Case study
Prineo_RE: PriPara arcade model-format investigation
Prineo_RE investigates the PriPara arcade games' model and resource formats and provides a Noesis addon to load skinned meshes, encrypted assets and texture bindings. Its notes describe BIN containers, MDJ geometry and scene chunks, and modified hashing and pseudorandom routines encountered during format analysis.
- Targets
- Game
- Category
- Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship
- Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed
- Evidence class
- C2 code & docs, no demo or download
- Stars
- 7
- Last commit
- 2026-09-24
- Language
- Python
- License (GitHub)
- GPL-2.0
GitHub data as of 2026-11-10
Evidence
- Observed
- Code, documentation and a demo observed; no download method found.
- Checked
- 2026-11-09
Requirements & limits
- Prerequisites: Noesis is required to use the provided addon.
- Limits: The documented formats contain fields whose purpose remains unknown.
- License: GPL-2.0 License.
Cite
BibTeX
@misc{prineo-re-case,
title = {{Prineo\_RE: PriPara arcade model-format investigation}},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/ExIfDev/Prineo_RE}},
url = {https://github.com/ExIfDev/Prineo_RE},
urldate = {2026-11-07},
note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/prineo-re-case/}}
}Plain text
Prineo_RE: PriPara arcade model-format investigation. https://github.com/ExIfDev/Prineo_RE (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/prineo-re-case/
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About this entry
The description was reviewed against primary sources.
Primary sources
- README.md GitHub · ExIfDev/Prineo_RE · Revision c1779f4
- Noesis/README.md GitHub · ExIfDev/Prineo_RE · Revision c1779f4
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