princed.org (phpBB forum + webpages)

[Norbert]

Can someone please make a "New Levels and Mods For NES" thread on the main page ? I'm planing to make some levels and maybe others to. Or is there already a place for posting NES mods ?

NES now has its own section on this forum, here.

[Roarke]

Thank you.

[_Zaphod_]

Suggest a "where do i get the game" faq section. I'll even write it for you.

Where do i get...

1) Prince Of Persia 1? Download DOS version here viewtopic.php?f=68&t=1650 Other versions may be found on various emulator websites. You may ask other member where to find them. Another options is POP Total Pack viewtopic.php?f=123&t=3374 contains pop 1 and 2.
2) Prince Of Persia 2. It's in the POP total pack viewtopic.php?f=123&t=3374
3) Prince Of Persia 3d. Buy it on amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/ ... dition=new Links to download for free are forbidden until amazon shows no results on this page. Until then it's not abandonware.
4) Prince of Persia Sands of Time Trilogy. You may buy all three at gog.com https://www.gog.com/mix/prince_of_persi ... me_trilogy for PC. These PC versions are all fully unprotected, like all software on gog.com. Console versions can be found at your friendly neighborhood video game store, or your consoles digital download service. These are very unlikely to ever become abandonware. But they are affordable. Buy them!
5) Price of Persia 2008. Also on gog.com https://www.gog.com/game/prince_of_persia Just as cheap. You can also find it for consoles.
6) Forgotten sands. This is still sold new in many places. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=c ... tten+sands Recommend buying it for console instead because the PC DRM is annoying and glitchy. And different consoles have different versions of the game.

[Norbert]

Suggest a "where do i get the game" faq section

Where would you want this section to be, do you mean like a sticky post on the General Stuff forum board?

[Norbert]

There seems to be a problem with the private messages.
It still works, but you might see an error:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Twig_Error_Loader' with message 'The "./language/en_us/email" directory does not exist.'
I'll look into this.

[Norbert]

There seems to be a problem with the private messages.
It still works, but you might see an error:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Twig_Error_Loader' with message 'The "./language/en_us/email" directory does not exist.'
I'll look into this.

This should now be fixed.

[Andrew]

I know it's late in the day to suggest this, but still, better late than never. This reminded me of the importance of backups, so is it possible to compress and upload this forum's DB somewhere (even on this site itself) on a regular basis, with an automated script perhaps? I'd prefer it if multiple people held local updated copies to guard against the same thing that happened to PoPUW's forum ever happening again.

[Norbert]

importance of backups

I agree that backups are important. More generally speaking, we should prevent single points of failure. I'm not fond of the idea of making a backup of this forum's database public, because of the included private messages, IP addresses, e-mail addresses, and so on. I am making off-site backups of this forum regularly. If I'm not mistaken, so does the hosting provider. One of the things I've tried to do is combine information into documents that can more easily be shared. Someone could create, and keep up-to-date, a document about PRINCE.EXE hacking. One thing I like is that the Total Pack can now download all mod information from popot.org, including votes, comments and ZIP packages. In fact, per my request, starwindz' program can use other mirror(s) than popot.org, so that website is not a single point of failure. Maybe someone (other than me) could run a recursive wget of the entire forum.princed.org domain once a month? Another option is to retrospectively pluck all interesting stuff from the forum that's not in documents or programs, keep it in text files and add whatever interesting things are being said here to that archive.

[Andrew]

So there's no phpBB recommended method to export just an XML or something containing the post texts? That'll exclude the embedded videos and other attachments of course, but still something's better than nothing.

If that's not an option then I suppose wget/curl/HTTrack will have to do, but I'd prefer that to be the last resort.

In fact, per my request, starwindz' program can use other mirror(s) than popot.org, so that website is not a single point of failure.

It can, but does it? If no such mirror exists there's your SPoF right there.

[Norbert]

So there's no phpBB recommended method to export just an XML or something containing the post texts?

Maybe if I'd select certain tables and exclude others, but a regular export from the admin control panel using the Maintenance->Backup section includes too much stuff even when I select "data only".

wget/curl/HTTrack

You could give this a try. Maybe run it at night.
I don't know how much traffic it generates and how long it takes.

It can, but does it?

I haven't tested it myself. But anyone can use Total Pack to retrieve all data, I think it even downloads the XML file(s), so then that person has a backup that could be uploaded anywhere else if necessary. There is one other mirror listed in the program, if I'm not mistaken.

[Andrew]

You could give this a try. Maybe run it at night.
I don't know how much traffic it generates and how long it takes.

That's why I consider it overkill and am treating it as a last-ditch measure. Besides ending up with GBs (?) of non-essential site data to be waded through, I have monthly data caps to worry about.

But anyone can use Total Pack to retrieve all data, I think it even downloads the XML file(s), so then that person has a backup that could be uploaded anywhere else if necessary.

To be honest I'm interested primarily in the useful info scattered throughout the forum as compared to the mods themselves. The former was what was lost in the case of PoPUW, and what I wish I had the foresight to manually back up. Formal spec docs are nice but IMO can't really replicate the sum total of community knowledge embodied by the forum.

[Andrew]

[Double-posting because this is a different issue altogether, plus editing my preceding post won't mark it as unread for Norbert.]

This site really needs a good favicon because tabs and bookmarked pages seem bland without one in my browser. Any suggestions, especially those that'll look good at 16x16? (Most hires graphics of box art or similar will be simply unrecognizable at that size, so probably a nice one featuring just the Prince/Kid will be best.)

[Norbert]

The Princed Project has its own favicon, see: http://www.princed.org/
I'll try to change it for the forum, and I will update this post with the results.
[Edit: Added.]

[Andrew]

The Princed Project has its own favicon

Huh, so it does. I rarely visit anything except the forum here so no wonder I missed it. Must say it's hardly the best though. At the very least a transparent background would help it look less ugly on non-white backgrounds, such as tabs for instance.

[Norbert]

Khushal64n6 suggests we create a Facebook 'fan page' for the Princed Community.

Looks like we hit 100 likes.