r/abandonware • • Jun 14 '22

Is MyAbadonware safe? Is Archive.org safe? Is OldGamesDownload safe?

738 Upvotes

Yes! They're all safe! They're the top three abandonware sites and most commonly recommended places when people ask where to find old games. They're the first three sites listed on our wiki.

Archive.org is legally protected as a digital library under US copyright law and is heavily moderated for malicious uploads. MyAbandonware & OldGamesDownload doesn't allow user uploads at all.

No, you will not get a letter from your ISP. Everything hosted on these sites are direct downloads, which are encrypted and can't be tracked.

These sites are safe, and likely always will be for the foreseeable future.


r/abandonware • • Jul 23 '25

If automod kills your post due to low karma, ask to be an approved user. Or better yet, ask to be an approved user first if you have no karma.

22 Upvotes

This subreddit gets a lot of people that don't normally use Reddit. We have to have an automod that blocks low karma accounts because that's what spammers use. We don't want this place to be flooded with spam and so its just easier to default block low karma accounts. If this happens, please ask to be an approved user. If you are concerned you will be automodded, ask to be an approved user.

Edit: You can simply respond to this thread if you want to be approved.


r/abandonware • • 10h ago

Forza Motorsport 5/6 Xbox One Files?

13 Upvotes

Does anyone have Forza Motorsport 5 and 6 files from Xbox One?


r/abandonware • • 56m ago

Does anyone know what happened to gam.onl? It won't load for me.

• Upvotes

r/abandonware • • 5h ago

Game FH2 Xbox one azimuth repack

2 Upvotes

FH2_AzimuthXONE.rar

Extract file via winrar then open azimuth launcher and then select your settings, then click launch

If you need any help lmk ;)


r/abandonware • • 6h ago

OpenSGolf 0.3 is out: the free, open-source SimGolf remake, now playable on everything (Windows, Mac, Linux, Steam Deck, Android and in the browser)

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r/abandonware • • 16h ago

Forza Horizon 2 on PC: Complete Setup Guide

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New guide cuz old one kept getting deleted


r/abandonware • • 9h ago

Anyone remember Monkey Brains (2001)? Working on a passion remaster/overhaul and looking for early beta testers!

2 Upvotes

Hey everyone!!!

I want to remaster and upgrade an old PC puzzle-platformer = Monkey Brains (developed by Yobro Productions)

I played the heck out of this game as a kid and still have huge nostalgia for it. I’ve recently started working on a passion project to remaster and modernize it but I'm still in the very early stages of development.

Before jumping ahead toward a playable alpha, I really want to test the waters, hear what people think, and see what features you'd like to see

Def don't want to overpromise and I know this is an ambitious indie effort but here are the core ideas I'm aiming to try out:

  • HD Visuals: Rebuilding the side-scrolling visuals with modern assets while keeping the charming 2001 aesthetic intact.
  • 4-Player Co-op (Local & Online)
  • Procedural Puzzles: Experimenting with randomized puzzle layouts so stages stay fresh after you've beaten the core campaign.
  • Level Editor: Letting the community design and share custom hazard courses.
  • Modern QoL: Controller support, achievements, and smoother physics/controls.

Since we’re right at the start, I’d love your input:

  1. Did anyone else here grow up playing the game? 😄
  2. If you’d eventually be interested in testing early alpha/beta builds and breaking things to report bugs down the line, let me know in the comments or send a DM so I can keep you in the loop, orrr...... JOIN THE DISCORD 🐒 https://discord.gg/YrNF4J2u4
Classic decomped, working on web browsers
Reworked home screen
4-player co-op, a super super early preview

r/abandonware • • 7h ago

HyperScape Game files

1 Upvotes

Hey reddit, as the title already says. It would be awesome if someone could provide me the game files. Maybe some of you guy still haven’t deleted them? Hope is high. 🫠


r/abandonware • • 1d ago

Do you recommend GOG for classic or older games?

58 Upvotes

I recently discovered the GOG website and wanted to know if you’d recommend it for classic games. Also, is it true that they optimize these types of games, making them run better than the versions found on other storefronts? Thanks in advance! 😎🤜🏼🔥


r/abandonware • • 18h ago

Zoo Tycoon 1 OpenRCT2 Style Project

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Hey all just wanted to share my project I tried starting it in January 2026 as a way of wanting to bring back the old game however after doing a bit of research while planning this work out I discovered that Zoo Tycoon 1 is actually one of them RollerCoaster Tycoon like games that is basically a single purpose engine built game that has zero references online, no development blogs no technical docs of the engine basically zero traces of the engine online for the decompile and rebuild.

At the time I had AI take a look at it and could only manage a basic main menu screen that took weeks to do. Tried to pick up the pieces and eventually dropped the project because it was basically something I would be paid to do as there was no love to continue banging my head just to try and generate map which is where I got stuck on as it generates the maps via the CPU in real time and has specific binary addresses for the cliffs and ditches and geometry and specific tiling mapping.

Move to Opus 5.5 launch seeing everyone using it to decompile video games I gave it the task that no other AI could do before it and surprisingly it did it in the first 3 hours for the map generation and I was mind blown. Ever since than I have been working on this project and its still early but for others who have reached out to help make this the OpenRTC2 engine that it should be as a fresh brand new 2026 engine I have developed a ZT1 labs which is a purpose built developer mapping software that loads the old game and runs Ghidra in the background displaying everything running in binary and if you click something see it in the binary you turn that into a function, go over to to create a new C++ script and it will have that function there ready to be used as simple intelligence auto suggest which should help speed the progress up much better.

Its not going to be easy but for the Love of the game that I played many hours growing up I am happy to finally doing this and bringing the game up to date in terms of controls and window control and graphical upscaling tools and a full suite of modding tools etc.

Your more than welcome to watch it and see it grow if this game is just as part of your childhood as it is mine.


r/abandonware • • 16h ago

Is anyone doing a decomp of Trackmania?

1 Upvotes

We know that the PC versions of Trackmania are terrible to run on current Windows systems, and Sunrise also has that annoying DRM that hinders newer Windows versions!!


r/abandonware • • 20h ago

SimTower - A complete browser port of the original game

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r/abandonware • • 1d ago

I make dead MMORPG Offline RPG

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I started project Reborn to revive a game I enjoy in my childhood, mostly they are mmorpg that already closed down. the first one being Maplestory 2 already in a playable state and recently Emil Chrolonicle Online. The Launcher is already published on github so if anyone want to help with future preservation of abandonware mmorpg are very welcome to join. Everything is free no donation or any sort of that stuff.

I hope you have fun!


r/abandonware • • 1d ago

Original Game Files

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r/abandonware • • 1d ago

The X-Files Game (1998) finally working perfectly on Steam Deck! No Windows PC or manual QuickTime setup needed

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8 Upvotes

r/abandonware • • 1d ago

tech support Pure 2008 atv game

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Download to your hearts content and it’s pre setup for controller over mouse and keyboard 💯💯🗣️🤞🏾


r/abandonware • • 2d ago

Honest question about abandonware

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I would appreciate any opinions on this


r/abandonware • • 3d ago

Is there community interest in old PC Games and PC Gamer magazine CD-ROMs from the late 90s and 2000s?

60 Upvotes

For those unfamiliar, those magazines included discs with each issue that usually included a half-dozen game demos for upcoming games. Occasionally they included the full game.

I have 20 or so that I'm imaging now for my own backups--- a few from PC Games and the rest from PC Gamer (after they acquired PC Games in 1999). I'd happily upload them somewhere if there's interest. Where's the best option? MyAbandonware, archive.org, OldGamesDownload, or somewhere else?


r/abandonware • • 3d ago

Dirt 2 - Easy Download and Setup

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10 Upvotes

Download and play! No installers or extra steps! If you have any issues or questions, I'll do my best to answer everything in the comments. Enjoy!

DiRT 2 Discord - Great place for some multiplayer sessions! https://discord.gg/butDUS5xfk



r/abandonware • • 4d ago

Reverse Engineer Anything is going to save so much abandonware

350 Upvotes

https://github.com/morluto/rea

https://rea.tools/

A new MCP that enables AI coding agents to effectively reverse engineer binaries with popular decompiler suites launched on Oct 7 and has been #1 on GitHub since. I haven't tried it out yet, but basically you connect it up to your agent (e.g. Claude Code), point it at a program, and say "recreate this application using REA" --basically what GOG did the hard way for years. We can now have an agent do what they did in under an hour for some old software and games. I'm probably going to play with it this week to see if I can get some old Win95 titles working under Win11.

Hey, it's killing my career, but at least I get to enjoy some of the downfall.


r/abandonware • • 3d ago

Where could I download FIFA 14 for PC?

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30 Upvotes

To be honest, I don't know much about downloading abandonware, so I was looking for help finding relatively reliable sites to play.


r/abandonware • • 3d ago

FIFA 14

2 Upvotes

Good evening all,

A few months back Chemical put up a link to FIFA 11-23 however fifa 14 is not working now is there an alternative to download it?


r/abandonware • • 3d ago

Strategies for locating symbol-bearing PS2 prerelease builds of Sly 2 or Sly 3

2 Upvotes

I’m considering beginning a decompilation effort for Sly 2 or Sly 3 after working on ProjectCane, a native PC reconstruction of the first game.

The primary obstacle is locating an executable with meaningful symbol information. Known prerelease builds may contain debug functionality while still having completely stripped ELFs, so I’m searching specifically for:

  • MIPS ELF .mdebug data
  • Static symbol and string tables
  • Linker map files
  • Object files
  • Crash-symbol packages
  • CodeWarrior or SN Systems development artifacts

I’m contacting preservation groups and prototype collectors, but I would appreciate advice about other likely sources. For PS2 titles from this period, were symbol-bearing executables more likely to survive in QA builds, localization packages, review media, crash-reporting archives, or mastering materials?

I’m maintaining a list of checked builds using hashes and ELF-section information to avoid duplicating work. I’m not requesting public distribution of copyrighted game data; candidate executables can be identified or inspected privately.

ProjectCane: https://github.com/theclub654/ProjectCane

Research contact: [projectcane182@gmail.com](mailto:projectcane182@gmail.com)


r/abandonware • • 3d ago

Infected Enemy | Emperor: Battle For Dune | Atreides

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In this episode of Emperor: Battle for Dune, we launch an assault on another Ordos-controlled region. Our spies have uncovered valuable intelligence revealing that the Ordos troops stationed in the area have been infected by a mysterious virus, leaving their forces weakened and vulnerable. However, we must act quickly, as reports indicate that a medical transport carrying a shipment of vaccines is on its way to the region.

After establishing our base and beginning to build up our defences, we dispatch several Trikes to scout the surrounding territory. Their reconnaissance proves successful, leading us to discover a group of Ix allies who could prove invaluable in the battle ahead. Shortly afterwards, we receive confirmation that the medical transport has arrived. Unfortunately for the us, the convoy is escorted by formidable Sardaukar troops, making it a dangerous target. Nevertheless, with the assistance of our Ix allies and a handful of infiltrators, we launch our attack and successfully destroy the medical transport, denying the infected Ordos forces access to the vaccines they desperately need.

With the enemy weakened and their medical supplies eliminated, we begin assembling our forces for a decisive assault on the Ordos base. Time is running out, however, as reports arrive that the enemy troops are preparing to retreat from the region. We must strike before they can escape! Committing the forces we have accumulated, we advance on the Ordos installation with the aim of eliminating as many retreating troops as possible and destroying their base completely. We cannot allow the enemy to regroup and use the surviving installation as a launching point for a counterattack.