{"id":13627,"date":"2025-05-19T09:44:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13627"},"modified":"2025-02-28T09:53:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T16:53:53","slug":"unreleased-resident-evil-1-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13627","title":{"rendered":"Unreleased Resident Evil 1.5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was blown away back in 1996 when Resident Evil came out for the Playstation. It did so well, that the developers started making a follow on. After a period of time, they realized it wasn&#8217;t working and abandoned that initial sequel. What happened next, however, turned into a multi-year attempt to find what had been completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story of the collectors trying to find and secure a copy is a &#8230; very interesting story in human nature. A copy of the 60% complete version was secured but at a cost to those pursuing it that went far beyond money. Predictably, like many of these pursuits, it turned into a years long search with fakes, name calling, and even lawsuits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XYTQirQqVHk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Believe it or not, people have gotten it working and done playthroughs of the acquired game. They even continue to fix bugs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can finally see how far the next version would have looked like in these most recent playthroughs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Resident Evil 1.5 - February 2025 Update + DOWNLOAD [Leon]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RH586y32Ruw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was blown away back in 1996 when Resident Evil came out for the Playstation. It did so well, that the developers started making a follow on. After a period of time, they realized it wasn&#8217;t working and abandoned that initial sequel. What happened next, however, turned into a multi-year attempt to find what had been completed. The story of the collectors trying to find and secure a copy is a &#8230; very interesting story in human nature. 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