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RobDX said:

Weird. It's been a while since I played the ps1 version but I don't remember the zombies respawning. Maybe if you are playing on a higher difficulty which I don't remember if I did. You are probably just not completely killing them. You must shoot them until there's a pool of blood, that's when you know they are fully dead.

And yeah ditch the knife. It is completely useless because while bullets are scarce you still get enough to kill every enemy unless you go out of your way to waste them. If you find yourself in an area with too many zombies and not enough bullets trying going to a different room where there's just one or two, it's a good idea to start shooting a zombie only if you know you have enough bullets to kill it. And once you find the shotgun things will get easier.

I don't remember if I've ever found the shotgun in RE1. About zombies not respawning, yeah, maybe I wasn't finishing them for good. I'll keep that in mind.

Player2 said:

Several things to consider:

  • Playing as Jill is easier. She finds more ammo, better weapons earlier and maybe has more inventory space (I'm not sure).
  • The amount of times you can save your game is limited.
  • It isn't necessary to explore every room. Many of them aren't worth the hassle nor are required to finish the game.
  • There isn't enough ammo to kill every enemy (maybe it's possible with Jill...).
  • Enemies don't respawn infinitely. It happens at certain story points.

With all that in mind:

Whenever you save your game, do a test run. Enter several rooms, kill all the enemies inside and find what's inside them. Decide which rooms are worth exploring (if it has more ammo than its needed to kill the enemies inside it, for example) or have things you'll need to finish the game (like puzzle pieces, keys, etc). Then reload your save, enter only those rooms, do whatever you have to do in them and save again. Rinse and repeat.

If you can avoid the enemies instead of shooting them, even better.

If you're short on ammo and a zombie is on the ground, you may want to let it grab your leg on purpose. It doesn't deal much damage and Chris/Jill will kill it with a stomp.

Thanks for the hints! I will play as Jill instead of Chris to see how things work.

That strat about letting the zombies with a stomp looks good. I knew about that, but never thought about doing it on purpose.