Resident Evil ISO

ryubond007 · Post by **ryubond007** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:03 am

Just downloaded Resident Evil I ISO, but when i try to run the setup it throws an error that its not a valid win32 application, i changed the compatibility to both win 95 and 98/me but still get the same error. Could use some help here!

Post by **Scaryfun** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 8:50 pm

See if any info here helps -
http://www.vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtop ... ident+evil

http://www.ntcompatible.com/Resident_Evil_c1247.html

ryubond007 · Post by **ryubond007** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:05 am

I've browsed through a couple of similar sites but nobody has mentioned about this problem, or anything similar.

ryubond007 · Post by **ryubond007** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:49 pm

is a patch possible in this case?

Post by **Smiling Spectre** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:10 am

There is also could be issue with exe's header parameters, that no matter for Win 9x, but important for XP. There is shareware program PE Explorer, that can check this parameters and automatically correct it. At least, I seen already two programs, that says "non-valid win32 application" and was fixed by simply open and save via PE Explorer.

ryubond007 · Post by **ryubond007** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:22 pm

I tried doing that but these are the results:

09.07.2007 20:22:49 : Open File: H:\Setup.exe
09.07.2007 20:22:50 : File size: 1003008 bytes.
09.07.2007 20:22:50 : Using the Plug-in subsystem...
09.07.2007 20:22:50 : UPX Unpacker Plug-in: Executing...
09.07.2007 20:22:50 : UPX Unpacker Plug-in: <UPX> The file is not UPXed.
09.07.2007 20:22:50 : UPX Unpacker Plug-in: not accomplished.
09.07.2007 20:22:50 : The Plug-in subsystem finished.
09.07.2007 20:22:50 : Error: This is NOT EXE or DLL File! Processing cancelled.
09.07.2007 20:22:50 : Error! (Step: Examining File Headers)
09.07.2007 20:22:50 : Done.

ryubond007 · Post by **ryubond007** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:25 pm

Maybe just replacing the non-valid setup.exe file with a working setup.exe file would do the job?

... Anybody got a working setup.exe for Resident Evil?

Post by **Smiling Spectre** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:20 am

Then it's definitely not exe.

I have setup.exe. If it have reasonable size (less then 10Mb), I even can mail it to you.

But it will be later - I need to take disk from home to work (where I am now). Maybe tomorrow.

Just curious: look into this "exe" with simple file viewer (Windows Notepad for example). What are you see? And is there exist any valid files?

Can you please check here and there - txt, hlp and such, that have human-readable texts? Or maybe all iso is big fake? (I myself have one such iso - every file have right name and size, but inside is avi/riff signature, several bytes of sound and lo-o-ong "00H" up to the end of file).

NE0 · Post by **NE0** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:46 am

check the other thread ryubond...and no the iso is NOT fake, Egon uploaded lots of isoz so wha't the point in faking this one?

Post by **Smiling Spectre** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:21 am

Do I know, who is uploaded _this_ ISO?

(Now I know, yes).
It's must not be voluntary bad iso, in hypothetical case of fake.

It could be viruses, errors, hacker attacks...

ryubond007 · Post by **ryubond007** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:33 am

I just did a check and here are the results .. its not Setup.exe ( winner: Smiling Spectre ).

I was trying to copy all the files from mounted ISO to the disk and i got non-valid parameters error on multiple files, and hence the copying process couldn't continue.

there is some kind of corruption or some other stuff here, but this ISO is completely dead. As far as i see!

Post by **Smiling Spectre** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:59 am

ryubond007 wrote: I was trying to copy all the files from mounted ISO to the disk and i got non-valid parameters error on multiple files, and hence the copying process couldn't continue.

Oh! Then that's can be totally different problem: do you have full ISO? Non-valid parameters usually relate to attempt to read disk where is nowhere.

If you, for example, try to read 400th Mb from 200Mb ISO.

It's very easy to check: if size of ISO outside (info about disk in virtual drive) bigger then size of ISO-file - you definitely have broken ISO. ISO always must be bigger then it's content.

In that case maybe you have broken downloaded file on your side? Try to start to reload ISO and check downloading size. If it's more, then your file - it's non-complete ISO on your side. Download again.

ryubond007 · Post by **ryubond007** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:32 am

Yup checked it, the size is around the same as that of the virtual drive

Post by **Smiling Spectre** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:28 pm

Then oops. :/ I cannot myself to download such big files or upload it - I have 1Gb traffic _per month_. I suggest to post into "broken downloads" and check for answers.

ryubond007 · Post by **ryubond007** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:46 pm

Its already there in the Broken Download section, but i am not going to download this one once again. I have a slow connection too, better just get my star trek game