Resident Evil for Game Boy Color Released

Capcom has a storied history of "lost" games, titles that get plenty of publicity only to never be released.  This happens all the time throughout the industry but few are more storied than several of Capcom's endeavors.  Among these missing links stands a title that was both incredulous for its time as well as astonishing for the depth of its undertaking: Resident Evil for the Game Boy Color.  Rather than a custom-made port that had little to do with the original version of the game, the GBC version of the game was an actual straight port, shrinking everything about the game down to the limitations of the handheld system and maintaining almost everything people loved to be scared about.  Near the completion of the project however Capcom cancelled it, telling developer HotGen that the quality would not match up to what consumers would expect of it.  The game's development was shut down and never entered manufacturing, lost to history...

...Until last week.  Back in November a member of the Assembler Games forums made a post saying that a person wishing to remain anonymous owned two builds of Resident Evil and that he was willing to release the Roms.  Kiff (the user in question) said that the unidentified person was willing to do so if $2,000 could be raised by February 28th of this year.  It took a while but after receiving some publicity last week the goal was finally met, at which the Roms were made available to download.

You can download the Roms as well as view more screenshots of the game at the link below.  The roms are actually two separate builds of the game and are riddled with bugs.  It also looks just as terrible as you can imagine it being but that's not the point of this exercise.  With the builds being >90% complete this is the most definitive chance you'll ever have of ever seeing what that insane English developer nearly accomplished.  It wouldn't surprise me if some dedicated mod team decided to see about completing the game.  After all, we've seen larger efforts than this completed...

Resident Evil Game Boy Color Download