To me, this is the definitive way to play RE1 OG, it has all the enhancements that were also in the sequels (quick turn, your posture changing on low health etc), the OG soundtrack aaand you can touch your character! You wanna touch Jill or Chris' butt? Go ahead! You wanna touch Chris' hair or Jill's boobs? Go ahead too! Of course there is no truly defintiive RE1, as this doesnt have say, Battle Mode from Saturn, every costume from every version and so on but as far as playing RE1 goes, this is it. I tried many times on the PS1 version, PC version and hacks for PS1 attempting to fix the bad sides of the Director's Cut but it just wasn't working for me, it was hard to go to after having played 2 and 3 but DS did it the best for me, it goes to show that sometimes there is no true wrong way to play a game and it's best to seek a way and seek how you wanna play it yourself. I thought about skipping to REmake too but I didn't wanna do that, I wanted the original first, that I also wanna emphasize cuz one time I switched to Persona 3 FES instead of Portable and that wasn't so fun cuz I wanted Portable...anyway.

You can easily use melonDS to upscale it to the level of PS1 graphics, no need to worry about a tiny screen or lower than usual poly here! Only change that I think that strays away from the original a bit too much is that the knife doesn't take an inventory space anymore and you get it out by holding L just like in Resident Evil 4. I'm not crazy about this change but considering this is the only RE where you should have a knife at one point in your inventory, it saves a lot of backtracking to the item box (REmake can vouch for that for me personally) which I appreciate lol, also a speedrun advantage for those interested I'm sure

I got the best endings, first played Jill's campaign, then Chris', I did the opposite order for REmake when I played it later in the same year lol