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1-1 · Kijuju: checkpoint and town0/4

History of RESIDENT EVILLibrary (title menu): there from the start, nothing to pick up. Its paragraphs are the text shown at random on the loading screens.The saga's timeline: Spencer, Marcus and Ashford set up the Progenitor virus project in December 1966, the Arklay mansion, the Trevor family, Umbrella's founding in 1968 and everything after.
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CONTROL TYPESThe butcher's shop where you meet Reynard Fisher: on the kitchen bench on the north side, next to DYING. Grab it before you leave by the back door.Tutorial: the 4 control schemes (Type A to D) and how each one lays out moving, aiming and firing. None can be customised; Types C and D let you strafe with the left stick and turn with the right.
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DYINGThe same kitchen bench in the butcher's shop, next to CONTROL TYPES.Tutorial for the DYING state: your partner revives you with the partner-action button; you can't get up on your own, and if both of you go down it's game over. Revived with a recovery item, you get that item's health back; without one, you get up with barely any.
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The writing is erratic...Back Alley: enter the building next to the gutted animal. In the room with the sacrificed goat on the central table, on the counter on the west side.Majini scrawl: "All outsiders will receive the blade of punishment!" The first sign that the whole town has turned against outsiders.
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1-2 · Urban District and Furnace Facility0/1

BSAANothing to pick up: it is added to the Library (title menu) when you clear 1-2. There are no files on the 1-2 map.How the BSAA began: after Raccoon City the Global Pharmaceutical Consortium helps convict Umbrella (2003); the black-market B.O.W. trade leads to its founding by 11 members, and it is later reformed under the U.N.
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2-1 · Port and Shanty Town0/3

BSAA EmblemsStorage Facility, at the start: on the sacks next to the parked jeep. The room has no enemies, only rats.Tutorial for the BSAA Emblem: emblems are hidden in every area, and the more you break, the more you can buy in Bonus Features. The chapter's first one is in this very room: on the exit-door wall, top right, beside the metal roller door.
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DIRECTIONS FOR PARTNERStorage Facility: on the sacks next to the large shipping container on the west side.Tutorial for partner commands: Attack sends them on the offensive and Cover keeps them in a supporting role.
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ITEM MENUStorage Facility: on the sacks by the exit door, south-west corner.Tutorial for the item menu: check or REQUEST your partner's items, Give them things, move items between slots and set 4 on the D-pad. Mind that the game doesn't pause while the menu is open.
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2-2 · Train Station and Mines0/2

Type 2 PlagasTrain Station: on the table in the building where the chapter starts, with a Herb (Green) and handgun ammo.A Tricell report: Type 2 is a mature Plaga forced into the mouth that takes control of its host in about 10 seconds (RE4's took hours or days). Three field tests in Kijuju: infection, control to attack the BSAA, and combat. The town is a live bioweapon trial.
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Irving's Note on Las PlagasMining Area: on the table in the middle of the building overlooking the mines, where Irving escapes with the hooded figure. The Dragunov SVD is in the left-hand locker.Irving's note opens with "Looks like a message..." (some guides list it under that title): Plagas may mutate inside the body, but they are weak against bright light. That is why the Flash Grenade kills exposed Plagas.
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2-3 · Savannah0/1

MajiniNothing to pick up: it is added to the Library (title menu) when you clear 2-3. There are no files to pick up in 2-3.A recap of Las Plagas from Salazar's castle and Kennedy's report. Type 2 needs no control Plaga, and hosts spread the infection. "Majini" is the local word for "evil spirit"; Ricardo Irving is wanted for questioning.
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3-1 · Marshlands and Village0/4

Schedule ReportSouth dock (start): examine the mangled BSAA soldier's body in front of the locked gate, next to the Beast Slate.An unsent PDA message: Delta Team was almost wiped out before backup arrived, a beacon went silent just ahead and a sealed door blocks the way. Sets up meeting Josh.
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HAND-TO-HAND COMBATNorth-east dock (the Shaman Slate one): on the wooden shelves next to the altar. Grab it before the Shaman Slate, which triggers the ambush.Tutorial for melee: shoot a body part to open up a melee move; the part you hit decides the attack (a hook, or Sheva's spinning kick), and you can chain up to 3.
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Village Youth's DiaryThe village fort (Settlement), after you split up at the crank bridge: on the bench on the top floor of the main hut across the bridge, with Gold (Large) and 5 rifle rounds.A Ndipaya youth's diary (April 5 to 14): the oil-plant foreman "inoculates" the village, the children die of fever, the men turn violent and dress as ancestors, a "very tall" man appears and the writer himself turns. This is how the Wetlands Majini and the Giant Majini were made.
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Chris RedfieldNothing to pick up: it is added to the Library (title menu) when you clear 3-1.Chris's profile: the US Air Force, point man of S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team, the Mansion Incident, Rockfort and Antarctica, and his part in founding the BSAA.
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3-2 · Execution Grounds and Oil Field0/2

Type 3 Plagas Field TestExecution Grounds: on the bed inside one of the Tricell tents (the other has a First Aid Spray).Type 3 is a base Plaga with a control-Plaga gene: it takes in 92% of adult and adolescent males and 0% of women and children. Hosts jump better and some grow to almost 3 m: the Giant Majini.
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Sheva AlomarNothing to pick up: it is added to the Library (title menu) when you clear 3-2.Sheva's past: she grew up in a factory town next to Umbrella Plant 57; Umbrella's special forces covered up an accident there and killed her parents. Then her uncle's household, the guerrillas and the road to the BSAA.
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3-3 · Drilling Facilities0/1

Ricardo IrvingNothing to pick up: it is added to the Library (title menu). Sources disagree on whether it comes with clearing 3-2 or 3-3: if you don't have it after 3-2, it arrives with 3-3.Irving, overseer of Tricell Africa's oil refinery and a black-market B.O.W. dealer: he moved the deal outside the Kijuju Autonomous Zone and turned the BSAA mission into a trap.
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4-2 · Worship Area and Pyramid0/1

Ndipaya TribeNothing to pick up: it is added to the Library (title menu) when you clear 4-2. There are no files to pick up in 4-1 or 4-2.The Ndipaya guard a hidden underground kingdom: their king was whoever survived eating the poisonous Stairway to the Sun, and males aged 13 to 25 guarded the city for 2 years. In the 1960s a corporation seized the Sun Garden by force.
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5-1 · Underground Garden and Experimental Facility0/10

5-2 · Power Station and Missile Area0/3

Test Subject DataExperimental Facility, right at the start: turn around from the U-8 platform; it is on the panel of the central pillar.A subject record: a blue-eyed Caucasian female kept in induced stasis, with abnormal hair pigment and skin turning white. It names no one, but it foreshadows who the hooded figure is.
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Regarding the Mutant Organism Found in the FacilitiesMissile Area 1F: on a bench between conveyor belts 2 and 3, next to the SIG 556 briefcase and the BSAA Emblem 24 dumpster.A fire while loading Uroboros missiles forces a BL-4 quarantine; an animal mutates with a hard hide and a team is found dismembered with giant-spear wounds. Codename: "Reaper". It warns you of the next enemy.
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TricellNothing to pick up: it is added to the Library (title menu) when you clear 5-2.Tricell's roots in Travis Trading: Henry Travis's "Survey of Natural History", 72 discredited volumes on Africa that guided its mining, oil work and specimen collection. Three divisions: shipping, natural resources and pharmaceuticals.
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5-3 · Uroboros Research Facility0/3

Directions for Use of Uroboros VirusUroboros Research Facility: climb the ladder by the fans and go straight on and left to the office overlooking the Mkono chamber; on the shelf under the X-rays (that office's safe holds the Sapphire (Marquise)).The Uroboros manual: dose by body weight (1 bottle from 60 kg, 2/3 at 40-60, 1/2 at 20-40, 1/3 under 20). A body that rejects it becomes a black mass that devours organic matter and must be burned: it explains every Uroboros boss.
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Report on Implementation of Preventing Information LeaksMissile Area 2F, the control room before the map exit (the one with the Royal Necklace): on the small table by the sofa.An hour-by-hour log: at 08:53 the staff board a bus, at 09:22 sleeping gas, at 09:44 "elimination of targets finished", and the bodies are burned in the underground furnace by 13:10. This is what happened to Ryan and the rest of the 5-1 staff.
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Jill ValentineNothing to pick up: it is added to the Library (title menu) when you clear 5-3.Jill's profile: S.T.A.R.S. Alpha, the Mansion Incident, Raccoon City with Nemesis and Carlos, BSAA founder, and the raid on Spencer where she and Chris find Wesker (what you play in Lost in Nightmares).
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6-1 · The Tanker: Deck and Hold0/1

Tricell Researcher Miguel's Journal - No. 2Ship Hold, the lab where Excella appears: on the computer on the south side. BSAA Emblem 30 is in the same lab.Miguel is after a virus beyond G and T-Veronica without extreme mutation, mental atrophy or instability, and boasts he is close. It ties into the Uroboros research on the ship.
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6-2 · The Tanker: Bridge0/4

Report on Project W - Aug. 28, 1998The ship's control room (the one the Bridge Keycard opens): on the control panel in the north-east corner.A report from Umbrella's Information Department, signed "Alex W.": subject No. 013, "Albert", died at Arklay, and Project W's success rate falls to 18%. Wesker was one of Spencer's experiments. It pairs with Test Subjects in Lost in Nightmares.
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Spencer's NotebookThe same control room: in the briefcase in the south-east corner.After Raccoon City, Umbrella was "nothing but a tool" for Progenitor research. Spencer plans to close the secret African facility and eliminate everyone with Level 10 clearance; the attached list includes "Brandon B. - Deceased" and "Carlos M.".
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Satellite Laser Shango Operating ManualMain bridge: on the whiteboard in the north-west corner, just before the outer deck and the boss.How to use the L.T.D.: aim until the ring turns red (losing the target cancels it), wait for "LOCK ON", pull the trigger and wait for the recharge. This is how you finish Uroboros Aheri: read it before you step out.
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Excella GionneNothing to pick up: it is added to the Library (title menu) when you clear 6-2.Excella, a Gionne with Travis blood and a genetic engineer at Tricell from age 18: Wesker fed her T-Virus research and steered her into running Tricell Africa, where she restored Umbrella's facility and hired Irving.
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6-3 · Hangar and Volcano0/2

Uroboros PlanBridge, after the "A Message from Jill" scene: on the terminal in the west half, the panel Jill appears on.Wesker's manifesto: Uroboros missiles released from the bomber at the tropopause and spread on the wind; only "superior DNA" will survive. Sets up the finale.
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Albert WeskerNothing to pick up: it is added to the Library (title menu) when you clear 6-3. It is the last Library entry.Wesker's motive: his unease about Spencer. He tracks him to a European castle, where Spencer reveals his goal: forcing human evolution with a virus, with himself as a god.
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LiN · Lost in Nightmares: The Spencer Estate0/9

Keeper's DiaryMansion, 2F: up the main stairs, through the right-hand door and along the corridor to the bedroom; it is on the desk. This time no zombie bursts out of the wardrobe.An abridged copy of the RE1 keeper's diary as he catches the T-Virus ("itchy, tasty"). Password 3, one of the 3 codes for the study computer, is tucked between its last pages.
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Patrick's Memoirs 1Dining Hall: in the small arched office on the far side from the fireplace, behind the table.Patrick, Spencer's butler: his master is failing and eats only soup. About 50 years ago Spencer, Lord Ashford and Dr Marcus summered at this villa. It gives you Password 1.
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Patrick's Memoirs 2Piano room: take the door left of the dining-hall fireplace and go up the stairs (past the bathroom). The room also has a Herb (Green).A week ago, on Spencer's orders, Patrick injected the prisoners in the basement with the virus: "they are no longer human". This is where the prison's Blobs come from.
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Spencer's Memoirs 1Study: the first door in the Centaur corridor, the one Jill lockpicks. All 4 Spencer's Memoirs are in this room.Spencer, ravaged by age, seeks immortality through the virus's effect on telomeres and pins his hopes on Alex, "the last of my children".
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Spencer's Memoirs 2Study, with the other Spencer's Memoirs.Alex takes hundreds of test subjects to an isolated island in the South Seas (the Revelations 2 island), and a month later asks for more.
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Spencer's Memoirs 3Study, with the other Spencer's Memoirs.A year and thousands of subjects go by with no result; Spencer's organs are failing and machines keep him alive.
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Spencer's Memoirs 4Study, with the other Spencer's Memoirs.A success is reported, then Alex vanishes with the researchers, the subjects and the final virus. "I should have learned from my mistakes with Albert!": only Patrick is left.
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Patrick's Memoirs 3Study computer: it comes up once you enter Passwords 1, 2 and 3, together with Test Subjects. The same computer opens the secret passage to the spiked-ceiling trap.Spencer had Patrick leak his whereabouts to Wesker through an informant working for a female spy who deals with Wesker; the man was "Roberto or Ricardo". That is how Wesker found him.
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Test SubjectsStudy computer, with Patrick's Memoirs 3, after the 3 passwords.The 13 Project W candidates, from 001 Hans to 013: Alex is 012 and Albert is 013. It pairs with Report on Project W - Aug. 28, 1998 in 6-2.
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