Interesting. Never heard of these 'versus' books. Did they have any interesting plot elaborations?

Nothing of the kind, just gameplay in elaborate detail (example, a page dedicated to the dodge mechanic in RE3 etc.)

Sadly, my printer/scanner drew its last breath so I'll have the scans ready before Christmas.

These Versus books sound pretty cool; look forward to the scans, SG79!

That RE2 guide was awesome. I was able to take the GC code set for the US versions and offset the same codes for the PAL editions. The only other guides released ever to match the details in those was Millennium's guide for MGS and Piggyback's earlier official guide work (their Silent Hill ones in particular were amazing).