I just found out that Konami somehow lost the source code to the PS2 version of Silent Hill so they had to recreate it. How do they lose it and why can’t they get it from a random game disc? Isn’t that how modders, emulators, and speedrunners see the code?
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>sn’t that how modders, emulators, and speedrunners see the code?
Not unless a game has really good mod support. That is to say the devs put systems in place so the modders can see the source code. All thats on the disc is compiled code, which is just instructions for the computer. Things like Move data from 0x000014 to 0x0000216. Not really readable. If you are clever and a ton of time you might be able to work out whats happening at any given point through looking at memory addresses, but thats far from source code and takes a long time.
Losing source code is actually pretty easy because once the game actually ships its not really needed. You compile it into a form that the computer can understand and ship that. If you need more discs you just copy the compiled code.
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