You must read the Download Policy before starting downloading any file from this page.

Download Policy

The game, as a whole, is freeware. However, some resources included in it are under copyright restrictions.

To make it short, if you only download the game and play, there's no problem. The restriction are about re-usability issues, and ownership of the various resources.

By downloading the game and its data, you acknowledge the following restrictions.

• The game engine (including : sources, *.EXE, *.AMC) is freeware.
• The name "Vigilante" is a trade mark.(Well, at least, it was in 1988) The "™" symbol doesn't appear in the game, because I don't feel comfortable using a ™ that doesn't belong to me.
• The original Vigilante arcade game, whose graphics I ripped, is copyrighted by IREM CORP, and though I doubt they still have a commercial interest in it, that doesn't mean it has become public domain or anything. I have re-constructed the graphics, with several weeks of work, and certainly with mistakes and tiny differences, but still, the original artwork is not my own, but IREM CORP's one. In the game, I stored this data in a password-encoded file, which should protect them from the casual hacker. At least, it's much less vulnerable than the emulated ROM. By downloading this game, you acknowledge that the graphics are copyrighted, and that you won't have any rights to claim ownership or re-use them.
• The graphics I did myself are about 1% of the artwork, and tightly mixed with the others. For simplicity's sake, let's say I abandon all ownership of them, in favor of IREM Corp, so the above restriction applies to all graphics in this game.
• The sound effects are also from the arcade, they are only tiny 8bit sounds, but still, the same "rules" applies to sound effects.
• One sound is taken from a freeware game, claiming it was from "a free internet resource". I assume it is public domain...
• The C sources of the game are my own intellectual property, and are NOT available to the public. Why? Because they include enough information to extract all graphics, allowing anyone to easily break the statement about graphics. I respect IREM's work too much to allow this.
• The musics included in all music packs, are the property of their respective authors. As far as I know, they can be considered freeware works, so distributing them worldwide is ok, and re-using samples is also a common practice in the music tracking community (it's considered polite to credit the sample's author, in the rare case when the sample's origin is known).

As a final note, this is just a fan's derivative work, that I make available to other fans worldwide, as a tribute to a great arcade classic. Have fun.

Files

The musics are packaged separately, since they are not really subject to change. You can download and install none, or one, or all, depending on your taste and bandwidth :) If you install several music packs, you will be able to select the active one from within the game.

Please read the manual for installation instructions.