How did Konami lose the source code for the original Silent Hill game? Why couldn’t they just datamine the source code from the retail copies of the game?

Question

I’ve heard many times that the reason the Silent Hill remaster collection didn’t turn out so well was because Konami lost the original source code and had to re-create it. But I don’t understand how that is possible. If they were selling copies of Silent Hill, why couldn’t they just take a single disk of it and datamine the source code off of it? How could they possess the game without possessing the game’s source code?

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Answer 1

I don’t know how true it is, but apparently it was pretty common back then for developers in Japan to get rid of source code once the game shipped because it took up space and resource. I can’t remember where that came from but it was around the time HD collection released I learned this. Could just as easily be an excuse l, but that is apparently the reason if true