This should be illegal, companies should be forced to open-source games (or at least provide the code to people who bought it) if they decide to discontinue it, so people can preserve it on their own.

  • Flax
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    81 year ago

    Games don’t get lossy compressed when sent. They aren’t films or photographs.

    • JackbyDev
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      31 year ago

      Also even if you’re using lossy compression you don’t recompress things every time lol.

      • @CeeBee@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        Holy crap. File compression is not the same thing as lossy media compression.

        File compression uses mathematical algorithms to create definable outcomes. Meaning it doesn’t matter how much you compress/uncompress a file, it will always be exactly the same.

        5 X 2 will always give you 10 and 10 ÷ 2 will always give you 5.