Hello, I have a favor to ask from the people who have a plugin development environment already set up for compiling GIMP plugins. There is a very old GIMP plugin which was never distributed in binary form that I would like to use, however it was intended use under GIMP 2.0 or 2.2. I'm not sure exactly what libraries I would need to get and I just don't want to go through the time consuming headache of compiling it myself.

This plugin allows for the loading of image files that are used by an old game. As far as I know, this GIMP plugin is the only easy way to read and edit these files. My hope is that I can not only read these files, but also export them in a new format.

A short explanation and the plugin's source can be found here: (apparently new users are not allowed to post off-site URLs) In order to find the page I am referring to and access to source code please google 'yppraw' and click on the very first link. The page has links to the three source files which can be copy and pasted in order to actually build the plugin.

For anyone who has any free time and the ability to compile this plugin, please help me out and compile it for me and send it to me somehow.

In the event that no one wants to compile this plugin, could you please take a look at the source code in the link provided and let me know how I can set up an environment to compile this plugin? I have visual studio 2015 on windows 7 64 bit.

I would really appreciate your help, thanks.

I will give it a try for you.
https://yppedia.puzzlepirates.com/YppRAW

many errors with this compile.

Are you really compiling a C file, or did you download the HTML of some intermediate download page?

To OP: what format are you taking about? It could be that it is now part of the standard format... Can you post one such image? Otherwise another possibility is to use another tool (such as Imagemagick) to convert between your format and aformat that Gimp can edit).z

According to me the correct compilation (I tried to mingw-gcc 5.2.0) is not possible because of errors in the code (among other things: the two files c - without linking).

Is the author (or programmer in c) can update the code?

lol you were correct. I had right clicked and saved as the c file the entire htm page. heheh never bothered to look at the file itself. i will try again.

That's a crazy-fun coincidence. I was trying to figure out the same thing and stumbled on this thread.

Here's the deal. The MMO game (Puzzle Pirates by Three Rings) appears to be going into retirement. The original authors bought it back from Sega and are moving it to a company called "Grey Havens" (a LotR reference). With its retirement, I think several old-timers are interested in the art assets (really very beautiful for 2D art).

All of the puzzle graphics are in readable formats, but all the world art is packaged in small .raw files. The .raw files aren't recognized by any kind of reader (and I've tried many). From what I can tell, they are nothing like RAW files coming out of a camera. They appear to be something easily readable by Java.

The link earlier in this thread is to a script written a decade ago by a player called AtteSmythe who figured out how to view the files. Like the OP, I can't figure out how to get it to work now. I've tried to attach one of the raw files, but the forums won't allow it. This is extra effort, but if you download the game, you can find a bunch of examples in the Puzzle Pirates/rsrc/bundles directory.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can figure this out!