Thread: Resident Evil 5 Demo Download

You could do for a short while but Capcom quickly region locked it meaning even with a Japanese account you needed to be using a Japanese 360 to download the demo.

This demo is not region locked

What im confused about is that the demo was divided into 5 rar files and you exctract the 1st one and put it on a disk. so what do you do with the rest of the files. if you exctract the others its the same size. can anyone give me detailed instructions or have the files in one big file. thanks.

If you downloaded the demo from Digiex it will be one big rar file if you get it from the Digiex ftp server or un rar’ed ready to burn if you got the Digiex torrent.

With rar files you only need to extract one of them, the data is split across the multiple files so if you have successfully extracted it you good to go.

Make sure the folder structure on the DVD is like this screenshot and burn it.

Originally Posted by Safinn

If it is in parts get all the parts in the same folder them extract the first one and it will put them all together and give you one file.

In the picture it just seems like there is one file and you just put that on the CD.

I extract the 1st one it gives me the contents folder. do i move the other rar files into that folder or just leave the rars in the same folder? because if i do that it wont fit on to a CD-R which i heard people say they have been doing that to work.

Originally Posted by InsaneNutter

If you downloaded the demo from Digiex it will be one big rar file if you get it from the Digiex ftp server or un rar’ed ready to burn if you got the Digiex torrent.

With rar files you only need to extract one of them, the data is split across the multiple files so if you have successfully extracted it you good to go.

Make sure the folder structure on the DVD is like this screenshot and burn it.

Do you have it available for a Direct Download because i cannot use BT files. It slows down my isp. Its a local provider so they arnt much into torrents

Yes read my first post at the bottom where it says Digiex FTP - Europe, However the copy you have now should be fine.

Once you have extracted the rar’s you don’t need them anymore, don’t burn them. Just burn the content folder as in the guide above.

Hey thanks for the help i think i had an error extracting this morning. i put it on a CD-R just the 1st extracted file went to the demo and my system froze i may download this when i get home from work and try it. thanks for clearing it up. It makes me wonder how the 5 parts work. if your only extracting and burning the one part how dose it get the data from the others?

In a split rar achieve each file starts with either .rar then the next files are .r00, .r01, .r02 or .part01, .part02, .part03 and so on depending on the version of WinRar used.

When you open the first rar it knows it’s a split achieve and to carry on looking in .part02 and so on until it’s all been extracted.

Don’t worry if you have extracted the folder structure and the re5_demo file you have everything you need to burn.

hey thanks for the help. Cant wait to get this working tonight.

It works! Hooray!

Is there any way to install it to your 360 hard drive once you've burned it to disk? Some things seem to load a little slow (i'm guessing Capcom optimised the demo for loading from the HDD).

No you can’t install the demo, however if you have one of the SATA adaptors to connect the 360’s hard drive to your computer you can open up Partition 3 using Xplorer 360 then just copy the content folder from this download in to that and it will run from your 360’s hard drive.

I would BT if possible but alas i cannot. and i cant dl till i get home grrr.

I burned it to a CD using imgburner and on the xbox 360 it said mixed media disc but when I go to my demos its not there. What did i do wrong?

SmoothCheese, The exact same thing happend to me. I am also thinking of writing it to the HDD.

How come whenever I try to burn the CD/DVD, it always says mixed media disk. I have gone through three disks already. Any advice?

OMG it works thank you guys so much. If your having trouble just make sure that when your burning it as a Data Disk that your copying the contents folder and not the resident evil folder. Then check and see if it shows up in your demos.

haha, the problem with me was that I didnt check the demos section. ha, gwcommander, thanks for telling to check in the demos

hey np. is anyone playing this online. im just a bit paranoid that microsoft will throw down the ban hammer on those playing it out side of japan.

I don’t see why you would get banned, I have an American account to download American only stuff such as the Ages Wing Arcade game and so on. People have been using accounts from other regions since the 360’s launch with no problems.

Originally Posted by InsaneNutter

I don’t see why you would get banned, I have an American account to download American only stuff such as the Ages Wing Arcade game and so on. People have been using accounts from other regions since the 360’s launch with no problems.

I just wonder if the people with the disk would get banned. seeing as i was too late to download it. im playing offline right now.

thankyou

Ok so I have downloaded the file, and verified that I downloaded the content folder and all of what it contains within it just as you showed on the first screenshot. When I put the disc in my 360 it starts to read it, and then instead of saying mixed media disc, it says open tray (as if there isn't a readable disc in the tray). I tried burning multiple discs, and my 360 still won't read the disc. The demo isn't appearing in the demo section either. Any ideas?!?! I am fairly sure that it isn't the laser in my system or anything like that I haven't had a single issue with it since launch. Thanks for the help.

Thanks a lot for the demo...made my day. Had to register to say thank you

Originally Posted by Sp4nkTh3T4nk

Ok so I have downloaded the file, and verified that I downloaded the content folder and all of what it contains within it just as you showed on the first screenshot. When I put the disc in my 360 it starts to read it, and then instead of saying mixed media disc, it says open tray (as if there isn't a readable disc in the tray). I tried burning multiple discs, and my 360 still won't read the disc. The demo isn't appearing in the demo section either. Any ideas?!?! I am fairly sure that it isn't the laser in my system or anything like that I haven't had a single issue with it since launch. Thanks for the help.

What did you use to burn the disc? I always use Nero personally, I’ve always had problems with stuff burned from within Windows so if you used that to burn it try another program such as Nero.

I used a DVD-R RW but I don’t think the 360 is that fussy with media.

Originally Posted by gwcommander

I just wonder if the people with the disk would get banned. seeing as i was too late to download it. im playing offline right now.

I wouldn’t think so if you were pirating the full game then yes I could see why you would get banned, however it’s a Demo, if anything after playing it you’re more likely to be hyped up and want the full game. The only thing I’ve heard people getting banned for is modifying their 360’s which hopefully no one here has done.

Originally Posted by az4u

Thanks a lot for the demo...made my day. Had to register to say thank you

stick around, there’s more to Digiex than the Download Centre.

Got it working! thanks for everything nutter, I am truly grateful!

spank how did you get it working???? MY xbox still just says open tray and nothing in the demo list.

OK, I've burnt the file to a DVD using Nero and I'm able to see it in my demos list (as Japanese text). However, when I click "Play Game", the screen goes black and after a few seconds it plays the Xbox power up noise but the screen remains black indefinitely. Any idea what's up?

The only thing I can think of for MacabreAngel and farbeyonddriven is your using media the 360 doesn’t seem to like too well.

I would burn using some proper software such as Nero, I’ve never found the built in CD burring software in Windows any good.

Originally Posted by MacabreAngel

OK, I've burnt the file to a DVD using Nero and I'm able to see it in my demos list (as Japanese text). However, when I click "Play Game", the screen goes black and after a few seconds it plays the Xbox power up noise but the screen remains black indefinitely. Any idea what's up?

I used a CD, and it took quite a long time for the demo to ever begin loading after the screen went black. Is the disc being read at all while the screen is black?

Originally Posted by Stealth Geek

I used a CD, and it took quite a long time for the demo to ever begin loading after the screen went black. Is the disc being read at all while the screen is black?

The longest I've left it in there with the screen black was about two minutes, with no luck. It does seem to be reading the disk during that time, but if it hasn't loaded after two minutes I would think that it's not going to. Oh well, I'll just wait for the demo to come stateside...

I burnt it to a Sony DVD+R at 4x with Nero 6 and all works great!!! The controls are kinda of "too tight" and hard to see any enemies close behind you. But hey, visuals and game overall is fun!!
Now if only Too Human demo was available. I get all demos from the OXM demo discs but never saw TH. Is there a list of demos released on Live Marketplace and not OXM? I don't have Live.

what kind of disk am i supposed to be burning as eg dvd cd or data disk cos i just cant seem to get it work ive been getting the same problem as farbeyonddriven and ive allready gone through 3 disks