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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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[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

to clarify: the decompilation is done. so we have the source code, one way or another.

(well, it’s not completely done since it doesn’t compile to the exact same binary, but it’s very close - just go watch the video OP linked, it’s good)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks 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