[mraison]

Fun (or sad) fact: they apparently lost a lot of the source code and assets. Looks like they were able to recover most of the code, but not the assets [1]

[1] https://www.gamespot.com/articles/how-diablo-2-was-almost-lo...

[im3w1l]

They said they lost the source code pre-release, but managed to reconstruct most of it. Given that it was released and that there have been many patches, I think the source code is fine.

I think the only thing they really lost are the hi-def assets from which the lower-def ingame assets were created.

[taneq]

Are you sure the in-game assets were created from hi-def versions rather than just being pixel art?

[_ph_]

At least the source code they seem to have, as reasonably recently, they ported D2 from PowerPC to Intel on the Mac.