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RECV CV on Dreamcast

There used to be a rumour that you could pick up Wesker's sunglasses, which were used to unlock something. But I never found them.
I didnt know that but ı dont think that's true. You can find luger replica while playing as chris and that will unlock steve for battle game.

It was hilarious to learn that a mouse could author a diary. :p
I was thinking about discussing that.

https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/D.I.J.'s_Diary

It seems to have 2 versions with x altering it. I prefer og version of it too since x version simply adds unnecessary wesker cameos as text. Though ı still like " valkyrie " description for claire.

https://www.projectumbrella.net/dijs-diary.html

The file is also here but it seems that only x version is translated.
 
There used to be a rumour that you could pick up Wesker's sunglasses, which were used to unlock something. But I never found them.
Sorry for replying again but did you know that wxc was planned to destroy chris' boat after he climbed the mountain like a badass during his intro? This seems to be cut from what ı learned just like many other things. Idk if that's even true or not but ı would have preferred if wxc made it to recv instead of umbrella coming out of nowhere in re4.

Personally ı think recv ( without x alterations ) has the best story from pre-4 entries but the cut content makes me love the game even more. And the less talk about that utter failure re engine, the better.
 
Does anyone else wish capcom made the og version available with later ports? It bothers me that the later ports are all based on x version. They should have at least put an option for players to select between og and x version. This is yet another reason why ı cant stand to x version at all. Kato seems to wrote that along with wesker's report 1. From my understanding; sugimura doesnt seem to work on those. Considering kato later wrote wesker's report 1 along with gaiden. I dont think those 3 entries were meant to be taken seriously since they dont seem to have separate writers hired for them. This also comes into effect for remake due to mikami not hiring a writer for that either which only has lisa trevor as an unique story value to me.
 
Sorry for replying again but did you know that wxc was planned to destroy chris' boat after he climbed the mountain like a badass during his intro? This seems to be cut from what ı learned just like many other things. Idk if that's even true or not but ı would have preferred if wxc made it to recv instead of umbrella coming out of nowhere in re4.

Personally ı think recv ( without x alterations ) has the best story from pre-4 entries but the cut content makes me love the game even more. And the less talk about that utter failure re engine, the better.

Hmmm. That's interesting. I never knew about that.

I feel like CV was the [first] ending to the franchise, like a low budget film that ends abruptly because they had no more funding, but they released it like that anyway. LMAO.

I think there's more they could have done between CV and RE4. Because CV and RE4 do not feel related at all. I don't like the ending to CV and that's because it's not a shit ending. It's just an ending that didn't really go anywhere, until the on rails spin offs came along. But come on. On rails spin offs!?

We'd have probably preferred one last game with all the iconic enemies and heroes, and the same camera angles, plus Wesker. More action could be in it, yeah. But still make it scary, and with a fitting ending. One that still sets up future games, but you know Umbrella won't live on. They are dead. With how it all happened though, it truly sucked. Didn't feel satisfactory, especially as someone who got invested in the storylines from the PlayStation era up to the GameCube period, and beyond.
 
Hmmm. That's interesting. I never knew about that.

I feel like CV was the [first] ending to the franchise, like a low budget film that ends abruptly because they had no more funding, but they released it like that anyway. LMAO.

I think there's more they could have done between CV and RE4. Because CV and RE4 do not feel related at all. I don't like the ending to CV and that's because it's not a shit ending. It's just an ending that didn't really go anywhere, until the on rails spin offs came along. But come on. On rails spin offs!?

We'd have probably preferred one last game with all the iconic enemies and heroes, and the same camera angles, plus Wesker. More action could be in it, yeah. But still make it scary, and with a fitting ending. One that still sets up future games, but you know Umbrella won't live on. They are dead. With how it all happened though, it truly sucked. Didn't feel satisfactory, especially as someone who got invested in the storylines from the PlayStation era up to the GameCube period, and beyond.
Yeah ı feel that they should have released entries set at 1999, 2000 and 2001 respectively. I find dead aim's time skip out of nowhere. I think re4's time skip is fine but ı just dont like los iluminados and wesker's umbrella. The latter didnt need to exist imo, especially when outbreak file 2 already gave a conclusion to umbrella with yoko's epilogue. I would have preferred ada to investigate wxc instead. The cult would be much more interesting if it was connected to umbrella and they made a bioterrorism attack. It's an escalated sequel that doesnt feel like a bioterrorism incident unlike re5 and re6. Those 2 progress from storyline better due to that. They do this in vendetta but it feels out of place this time.

I dont mind chronicles' gameplay being on rail shooter but ı just dont like umbrella chronicles' simulation premise. I feel that it should have been centered much more around wesker without a simulation being introduced to the mix. Basically a wesker-nikolai game. Everything else would have been better being cut and ı would have preferred to play as ada and hunk at darkside chronicles instead.
 
Certainly.

I think we will be getting plenty of games with Chris, since RE8 time jumped, and Chris is mentioned by Rosemary. Unless she aged fast because her Molded ability made it happen that way. But it's all a bit daft.

I think it's about time Chris and Jill returned regardless.
 
CV has the best Character entry cutscene for me. When chris climbing the hill, that's my favourite cutscene. Chris was my favourite character from RE1 and it made me so happy when i get to play as him. The thing I love about CV is that it has returning characters from two separater games in the series.
 
Did anyone unlock rocket launcher in dreamcast version? I tried to unlock the weapon through cheats by freezing the timer and save count but it didnt feel like it worked. I remember unlocking it while playing x version on pcsx2 but it didnt work on dreamcast emulator. I could get around this by making the weapon spawn in item box infinitely but ı just dont like this method due to hurting space.

Thinking about this, this is the only reason ı could go back to x version on pcsx2 despite the downplayed gameplay but ı despise its story infinitely along with the altered script due to wesker's bloated exposure to it. Skipping the cutscenes wont work either since some scenes are unnecessarily changed and it hurts the pacing of the story infinitely.
 
I love the music in CV. I truly do think it's an amazing soundtrack. The track in the credits to CV on the Dreamcast is not as rocky as the track featured in the ports.

Also, the music is very creepy in the palace, and the save room theme is relaxing. A lot of YouTubers also like to use the music from Silent Hill, as it's quiet, and yet it still gives you the chills.
 
The track in the credits to CV on the Dreamcast is not as rocky as the track featured in the ports.
I prefer the credits track in dreamcast port personally. The one for recvx sounds like a rehash of past tracks instead. I still cant believe playing dreamcast port of the game changed my opinion about the series significantly. I'm glad ı played it.
 
I know ı mentioned this before but ı find the knife in dreamcast port much more useful than x version ı played on pcsx2. I managed to get the knife finisher on nosferatu every time ı killed it by using that. Sniper rifle also felt more comfortable to use during the boss fight. Though ı didnt get the special finisher using that.

I was poisoned by nosferatu once but ı dont mind it since ı like the extra cutscenes between claire and chris. After that, ı was never poisoned again.
 
I don't doubt that we won't get a remake. It's all about squeezing money from the fans, so once RE4 comes out, they will do RE9 most likely, then come back to remakes down the line.
 
I don't doubt that we won't get a remake. It's all about squeezing money from the fans, so once RE4 comes out, they will do RE9 most likely, then come back to remakes down the line.
I think recvx feels like a " remake " for recv before mikami's 2002 game was even released. It's overall the same game from dreamcast being ported to other platforms except with downplayed gameplay and story due to wesker's bloated overexposure. That's another reason why ı cant stand to corps and moon simulations since it's pretty much a re4 producing direction while blatantly imitating past entries at the same time. I hope recv wont get a re engine version due to this since ı would be heavily bothered.
 
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I played recv's dreamcast version on an emulator during the past couple days. I want to say that ı enjoyed it more than x version. The gameplay also felt slightly more smooth and that includes the op knife. X version seems to downplay it to the point of making the gameplay a bit more sluggish. The emulator ı played also had cheats function and that allowed me to use infinite ammo cheat for the weapons.

I also like steve's old haircut now. I prefer it over the new one. It bothers me that they changed it.


I also love this scene. I think it's way better than x version. In re6; carla goes ahead and calls wesker " colossal imbecile " due to his imcompetence and it adds to so much entertainment. My mind goes to this scene when she says that.

I'm not gonna go back to x version anymore...
I always thought Carla referred to Wesker as an imbecile due to his arrogance. I mean his incompetence stemmed from his arrogance constantly underestimating his opponents. Now that I've said that, the original Wesker vs Alexia scuffle in Dreamcast Code Veronica works better though I still do like X's version.
 
I always thought Carla referred to Wesker as an imbecile due to his arrogance. I mean his incompetence stemmed from his arrogance constantly underestimating his opponents. Now that I've said that, the original Wesker vs Alexia scuffle in Dreamcast Code Veronica works better though I still do like X's version.
True carla mocked him due to his consistent arrogance trait but ı still think it works best for alexia vs wesker encounter on dreamcast since she wrecks wesker up not to mention both alexia and carla are twins of veronica ashford and ada, just in different ways. Suga's scripts felt like proper follow-ups from sugimura's scripts and dreamcast version of the game showcases sugimura's most " pure " writing compared to altered x version.
 
Wesker always made me pay close attention to the series. It's a pity we never really got to find out more about the HCF. This is something that I feel got squandered due to Capcom constantly drifting off course.

I always felt as if Wesker would just have betrayed them anyway, much like STARS and Umbrella from before. But as with a lot of plot aspects in RE, they make up something that only gets mentioned in maybe one game or a separate piece of media, which only hardcore fans may read up about, then it's seemingly ignored forever in the canon. As in RE5, Wesker seems to be once again, working for somebody else or himself. It's not clear.

He did recruit people to be his henchmen or women...
 
As in RE5, Wesker seems to be once again, working for somebody else or himself. It's not clear.
This may be pure coincidence, but at the time when Devil May Cry was a Bio Hazard game, it was a story about Spencer's son named Tony, who went to his father's castle and eventually killed Oswell, after which he took his place as the head of Umbrella.

It really looks like Capcom was inspired by this idea along with the ancient civilization where the Progenitor Virus was discovered. Only Wesker took Tony's place.

And it makes a lot of sense, you know.

For example, Spencer wasn't in Iwao's script, but Wesker already had a forced evolution plan. This plan was written to Spencer later too, so ultimately linking them as father and son figures, where one passes the baton, was pretty clever. Otherwise it would just be a coincidence that both characters have a similar idea.

Needless to say, Wesker was kind of obsessed with Spencer. He was trying to investigate the old man's true intention, and BIO5 explained this by establishing that Albert, as one of the project's children, had a programmed interest in Oswell. It's clever too.

So I think it makes sense that Wesker became the dark inheritor, as The Umbrella Chronicles called him.

If we think about it, every alleged death of Albert is associated with a change in his status quo.

At first, he was the captain of the squad and revealed himself to be a traitor. He was killed by a Tyrant.

He returned as a member of the HCF's owner with his agenda and remained so until 2006, when he changed his mind about Homo sapiens. He allegedly died after falling from a window with Jill.

Having changed his mind about Homo sapiens, he used Jill's antibodies to make the Uroboros Virus less deadly. He lost the battle with Chris and Sheva.

Now Umbrella's leader, who claims to be Wesker, is giving Homo sapiens a chance to become part of his new order.

It's pretty consistent, imo.
 
Curiously, Wesker was not in the main game for RE4 either. He was in the extra content.
True but he's still the only character from re1 that appears in the game without anyone else from that game returning. I found that kinda underwhelming. I still dont take his so called " umbrella " seriously. It just doesnt serve any purpose, especially since umbrella pretty much got concluded in outbreak file 2 anyway. Dead aim's files also explain the company struggling through a bad state. It's as if every time wesker reappears at something, he's meant to be treated as a new antagonist which doesnt sound surprising if he's meant to be taken as a clone for each of his appearances starting with recvx. If you want to make someone establish an " umbrella " then make that character a new antagonist rather than a recurring one. Wesker's overexposure just destroys his mystery and makes him look more and more pathetic honestly.
 
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