Decompiled/recompiled Dino Crisis with updated 3D models - a way towards a fan remaster?
Decompilations—> Recompiled PC ports of N64 games are up and running for so many projects right now. AI, hate it or love it, does speed up this process with the overlook of human modders that read through and correct code.
N64 and PS1 have somewhat of a resurgence nowadays.
I recently played through the PC port of Ocarina of Time, Ship of Harkanian, with updated high res 3D models and it dawned on me.
We already have HD texture packs that drastically improve the static backgrounds of Dino Crisis.
The only thing holding back the original games Dino Crisis 1 & 2 are the 3D models and especially of the character models and enemies.
If the PC ports of Dino Crisis 1&2 were properly decompiled, or the PS1 originals, that could potentially pave way for importing high res models of player, NPCs and enemies. Ofcourse they would need to be rigged with bones similar to the PS1 originals to animate properly. But the thought is awesome. The dinosaurs would feel even more alive while retaining the same excellent animations that they had from the original.
Sure, seeing high res models of Regina, Gail and Rick speaking with non moving lips with high res models would be strange, but modding in lip sync would be very hard.
Saying all of this, getting a model import similar to say Ocarina of Time / Ship of Harkanian would pretty much revolutionize the game. It would not devalue the original experience, but it would definitely provide a fresh graphical take and a very nice way of replaying the original games as a HD model+texture remaster long before Capcom decides to sometime/eventually/maybe remake Dino Crisis.
No decompilation/recompilation or 3D model importer currently exists. But if such development were to happen, I would think the modding scene would be explode.
A fan can dream, but it does not seem out of the impossible. The enemy variation is low. So the amount of player and enemy models needed is not super high.
Please do not shoot me down or down vote. I just please ask you to envision what could happen if DC 1&2 became decompiled/open source code. 🙏🏻