Is Nemesis harder on the PS1 version?

I first played RE3 on the gamecube via emulator a few years ago and didnt have much trouble taking him down, even on the early encounters i got both eagle parts from him but now im replaying it on an actual PS1 and can barely fight him at all even using cheese strats. Is it just me or is there something about the ps1 version that makes it harder? Maybe its just the controller or something being harder to use with RE3's controls