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    Resident Evil: Outbreak (1 & 2) Back Online

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    • Buuhan1
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      Dunno if anyone here miss playing the Outbreak games, or never got to experience it online, but recently modders have gotten the online play restored on their own server. The games went offline on New Years Eve 2007 in the US and in 2011 in Japan (the games never had online support in Europe). The modders did this by reverse engineering the Japanese servers, but weren't able to do the same for the US due largely in part to a middle-man service involved in the US online play. Unfortuntely what this means is this new server can only be accessed with Japanese copies of the games.

      However this becomes less of an issue if you have a modded PS2 or use a PS2 emulator, there's even an English translation patch that can be applied to a Japanese copy of the games. I'll drop the necessary links below. I never got to experience these games in any capacity, so if anyone wants to fire this up and give it a go we can exchange appropriate data here. I assume anyone interested knows how to work PS2 emulators.

      You can grab the ISOs from http://www.emuparadise.me/ the games are long since out of print and their system discontinued so I say it's fair game as there's no other way to get this game than to import a used Japanese copy, in which case no publisher gets a cent anyways. Just search Outbreak and be sure to grab the ones labled Japan.

      This is the website for the English patch, the patch downloads are under Translation Progress and the program to patch the ISO as well as the instructions for it are under How to patch the game: http://resouttrans.blogspot.ca/

      This is the forum behind the server, you're required to register on the forum as your forum login details are what you use to sign in to the server with. http://www.obsrv.org/index.php

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      • Insider2000
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        I've missed this game more than anyone will ever know. I'd hate to download the emulator, but it seems to be the only option at this point. It seems clear that the revival of the US server seems to be all forms of unlikely.

        God dammit, Capcom! Just make an HD Outbreak already!

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        • Buuhan1
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          @Insider2000:

          I've missed this game more than anyone will ever know. I'd hate to download the emulator, but it seems to be the only option at this point. It seems clear that the revival of the US server seems to be all forms of unlikely.

          God dammit, Capcom! Just make an HD Outbreak already!

          Yeah, it seems they tried but were unable to do anything about the US servers due to how it was setup. If you truly love the games and don't want to emulate, this'll also work on legit Japanese PS2 copies of the games. You just gotta have a PS2 that can run the game (Japanese PS2 or modded PS2 that disables region locking). Course you won't be able to install the English patch on a legit PS2 copy so you'd have to deal with that.

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          • Buuhan1
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            The forum registration is fixed.

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            • Buuhan1
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              Damn, some fans are really fricken smart and passionate. The dude who got this all working after all this time has finally managed to do the impossible; emulate the method which the NA servers ran on. If he can get this fully working then NA copies of the games will be able to be used.

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