Modders Find Ways Around Resident Evil 2 Demo's Time Limit

N4CR said:
Same, I had a great time on older demos in the days, last one I played was doom 2016 to see how my 290x would run it, played it quite a bit and had a great time, purchased it afterwards too.

Remember the PS/PC demo cds you'd get in game mags? Oh the days.. still got some laying around.
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I used to buy the damn magazines just for those discs. Way faster than downloading the demos...
 
Darth Ender said:
this isn't a mod. It's a hack that circumvents a rather stupid but still existing, software control to allow this demo to be a demo in lieu of paying for the game (or as a preview of the game). I'd rank this in the same level as password/serial generators in terms of what it allows you to do. Probably harmless in this case, since the developers didn't think it mattered enough to try harder to lock the demo down, but still. I'd put this on the greyer side of things that you might want to avoid on any steam account you care about.

if you have a problem with demo's not being full games ...dont play demos. Not sure why the author thinks they're entitled to have more than what the developer is limiting their free sample to. That entire statement in the post is just a wrong way to view the world. Unless you want to end free samples.
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The demo is only 8GB and has nothing to do outside of the single mission. The full game is almost 30GB.
 
For those who haven't played it, this isn't a full game demo, it's a seemingly small section of one part of the game. As someone else mentioned, the 30 minute limit was a reference to the original CD-rom back in the day. The big difference now is when you hit that now you cannot replay it. To me that was actually a poor choice on their part. A limit, no problem, but give a chance to replay.

The DL size is around 8GB and that also is including several minutes of a HD trailer at the end, far from the usual of 30-60GB of most modern AAA games. So really nothing to exploit here except replay ability. I would otherwise agree with those stating why dev's don't release demo's any more but that doesn't truly apply here.

I got one of the trainers to disable the limit and have time to walk around and appreciate it. I mentioned it in the original story post thread here on the weekend. Cool stuff. Not even a 2nd thought for me to buy. Demo did it's job for me and many good reviews across the internet so I'd say with or w/o the hacks it did its job for others as well.
 
You're missing the point, willfully. You can release demos that actually consist of a very small percentage of the full gameplay, like 5% or whatever, so even if it gets "hacked" or whatever, the gamers never get the full game. That's completely at the behest of the developer, not the gamer.

Blaming the gamer is like blaming the general populous that Equifax got breached. It's your fault you left all that secure data with us, not ours.

ManofGod said:
Oh, I see, it is the developers fault that are people are douche bags. :rolleyes: Sounds to me like that is some serious justification going on. (Not directed at you but that whole attitude itself.) Oh well, people will steal if they can.
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I fucking loved those. That's how I got the Settlers 2 demo, which I played to death for a week, then bought the full game. So gooooood!

N4CR said:
Same, I had a great time on older demos in the days, last one I played was doom 2016 to see how my 290x would run it, played it quite a bit and had a great time, purchased it afterwards too.

Remember the PS/PC demo cds you'd get in game mags? Oh the days.. still got some laying around.
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people find a way to cheat with everything nowadays...is it really necessary to 'mod' this demo just to be able to watch a new trailer?...seems like overkill...plus you're risking a potential ban
 
Mother of god. I played Resident Evil 2 at least 37 times. Game was legit.
 
I find it funny how many people bitch about a time limit on a demo as if this is something new. Over the past few years I have personally downloaded and played many games like this, normally they are called trial and not demo versions but it is still the same. In the end they are time limited versions of a game. Many I have played have been on console but some have been on PC also. Unraveled 1 & 2 both had something like a 30 minute single playthrough limit as a trial. The Long Dark I think gave 1 hour single playthrough for the game preview version or whatever they called one of the alpha builds. I had downloaded other random trial of games that were between 30 minute and 2 hours that I can't recall the names of now. Ghost Recon's trial version gives you 5 hours to play the game which was one of the longest I recall.
 
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