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by deaddodo 757 days ago
This has happened quite a few times:

https://tcrf.net/Category:Games_with_uncompiled_source_code

It's usually more common on CD games with the directory/file being unlisted, but it's always interesting to find partial source code bakes into ROMs. Last I heard/understood, it was usually as some sort of white space padding; in the case of CD-ROMs and an artifact of the sector-copying mechanism in disk duplicators.

Also, the bytes cost money, but if you have a 32K ROM (because the next lowest size is 16K) and only 28K of data, it's not costing anything extra to fill that space.