Why is it bad when a game developer has lost the source code to game it wants to rerelease/remaster? Isn’t all the data needed in the original retail copies?

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Why is it bad when a game developer has lost the source code to game it wants to rerelease/remaster? Isn’t all the data needed in the original retail copies?

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The retail versions are stripped of all human intelligible code and comments that makes the code understandable and then converted to machine code. For a developer it would take less time to create a new game from scratch than to reverse engineer the retail version.

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