There is a compilation of the exploits we have found in Resident Evil 4 Remake. Learn how you can collect the charms you want and avoid the first village fight!

List of Exploits

List of Exploits

The Charm Gacha has a Pattern Skip the First Village Fight Get Wooden Cog Fast in the Farm Escape the Church Without Ashley Skip Chainsaw Sisters Fight Skip Mendez Boss Fight Raise the Castle Cannon Earlier Skip the Sun and Moon Switches Skip the Gallery Bridge Fight Speed Through Ashley Library Section Skip the Dynamite Automatic Turret Skips Destroy Cargo Depot Wall Faster Farm Money in NG+ with First Aid Sprays

The Charm Gacha has a Pattern

The Charms resulting from the Token gacha at a Shooting Range are not random. If you load a save and insert the same Tokens again, the resulting Charms will be the same. The order the three Tokens are inserted does not matter.

You can take advantage of this exploit to avoid Charms you don’t want, to try to find the best Charms for you, and to save your tokens for the next shooting range you encounter.

Can You Reroll the Charm Gacha?

Skip the First Village Fight

The first major combat encounter in the Village Square area in Chapter 1 of Resident Evil 4 Remake can be avoided on a New Game Plus playthrough. Shoot the church bell on the far side of the village to trigger the next cutscene earlier, immediately ending the fight.

How to Skip the First Village Fight

Get Wooden Cog Fast in the Farm

In the Farm in Chapter 1, you can throw a Hand Grenade through the window into the room with the Wooden Cog. This will break open the lock from the inside, which allows you to simply walk in and get the Wooden Cog, without having to go through long way.

How to Skip the Farm

Escape the Church Without Ashley

Instead of exiting down the window at the start of Chapter 5, you can go down by glitching through the wall and leaving Ashley behind. Enemies won't be able to reach Ashley and you can progress while evading enemies without her.

Ashlley will spawn as soon as you reach the bridge leading to the house where Luis is hiding.

Skip Chainsaw Sisters Fight

Note: This only works on Assisted, Standard, and Hardcore difficulties.

Update 4/23: This scope glitch has been fixed as of the Ver. 1.05 update and will no longer work.

In Chapter 5, you can skip the area where the Chainsaw Sisters fight occurs. Head to the back of the house by shooting the locked gate. Walk backwards into the side of the house, from left to right, while using your scope to aim down at the ground.

If you pause and load your most recent autosave while doing this, you should load into the wall. Go through the wall and head south of the Checkpoint area, where you can come out of the wall right beside the Chainsaw Sisters, who will not attack you.

Skip Mendez Boss Fight

Note: This only works on Assisted, Standard, and Hardcore difficulties.

Update 4/23: This scope glitch has been fixed as of the Ver. 1.05 update and will no longer work.

You can skip the Mendez boss fight in Chapter 6 by using the autosave and sniper scope glitch. Note that you can't earn the Grilled Big Cheese achievement doing this, so it's only worth doing only after your first playthrough.

To do this, you need to go up the stairs and come back down once Ashley starts speaking. Head to the first 5 steps of the stairs, then aim your scope to the railings while going to the left. Stop moving once you're near the first step and then load your autosave. After loading, you will be glitched into the wall and you can start walking through it.

You can walk past the Mendez boss fight and head straight to the Castle.

Mendez Boss Fight Guide

Raise the Castle Cannon Earlier

There is an area in Chapter 7 where you'll need to use a cannon to blast through a door and several enemies. Normally, you'll need to explore the area to gain access to the room of the cannon, where you can shoot the weight holding it down and raise it to a location where it can be used.

However, on the way to the area, there are windows where you'll already be able to see the weight. Shoot it from there, raising the cannon earlier and skipping the exploration of the area.

How to Raise Cannon Eariler

Skip the Sun and Moon Switches

A section in Chapter 8 will require you to pull a series of switches marked with sun and moon icons to get to the next area. The gate blocking your path on the second floor is being held by a weighted object from the outside that you can't see. However, you can shoot in the general direction of the weight to hit it, opening the gate, and allowing you to skip the switches.

How to Skip the Sun and Moon Switches

Skip the Gallery Bridge Fight

In the Gallery in Chapter 9, you can skip a fight involving a large group of enemies. This fight triggers when an enemy pulls a lever that lowers the bridge. Kill the enemy before they can pull the lever to skip the encounter.

How to Skip Gallery Bridge

Speed Through Ashley Library Section

Clock Locations	In-Game Clock Image

In Chapter 9, you will encounter two Grandfather Clocks that need to be set at the correct time to open a passageway. If you already know the answer, you can input the correct time on the Grandfather Clocks when you encounter them without looking for the puzzle solution to skip a sizable part of Ashley's section. Set the time to 11:04 in Assisted or Standard Difficulty, and 7:00 in Hardcore or Professional.

How to Speed Through Ashley Library Section

Skip the Dynamite

At the start of Chapter 11, your path will be blocked by an obstruction. To get through it, you'll need to find some dynamite that is located in a nearby area full of enemies. You can skip this set of enemies and getting the dynamite altogether if you have an RPG. Use it to blast the obstruction and open up the path for you and Luis.

How to Skip the Dynamite

Automatic Turret Skips

You can skip the automatic turret lasers on the Island by either having an enemy walk in front of the laser or having an enemy knock you behind the laser. This can be done in Chapter 13 with a Brute walking in front of the laser and in Chapter 15 with a Novistador spawning to knock you behind the laser.

How to Skip Automatic Turret Lasers

Destroy Cargo Depot Wall Faster

In the Cargo Depot section of the Island in Chapter 14, you'll have to protect Ashley as she destroys a wall with a wrecking ball. To skip most of this section, simply use an RPG directly on the crack in the wall. This will greatly weaken the wall, so that only 1 additional hit from the wrecking ball will immediately destroy the wall.

How to Skip Wrecking Ball Wall

Farm Money in NG+ with First Aid Sprays

Chapter 16 Assisted	Chapter 2 Hardcore

In Assisted difficulty, at the last Merchant in Chapter 16, store most of your weapons and sell excess items in your inventory aside from what you need to defeat Saddler. Then purchase all the First Aid Sprays you can for 3,000 ptas. each.

Reach the Merchant in Chapter 1 of the succeeding Hardcore NG+ playthrough outside the hunter's lodge after jumping out the window. Sell all the First Aid Sprays for 5,000 ptas. each or 10,000ptas. each if you have the Rhinoceros Beetle Charm which increases the resale value of recovery items by 100%.

How to Farm Money

Resident Evil 4 Remake Related Guides

Tips and Tricks: A Beginner's Guide

All Tips and Tricks Guides

Unlockables
All Unlockables	All Post Game Content
100% Completion Roadmap	New Game Plus Guide
How to Get Infinite Ammo	All Bonus Weapons
Professional Mode	All Exclusive Upgrades
Extra Content Shop	Locked Drawer
Expanded Treasure Map	How to Claim Bonus Content
Mad Chainsaw Mode (Demo)	-
Speedrun Guides
How to Get S+ Rank	Professional S+ Guide
Best Save Points on Professional	How to Skip First Village Fight
How to Skip Gallery Bridge	How to Skip Wrecking Ball Wall
How to Skip the Dynamite	How to Skip the Sun and Moon Switches
How to Raise Cannon Eariler	How to Speed Through Ashley Library Section
How to Skip the Farm: Get Wooden Cog Fast	Speedrun Guide
How to Skip Automatic Turret Lasers	How to Skip AA Turret
Mercenaries Guides
Mercenaries Rewards	Mercenaries Characters Tier List
Best Character for Each Stage	How to Use Mayhem Mode
How to Increase Time Limit	How to Increase Bonus Rate
Does Mercenaries Have Aim Assist?	Best Mercenaries Abilities
Weapon Guides
Best Weapons	Best Equipment for Professional Mode
Best Loadout	Strongest Guns
Best Exclusive Weapon Upgrades	Best Weapons to Upgrade
How to Upgrade Weapons	Best Handgun and Pistol
Best Shotgun	Best SMG
Best Rifle	Best Magnum
Best Knife	Knife Durability
How to Repair Knives	Best Weapons to Get First
Trophy and Challenge Guides
Achievements List and Trophy Guide	List of Challenges
Astute Appraiser	Frugalist
Silent Stranger	Sprinter
Minimalist	Eat This!
Real Deadeye	Smooth Escape
Hope You Like Thrill Rides!	Too Cool For Such Tricks
Capacity Compliance	CP Farming Guide
Settings Guides
Aiming Guide	Best Settings for Consoles
Best Settings for PC	Best Controls for Console
Best Quality-of-Life Settings	Frame Rate or Resolution Priority
How to Turn On Subtitles	How to Change Language Settings
Where to Adjust Brightness Settings	-
Combat Guides
How to Save Ammo	How to Dodge and Avoid Attacks
How to Parry Attacks	How to Stealth Kill Enemies
How Do Critical Hits Work	What to Do When You Have No Ammo
How to Do a Suplex	How to Swap Guns
What Does the Plus 1 Mean?	How to Get Assault Rifle Ammo
How to Repair Body Armor	Knife Only Tips and Strategies
Money and Merchant Guides
All Merchant Locations	Money Farming Guide
What to Buy First	What to Sell First
How to Farm Spinels	What to Trade Spinels For
Limited Time Sale Guide	How to Get Gemstones
Trading Guide	How to Get Exclusive Upgrade Tickets
Charms Guides
Best Charms to Equip	Can You Reroll the Charm Gacha?
Shooting Range Guide	-
Inventory Guides
How to Manage Inventory	How to Rotate Items
How to Increase Attache Case Storage	What to Do With Excess Items
Crafting Guide	All Crafting Recipe Locations
Why Can’t I Store Items?	-
Survival Guides
How to Increase Health	How to Disarm Traps
How to Disarm Tripwires	How to Quick Turn
How to Climb Walls and Ledges	All Yellow Herb Locations
FAQs
Difficulty Differences	Missables and Points of No Return
List of Exploits	All Bugs
How to Save	How to Change Costumes
Can You Turn on the Flashlight?	Can You Throw Back the Dynamite?
Can You Kill the Merchant?	Should You Register a Capcom ID?
Is There Transmog?	How to Get Infinite Knife Durability
Can You Kill Saddler Without the Rocket Launcher?	How to Change FOV
Story Guides
Ending Explained	Post-Credits Scene Explained
How to Get the Wrench	How to Get Past the Village
How to Get Back to the Church	How to Get to Ashley in the Castle
Should You Save or Kill the Trapped Dog?	What Happened to the Dog?
How to Get to the Forest Altar	Where's Everyone Going? Bingo? Meaning
Should You Climb the Bell Tower?	How to Use the Boat
How to Use the Cannon	Minecart Guide
Clocktower Lift Guide	-