't have much personality in his outfit because he's a prisoner. So they came up with the handcuffs to accessorize him a little bit. I just kept wondering why the fuck they kept him in if he was so boring when they had a whole team of colorful STARS members they could have teamed Rebecca up with.

[Anonymous No.7780293]

>>7779850
I assume they kept him in the game, to add him the list of Resident Evil forgotten protagonist

[Anonymous No.7781360]

>>7779850
> I just kept wondering why the fuck they kept him in

Everyone wants to add their own flavour of original character do not steal for the ages, maybe they hoped they'd pull an Harley Quinn like Paul Dini and Bruce Timm. Fuckers must be millionaire on the bitch alone.

[Anonymous No.7781618]

>>7770365
Do we know how much of the game was completed? There could be a dump out there. With all these leaks happening it could happen

[Anonymous No.7782673]

>>7781618
I don't think they ever went beyond the train section. Memory might be playing tricks on me but If I recall correctly there was some interview with a developer that suggested the game was about 10-15% done on the N64 engine before they decided to scrap the project and migratate it to the Nintendo Gamecube. But I could be mistaken so don't quote on this.

[Anonymous No.7782703]

>>7782673
>about 10-15% done

That's impossible. We know development started at least in 1999, and they couldn't have gotten a GameCube devkit before 2001. We know they had started on voice acting and FMVs which aren't things you deal with when the game is 15% done.

Thinking about the timeline made me realize something....I've been assuming RE0 was based on RE2 N64, benifitted from it, but the contrary could be true also.

[Anonymous No.7782717]

>>7782703
> they couldn't have gotten a GameCube devkit before 2001

Although I suppose they could have started on the GC version before they got the devkit, but I doubt that would have had happened before 2001, maybe late 2000 at best

[Anonymous No.7782792]

>>7782703
If you're going off by the timeline (2 years) just remember that Resident Evil was getting a lot of the development shifted around due to Resident Evil 3 and Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil Code Veronica being in production all at the same time causing Capcom to overexpand its capacity and resources in the Resident Evil franchise.

But I guess if voice acting and FMVs were indeed in production at that point, then it is most likely that the game was far more advanced than 10-15%. Biohazard 2 Prototype was near 65% completed (according to Mikami - other sources/developers claimed up to 80%) when it integrated voice-acting in the script and they were started to work on FMVs.

[Anonymous No.7782795]

>>7782792
*starting to work on FMVs.

[Anonymous No.7782813]

>>7782792
RE0 seemed unaffected by these things. In an interview I read just yesterday it was said it was decided that team would work on RE0 while the other would work on RE4.

Though something must have had happened for the game to remain in dev hell for so long. Possibly the RE0 team got left behind while all the effort and talent got focused on RE:CV, RE4/DMC, and then REmake

[Anonymous No.7782948]

>>7779190
That N64 or PS version of Onimusha?

[Batowl No.7784081]

Sengoku Biohazard.

I am forgetting more.

[Anonymous No.7785257]

>>7782948
I don't think there is a N64 version, it's PSX

[Anonymous No.7785630]

Does someone over here have the animated train prerendered backgrounds in HD?