>tfw you know most companies have lost the source code to their games
Tfw you know most companies have lost the source code to their games
Jason Allen
Dylan Nelson
It's amazing how many did that, especially for anything PS1 and earlier.
Square literally partially rebuild games from beta versions and ripping assets from the PS1 iso to port it.
Ethan Butler
Especially Japan.
It's like they thought "Well, we're finished with the game, there's no way we'll ever need to use this for a sequel, another game, or save it for posterity's sake."
Brayden Hill
on the bright side, it limits the endless amount of ports, remasters, and lazy sequels, and forces them to make new games
Julian Robinson
>source code is lost
>"remaster" is the original iso with a BSD-licensed emulator sold for $30
Connor Reed
>like 15 final fantasy games
You'd think that would've been the case wouldn't you?
Grayson Cox
>It's amazing how many did that, especially for anything PS1 and earlier.
Very few companies from that era are left. Would have been considered stealing if employees took disks with the source code on them, even if the company is going bankrupt.
Cooper Cooper
gotta love metal slug
Dominic Diaz
>tfw no source code
>tfw no ports
>tfw the ENTIRE GODDAMN CONSOLE ISNT EMULATABLE GODDAMMIT SEGA WHY THE FUCK DID YOU HAVE TWO CPUS ON THE SATURN
Jace Taylor
The grim fandango remaster managed to find like 80 old hardrives full of stuff. I think its just the Japanese being too tidy. They rebuild temples after so many years and sell cars after like 5 years tops. This is what they do
Julian Robinson
wut, I didn't try it myself but it supposedly runs fine on yabause (a saturn emulator)
Angel Allen
..actually scratch that, looking it up it does have a few issues
it's still playable but not the best experience
Lucas Myers
Holy shit your right. Thanks user!
Grayson Baker
most coders tend to remember a good portion of their code save for exact numbers
not to the willy nilly line for line but they have a general understanding of how they arranged everything and can probably get back most of it except for yet again, the exact numbers
so if they had any exact physics it's probably gonna be a long ass time of tweaking again
but most coders will be able to at least roundabout recode what they lost
now if it's new people trying to do that to old people's code, lmao gl
Dominic Myers
I'll take not the best experience over 850 dollars on ebay
Austin King
Get a load of this guy
Xavier Kelly
it's not untrue, i've recoded a lot of old projects without looking at the original just because i remembered what i did before
some of the time i just did something better because i learned something new inbetween that i felt was more optimal
Adam Russell
Oh yeah sure and I'm going apple picking with Scooby Doo
Ryan Russell
cool tell me how that goes
Adam Ramirez
WTF even is that STFU nerd
Caleb Watson
Lol if you think this you're retarded.