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28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it" (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Decomp isn't the original source code, though. It's just code written in a way that's going to produce similar to exact same results as the original.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 5 months ago

yea, for historical preservation purposes, having the original source code will always be better

but in practice, what we have now is good enough to do basically anything you’d want the source code for