Hi,

So the gog version of RE1 does not have a difficulty setting but Jill is basically "Easy Mode" and Chris is Standard or Hard difficulty? Is this correct?

Jill was always the easy mode in the original version of Resident Evil. In the version sold by gog on the first play with jill she is just a bit easier than in psx version.

That's correct.

Jill is more or less easy mode in most respects.
Jill:

More inventory slots
Begins the game with a gun
Can find a bazooka that can be loaded with various different ammo types
Can get the shotgun with less steps than Chris
Infinite Ink Ribbons for saving in the GOG release only.
Less enemy spawns.

Chris:

Can take more damage without dying
While lacking the Bazooka, he gains more ammo for the handful of weapons he does get
Gets some free heals from Rebecca

All in all, Chris is 'harder' Though it's not as bad as it seems. It's mostly that he'll do more busywork running back and fourth to get items from the storage.

There are few more things that make Jill easier than Chris.

-You can get the shotgun pretty much as soon as wesker goes missing. Barry will save you from the trap.

-If you help richard and you get bitten, Barry will carry you to the save room, with Chris, you have to play as Rebecca, get the serum and bring it back to Chris

-Chris can't make V-Jolt which is funny, because the instructions are easy, he was extra dummy on the og version..
Jill can make the V-Jolt making the fight way easier even getting help from Barry.

For someone who played the game many times this is just meh, it's an easy game to "speedrun" once you know where everything is.
But for someone playing for the first time playing as Chris can be annoying.

Beside character differences, starting the game from a completed save file increases the challenge considerably with tougher enemies. User AydanWatkins shares information on how to enable the higher difficulty setting from the start by editing a file in this post. Might be worth looking into it if you're only planning on playing the game once.

And, make sure to tell Rebecca that she can come with you... ;)

It's called PS1. There is no such thing as a PSX.

Actually, there is. But, it's this thing: [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_(digital_video_recorder]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_(digital_video_recorder[/url])

The easy mode for Jill with the weaker enemies and infinite saves on the first play was in the original PC version, which is also the GOG version, but a little bit improved. The point is that the PS1 is not called PSX officially.

Yes, but, you said that "there is no such thing as a PSX". Which is wrong. ;)

The codename is irrelevant once the console is out and it has an official name. The original model was called PlayStation, while the slim was called PS One, since at that time the PS2 was confirmed. It was never officially called PSX. Even if you look at it in present time, it's stupid to call it PSX, while all the later systems have a number next to them without an X. This whole X thing was probably only popular in the United States anyway. The X was never an official name. Neither models has the X on them.

I been calling it PSX for over 25 years now.
Even before Sony launched the PS One many magazine called it PSX.

I will keep calling it PSX, even if Sony released another product that hade the release name of PSX and guess what millions other users will also keep calling it the PSX.

If you think it is stupid to call it PSX, fine but to be fair who cares what you think?

It's not my opinion. The fact is that it's not PSX and it never was. It's PS1. You can call it whatever you want but the facts remain.

It's actually PSX internally. Open any PlayStation executable, first 8 bytes say "PS-X EXE".