FluffyQuack

Door skip mod for Resident Evil 1 and 0 remasters v1.5

Added 2022-02-17 19:38:20 +0000 UTC

I made an update to my door skip mod for RE1 and RE0. Download link for v1.5: https://github.com/FluffyQuack/rehd-nodoors/releases

The functionality is completely the same, but this release shouldn't cause anti-virus to go crazy. I don't know why, but some years after I released the mod, more and more anti-virus would detect it as a false positive (it peaked at 18 false positives on VirusTotal). I spent a lot of time editing the source code to see if I could reduce the amount of false positives, but no matter what I did, I couldn't get it to go below 7 false positives on VirusTotal.

I decided to do a random test where I created an all-new project in Visual Studio that only had a few lines of code printing "Hello world, " and even that would result in an executable getting 7 false positives on VirusTotal.

As another random test, I decided to take my door skip mod code and compile it in an old version of Visual Studio (I happened to have VS2008 still installed, so I went with that), and that made the VirusTotal result go down to 1 false positive. Which should be an okay result (unfortunately, it's very common for homebrew applications to get at least one false positive).

I don't understand why an older compiler would magically fix the issue, but I'm not gonna argue. With this out of the way, I can hopefully get a new Fluffy Manager release finished soon. I've been working on adding support for PAK mods for RE Engine titles and that's ended up requiring more work than I initially thought.