Do you think more companies should release the source code of their video games?

everyone should care about code preservation fag

>muh open source
t. leftists

I don't really care because I don't understand how the shit works. I guess it's cool but I don't really give a fuck, if I've played a game, I've played it, I don't really care if someone else gets to mess around with it.

most of Yas Forums is too retarded to have useful opinions on this. Everything should be open source if possible, and it nearly always is

I wonder if she also thinks this way about immigration.

game preservation? yea. code preservation? you are high if you think anything more than 1% of all game code has been preserved.

Proprietary bullshit is cancer. Games should be able to be archived and saved for future generations, people should be able to mod games, set up community servers, etc. Everything should be open source.

Yup also
github.com/n64decomp/sm64

The best thing about the SM64 decomp is Nintendo can't touch it because it doesn't provide any of the original assets e.g. textures

Old code gets discarded because it was written for the era it was written, and it's easier to just write new 0s and 1s than to try to go into old spaghetti shit. Blame the march of technology, although that march has slowed to a slothful crawl nowadays

All penises, if cut off, will rot away.

Open source is right-wing. What you are referring to is free as in free speech software.

They should, but they won't. This is a world where IPs and patents can be held for decades without use just because cunts don't want other people using it, open source is a fantasy like hoping for any other nice thing that isn't about making lots of cash.

This dude's correct.

Shut the fuck up, Boco. But yeah maybe, we will never know.

>Rebecca He(...)man

They just need an accident like that one famous hollywood fire in which 50k movies were burned and forever lost to the humanity.

The 6502 Assembly source code of the first two Mana games provided to Square Enix by Nintendo made possible the native ports for the Collection of Mana compilation.

>eine = a

Rebecca a man

Closed source code will only last as long as the company that wrote it. Open source code can be ported and updated by anyone.

Golden Axe needed to be remade from the scratch for the Sega Smash Pack compilation for the Game Boy Advance because Sega has lost the source code.
Same happened with G-LOC for Sega Ages collection for the Nintendo Switch.

They also lost some version of Sonic 1, Panzer Dragoon Saga, the first House of the Dead...

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It's still easier to remake/rewrite games in new code than making movies.
As long competent people exist that are not chinks or pajeets.

>implying GCC is all that much different now than it was a decade ago.
every piece of technology that works right now works because of well maintained codebases that are decades old.

nightmare fuel

so all of them are men?

this would be a lot less disturbing if they belonged to a rosary ring instead of posting on twitter or, even worse, on discord with anime profile pictures

what rots is the machine compatible with the code

no, just jewish

Yeah. The most important thing are the assets in their original resolution.

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This doesn't make sense. Software stays the same but new hardware and operating systems usually are incompatible with old programs.

And with the AI upscaling shit, we may even get better results.

It's great for the fans but there is zero benefit for companies. Not to mention a lot of source code is simply lost because people don't give a fuck.

>Do you think more companies should release the source code of their video games?
Not if they have an online mode lol, it killed Jedi Academy that Lucasarts released the source code when they got disbanded

In a perfect world we’d have the source code to everything, but I suppose with IP laws in place it’s really up to the rights holder what to do with it. The problem is developers who don’t keep source code at all, they’re the real retards. Sega are notoriously terrible when it comes to this, on top of all the other retarded shit they’ve done over the years too

Several japanese companies were known for keeping their source code in printouts in filing cabinets. You can imagine what happened when there were fires.

It's good as it is. People would get lazy if there was source code for everything. Programmers get really good when trying to recreate existing concepts.

Nowadays, most engines are a Frankenstein of middlewares.
Tim Sweeney said that Unreal Engine 2 and 3 will never be open source because they use too much third party libraries.

Was it Namco or some other company who just threw out all the source code for their old arcade games

>and it's easier to just write new 0s and 1s than to try to go into old spaghetti shit.

There's a lot of very old systems out there that are actively maintained in old languages rather than rewritten, often because they do their jobs perfectly.

oh yes, let's ask legal and technical questions to the brain-damaged at Yas Forums. how many answers can the thread get before we hear complains about women?

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>and it's easier to just write new 0s and 1s than to try to go into old spaghetti shit.
Recreating weird engine quirks and physics is not easy to do.

Yeah, same shit happened with Doom source code, Carmack couldn't release the windows one because of the 3rd party bullshit.
Instead he released the linux one.

Why is Steve Pemberton in drag and hanging out with the witches of eastwick?

A lot of them just threw out the old codebases and design files because they were running out of room. Namco was bad for this, as was Sega, Taito, Konami. Preservation wasn't even a "Thing" at most companies across the world till the last decade or so when they realized "Oh shit we need it".

this is intriguing, but i can't find anything on the subject. any sauce?

>female blue checkmark twitter screenshot
op is a mega faggot
can't wait for the next big series of shitposts about "code rot"
fuck you

user, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Just because you dumb ass web devs go through a million different frameworks a year doesn't mean the rest of the world reinvents the wheel when it comes to source code.

This thread is going great, shut your mouth

>female

>open source is right wing
by your logic, Communism is also right wing
both are LEFT WING first

Electronic Arts kept the source code of Pinball Construction Set, tho.

>While the Secret of Mana remake was not on Switch, Trials of Mana is thanks to fan feedback over the lack of Mana on the console. Oyamada said that Collection of Mana was Switch-exclusive because they had to actually get the code for the games from Nintendo, meaning the Switch made sense.
gameinformer.com/preview/2019/06/11/decades-in-the-making
At the time, pretty much every game was written in assembly language.
Nintendo didn't had the source code of the third game, reason why it's just a ROM hack.

I was going to write "kike" but I changed my mind.
Sorry I didn't consult the tranny registry, I saw "rebecca" and posted.

"My knowledge on this subject was so lacking as to make grand declarations that were laughable wrong and/or my favorite games are so simple and new that I can't see a reason why anyone would get into 'legacy' code to revive it."
why do you faggots with no vested interest show up just to act like retards?

There is a Windows version of Doom?

computer, please estimate the age of the females pictured

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Some of them are really good at it though accidents happen. Westwood lost the source code and original cutscene video tapes to Command and Conquer and Red Alert when they were moving to EA LA for example (Which is why the remasters are being done from scratch and they are using AI upscaling on the cutscenes)
Probably the only developer that still has everything is Rare where they have literal vaults that have the source codes and design documents of every game they made since Jetpac. When K. Rool was announced for Smash they opened the vaults and showed all the design documents and original concepts they had for him.

No fuck this commie shit

based

I meant the dos one.

Windows 95, yeah. Back when it launched they made a big deal about it being able to play DOOM, even getting Bill Gates to do some promotional video where he's inside a game.

Shut the fuck up, Boco.

Yes sir...

>Open boarder == Open source

Quiet little timmy, the adults are talking right now

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Why are her teeth half length?