GeminiREbirth: Most of those issues seem related to room scripts, rather than the censorship switch. Could still be fixed by injecting proper scripts.
Is this a tentative confirmation that you might look into it, if time and other commitments allow?
Needless to say that I and probably quite a few fellow Muttersprachlers would appreciate that a great deal.
If I got that right this would also mean that you cannot just take the Japanese version, for instance, and simply swap out every file containing Japanese localisation data for the ones containing the German localisation data, because there's actually more to it than just that (things being hard-coded and if that's the case, figuring out the necessary script adjustments for bypassing)?
IDzetkni: According to
Schnittberichte it is:
PC: Capcom / Virgin Interactive (1999) -
Grey Blood in cutscenes (when Kendo is killed, for example), as well as during regular gameplay, when shooting the zombies
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Green Blood when downed adversaries (including zombies, dogs(?), etc) are bleeding out
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Player Character's Death Sequences are not shown, instead it cuts to black after the player character is dragged to the ground, with "Sie sind tot" ("You died") displayed over the black background
Would love to do some testing but have only access to an ancient laptop incapable of running RE2 for the time being - if anyone else is able to help out, feel free to report your findings here, vielen Dank schon mal.
CMiq: The death sequences remain censored (tested with Claire & Leon, should be the same for Sherry and Ada). Kendo being overwhelmed and killed by zombies still only happens off-screen (shortly after exiting the gun shop) as well. Similarly gory cutscenes like the "chestbursters" leaving their hosts (Irons & Bertolucci) are very likely still cut then, too.
I guess these aren't as easy to revert (via hex edits), if at all.
The blood being red is a good start though.
CMiq: The comments on the Schnittberichte page actually list a couple more things allegedly "unique" to the German version:
- all enemies have been removed from the Sherry segments (which would include dogs, zombies and cockroaches, if I'm not mistaken)?
- the zombie being shot in the head by Leon in the Claire intro is censored (looks identical to the one in the JP or US version to me?)
- Birkin in of his later forms cannot decapitate the player character (he can?) any longer?
Besten Dank für's Testen und Auflisten.
