Abandonware - Illegal to download?

[Omaeka]

I know that piracy is a big no no to discuss on here but I'm not sure if this falls into that category, so I was wondering if anyone on here knows whether it is illegal to download Abandonware such as Resident Evil 1-3 that are no longer obtainable on PC anymore through any legitimate means.

Cheers.

 

[Omaeka]

Looks like it's still technically illegal but chances of anything happening very slim.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/what-is-abandonware-and-is-it-legal/

I should really Google this stuff huh, figured it'd be so niché that a search wouldn't yield results

Thanks!

It's abandoned, they don't care for it anymore and in the end, you ain't going to get into trouble.

 

[Omaeka]

It's silly really, since they losing an source of revenue for these old games. People still play them and would pay for them.

Even if they didn't host the games on their own stores or websites, they could allow GOG and other websites to host the game and sell it and for them to get their cut from it.

Could even go a little further and release HD versions of the games and port them to Steam and iSO or Android like others have done.

Also it seems a lot of these games can easy be played in a browser too.

I been thinking of playing Dino Crisis, I own it on my Playstation, but I saw that it was also released on the PC.

Sadly it isn't as simple as it being on PC means you can play it on PC. I own RE2 & 3 on retail disc as well as PSX copies and event a RE2 copy on the N64 *SOMEWHERE*. Those retail discs wouldn't work back on Vista with any fix and it's the same on 10, just forces the resolution of the computer into 640x480, goes black and closes itself. No workaround or fix has worked.

RE3 however has a very high quality 'port' done by a... less than reputable group of individuals on the seven seas and it works flawless, has even been given higher resolution support and every costume in the game unlocked from the beginning. The graphical bugs have also been completely fixed like zombies appearing infront of the environment when they're dead behind it, like a desk. It's hands down the best 'remaster' I've seen and it was done by a pirate!

If they can do it for free, I really don't know why companies do not just port all of their classics to Win10. I'm sure there's weird reasons here and there but I think it's mostly down to them not realising an audience exists for them. There's no end of GOG requests for Capcom to bring classics like RE Dino Crisis Maximo etc.

You can buy RE hd on steam if you fancy it

Played REmake and Zero to death on Steam