Why is it so hard for modders to port games to pc

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Why is it that game Devs are able to port games to pc but people aren’t able to do the same outside of emulation that take a while and doesn’t always run the best. I don’t know much about game development or computers, why is it so difficult/impossible?

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The original programmers will have access to the source code (lowest level language). That’s easy to translate to whatever you need to.

Modders are starting with the already translated code. And have to translate it back to source then translate it again.

Going backwards in translation is a lot harder than going forward.

Imagine you start with an English text. It gets translated to Japanese (and this it the only version available to the public). But you need it in Chinese. To get the best results you need to take the Japanese text translate it back to English, and them to Chinese. Otherwise you end up with weird errors.

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