Unreal / Unreal Tournament '99 - available again digitally.

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Old Unreal (the group Epic allowed to keep patching the original games) announced via their Discord channel that Epic have permitted them to host .iso files of Unreal and Unreal Tournament for anyone to download/play.

 

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AnthraX — Yesterday at 12:25 PM
 

@everyone With Epic's permission, we have an important message for everyone who is having trouble locating the installation files for Unreal or Unreal Tournament or wants to try the games for the first time. We recommend that you download the games as follows:

Download an image of the original game disc from archive.org. That means https://archive.org/download/ut-goty/UT_GOTY_CD1.iso for Unreal Tournament or https://archive.org/download/gt-unreal-1998/Unreal.iso for Unreal
 

For technically adept people who wish to verify the authenticity of the disc images. The hashes for the UT iso are e5127537f44086f5ed36a9d29f992c00 (MD5) and 3f13d8a88620324f1cbf0a33029fc1d76c912821 (SHA1). The hashes for the Unreal iso are 84d6b80125ab745644c269bb44e5ae39 (MD5) and 1957ece469b32bcdcd3ec9079407907e6b4b88cb (SHA1)
Please do not instruct people to download other game disc images or distributions. The ones listed in this post are the only ones we approve! Then, to install the games on Windows systems:

Download the latest OldUnreal patch for Windows systems from GitHub. That means https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches/releases/latest for Unreal Tournament and https://github.com/OldUnreal/Unreal-testing/releases/tag/v227k for Unreal. We will update these links when the new patches are out.

Mount the disc and run the installer

Extract the patch into your game folder (if you downloaded the zip version of the patch) or run the patch executable (if you downloaded the exe version)

All Done!
 

To install the games on Linux systems:

Install Lutris https://lutris.net/

Run the Lutris install script for the game you downloaded. We recommend using the "Play 'Unreal' CD edition on Linux!" installer for Unreal (https://lutris.net/games/unreal-gold/) and the "Play 'Unreal Tournament (1999)' CD edition on Linux!" installer for Unreal Tournament (https://lutris.net/games/unreal-tournament/)

All Done!
 

To install the games on macOS systems (this is too complicated right now. We are working on a more elegant solution!):

Open a new Finder window

Press ⇧⌘G to bring up the "Go to folder:" dialog

Enter "~/Library/Application Support/" (without the quotes!) in the edit box and click ok

Within the ~/Library/Application Support/ folder, create a new folder called "Unreal Tournament" (without the quotes!) if you want to install Unreal Tournament or "Unreal" (without the quotes!) if you want to install Unreal

Mount the game disc by double-clicking the iso

Copy the Maps, Sounds, Textures, and Music folders from the game disc into the folder you just created. Do not copy the System folder!

If you are installing Unreal Tournament, then open the Textures folder and delete the "LadderFonts.utx" and "UWindowFonts.utx files.

Download our latest patch from GitHub. That means https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches/releases/latest for Unreal Tournament and https://github.com/OldUnreal/Unreal-testing/releases/tag/v227k for Unreal.

Double-click the patch dmg file and drag the application bundle into the application folder

Finally, if you are installing Unreal Tournament, open a terminal window and run the following commands:

for file in ~/Library/Application\ Support/Unreal\ Tournament/Maps/*.uz; do /Applications/UnrealTournament.app/Contents/MacOS/UCC decompress $file; done mv ~/Library/Application\ Support/Unreal\ Tournament/System/*.unr ~/Library/Application\ Support/Unreal\ Tournament/Maps/ rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Unreal\ Tournament/System/*.uz

All Done!