I haven’t tested it but it should work. OldUnreal’s patches are backwards compatible.

IIRC it has been 10 years since Tim Sweeney talked about open sourcing UE1. I don’t think it is gonna happen anytime soon, sadly.

At least we still have Surreal Engine.

Considering the OldUnreal team still has access to the source code for these two games, and develop patches for them to this day, I find it, thankfully, extremely unlikely!

The “you wouldn’t download a car” statement is made against personal cases of piracy, which got rightfully clowned upon. It obviously doesn’t work at all when you use its ridiculousness to defend big ass corporations that tries to profit from so many of the stuff they “downloaded”.

Besides, it is not “theft”. It is “plagiarism”. And I’m glad to see that people that tries to defend these plagiarism machines that are attempted to be humanised and inflated to something they can never be, gets clowned. It warms my heart.