Or one could just play the PS1 version of RE2 on an emulator. That works pretty well, you know.
True. The benefits which the PC version provides are mainly:
- You can skip the door opening load screens, i.e. instant loading. This is not possible in any of the console versions.
- Backgrounds are uncompressed.
- High-rez char-models (this is more to "set to taste", because they
will look out of place on the rendered backgrounds)
- Higher bit-rate cutscenes.
If none of this matters to you, and to be honest this stuff is mostly fluff, then yeah I agree that playing the PS1 version in an emulator with increased resolution is definitely the easiest solution.
For whatever reason though there are people who seem to intentionally avoid using emulators if there's a PC version available, even if/when the PC version is inferior to playing an emulated version. It's weird, I know, but I've run into people like this!
Last time was with a few people asking me about the Windows port of the Wizardry Age of Llylgamyn game... it's like, dude, just play the PS1 version on an emulator.