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Prince Resource editor needs your help!

speeder — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:14:43 +0000

Hello!

The PR project needs your help!

The current version of PR 1.2 works fine and can load almost all data from PoP1 and 2, but we have a problem: we did only a single resources.xml file that is needed by PR to know what resources to import and export, and that single file is just a mash of all versions (1.0 1.3 1.4 2.0) of resources.xml in one, the result is that currently PR does not work to export and import all files in any of these versions…

We need volunteers to create resources.xml file customized to each version, the right way to do it is use PR without a .xml file on a UNMODDED pop version, and it will generate a “unknown.xml” file, and this file must be edited with the correct name of the things…

If you are willing to edit a .xml file, or even send us your unmodded pop, we will be happy… Also we will be specially happy if someone have the legendary 1.2 version that we are not even certain about its existance…

Please volunteers, before actually taking any action, post on the PR section of the forum about what you are willing to do! So this way we can coordinate everyone actions.

New CusPop 2.0 released

ecalot — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:14:57 +0000

Today we finished porting CusPop as a wordpress plugin, making the release of CusPop 2.0. We hope you enjoy the new version of this program.

For developers, CusAsm will be released very soon. We hope you enjoy it and we’d be glad tu incorporate new hacks sent by advanced users.

Website address changed

ecalot — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:35:00 +0000

This year -compared to others- we haven’t been very active doing releases, documentation and other stuff, but we didn’t fall asleep. We have been analyzing and designing the future PV4. We have also evaluated the possibility of migrating the website framework to another better.

To generate some activity to show we are still here, we have renamed the site URL from http://www.princed.com.ar to http://www.princed.org. We are more like an organization rather than an Argentine Commercial website. So that’s why we decided to do this change. Some traffic will be lost, but the spirit of this change is to show what we really are and it was very necessary. We should have done it before. So from now on, we’ll use www.princed.org as the main website and keep the old address as a permanent redirection to this one.

POP2 Level format almost figured out

ecalot — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:51:03 +0000

After working a lot in the POP2 Level format, we can say that we know about 90% of it. Brendon James is working in the editor Roomshaker 2 for POP2 using all the specifications discovered. The format specifications for both POP games are open and published in the technical documentation section of this web. I hope we’ll soon be playing new POP2 mods. Thanks Brendon for the good stuff!

PR 1.2 scheduled for March, 22nd

ecalot — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:51:03 +0000

Finally, after several delays we are setting a final release date. This version incorporates the extraction support of 256 colors images from the POP2 dat files in experimental mode. In order to do that we had to reverse the file format and rewrite two big parts of PR (the file format layer and the dat format layer). We believe that this version won’t be as stable as the other 1.x’s, this is because lots of lines of code were added without the propper testing time.

The release week It’ll be one year since PR 1.0 had been released, two years since PR 1.0 beta and about three years since the development had started.

In future releases we’ll include stability, full non-experimental extract support (PR 1.3) and importation support (PR 1.4).

Princed Project home page improved

ecalot — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:38:02 +0000

After validating the page with the most strict standards in the web we decided to implement an RSS extraction system from the forum. So now the page and the forum are very close.

We also decided to drop out the nedstat visit counter because of the publicity they added. From now on, the only visit counters we’ll use are internal. When the site was first published we had decided to use nedstat because it was an external and trusted visit counting system that we won’t ever be able to modify.

The home page has reached more than 80 thousand visitors since the first time it was published.

PR 1.2 improvements

ecalot — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:11:01 +0000

We are proud to announce that we succesfully imported a POP2 dat file.

This is going to help a lot in the POP2 level reverse engineering -wich has already started and it’s going fine- because now we only have to worry about the level and not the .dat file and it’s checksums. We have reversed everything but the guard properties.

Knowing that POP2 has two types of images and that the first type is similar to POP1 we were able -during the development of PR 1.2- to extract a graphic dat file of this first type and import it back again with an image edited having successful results.

This means that we are very near to get a version capable of editing (and not only extracting) POP2 graphics of this first type.

We also reversed the new POP2 compression algorithm that is present in the second type and we believe PR 1.2 will have an experimental feature to extract all the images from POP2. If you want to know more about it please refer to the news thread I posted in the forum.

PR 1.2 will be released very soon

ecalot — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:04:12 +0000

We only need testing, lots of it. The main new features are the support non-unique resource IDs that will help a lot in POP2 resource importation and the index names are now in forwards and may be bigger than 4 letters, much easier to understand.

Other less important new features are the new option –format (to generate filenames with the name specified), and the new dat input syntax allows to extract more specific resources like for example “rooftops.dat@400:shape#second,401:shape” and the unknown.xml file is now all merged in the extracted main folder.

If you want to test it, please make a post in the forum.

PR anniversary

ecalot — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 03:00:06 +0000

It’s been 2 years since the release of PR v0.1 alpha.

However development didn’t stop! We are coding very hard to release PR v1.1. For this new version we achieved coding a new dat handling layer to support pop2 dat files for extraction. The DAT v2 indexing is fully supported and some images and palettes do work properly.

2005 Princed contest awards

ecalot — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 03:00:03 +0000

Both algorithms were solved in two days since the samples had been published by Diego Essaya. Congratulations!

The results will be added in PR 1.0 final, scheduled for 2005-03-23.

After that, we’ll start thinking in the GUI editor for PR. For the moment we only know it will be portable and made in wxPython.