The_Mage: I remember playing RE1 back in 97 or 98 on the PC, and I recall a few differences to this version released on gog. I'm from Finland so what I was playing had to be some European version.
1. I'm almost certain the game had autoaim, I recall using it to keep track of the cerberus enemies when you can't see them yet due to camera angles.
2. Pretty sure Jill had to use ink ribbons as well. And I always played the Jill scenario first. I have a hazy memory of there being a separate difficulty selection (in addition to the character selection) between normal and hard, but I might be remembering that part wrong. Either way I'm certain Jill had to use ink ribbons.
3. I don't recall the cutscenes being choppy like they are here. Maybe they were fixed for european release? All the cutscenes were uncensored (Chris smoking, Kenneth death scene, etc) and colored.
There's no PC version of this game without auto-aim, sadly. They used the JPN version settings no matter the region. This is the JPN version of the game, that's the one Capcom used back in the day for every PC release of Residentevil. They just switched the language file for each region. Can't say why they did this, maybe a mistake, or maybe they were lazy, and since the JPN version already had the extra gore, they used it as a base. The only way to play the game with the difficulty seen in the western PS releases of the game is to play it over there. I've searched a lot and had to dig a bit because it seemed so silly and frustrating, but apparently there is no PC version of Residentevil displaying the western difficulty settings.