In October 2022, we shared a demo for a fan remake of the first Resident Evil game in Unity Engine. And, as you may have guessed, Capcom has sent the team a C&D letter to shut it down (alongside the fan remake of Resident Evil: Code Veronica).
The team was originally planning to release this fan remake in 2023. However, and after some difficulties, it decided to delay it (alongside the remake of the classic RE game) in 2024.
In this fan remake, players would be able to manage their inventory and find defense knives to quickly run away from a zombie about to bite them. Additionally, they’d be able to use their flashlight whenever they wanted. The game would also have a dodge mechanic, and a good amount of weapons to choose from.
For what it’s worth, the demo for the classic RE game is no longer available for download. The team has also deleted its Twitter account and the game’s website.
https://youtu.be/oFvVcEso6eo
And that is that. The team was obviously developing this game for portfolio purposes. After all, this is what most small teams do when developing such fan remakes. If the team wanted to create a full-length game, they’d scrap all the RE elements from it after receiving this C&D letter. Since this didn’t happen, we can assume that there wasn’t really a plan to ever finish/complete these projects. But hey, at least we got a demo to play so that’s something.
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Oh what a suprise!
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Those modding teams still are dumb and will never learn.
They could just make New IP game which took inspiration from Resident evil games, remaking game which later get shutdown by Game company aka game IP owner is kinda waste of hard work and resources used in remakes, now company has already made plans for remake game it’s not surprising they’ll shut down fans remakes anyway
Oh what a suprise!
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Those modding teams still are dumb and will never learn.
Anyone who defends or advocates corporations sending C&D to non-profited fan project are no longer qualified to be called as customers but volunteered slaves, and they are the main culprit of rampant corporation greed today.
Companies like Valve not just openly allows fan projects but selling them without paperwork, and we have these clowns. Funny thing is that Valve is not quite consumer friendly corporation considering lootboxes they selling and the paid mods they tried to push, but this industry got so backwards that companies like Valve feels like saint compared to anti-consumer screwjob practices like this.
Some corporations always wants power and total domination over customers. Without us checking them we’ll see alot more of this news in the future, as long as we allow this to be norm.
They had a Patreon for these remakes, so I wouldn’t call them “non-profited fan projects”. One way or another, they were trying to make some money.
Thanks for the correction, John. Didn’t know they had Patreon.
They (and many others) have patreon and other crap to grab money from fools, and often they hide content behind paywall.
Earning money from someone copyrighted stuff is illegal.
And that’s why those greedy “modders” always get slashed by DMCA, C&D etc.
Those mods for Valve games, are always free, done for free, and not hidden behind paywall, sure sometimes people will send the creators some donation but that’s unofficial and behind the scenes.
Two totally different states of minds.
Those mods for Valve games, are NOT always free. Numbers of Source Engine mods are currently selling through Steam Store, and some of them are based on Half-Life universe. Black Mesa for example, is complete remake of Half-Life and Hunt Down the Freeman is fan-game based on Half-Life. Valve allows direct profits of Source Engines mods as long as they sell through Steam Store.
And whether it’s illegally profited copyrighted material or not is decided in the court, not by claims of corporations. It’s civil case, not criminal law. Copyright related C&D and DMCA are NOT enforcement of state law, they are merely legal cautionary notice and complaint that corporation will drag this into court if not delete the material.
Calling modders ‘Greedy’ is like calling companies like Take Two ‘Consumer-friendly’.
The mods made from the illegally leaked CSGO & TF2 source codes have not had any official blessing from Valve and are having difficulties getting listed onto Steam. So far no c&d though so they have to assume they have Valves blessings as their multiple emails to them about the projects sit unanswered.
Cuz they’re officially in the works already….Yes?….No? You know? I know? Who knows?
(Somebody please make dino crisis with Re1 remake graphics)
https://media3.giphy.com/media/6OkdgYnvkaCZwftm3m/giphy.gif
they should only work on their fan remake in secret and release it in torrent….
pirate can release paid game that they don’t even own, but fangames dev can’t even release a single thing XD
They should work in secret and just release game info/updates on an anonymous forum like 4chan with no way to tie the author’s back to it. They can’t send out a c&d if they don’t have any info about who is creating it.
i want a remake or the re remake in third person or first person. Sadly we are not gonna get it, i cant wait to see how badly they gonna butcher re4 remake.
So, Capcom has finally decided to remake resident evil 2 code Veronica and Resident Evil 1 Remake of remake, I guess that’s next remake after resident evil 4 because they are making lots of money from remake games
Capcom can be a circus.
Indeed
Since no one else has done it yet. Here are the links to the demos. Get them while you can.
Code Veronica: https://www.mediafire.com/file/gi58xwe6uad4dnn/Demo_Resident_Evil_Code_Veronica_Fan_Remake_V1.2_English.7z/file
Resident Evil 1: https://www.mediafire.com/file/ztuzsn09jnjolpl/Resident+Evil+Remake+Remake+Demo.rar/file
Awesome, thanks! 🙂
I guess I cannot post the download links to the mods here even though they were on the site before -_-. Anyway, here is a pastebin. https://pastebin.com/q7Y1wyLU
Unauthorized is the word you’re looking for. Illegal implies that there is precedent for criminal charges under the law. There isn’t.
That’d only be the case under a common law frame.
whaaaaat!?!?!..i cannot believe they would do such a thing???…why?? i just don’t get it…oh look a window i can lick…goodie goodie.
surprised pikachu face
Who would’ve thought?!
https://media.tenor.com/dfiPpud90TEAAAAC/patrick-stewart-mild-shock.gif
was anybody really surprised these guys got C&D from Capcom they were practically everywhere flaunting and taunting Capcom to take action and here we are these kind of projects should be kept private up until you get an Alpha build and even then you don’t go around promoting your project not until it is finished and has been fully released by then you will now have the clout to start declaring that you have a great project running in the background and start asking for Patreon donations.
Your post was incredibly enlightening. I appreciate the effort you put into making complex topics clear.