Resident Evil: Director's Cut - Hotkeys
Biohazard: Director's Cut · バイオハザード ディレクターズカット
Quick slots on L2 and the d-pad, an on-screen health and ammo display, quick reload and an RE3-style quick turn for Resident Evil: Director's Cut, with no graphics changed.
What it adds
soaresden's mod brings conveniences from later games to the first Resident Evil without redrawing anything:
- Quick slots: L2 plus a d-pad direction equips a weapon or uses a healing item from the four top inventory cells, which get small arrows; holding L2 shows them at the bottom of the screen
- HUD: your health in the game's own condition colors, and the equipped weapon with its loaded ammo and the total of that ammo you carry
- Quick reload with R1 + Circle and a quick turn with Square + Down, as in Resident Evil 3
- Inventory sorting: Square picks an item up and swaps it with another
- Options menu: hold Select for five seconds to switch each feature on or off
The code lives in unused memory and in parts of the game that are never called, so the original graphics and data stay untouched. The author says AI assistance was used in making it.
Playing it
It supports the USA and French releases of Director's Cut, and the USA Dual Shock edition through the patcher. Apply it to your own disc image with the creator's online patcher (it runs in the browser and lets you pick features) or with the patch files in the repository. It was tested with Jill in emulators; the author welcomes reports for Chris, Rebecca and real hardware.