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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Imagine a muffin. If I create a recipe for my own special chocolate chip muffin, and then I give you the muffin, can you make the muffin? Do you have the recipe, because I gave you a finished muffin? No. And that’s how video games, and basically all software works.
The code game devs write, is compiled, or changed from human readable code in a language like C++, into a machine readable code, that reads like nonsense to humans, but runs on computers/consoles.
Source code from a lot of older games is missing, because in the 90’s studios were pumping out games, and didn’t have the foresight to believe they’d ever need the source code to release remasters/ports years/decades later. The mindset was different.
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