RESPeCt

RESPeCt

RESPeCt is a free, unofficial PC version of Resident Evil Survivor (PlayStation, USA, SLUS-01087). It adds full mouse-and-keyboard aiming, widescreen and high resolutions up to 8x (drawn on your graphics card or CPU), controller support, HD texture pack support, mod support, and quick saves.

It contains no code or data from the game. You supply your own copy of the disc, and RESPeCt installs what it needs from it.

Playing

1. Download RESPeCt.zip from Releases and unzip it anywhere.
2. Put your disc image of Resident Evil Survivor (USA) in the same folder as RESPeCt.exe. Any of these work:
   • a .bin and .cue pair
   • a .chd
   • the .zip they came in
3. Run RESPeCt.exe. On first launch it checks the disc image and installs the game's data into a data folder, about 430 MB. After that you can delete your disc image.

The image must be an exact copy of the USA release. The European and Japanese releases can't be used. .iso files can't be used either, because they leave out the music and voices. If something's wrong, RESPeCt tells you what it found.

Everything RESPeCt writes stays in its own folder: settings, saves, the memory card and the installed data. To uninstall, delete the folder (back up saves\ and memcard1.mcd first if you want to keep your progress).

Windows may warn that the program is from an unknown publisher, because it isn't code-signed. Click More info → Run anyway.

Running slowly?

RESPeCt draws the game with your CPU unless you turn on F1 › Video › Graphics card: then the graphics card draws it (Direct3D 11), much faster, and resolutions up to 8x become available. Drawn larger than your screen, the picture is shrunk to fit and edges come out smooth. HD texture packs work on both the graphics card and CPU. With the CPU the resolution setting matters most: the first start picks a resolution to suit your CPU, and if the game still can't keep up it lowers it by itself (with a message). You can change it any time in F1 › Video › Resolution.

HD textures (optional)

RESPeCt can use HD texture packs made for the Beetle PSX HW emulator. We recommend the RE Survivor HQ Texture Pack by Leigiboy on ModDB. All credit for the pack goes to Leigiboy.

RESPeCt is not affiliated with Leigiboy or the texture pack in any way. If HD textures look wrong in RESPeCt, please open an issue here. It's most likely something RESPeCt needs to fix, so please don't contact Leigiboy about it.

1. Download the pack and put the .rar in the same folder as RESPeCt.exe (a .zip or .7z works too).
2. Start RESPeCt. The first time, it unpacks the pack into a textures folder (about a minute) and offers to move the archive to the Recycle Bin.

Windows 11 can unpack .rar and .7z by itself. On Windows 10, unpack the archive into the RESPeCt folder with 7-Zip or WinRAR first. An unpacked pack folder works anywhere in the RESPeCt folder, and texture_pack = in resurv.ini can point to one somewhere else (such as RetroArch's copy).

F2 turns HD textures on and off. They show at resolution 2x and higher.

Mods (optional)

Files in a mods folder next to RESPeCt.exe take the place of the game's, a folder per mod, without touching your disc image: rooms, doors, effects, items, 2D screens, enemies' textures and animations, music and voices (WAV), sound effects (WAV), the rooms' music (WAV or sequence), movies (a picture per frame). The PC version's files work too (PSX_DATA, Resource, and its enemies' .NAB/.NAC), converted to the PS1's where they differ. An empty extract folder next to the exe gets every original, named the way a mod names it. See docs/MODDING.md.

Controls

Mouse	aim; left button fires. In menus it moves the cursor (left = OK, right = cancel)
F1	settings: video (resolution, widescreen, brightness...), sound, keys, controller, cheats
F2	HD textures on/off (with a texture pack)
F5 / F9	quick save / quick load (F6 / F7 pick the slot)
F11 or Alt+Enter	fullscreen
Esc	release the mouse

Controller: Xbox controllers work out of the box (PlayStation and others through Steam Input). Left stick moves, right stick aims, RT fires, LT quick search, A OK/run, B cancel, X reload, LB/RB change weapon, L3 sprint. Hold A to fast-forward cutscenes. L3 + R3 opens the settings. Buttons can be changed in resurv.ini.

The game's own saves (typewriters and payphones) go on a memory card file next to the exe.

How it works

The game's code is being decompiled into readable C (port/decomp/, over 1,100 functions so far). The C runs natively. The rest of the game's code is read from your disc and run by a built-in interpreter (port/src/interp.c). The interpreter follows exactly the same rules as the project's static recompiler, which the developers use. Both builds are checked against each other RAM-for-RAM across dozens of recorded play sessions (tools/eq/).

The PlayStation hardware is re-created in port/src/: the GPU (with a high-resolution renderer), the geometry coprocessor, sound, the CD drive, movies and memory cards. Developer notes are in docs/DEVELOPMENT.md; how to decompile a function is in port/decomp/README.md.

Building

You need clang and a MinGW-w64 sysroot (for Windows). No game files are needed to build the release:

make -C port windist     # port/build/windist/RESPeCt.exe
make -C port release     # port/build/release/RESPeCt.zip
make -C port dist        # Linux headless runner, for testing

WIN_SYSROOT points at the sysroot (default ~/toolchain/sysroot).

Credits

• Graphics card renderer (up to 8x), steadier 3D, smooth textures, 24-bit colour, the depth and close-up fixes, full-motion mouse turning, and mod support (the mods folder, the PC version's files, game data as text, plugins): Trigger117
• HD texture pack: RE Survivor HQ Texture Pack by Leigiboy (separate download; not affiliated with RESPeCt).

Legal

RESPeCt is an unofficial fan project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Capcom. Resident Evil and Resident Evil Survivor are trademarks of Capcom Co., Ltd. This repository and the release contain no game code, graphics, sound or other data from the game. You need your own legally obtained copy.

License

RESPeCt is free software, released under the GNU General Public License v3.0. You may use, change and share it. If you distribute a modified version, it must also be under the GPL with its source code available.

Third-party libraries (in port/third_party/, used to read CHD and ZIP files) keep their own licenses; see port/release/THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt.