I've heard stories that some of the parts from a remake/remaster for example Kingdom Hearts, Silent Hill, and maybe few others has to be rebuilt/rewritten from scratch because apparently the developers no longer have the source code/asset or it is lost.
Source :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Hill_HD_Collection
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...on-still-uses-ps2-cut-scenes-in-separate-ways
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/27/original-kingdom-hearts-assets-lost
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/threads/52361-Developers-Losing-Source-Code
Notice that this mostly happen to Japanese developers. For some background, I worked for a few companies in the past 5 years, even the small one at least have weekly backup. One of the company I worked for still have their code from the 90's.
So I'm wondering how the hell this is even possible?
Source :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Hill_HD_Collection
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...on-still-uses-ps2-cut-scenes-in-separate-ways
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/27/original-kingdom-hearts-assets-lost
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/threads/52361-Developers-Losing-Source-Code
Notice that this mostly happen to Japanese developers. For some background, I worked for a few companies in the past 5 years, even the small one at least have weekly backup. One of the company I worked for still have their code from the 90's.
So I'm wondering how the hell this is even possible?