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Saints Row 2's Source Code Has Been Rediscovered, So The PC Version Will Live Again

Volition’s classic Saints Row 2 has been almost unplayable on PC for years after the game’s source code went missing and it turned into a bug-riddled mess. Good news today for anyone who still wants to play it, though: The code has been found, and Volition is working on getting a Steam version...

kotaku.com

The company announced the discovery in a livestream earlier today, saying that a two-person team is getting put to work rebuilding Saints Row 2 from scratch so that it’ll run on more modern systems/hardware configurations. This new version will run on Steam, not Gamespy (if you’d forgotten about Gamespy, it’s OK; this is a 2008 game ported to PC in 2009). It will also bring with it the game’s formerly console-exclusive DLC.

 

[pr0cs]

Cool, I wish volition would get back to making a less goofy version of saints row. Put in Guerrilla's destruction too please

 

[Rest]

How exactly does one lose source code?

 

[Deleted member 738976]

What about Saints Row 1 for Steam? I don't think that was ever a thing.

 

[Wolfgang Jr]

How exactly does one lose source code?

They had a Raid-5 NAS setup and got lazy when then damn thing started beeping at them.