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IGN reader Guilherme Jacobs has brought to our attention something interesting about Resident Evil 6 on PlayStation 3, something those downloading the game on PSN will want to pay especially close attention to.
Over on the forums for PlayStation in Europe, a thread (currently at 21 pages long) notes that Resident Evil 6 isn’t working for gamers who pre-purchased the title and subsequently downloaded it to their PS3s. As the pre-purchase program is only available in Europe, and since, at the time of this story going live, Resident Evil 6 isn’t yet available to purchase digitally in the States, this purported problem is limited only to Europe for the time being.
Users on the boards are reporting getting an error code from their PlayStation 3 consoles when booting the game up. The error code is 80029513, a code dating back to the origins of the system noting a “Problem with a PSN download.” You can find a thread talking about this error code on the PlayStation forums dating back to 2007 here.
Users are specifically being told that “THE COPYRIGHT PROTECTION INFORMATION IS INVALID” when booting up a pre-purchased version of Resident Evil 6, and is reportedly due to there being an 11 MB day one patch available for the game that somehow messes with authenticating the game once downloaded.
One user reports that he contacted Capcom customer support, and was told that Capcom is “working on a revised 1.01 patch,” though they don’t “have a firm timetable for it, but… hope to have it live next week at the latest.” Since users have been able to get the game to work by refusing to download the patch, those “Users who have previously downloaded the 1.01 patch will, unfortunately, have to delete the game from their PS3 and download it again.” Furthermore, even if players get in, “Users with the PSN version will be able to play multiplayer with other PSN users. However, you will not be able to play multiplayer games with users with the disk version until we have released the new 1.01 PSN patch. You will also not have access to the RE NET service, which is what patch 1.01 adds to the game.”
Capcom has confirmed to IGN that this issue is real and is currently being looked into by the company. As mentioned earlier, it also appears that the problem is limited to Europe. We’ve reached out to both Capcom and Sony for further comment and clarification, and will update when we hear back.
