UPDATE: You can now download the demo via Xbox Live, it is available globally to Xbox Live Gold members today and will be available to everyone later this month, the wait was worth it as the demo is freakishly amazing. The below information is now useless, thanks for stopping by and please check out the rest of our site or stop in our forums to say hello. - Posted on January 26th, 2009
It's a great day to be a gamer! The long-awaited Resident Evil 5 demo has finally gone live across the ocean onto the Japanese Xbox LIVE Marketplace; thankfully PlanetXbox360 found directions to help all of our readers (no matter where you live) get in there and download it. We are not sure whether this is legal or not but for now just proceed with caution (although I have played the demo at E3 and it is freaking amazing):
We have learned from multiple sources that this does in fact work as of right now and that the demo (425 MB) includes two different levels (both seen previously) and gamers can play by themselves or with another person in co-op mode (both online and offline).
UPDATE: It looks as though Capcom has figured out what everyone is doing and region-locked the demo, too bad but you can still get it from the crazy guys at Neogaf by clicking the following link: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=344266&page=16
Quick Guide to Getting Japanese 360 Gold:
- Go here: http://www.passport.net/
- Sign up a new account, Click "No, sign me up for a free MSN Hotmail e-mail address"
- Pick JAPAN for your country, pick Tokyo-to as your Prefecture 150-2345 for your zipcode
- Keep going, and then have it set you up with a @hotmail.com address.
- Go to your 360, and create a new profile. Log in using your hotmail address on your 360, and it should set it to Japan.
- If this is less than your 4th trial account you get gold free, so select yes when it asks you. (the RE5 demo requires Gold standing)
How to actually download the demo via Japanese Xbox LIVE Marketplace:
- Login to your Japanese Gold account
- Once logged in press the xbox button in the middle of your controller to bring up the "old" dashboard
- Navigate to the market place tab, then go to Game Marketplace
- From Game Market place navigate all the way down to ALL GAMES
- Then from ALL GAMES. Then go to "ALL" (instead of trying to understand japanese alphabet). Then just scroll through all the games until you get to BioHazzard 5 (it should be 270 of 40
- Once you get to BioHazzard 5, the first screen should say "Get Demo" and viola you are downloading the demo. Should be like 472 MBs.
Now go have fun! Thanks to the crazy people at Neogaf for helping out with the instructions at 3:20 in the morning.
