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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No, because code is compiled into executable files and it is usually not easy to convert these back into code.
Imagine the code like the recipe how the game is assembled and built together just like the recipe for a fancy, complicated cake.
What you get as a copy of the game is the cake. You can taste it, look at it, and make guesses what the recipe was. But it is quite hard to really replicate the recipe just from having the cake alone.
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