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Re:A remaster with no old code: Crash Bandicoot was rebuilt ... by jplayer01 on Friday October 05, 2018 @04:01AM (#18146485)
> Did player expected them to package the optimized lisp virtual machine they had back then

Well, yeah? It's a remaster, not a remake. A remaster implies taking an existing project and updating it. And it makes sense to keep the old game logic - why write from scratch if you already have the whole game in a working state?

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Re:A remaster with no old code: Crash Bandicoot was rebuilt ... by motwera on Friday October 05, 2018 @09:46AM (#18148044)
It's a remake, not a remaster in the definition that you are thinking of. Vicarious Visions did not use any of the code, likely to the fact that either it was unusable or they did not ever have the source code.

N. Sane was done in Alchemy Engine, not Unreal Engine 4 (unlike Reignited), although VV is likely following suit with their upcoming project.

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