| Publishers | Microsoft Game Studios |
| Developers | Rare |
| Release date | 2006 |
| Genre | Simulation |
| Game rating |
Game Description
Viva Piñata is a 2006 life simulation game developed by Rare and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360. The game revolves around the player tending to a neglected garden in Piñata Island, in which different variations of piñatas must be bred whilst fending off disruptive interlopers. The project was headed by Gregg Mayles and the team behind the Banjo-Kazooie series, based on an idea from Rare co-founder Tim Stamper. Microsoft wanted the game to become a key franchise for the platform, and developed a tie-in television show to accompany the series. Viva Piñata was released in November 2006.
Download Viva Piñata
We might have the game available for more than one platform. Viva Piñata is currently available on these platforms:
Windows (2007)
Viva_Piñata_Win_ISO_EN.zip (3.8GB)
How to play on Windows
- Download the “Viva_Pinata_Win_ISO_EN.zip” file from the link above.
- Download “Games for Windows Live” from here or from here. Install it after you download it.
- Open the downloaded .zip file and extract the “Viva_Pinata_Win_ISO_EN” folder to your desktop. You will need to use a software such as WinRAR to do this.
- Open the extracted “Viva_Pinata_Win_ISO_EN” folder and then open the “Game Files” folder.
- Mount the “OGD-Viva.Pinata.iso” file to an empty disc drive. To do this, you will need to download a software such as PowerISO or Daemon Tools (right click on the file and there you should see your options to mount the file).
- Open the mounted disc drive and then run the Setup.exe file.
- Go through the game setup (just click on next or the word which has the > symbol next to it) and finish installing the game.
- Launch the game – when it asks you to create a “Live Games” account, select “Games for Windows Live” and then create an account. You want to try to create a local account.
- Enjoy the game!
Additional files, patches and fixes
Viva Piñata Screenshots
Xbox 360
how to save the game? I’m not able to log into the microsoft live account…
I went through all the steps but when I try to run the setup.exe file it doesn’t appear on my screen ? The game logo appears on the toolbar but nothing appears. Can someone help me please.
Go into your Task Manager, right click the installer and click “Go to Details”
Right click on the Viva Pinata task that says “Not Responding” next to it and click on “Analyze Wait Chain”
End the task that it says is causing the problem and click on the logo on the toolbar.
Thanks bro
The game started succesfully, but it doesnt have any words, anyone knows what can i do?
Had issues with it saying I needed to open in a launcher when I tried to start it up but I just used the Startup application instead of the game application itself and it worked fine! Thank you so much for this! Everyone’s playing Animal Crossing right now and all I wanted to play was this for weeks!
You all need to read the directions properly – if you are getting prompted for a product key then you have not made a local account as per step 8. Don’t login with a real online account
How do I launch the game? So far I have mounted the game to a virtual disc, gone through the setup install process and was told the game finished successfully installing. When I open up Games for Windows Marketplace it tries to search for all available games on my computer and just ends up giving me the error message “There was an error retrieving your purchase history. Please sign out and try again later.” I’m stuck here and don’t know what to do next.
When I try to login to my Microsoft account, it says I need to enter a product key. But I obviously don’t have one. What do I do?
the setup stops for me at about 70% and then i get a screen from the setup and it puts back all the progress
pls help
When I log in with windows live the game askes for a product key, do do I need to do?
I also have this issue. please help!
Getting a new computer this summer, will definitely be downloading this afterwards, thanks for preserving so much nostalgia for everyone!
how do i launch the game
I have a manual from the 360 version I can ship if you want it
how do save
Click on the account creation for windows live, then scroll down and make a local account. it should work.
How do save
whenever i try to run the setup, it appears on the task bar but wont open and in the task manager it shows two setups and two setup/uninstall, one of which says that it is not responding, closing the one that isnt responding closes them all.
I’m having the same difficulty :c I have no idea how to fix this sadly
I figured out a potential solution to this problem. I was having the same issue, I solved it by going into Task Manager and right clicking on the Setup.exe process for the installer and selecting “Go to details”, this took me to a seperate tab where I was able to right click on the “Not Responding” Setup.exe item and then choose “Analyse wait chain”, if something is keeping the app from running, it’s application will show up here. Elgato’s Stream Deck software was the culprint for me and once I ended it’s process, I was able to proceed with the installation, albeit with the installer’s language having gone all gibberishy. (Win10 64-Bit Education)
Same situation, had to right click and expand into details twice to find the analyze wait chain button. Cancelled out of a Razer synapse something and now it’s installing in weird accented letters language. Have yet to see if it works, I’m 17% installed.
This is the fix.
Nothing’s showing up in the wait chain. Still need support. 🙁
EDIT: Nevermind.. Strangely, there were two setup.tmp ‘s in the “details” tab…