JPod

[Kmaster]

JPod: Cross-platform open source POD archive utility

JPod is a small, open source Java desktop tool for viewing, extracting, and building POD (version 1 for Monster Truck Madness 1 & 2, CART Precision Racing, Hellbender, Terminal Velocity, and Fury3) archives based on the original WinPod by MDMRE.




I had to make this utility out of necessity since i'm currently developing JTraxx on a M-series mac. And maybe, just maybe, in the future we won't need to be tied to windows, wine or vms to run MTM2 elsewhere

If you need help porting any utility (and you have the source code & permission), let me know.

https://github.com/juanputrerasm/JPod

[Kmaster]

JPod 1.1

This new version adds a much more capable archive browser and preview workflow compared with 1.0. The file list now behaves more like a real file viewer, with collapsible folders, icons, quick filtering, advanced search, clickable column sorting, recent files, and cleaner toolbar/menu actions.

Preview support was also expanded quite a bit. More game text formats can now be opened directly, RAW image handling is smarter for non-standard sizes and palette selection is more flexible. The update also improves pod.ini mounting, refreshes descriptions for known file types, simplifies file extraction and includes general usability polish across the app.


collapsible folders

raw preview options, with image size inferring and palette selection

"quick search" file name filtering

non-standard raw image size support

Download it here: https://github.com/juanputrerasm/JPod/releases

[Fila]

Gonna have to add these utils to the site at some point

[Kmaster]

I added POD v2 (4x4 Evo, Nocturne) and EPD (Fly!) file viewing/extraction support. and (of course) ported it to Javascript. so we might have an online pod viewer at some point

[Fila]

Can you build it to an .exe ?

[Kmaster]

not really, well at least not easily. There's some tools out there, but nothing is very good because i'm using Swing (UI) Java controls.

[Fila]

Guess it should be pointed out that it requires java runtime environment installed.

[Kmaster]

Guess it should be pointed out that it requires java runtime environment installed.

sadly yes. JRE or JDK 17 or newer. This one was made out of personal necessity, i needed a pod program that worked on ARM Mac, and by using Java i can run this on any operating system, any processor architecture. But i'll investigate further if i can have a native .exe for windows.
I tried using graal and some other *stuff* for JTraxx but that didn't work welll. Maybe it's easier for a smaller program like JPod. And of course, if its a windows binary, it won't start with a J. J is for Java by the way, not my real name

[Fila]

OK Sweet I got it to work. Will upload it on the website and make a note that people need to download the latest JRE for windows in order to be able to run it.