RE1 Crash /horr/jpn/24.tmd Possible Cause found?

[PlantBrain]

Version

3.2.7 (738134b)

Seed

R810-00PP-WCZX00ZZZBGZ2H00031JMW4Q4G4ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ420YZZZZZZZ

Scenario

RE 1 (Jill)

Player Character

Jill (RE1)

What happened?

I apologise for opening another report when there is one already open regarding this, but I have made an odd discovery in regards to this crash.

Me and my bro have been doing a lot of RE1 non door randomisers lately and we have found that getting this crash to happen in the Barry choice cutscene in the cave (room 308) has been unreliable. On my recent playthrough I made my way through as normal, but making new saves each time just in case the crash happened... and it did.

After much (and I mean a stupid amount of) trial and error I found the most bizarre thing causing this cutscene to crash.

The only time the cutscene would crash was when I killed this one particular enemy in room 205, the gas puzzle room. I've attached a picture of the zombie in question.

You can test this yourself and I hope that it repeats the same way on someone else's system. I've attached three saves.

Jill_03_2024-11-28 14^24.10.dat = Before Snake 2 and before doing the gas puzzle room.
Jill_04_2024-11-28 14^39.30.dat = After Snake 2 and killing said zombie in the gas puzzle room
After Snake 2Jill_03_2024-11-28 16^56.06.dat = After Snake 2 without going in to the gas puzzle room.

Jill_03 will not crash in room 308 as the cutscene will not happen.
Jill_04 will crash in room 308 because I've killed that one zombie
After Snake 2Jill_03 will not crash in room 308 as I have not killed that one zombie.

You can test this by loading After Snake 2Jill_03 and teleporting straight away to room 308. The cutscene will play. If instead you were to go to the gas room and kill that one zombie and then teleport to room 308, it will now start crashing with that error popping up.

I have tried many other scenarios too with this room 205 just incase. I have tried:
Entering and leaving with no kill = no crash
Entering, viewing all backgrounds, no kills = no crash
Killing the other two zombies only = no crash
Killing the other two zombies and completing the puzzle = no crash
Killing all of the zombies = crash
Killing all of the zombies and completing the puzzle = crash
Killing only that one zombie = crash

I hope this helps!

RE1 Crash Saves.zip

[IntelOrca]

Thank you for isolating this. It may well be a bug where it is corrupting memory, and it isn't the only one in this game, or in the series. RE3 had one too. I might be able to patch the .exe to prevent it.

[PlantBrain]

I've just had it crash in another seed:

R810-2QEQ-WCZX00ZZZBGZ2H00031JMW4Q4G4ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ420YZZZZZZZ

This one was easy to find as the crash would happen after killing the zombies in the ladder passage 307 room. I was unable to determine which zombie though as their placement made it harder to kill one by one.