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The original Prince of Persia has insane depth and an incredible modding community

plausible unnatural

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Remember Prince of Persia? I sure do, it's one of my favorite gaming franchises that has sadly faded away. Did you know that people still make mods, new levels and discover new tricks and glitches for it years after its original release? Here's some examples of some cool tricks and glitches:











These are just a few examples, there's a total of 40 here on this page with explanations. But here's the thing, these tricks and glitches don't break the game, they add to it. Hell, people even made new levels where you have to know the particularities of how the game works and the glitches to actually beat levels. Here's an example of a custom level like this:





There's completely new levels that don't require glitches too of course, there's even a goddamn randomizer mod/level even (called Random Tournament), and you can try that easily with the Prince of Persia 1 Total Pack tool, which is a program that allows you to search the online database to easily download and play mods and modify the experience (for example, use the SNES graphics) to your liking.

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You wanna try making your own level even? That is easy, there are several tools to make your custom levels like apoplexy that can be used to make PoP1 (DOS and SNES) and PoP2 custom levels.

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What I mean to say with this thread is: Prince of Persia is good. Play Prince of Persia.
 

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I loved the original Prince of Persia so much. I wish Ubisoft would bring the franchise back.
 
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time still highly rated on my top ten.
 

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That's really neat and I didn't know there was a modding community. I wonder if people do speedruns too.

I remember the black-and-white Mac version and possibly one of the color versions had at least one potion that seemed impossible to get, and/or a switch that was impossible to get. I wonder if glitches could let you get to those strange, mysterious parts of levels. I also wonder if you can somehow glitch past your obnoxious mirror self who normally slams the gate at the end of one level.
 
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Loved the stealth sections in The Two Thrones, the only Prince of Persia game that I played properly. I wish they'd bring it back.
 

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I never knew this. So it's kinda like Doom for platform games. Pretty neat. I might take some custom stuff for a spin.
 
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plausible unnatural

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Blizzard said:
That's really neat and I didn't know there was a modding community. I wonder if people do speedruns too.

I remember the black-and-white Mac version and possibly one of the color versions had at least one potion that seemed impossible to get, and/or a switch that was impossible to get. I wonder if glitches could let you get to those strange, mysterious parts of levels. I also wonder if you can somehow glitch past your obnoxious mirror self who normally slams the gate at the end of one level.
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Speedruns are a thing, but I don't know if there's anyone actively doing them anymore. There was one at AGDQ a few years back.



I don't know which potion/switch you are referring to, but there's usually some sort of hidden path that you can explore if you break tiles that are above you or in other areas. You can only get past the Dark Prince at one point, but it doesn't really affect anything, he's still gonna make the gate close and make you fall.
 
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I was just wondering if there was a easy way to play the Mac versions of Prince of Persia 1 and 2 (the ones with higher res graphics) on PC

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sir_crocodile

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Ifrit said:
I was just wondering if there was a easy way to play the Mac versions of Prince of Persia 1 and 2 (the ones with higher res graphics) on PC

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Nothing easy that I know of unfortunately. You could try this https://basilisk.cebix.net/, but it's not simple. Although for POP1 it's not the best version - that would be SNES overall, or X68K if you want a more faithful version (SNES is closer to a remake).
 
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I'm still waiting Ubisoft.

It's been almost 10 years since the last game.
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It's never happening. The entire reason AC happened was because Ubi wanted their own IP rather than use someone else's IP. AC started off basically as PoP replacement until it became a whole different thing. You could say the sands of time in PoP are now forgotten sands ! :P
 
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plausible unnatural said:
Retrospective on the PoP games:



Let's bring the series back! (somehow...)
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Lol, that Mega Drive version wasn't "solid", it sucked. Disappointing he didn't spend any time talking about the X68K version of POP1 of the MAC versions of POP1/2, which were the standout ports.

I think Ubi still have a stake in POP so Mechner can't do anything, and they don't seem to want to do anything.
 
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