Hello! I was about to re-create the background image of the Result screen, but I’ve run into an item that I can’t identify…

UPDATE: Thank you everyone! You’ve helped me a lot. Based on all the info I reached the conclusion this is a badge holder with a thin cord and the metal piece at the bottom is a zipper. Something like this:

It seems some kind of wallet… but there’s some kind of black thread under that. (Remember the year is 2004. So, I don’t think it’s an iPhone with its earpods XD)

Also, is someone able to recognize the “Intelligence Report text? I can see a lot of words but since English in not my native language as you can imagine, I can’t identify some of them.

UPDATE: Thank you again! It seems “Project Umbrella” people already transcribed it some time ago and this is what they got:

http://projectumbrella.net/forum/Leon-Report

Also, Jazz / Kaz did the same work with incredible results:

«Note: parentheses mean that the words are partially cut off or hidden. Also, the report has some incorrect words or odd grammar, courtesy of the big C.»

We were successful of rescuing Ashley Graham the president’s
daughter. She was captured by some kind of religious group,
calling themself “ILLUMINADOS”. It turned out to be more a like
terrorist group. All of them were eliminated by this mission but few things
still remains unclear.
One thing is that all believers of this cult religious group has been
injected with some kind of parasites. Details on this parasite is still
(under) investigation.a
(They) had help from an unknown authority or grape of intelligence
(could) be corrupted remnants of Umbrella Corp, or grape of
(people.) They are attempting to gather samples of the unknown
(parasite.) They’ve been careful about acquirement of this
(so far.) Secured lots of research as evidence to show
It turns out that Jack Krauser was the guy who was
operative. He was immediately out of our investigation
Leon Scott Kennedy
(9?) 17, 2004

And finally, EPD Gaffney, generated an understandable English version:

«Going by what Kaz/Jazz transcribed, I rewrote the document in a way that sounded more like a formal report and actually makes sense. I did my best to preserve the sentiment of the original however. It’s significantly wordier than the original but the original quite honestly doesn’t make sense as a report of any kind. Because this is a texture for a document that was never meant to be read anyway […]»:

We succeeded in rescuing mission target Ashley Graham, daughter of President Graham. She had been captured by a clandestine religious cult, calling themselves “LOS ILLUMINADOS”. They operated in a manner similar to that of a terrorist organisation. During the course of this mission, current intelligence indicates they have been thoroughly eliminated.
Points of Interest:
All members of LOS ILLUMINADOS were injected with a parasite unfamiliar to our agency, a potentially dangerous weapon whose application may extend so far as thought manipulation. Further details on this parasite remain unknown, though an investigation is underway.
LOS ILLUMINADOS received aid from an unknown authority or group of intelligence. There is evidence this entity may be composed of remnants of Umbrella Corp. The goal of this entity appears to be the acquisition of samples of the aforesaid parasite.
We have identified Jack Krauser as the operative acting on behalf of the unknown intelligence group mentioned above. Krauser proved to be an obstacle in fulfilling the duties of the mission and was necessarily eliminated.
Leon Scott Kennedy
(9?) 17, 2004

As a side note (I take the opportunity to show you something new), ALL special weapon screens are 100% remastered ;D

And also the ending sequence!

Thank you in advance and have a nice day!

Hello everyone! Today I’m showing you the penultimate chapter of the main campaign.

This chapter is filled with lots of new small improvements such as restored light bloom effects during the cutscenes, touched and even re-re-created textures and additional countless 3D edits.

It’s incredible a lot of bloom effects during the cutscenes are deactivated… They are quite subtle, but at the same time they add a lot of life to the overall image. It seems that a bad porting job to the PC made the game to interpret a “00” as “deactivated”, while in previous ports that “00” meant “skip this byte”.

I just need to replace that value to “something big” and the effect magically reapears…

I’ve even put in practice a couple of modding tricks I never used before (the addition of the missing moving spotlight effects in the battle area comes to my mind)

The rest of the work has been the usual and these are the differences compared to the pack we released on 2018:

• Adjusted, improved and new lighting and effects.
• Re-created and restored some textures.
• A lot of small stage model edits.
• New and improved stage shadows where needed.
• Remastered Files and Chapter End background images.
• Remastered enemies textures and some slight 3D edits.

Here’s a side by side comparison between PS4 and this HD remaster project that allows us to clearly see the missing effects and some new/improved effects (the PS4 port lacks even more effects!)

And finally, here’s the video! I hope you like it.

Have a good weekend!

Finally! Chapter 5-3 is ready… Hello everyone. It took me a lot of time to complete this chapter.

The 2 new enemies in this area had by far the most difficult to re-create textures. Both, Krauser (and all the shirt-no shirt-mutated variations) and U-3 (and its intricate huge 8 textures)

The next most time-consuming task in this chapter was the puzzle panel in the final area. Also, the most complicated stage/item textures I’ve re-created…

The rest of the work has been the usual and these are the differences compared to the pack we released on 2018:

• Adjusted, improved and new lighting and effects.
• Re-created and restored some textures.
• A lot of small stage model edits.
• New and improved stage shadows where needed.
• Remastered Files and Chapter End background images.
• Remastered enemies textures and some slight 3D edits.

There’s something that took me a lot of research hours: The blood effect on U-3 when it mutates. Maybe some of you noticed the “monster inside the monster” is covered of blood when it hatches. That effect is corrupted in the HD PC port. No matter what I do, the blood texture never appears.

That effect is only on screen during 10 seconds or so, then it will disappear. But I noticed the PS2/old PC port replaced that effect by using a covered in blood version of the textures. So, the blood remains there forever. This gave me the idea of doing the same (but with a slightly lower amount of blood).

The blood will be permanent, but I don’t think it’s a problem.

I hope you like the video and don’t hesitate to comment on it!

Hello everyone! Here’s a new video showing the complete chapter 5-2!

Since most of the enemies textures were already done, this time I’ve spent most of the time casting new shadows for the stage models, adjusting lights and touching up some textures and 3D models, as usual.

So, this is a quite standard chapter with no big surprises. The only “surprise” I experienced during this month is I’ve been able to decipher how the game decides which lights reach certain stage models and which lights don’t. The secret is inside the SMX files. There are 4 bytes of which value in binary code determines the stage lights that are “on” and “off” for every stage model. I’m excited when —even after 6 years— I still find some interesting new stuff about how this game works!

Also, I needed to downgrade one of the enemies weapons 3D model (that spiked ball weapon). I added new real 3D chain a few months ago, but since a lot of enemies appear at the same time in the road area, some weapons, enemies and even Leon disappear once in a while.

Fortunately, the downgrade is unnoticeable. I replace the chain torus with simple cylinders and the missing holes are now an alpha channel in the middle of the texture. Even if you take a screenshot and look closely to that you almost won’t notice it.

What’s new in this chapter since the last July 2018 release:

• Adjusted, improved and new lighting and effects.
• Re-created and restored some textures.
• A lot of small stage model edits.
• New and improved stage shadows where needed.
• Remastered Chapter End background image.
• Remastered enemies textures and some slight 3D edits.

And a new paper airplane! XD

I hope you enjoy the video! Have a great weekend!

Hello! I’m finally back with a new chapter

It took me ages to finalize this part of the game. It was filled with new enemies and a loooooot of details awaiting to be improved!

I’ve had a great time doing all the edits, and I have the feeling the efforts needed in this Island part of the game to reach the same level of perfection we reached in previous areas are higher… I guess the technological nature of some assets in this part of the game is the reason for that. And it’s also the reason the game looks worse in some of these final areas, even it use a lot more of extra 3D details compared to some Village and Castle areas.

For example, think about a wooden structure, a palace wall and a control panel. The 3rd one will stand out in a worse way when using low resolution textures and low polygonal models because we expect to see small details in a control panel while our brain is ok when we see lower detailed wooden and ornamental surfaces. It doesn’t need extra details unless we are looking for it on purpose.

What’s new in this chapter since the last July 2018 release:

• Adjusted, improved and new lighting and effects.
• Re-created and restored some textures.
• A lot of small stage model edits.
• New and improved stage shadows where needed.
• Remastered Chapter End background image.
• Remastered enemies textures and some slight 3D edits.

Enjoy it and have a great weekend!

Hello everyone!

I hope all of you are ok. We’re still on lockdown here in Spain. Hopefully, we’ll be able to come back to a sort of normality within the next weeks!

Ok, Resident Evil 4 Remake: Right now it’s just a rumor, but I don’t really care if it’s done or not. Capcom’s latest remakes are way different from the original versions. The original game will still be unique and worthy of a remastered version.

Chapter 4-4: This final Castle chapter has only 4 rooms, but they are quite big and complex. The lighting was a real pain to optimize. I needed to deal with lots of technical limitations, but the results are quite satisfactory at the end.

What’s new in this chapter since the last July 2018 release:

• Adjusted, improved and new lighting and effects.
• Re-created and restored some textures.
• A lot of small stage model edits.
• New and improved stage shadows where needed.
• Remastered Chapter End background image.
• Remastered enemies textures and some slight 3D edits.

Enjoy the video and stay safe!

Hello everyone!

These are weird days. Doubt and fear are everywhere. When I play RE3make I can’t help but see similarities with real life!

Chapter 4-4 is at 70%. In the meantime, I wanted to share with you a few Wallpapers. Just for fun.

As you can see, Ada’s wallpaper is a re-created render based on the End-of-Chapter 4-4 background image and it will appear in the game.

I also include a slightly corrected Ashley wallpaper (End-of-Chapter 4-1 to 4-3 background image) and 3 stage wallpapers.

Enjoy them.. and stay safe!