The numbers are somewhat artificially exaggerated since it sounds like the source leak contains what are effectively multiple platform-specific copies of the sa

The numbers are somewhat artificially exaggerated since it sounds like the source leak contains what are effectively multiple platform-specific copies of the same game. That's a pretty common pattern when you're porting to a substantially different system, from a bespoke base like a small launch title, that was never intended to run on anything else. Especially in an era before everyone used vcs tools like git with cheap branches. We used to work on diverging whole copy forks constantly. Going through this mess and cleaning it all up must have felt incredibly satisfying because of all the low-hanging fruit. It's like a long overdue spring cleaning.