1. Download and install Lutris.

2. Download the offline backup version of Resident Evil and Install inside Lutris.

3. Right click Resident Evil and select Configure.

4. Enable dgvoodoo2.

5. Play the game!

Issues:

FMVs are not working, only play the sounds. Maybe someone who knows more about the game or Winetricks will show how to enable the FMVs.

For some reason my controller (DS4) uses the analog to move the character under Linux, on Windows it is the d-pad.

Tip:

To configure the controller, inside the game press left stick to come up with the config menu.

It's working on Ubuntu now. Thank you!

Yes, let me modify your instructions:
1. Download and install Lutris.

2. Download the offline backup of Japanese language version Resident Evil and Install inside Lutris.

3. Right click Resident Evil and select Configure.

4. Enable dgvoodoo2.

5. Download Resident Evil Classic Rebirth DLL file as well as official 1.01 patch from classicrebirth.com/index.php/downloads/resident-evil-classic-rebirth

6. Copy both files to your installed game directory and overwrite BIOHAZARD.exe

7. In Lutris go to game configuration, then System options and add WINEDLLOVERRIDES="ddraw,dinput8=n,b" to Enviroment variables

8. Play the game!

Issues:
FMVs have Japanese subtitles hardcoded and you can't get rid of those. Other than that - zero issues.

Good advise, thank you!

I just want to add, that "Classic Rebirth" fansite also offers improved movies, which got no Japanese subtitles anymore. Also these run smoother. One can check it out.

Keep in mind, this way you get auto-aim function and more explicit cotent. Progress can only be saved at typewriters, though. Altogether, Resident Evil becomes simpler

For some reason I have a black screen during fmv's, any tips?

I have been experimenting with this and narrowed down the problem to the wine implementation of mciavi32.dll

To resolve either install the rebirth mod as suggested by bzdursky, which changes how the videos work entirely, or if you want the vanilla GOG version to work on linux/deck do the following:

-Acquire mciavi32.dll from an actual Windows installation (C:\Windows\SysWOW64\mciavi32.dll) and place it in the game directory (where ResidentEvil.exe is located).

-Use the following environment variable: WINEDLLOVERRIDES=ddraw,dinput,mciavi32=n,b

No other wine tweaks are required.

I had a look at this for RE2. I had the same problem with the tiny video in the upper left corner. Unlike RE1 it doesn't appear to need the mciavi32 fix so no need to copy that DLL/set the associated override.

The good news is all you need to do is install "lavfilters" and "quartz" windows components using winetricks. I have tried this on a wine-devel 10 prefix as well as the prefix created by heroic games launcher (Wine-GE-latest) and it worked on both configurations.

Nice, that one worked like a charm, too.

I'm interested in one more tiny bug concerning RE3: It works well, if I use Wine 9.0 (which causes the other titles to crash, btw). With proton or Wine 8 there are no videos at all. But 9 causes the font in the starter menu (the one asking for story mode, mercenaries, video,..) to seem distorted. No game breaker at all, but maybe you know a way around this, too?
Either way, you have been very helpful, thanks a lot!