RETRO HELIX
Years before the first job, Hana and Rain are mercenaries in a colder, cleaner future Hong Kong — until a contract uncovers a genetic conspiracy and the first stirrings of the Fear Effect, the dread that can kill you where you stand. Four discs of pre-rendered rooms and long cinematic cutscenes, all rebuilt end to end.
Original → Remastered
ORIGINAL · 320×160REMASTERED · 8×The cutscenes, A/B
Real in-game audio · the toggle flips the picture instantly while the sound keeps playing.
The rooms, rebuilt
Pre-rendered room backdrops, no characters · a tour of each disc — tap the toggle to flip the original PlayStation render against the 8× redraw.
The cast, rebuilt
Actual in-game models · each character and all their outfits rebuilt from scratch at far higher detail.
The improvements
Every room, 8×
All four discs of pre-rendered rooms rebuilt and relit, with the moving lights, water and fire animated back in.
New 3D models, at 60 fps
Hana, Rain, Glas and Deke — and all their outfits — remodelled from scratch at far higher detail, and animated at 60 fps instead of 30.
Rooms that come alive
Things that were frozen into the video now move in real 3D — the machine room's cogwheels, characters painted into scenes, a whole party crowd — and camera moves glide at 60 fps.
Cinematic FMV
Hours of cutscenes re-rendered with AI and deflickered, faces and lines intact.
Fill-screen & compare
Screen layouts for widescreens, bloom, vignette and film grain, plus a hotkey to flip between the remaster and the original live.
Modern conveniences
Optional camera-relative controls, save states, much faster loading, automatic disc changes and a new options menu, on Windows or the Steam Deck — plus a fix for a crash in the original game itself.
How it was made
Recompile
The game's own code is translated ahead of time into C and compiled into a native program for Windows or Steam Deck; the PlayStation's chips are rebuilt in software around it. No emulator runs while you play.
Remaster
Every room and cutscene rebuilt at up to 8×, the interface redrawn, the characters remodelled — each result chosen shot by shot.
Play
An installer builds the game from your own discs and wires the remastered assets in. Then it's a shortcut on your desktop — or a game in your Steam library on the Deck.