I hear often that games can’t be remade because the source code is lost. Silent Hill 2 remake had only partial source code. Wouldn’t any old physical CD have the entire code on it?
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People here don’t quite grasp what eli5 means.
Say you’re cooking a cake, your ingredients are the code. Once you bake everything (make the disc) you can’t revert it back to the ingredients.
Game studios do the same, they compile the code and once compiled it can’t be reverted. If they happen to lose the code, it won’t matter how many copies are out there
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