Say more, seems like a simple game? Was it written weird or something?

I dont know much about legacy ports of games like this, would be curious to learn more.

My understanding is that the original source files of the game were not available, and that who even owned the IP wasn't entirely clear when she first started looking into the game. I don't have any direct citation for this so it's possible I've misunderstood things that I've cobbled together from following this for a few months.