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, once a game or any other computer program is compiled it is not easily reversible back into its source code.
There’s tools that can do this, but reverse engineering a game code from a compiled game is very difficult.
Game companies meanwhile don’t want the raw code to be on the disk because hackers could use that to break the game and cheat, or could just steal the code outright to make their own games.
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