Resident Evil fans, here is something special for you today. Modder ‘SonicB00M’ has released a must-have HD Texture Pack for the first classic Resident Evil game that will overhaul all of its backgrounds.
Going into more details, this mod uses the backgrounds from the Seamless HD Project, Rescale edition and the original 240p images of Resident Evil 1 and enriches them. To achieve these visual improvements, the modder used AI tools. Plus, he made thousands of manual edits (which took him around six months).
The end result is truly amazing. Below you can find some screenshots from it. Moreover, you can find some comparison screenshots here. These comparisons will give you an idea of what you can expect from this pack.
Do note that you’ll need Seamless HD Project. Otherwise, this mod will not work. You can go ahead and get SHDP from here. You can also download the HD Texture Pack from this link.
What’s also cool is that there is a similar pack for Resident Evil 2. So, right now, you can enjoy these classic RE games with non-pixelated backgrounds. This is a dream come true for pretty much all RE fans. So, if you are one of them, I highly recommend downloading them.
And I know. Some will go and say “Oh, it uses AI tools. Burn in hell”. Here is the deal though. Capcom has lost the assets for those backgrounds. Right now, there is no other way to restore them. So, in this case, AI can be really beneficial. This is one case in which I’m glad we have the AI tools.
Rumor has it that Capcom is remaking the first Resident Evil game. And while I’m interested to see what it will look like, it’s nice to have an option to play the classic 32-bit games on modern-day PCs. With these mods, we can fully re-experience the originals. And that’s a big plus in my books.
Have fun!
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Thanks Jonathan, I've been wanting to play through the origianl for the past few years but I always end up playing the remake instead.
Remake is like original but superior, this texture pack looks great for this game and period, but why even use it if you can play the superior remake?
The biggest change are the models, in remake they so much better
Remake changes plenty from the original that the original is still worth a play trough.
I do agree that it's the better game.
Seamless HD Project for RE2 is garbage. The AI crap destroyed many locations, the Tiger Room is the perfect example.
"Capcom has lost the assets for those backgrounds."
How the hell is that even possible?
I'm so tired of hearing this almost every day, and it's always HUGE companies that lost files.
I don't know if it's because I'm a digital hoarder, but I never lost anything.
I even have pictures I used to have on my very first computer in 1998. 🤣
I can't believe that Capcom, one of the biggest and greatest companies, would lose the assets of one of the most popular games of all-time.🤣
they never archived that stuff back then and when they did it was in some old disc in some file cabinet in some old building they left.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/18a471feb8e166f7958546ad1c967c586615d757c89d63cc6441987130462182.jpg
As usual with these HD mods, there's always the same problem: it looks like a mobile game now. I don't know if it's the flat lighting combined with the very crisp low-poly 3D model, but the one with the CRT shader sure looks more atmospheric to me. (left picture taken with Ares emulator + Monitor-Screen_Hmask-Screen_SlotMask_Taller_Brighter.slangp shader, from "Koko aio slang" shaders .)
I sure like these HD textures though, but… the game loses a lot in terms of ambience and immersion.
Oh, look, another unoriginal whiner that hates mobile video games, yet probably played video games on either a Sega Game Gear, or a Sega Nomad… hypocrite much?
damn, it looks like a 2005 ps2 game upscaled on pc, very impressive.
also theres one amazing HD Texture Pack for Resident Evil 3 here : https://www.moddb.com/mods/resident-evil-3-nemesis-seamless-hd-project/addons/reenhance-re3
This looks good. I love the OG RE1 so I will give it a shot. There is also a similar mod for RE1 Remake named RESCALE. I highly recommend playing with it. It's amazing.
thats what i'm talking about, nor more UE5 gay sh*t, this is the stuff
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Speaking of male heterophobes, here you are commenting on Disqus.
And this is the kind of use case that AI upscaled pre rendered backgrounds should ALL be a benchmark. It should be used as a basis for doing real human work off of to make it coherent and detailed. Something i've been screeching about since publishers started using sh**ty texture upscaling for re-releases a decade+ ago. The problem is they never wanted to even invest in THAT. Like the cost of paying some artists to use some upscaling as a basis for a high res restoration, rather than everything 100% from scratch is way lower. So it's so aggravating when you see it can be done right and companies still take the cheapest route possible. Too many to list.
Like Square Enix could spend next to nothing to do something like this for all their games with pre-rendered backgrounds and sell very well. I've been butthurt that they haven't done it with FFVII because your choices are : Completely new game pretending to be remake. Sh**ty looking version of original game with awful community upscaled backgrounds or blurry 240p crappy upscaled ones in official releases. Or a gatcha mobile remake that is insultingly more faithful than the real remake but is still a gatcha nightmare. You have no real choice.
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Truly impressive