Resident Evil 3 fans, here is something really special for you today. Mathieu Philippe has shared a HD mod for Resident Evil 3, called Resident Evil 3 – Seamless HD Project. This project upscales the game’s FMVs, backgrounds and 3D model textures, resulting in an unofficial remaster that only PC gamers can enjoy.
Going into more details, this fan HD remaster project for Resident Evil 3 upscales backgrounds with vectorized masks, restores integrated texts, upscales 3D model textures, upscales the FMVs, and upscales the menu elements as well as the HR portraits. The modder has also used custom-made tools to prevent the apparition of seams where the masks are displayed on top of the backgrounds (this was done by recreating the Mask textures from fully processed backgrounds through analyzing and exploiting the game’s data).
Do note that RE3SHDP is an HD texture pack for the Gamecube version of Resident Evil 3 running on Dolphin. The pack that the team is currently offering for download comes along a custom version of Dolphin and all you have to do is to extract the Zip file, open Dolphin.exe, select the folder containing your game ISO, configure the controller if needed and play.
Now as you may have guessed, the pack does not contain any game ISO as that would make it illegal. As such, you’ll have to create and use an ISO based on the game’s Gamecube version. While the pack supports both PAL and NTSC, it was made with the NTSC version in mind. If you are using the PAL version, you’ll have to rename the folder “*dolphin_path*\User\Load\Textures\
Last but not least, you can turn the pack on and off while playing with the DELETE key. Do note, however, that if you have the “Prefetch Custom Textures” option activated, the textures will have to be reloaded entirely again.
As said, and given the fact that Capcom is rumoured to be working on a remake of Resident Evil 3, this unofficial Resident Evil 3 Remaster is something that all Resident Evil 3 fans should download and play.
Have fun!
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“The pack that the team is currently offering for download comes along a custom version of Dolphin and all you have to do is to extract the Zip file, open Dolphin.exe, select the folder containing your game ISO, configure the controller if needed and play.”
I wish every modder does this instead of a billion steps to set everything up and play. Awesome can’t wait. Hopefully someone makes a HD mod for 1, 2 & CV as -well.
2 already has a similar one, maybe even from the same people? Comes with a custom version of Dolphin emulator as well.
Thank you! ? And yes, that’s one of the reasons why we included a pre-configured emulator in our pack.
We also modified Dolphin’s source code to “fix” some quirks with the GC ports of RE2/3 and ensure a more stable texture replacement. Thus, you actually need to use our custom version of Dolphin to play these mods.
For RE2, it’s already available. Check out the website. ?
Ahah Thank you! That was one of the reasoning behind that choice since we couldn’t use the PC ports of these games. Configuring an emulator can be a pain as they are complex (but awesome) pieces of software.
But we also had to modify the emulator’s source code to “fix” some quirks of the gamecube ports and ensure a stable texture replacement. So you need to use the version included in the pack to play that mod. ?
RE2 is already available here: https://www.reshdp.com/re2/ Check it out!
Isn’t the PC port exist?why not use that version?or maybe SourceNext version which has better video quality…
Hello! I’m one of the dev of this texture pack. We are actually using the background textures and the game data of the PC port to make that mod. The reason we are not running the mod on the SourceNext PC port is that we have no way to use upscaled textures on RE2 and RE3 PC ports, Even with super nice patches like “ClassicRebirth”.
Not ideal but at least the GameCube port is using floating-point vertex precision so no “wobbly 3d models”. ?
For the FMV, we do have a pack that make it close to the PC port’s quality.
Ok,now i know the reason why ? good job and thank you for making this mod. Looking forward for your next mods,Code Veronica maybe?
Thanks! As CV is a full 3d game so it’s more straightforward to upscale and replace its textures (without breaking everything I mean). ? There are already 2 HD texture projects for CV out there.
is there any mod that could make the bullet casings stay on the ground longer?
Wonder if it would be possible to update her character model to something a bit more 3D.
Sadly replacing 3d meshes is not possible with Dolphin.
Tessellation using a shader might be a solution but it might break the geometry and we tried to stay as close to the original assets as possible with this project anyway.
Nice! This looks sharp!
My favorite RE game! The reason, as a kid this was the first RE game I played when it came out back in 1999. I had access to just the demo and it ran with <10fps, but that made it even more scary! So much nostalgia attached with this game…
Great job!! Also is a godsend that i don’t have to mess with multiple downloads and files to play this. It will be my 1st playthrough on RE3, preparing for the Remake you know 🙂
Thank you and enjoy the game! ?
Congratulate your team on my behalf, MoArtis. What an excellent work!
Thank you! I will share the love to them for sure ahah
This mod really made my day, thank you so much!
Ahah thank you for the nice comment! We will continue our work on the original RE1 when it will be possible. ?
Pity that it isn’t for the PC version. Still, top stuff!