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Not your personal project, this idea was pitched solely for corporations who develop software. In my mind, this would most benefit video game preservation which
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
Not your personal project, this idea was pitched solely for corporations who develop software. In my mind, this would most benefit video game preservation which is currently in a state of disarray. It would also protect corporations from themselves, as there have been multiple instances of high-profile retro games having their source code completely lost when they come back for a remaster.
A big example of this is Square Enix which lost the source code for multiple games, including (infamously) Final Fantasy 7. The remaster was a reverse-engineering project. They were also rumored to have lost Final Fantasy 8 though this was later shown incorrect. (And, in addition to that, they lost all of Kingdom Hearts 1). And that's just the mistakes we know of. (There's also Konami losing Silent Hill...)