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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Another analogy would be to music. You can have all of the notes written out and instruments picked out and singers can have all of their lyrics ready to perform, but once that music is all put together and recorded, the final ‘mix’ is just that – a final mix.
Yes, with technology, you can digitally manipulate music once it has gone on to the final mix, but if you wanted to change some notes in one particular instrument or change a lyric, you would have to rerecord that part and make another final mix.
If you were to lose the ‘files’ containing these instruments or notes (aka the game source code in this analogy) that would mean that you cannot go back and change one or two things simply without totally recreating every other piece of the code as well.
Hopefully that made sense.
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