How do studios lose the source code of games, when there are full copies of games out there?

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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 source code to be the blueprint. What you have on the CD is the thing that’s built according to the blueprint.

You really want the blueprint and you don’t really care about what’s already built. Yes, you can reverse engineer what’s built to what should be the blueprint, but that takes a long time so it’s not worth it.

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