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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Think of it like cooking a delicious meal. The final prepared meal is the game, and the recipe that lists the ingredients and cooking instructions is the source code. With the recipe (source code), it’s easy and straightforward to recreate the meal whenever you want. Without the recipe, it would be almost impossible to do so. Sure, a great cook could probably guess many of the ingredients, but they would still require a lot of trial and error to find the right proportions of ingredients and cooking instructions.
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