Back in January, we informed you about a Remaster Mod for Dino Crisis, called Dino Crisis Rebirth. And today, we are happy to report that this mod is finally available for download.
Dino Crisis Classic REbirth is an unofficial patch for the Japanese SourceNext PC version of Dino Crisis. This is a crucial detail as the mod/patch will not work with the MediaKite release. However, if you have the install data from any Japanese version, you can use this SourceNext patch to make it compatible with Classic REbirth.
Going into more details, Dino Crisis Rebirth replaces DirectDraw 5.00 with DirectX 9. As such, PC gamers can expect improved compatibility with modern GPUs. Not only that, but the team plans to implement OpenGL and DirectX11 in a later versions.
Moreover, this mod/patch adds a new 3D rendering mode with more precise transformation methods that fix wobbliness and texture warping. It also improves sound capabilities of the game, making the audio driver switch from 22050Hz 8bit audio driver to 44100Hz 16bits. Additionally, it fixes a bug that causes music to increasingly speed up when player gets damaged across rooms without healing.
What’s also cool here is that Dino Crisis Rebirth adds resolutions higher than 640×480, with support to up to 4K. It also adds a hotkey to switch resolution in game, and provides a more stable borderless window mode to replace glitchy fullscreen.
Lastly, this mod fixes various frame rate issues to provide smooth 30/60 fps support.
In short, this is a must-have mod/patch for all Dino Crisis fans out there.
You can download Dino Crisis Rebirth from here.
Have fun!
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Well the modder never calls it a remaster, only a patch that enables higher resolutions and better compatibility with modern systems. The remaster part is an error on the article’s author part. Unless we count better audio and videos as a remaster.
All good but there is one big problem. You can’t buy this specific version of Dino crisis to even run this patch.
People on PC don’t need such plebeian acts to acquire their games
Never played Dino Crisis, guess I’ll do it now
Better ? More like different. One is a oldschool survival horror game and the second one is a almost an arcadey-like shooter. I know, because I loved wrecking those points.
Works perfectly with the european version!
Looks great! but where do I find the japanese sourcenext?
And where i can get this source next version?also if i remember, all source next release is Japanese language only..
False, at least in Dino Crisis 1 and 2 the Sourcenext also have english language. And you can get both Dino Crisis .isos in any decent torrent site
The rebirth mod feature is “English translation” so its clearly the unmodded sourcenext version language is Japanese..
Yea I saw this posted on Reddit pretty recently, tried it out and got it running pretty painlessly after quickly searching for and finding a copy of the SourceNext version (found a link posted on Reddit by the same guy who created this mod if I’m not mistaken) and it seems to work just fine for the very short time I played that version…
My personal opinion though… I MUCH rather play the PS1 version on RetroArch using the Beetle PSX HW core because it looks just as good upscaled to 4K with a nice texture filter method AND I don’t have to give up my Save State functionality. In fact, not being able to Save State was my reason for dropping the modded PC version, lol.
F*cking excuse me, what !??
*downloads immediately*
Just running the Dreamcast version in Redream or the PSX version in Retroarch is a lot less work, to achieve the same effect.