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Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work." }, { "id": "rose", "title": "Capcom official manual: Rose’s Story", "url": "https://game.capcom.com/manual/village/en/ps5/page/13/2", "kind": "Primary", "note": "Explicitly sixteen years after Village. February 2021 + sixteen years establishes 2037; flashbacks inside the memory world are not all 2037." }, { "id": "requiem", "title": "Capcom: Resident Evil Requiem", "url": "https://www.residentevil.com/requiem/", "kind": "Primary", "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work." }, { "id": "tokyopop", "title": "TOKYOPOP: Infinite Darkness — The Beginning", "url": "https://tokyopop.com/products/9781427868428_resident-evil-infinite-darkness-the-beginning", "kind": "Primary", "note": "Publisher identifies a five-issue prequel to the animated series. 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Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work." }, { "id": "fireice", "title": "DC: Resident Evil — Fire and Ice collection", "url": "https://www.dc.com/graphic-novels/resident-evil-fire-and-ice-2000/resident-evil-fire-and-ice", "kind": "Primary", "note": "Contains the four-issue series and selected magazine stories. It is not asserted to contain every magazine backup." }, { "id": "comic2009", "title": "DC: Resident Evil 2009 collection", "url": "https://www.dc.com/graphic-novels/resident-evil-2009/resident-evil", "kind": "Primary", "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work." }, { "id": "magazine", "title": "Official Comic Magazine #1–5: contents inventory", "url": "https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=148281", "kind": "Retail / issue bibliography", "note": "Issue contents checked for sixteen individually titled stories. Covers / contents do not establish dates inside the stories; legal interior inspection remains open." }, { "id": "audio", "title": "Licensed Japanese audio-drama inventory", "url": "https://www.projectumbrella.net/biohazard-media-timeline.html", "kind": "Secondary / translated primary leads", "note": "Dates below are reported script chronology, not a claim of having listened to every original CD. Changes against later games remain disputed." }, { "id": "sony", "title": "Sony: Resident Evil screen catalogue", "url": "https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/residentevil", "kind": "Primary", "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work." }, { "id": "death", "title": "Sony: Resident Evil — Death Island", "url": "https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/residentevildeathisland", "kind": "Primary", "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work." }, { "id": "inf", "title": "Netflix: Resident Evil — Infinite Darkness", "url": "https://www.netflix.com/title/80987064", "kind": "Primary", "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work." }, { "id": "live", "title": "Netflix: Resident Evil (live action)", "url": "https://www.netflix.com/title/80996532", "kind": "Primary", "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work." }, { "id": "wrc", "title": "Sony: Welcome to Raccoon City", "url": "https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/residentevilwelcometoraccooncity", "kind": "Primary", "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work." }, { "id": "film2026", "title": "Sony: Resident Evil (2026)", "url": "https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/residentevil8", "kind": "Primary", "note": "Bryan, a medical courier, is the protagonist. A game-adjacent premise does not prove every film event belongs to the main games." }, { "id": "promo", "title": "Resident Evil Requiem — Evil Has Always Had a Name", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSscsSS62oc", "kind": "Official promotional film / authorized distributor", "note": "GameSpot-hosted official narrative promotion. Full frame-by-frame date inspection remains open; trailer release is not the story year." }, { "id": "originsproduct", "title": "Resident Evil Origins Collection PS4 edition", "url": "https://www.pricecharting.com/game/playstation-4/resident-evil-origins-collection", "kind": "Retail edition cross-check", "note": "B014KXMDPC contains Resident Evil Zero and the 2002 remake. It does not contain the original 1996 edition." }, { "id": "fourproduct", "title": "Resident Evil 4 remake PS5 edition cross-check", "url": "https://slickdeals.net/f/19893378-resident-evil-4-ps5-16-49-free-s-h-w-prime-or-35", "kind": "Retail edition cross-check", "note": "B0BJTKYLCB is the remake, not the original 2005 game." }, { "id": "sevenproduct", "title": "Resident Evil 7 Gold PS5 edition cross-check", "url": "https://slickdeals.net/f/19537551-15-resident-evil-7-biohazard-gold-edition-playstation-5-at-amazon?src=rcm_disco_related_deals_brand_h", "kind": "Retail edition cross-check", "note": "B0DKW9TJ23; verify included content / voucher availability before buying used." }, { "id": "villageproduct", "title": "Village Gold PS5 edition", "url": "https://www.pricecharting.com/game/playstation-5/resident-evil-village-gold-edition", "kind": "Retail edition cross-check", "note": "B0B75WMSFP includes the Winters’ Expansion subject to edition / code terms." }, { "id": "perry-6387-resident-evil-zero-hour", "title": "Titan: Zero Hour", "url": "https://titanbooks.com/6387-resident-evil-zero-hour/", "kind": "Primary", "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work." }, { "id": "perry-6381-resident-evil-the-umbrella-conspiracy", "title": "Titan: The Umbrella Conspiracy", "url": "https://titanbooks.com/6381-resident-evil-the-umbrella-conspiracy/", "kind": "Primary", "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work." }, { "id": "perry-6382-resident-evil-caliban-cove", "title": "Titan: Caliban Cove", "url": "https://titanbooks.com/6382-resident-evil-caliban-cove/", "kind": "Primary", "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work." }, { "id": "perry-6385-resident-evil-nemesis", "title": "Titan: Nemesis", "url": "https://titanbooks.com/6385-resident-evil-nemesis/", "kind": "Primary", "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work." }, { "id": "perry-6383-resident-evil-city-of-the-dead", "title": "Titan: City of the Dead", "url": "https://titanbooks.com/6383-resident-evil-city-of-the-dead/", "kind": "Primary", "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work." }, { "id": "perry-6384-resident-evil-underworld", "title": "Titan: Underworld", "url": "https://titanbooks.com/6384-resident-evil-underworld/", "kind": "Primary", "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work." }, { "id": "perry-6386-resident-evil-code-veronica", "title": "Titan: Code: Veronica", "url": "https://titanbooks.com/6386-resident-evil-code-veronica/", "kind": "Primary", "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work." }, { "id": "triple", "title": "Resident Evil Triple Pack Switch edition identifier", "url": "https://www.pricecharting.com/game/nintendo-switch/resident-evil-triple-pack", "kind": "Retail edition cross-check", "note": "B07VHKWQ26 contains original RE4, RE5 and RE6. RE5/6 use download codes; used copies may not contain redeemable games." }, { "id": "product-B07DJW779T", "title": "Resident Evil 2 remake — PS4 edition identifier", "url": "https://www.pricecharting.com/game/playstation-4/resident-evil-2", "kind": "Retail edition cross-check", "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work." }, { "id": "product-B082LKJ33D", "title": "Resident Evil 3 remake — PS4 edition identifier", "url": "https://www.pricecharting.com/game/playstation-4/resident-evil-3", "kind": "Retail edition cross-check", "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work." }, { "id": "re6chapters", "title": "RE6 walkthrough: chapter opening dates / campaign transitions", "url": "https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps3/605603-resident-evil-6/faqs/65171", "kind": "Secondary direct game walkthrough", "note": "Chapter-specific date / setting transcriptions and campaign sequence; cross-checked with media chronology. This is not a claim to have watched all cutscenes." }, { "id": "re6media", "title": "Resident Evil media timeline: 2012 and 2013 RE6 chapters", "url": "https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline_by_media", "kind": "Secondary chronology", "note": "December 24–25 Edonia: Chris chapter 2 and Jake chapters 1–2. Ada opens June 27, 2013; later US / China chapters converge June 29–July 1." } ], "scope": [ { "title": "Origins / remakes, Director’s Cut, dual-shock editions, HD ports and platform conversions", "type": "Game editions", "status": "Grouped by incident", "note": "Original and altered retellings remain distinguishable in the notes. They do not create repeated outbreaks.", "sources": [ "history", "games" ] }, { "title": "Mercenaries / Mercenaries 3D / Mercenaries VS, RE:Verse, Umbrella Corps, RE5 versus and RE7 challenge modes", "type": "Game modes", "status": "Narrative audit open", "note": "Competitive / challenge modes are not presumed historical events. Umbrella Corps experiment logs, bonus comics and any original framing narrative need a separately verified inventory.", "sources": [ "games", "inventory" ] }, { "title": "Official guidebook prose, character diaries, game epilogues, Grace’s Report and mobile bonus stories", "type": "Short fiction", "status": "Open item-level inventory", "note": "Embedded files are part of their containing games. Separately published original narratives still require item-level sourcing / date inspection before this edition can claim complete coverage.", "sources": [ "inventory", "requiem" ] }, { "title": "USJ story attractions, The Real / Escape / Extreme, Valiant Raid and licensed promotional manga", "type": "Experience / promotional fiction", "status": "Open item-level inventory", "note": "Licensing alone does not prove new narrative content. Production versions and scripts need individual verification; no release-year chronology is imposed.", "sources": [ "inventory" ] } ], "audit": { "checked": "2026-10-07", "status": "Research edition — verification gaps disclosed", "checks": [ "Capcom incident anchors cross-checked; RE5 uses March 2009 rather than the conflicting secondary May date.", "Revelations 2 is split at the six-month jump; Netflix live action is split into its 2022 and 2036 strands.", "Sixteen Official Comic Magazine stories inventoried separately. No collected edition is falsely claimed to contain every backup.", "Same-incident film / prose / manga adaptations share story groups with their own corresponding access links.", "Story DLC, audio dramas, original Japanese novels, licensed mobile variants and crossover narratives are represented.", "Actual legal comic preview inspected: The Beginning chapter-one opening states 2006, replacing an undetermined-calendar placeholder.", "Pre-build table reviewed for duplicate titles, continuity conflicts, unsupported release-year dates and product / collection mismatches. Open coverage and inaccessible interiors remain listed.", "RE6 split at the six-month jump: Jake 1–2 and Chris 2 in December 2012; Ada / Leon / Jake / Chris 2013 runs interleaved. Overlapping missions are not falsely presented as strict minute-by-minute order.", "RE6 split at the six-month jump: Jake 1–2 and Chris 2 in December 2012; Ada / Leon / Jake / Chris 2013 runs interleaved. Overlapping missions are not falsely presented as strict minute-by-minute order. Licensed novels / comics remain in the main history with disputes. Live-action adaptations use their separate film histories.", "All live-action screen histories are separately selectable; Degeneration, Damnation, Vendetta, Death Island and Infinite Darkness stay in the main game chronology. The 2026 courier film is restored to a film selector." ], "gaps": [ "Actual short-comic / manga interiors, Japanese audio scripts and guidebook fiction are not fully inspected. Unknown calendar dates are not claims that no printed date exists.", "Complete manhua issue counts, mobile file inventories, original stage scripts, attraction versions and promotion-by-promotion fiction remain open.", "Several out-of-print comics, audio dramas and Japanese novels have no verified exact Amazon product yet; corresponding licensed publication records are offered instead.", "Requiem’s precise in-universe year and the 2026 film’s compatibility need a complete work / date-prop audit.", "This is a broad research edition with explicit gaps, not a claim of a completed exhaustive reference audit." ], "publishReady": true } }