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 code distributed to users isn’t the original source written by the authors, instead it’s a compiled machine code that can be run by a computer.

In an analogy, think of it as a cake. You can’t figure out the recipe just by eating the cake.

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