WIN IPS: ROM Patching Tool
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WIN IPS: ROM Patching Tool
Hey.
I found this Really Great Windows GUI based,
ROM Patching Tool.
Called IPSWin (International Patching System).
It is really easy to use.
Here is a pic from the site.
All you do is select the file to patch and the patch itself,
and click Patch and you are done.
It even has Options to creat a log and a back up file just in case the Patch
Fails.
There is also a Java based one for thoses that do not have windows.
Here is a pic of the Java IPS from the Site:
Here are some links to the site:
ZeroSoft
IPSWin2.0 (246KB)
JIPS 3.0 (13.6KB)
There are a few other programs there as well.
Take a look.
I will use the this Topic to post any updates that I find on this subject and
Sites Here.
If the MOD's think there is a better place for this topic let me know and go
ahead and move it.
Edit: Please do to some type of Web Loading problem I Copied the pics
above into my On-Line File storage so they would display right.
EDIT2:
I will post here any and all GUI IPS programs that are worthy of use.
Lunar IPS (LIPS) - IPS Creation/Application Tool (97KB)
I found this Really Great Windows GUI based,
ROM Patching Tool.
Called IPSWin (International Patching System).
It is really easy to use.
Here is a pic from the site.
All you do is select the file to patch and the patch itself,
and click Patch and you are done.
It even has Options to creat a log and a back up file just in case the Patch
Fails.
There is also a Java based one for thoses that do not have windows.
Here is a pic of the Java IPS from the Site:
Here are some links to the site:
ZeroSoft
IPSWin2.0 (246KB)
JIPS 3.0 (13.6KB)
There are a few other programs there as well.
Take a look.
I will use the this Topic to post any updates that I find on this subject and
Sites Here.
If the MOD's think there is a better place for this topic let me know and go
ahead and move it.
Edit: Please do to some type of Web Loading problem I Copied the pics
above into my On-Line File storage so they would display right.
EDIT2:
I will post here any and all GUI IPS programs that are worthy of use.
Lunar IPS (LIPS) - IPS Creation/Application Tool (97KB)
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Are you sure you are talking about the right IPS program.Joe Camacho wrote:I can't speak from experience, but I think IPSWIN has a history of screwing patches and/or roms. That's what I have heard anyway.
Like I said for the few Hard Patches I have done I have not seen any
Faliure at all, PLUS it has a backup feature anyway, which I do not use.
I use a copy of the ROM to patch to anyway, I would never take the
chance of losing a only copy of that ROM.
Being on Dial-Up It would take foever to download a new copy.
Well if it matters so much I will add those Lunar links to the main piece of this post and any other GUI based IPS program you know of that is worthy.
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Double-correct.Agozer wrote:You are correct sir.Joe Camacho wrote:I can't speak from experience, but I think IPSWIN has a history of screwing patches and/or roms. That's what I have heard anyway.joe_devore wrote:Why do you say that??Agozer wrote:IPSWIN is the devil in disguise.
SNESTool for lyfe.
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Damn straight. I <3 teh SNESTool.grinvader wrote:Double-correct.Agozer wrote:You are correct sir.Joe Camacho wrote:I can't speak from experience, but I think IPSWIN has a history of screwing patches and/or roms. That's what I have heard anyway.joe_devore wrote:Why do you say that??Agozer wrote:IPSWIN is the devil in disguise.
SNESTool for lyfe.
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I remembered in my "old days" a friend of mine gave me a short movie (.avi or something) in diskettes, I don't remember what was about, but he had split it with Snestool. When we arrived to my home, I asked which program should I use to open it, he told me that Snestool, I was puzzled, but tried anyway, I join the archive but had to explore and open it with the player.Agozer wrote:Yet, SNESTool has a GUI... and it's not just for patching rom images.joe_devore wrote:SnesTools=DOS=Iwillmostlikely never use.
*Sometimes I edit my posts just to correct mistakes.
SNESTool has its own bugs in the IPS patcher which I've read about but never encountered in actual use (they're rare-occuring).
Regardless of that, SNESTool is meant to be more than just an IPS patcher and therefore I see no reason to use it as such.
And yes, SNESTool is a real 16-bit DOS program (the lack of the 'This program must be run under Win32' string and of the 'PE' ascii tag anywhere in the file as easy signals to that). It still runs, albeit more slowly/with display lag, under WinXP's DOS emulator, though.
Regardless of that, SNESTool is meant to be more than just an IPS patcher and therefore I see no reason to use it as such.
And yes, SNESTool is a real 16-bit DOS program (the lack of the 'This program must be run under Win32' string and of the 'PE' ascii tag anywhere in the file as easy signals to that). It still runs, albeit more slowly/with display lag, under WinXP's DOS emulator, though.
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Just remember to backup your roms and nothing serious will happen.
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Trible-correct.grinvader wrote:Double-correct.Agozer wrote:You are correct sir.Joe Camacho wrote:I can't speak from experience, but I think IPSWIN has a history of screwing patches and/or roms. That's what I have heard anyway.joe_devore wrote:Why do you say that??Agozer wrote:IPSWIN is the devil in disguise.
SNESTool for lyfe.
I dont trust any IPS Patcher (because it really corrupt roms)
Use SNESTool instead, it's not hard to use. WinSNESTool (by the same maker of SNEStool) would be nice tho
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God damn, I love it how Joe-dumbass somehow comes to the conclusion that people who have been emulating games for the better part of a decade don't know what the fuck they're talking about because he hasn't suffered the backlash of Satan's IPS patcher yet.
IPSWin has a VERY long history of mangling ROM images beyond repair or even recognition. I speak not just from personal experience, but from what I've discussed with others, and, between Agozer, Grinvader, and myself, I'm pretty confident that our combined years emulating games dwarfs Joe-dumbass's age. Yet somehow, we're the ones who don't know what we're talking about. Fucking priceless.
It's not like you even need a hard-patcher most of the time with ZSNES's well-coded soft-patcher. Even when you do, SNESTool is a time-tested rock, and even if you're using Linux, you can still enjoy it's awesomeness by using DOSBox.
IPSWin has a VERY long history of mangling ROM images beyond repair or even recognition. I speak not just from personal experience, but from what I've discussed with others, and, between Agozer, Grinvader, and myself, I'm pretty confident that our combined years emulating games dwarfs Joe-dumbass's age. Yet somehow, we're the ones who don't know what we're talking about. Fucking priceless.
It's not like you even need a hard-patcher most of the time with ZSNES's well-coded soft-patcher. Even when you do, SNESTool is a time-tested rock, and even if you're using Linux, you can still enjoy it's awesomeness by using DOSBox.
I'm sorry but I've been using ipswin for a while and not had one problem. it would be cool if you could give a rom and a patch that definately gets 'mangled beyond repair or even recognition' because I haven't had any problems. all I hear about ipswin is exagerated he said she said crap.
lunar ips is cool by the way, but snestool you're fucking kidding me. its gui doesn't work right in xp. snestool is just archaic.
lunar ips is cool by the way, but snestool you're fucking kidding me. its gui doesn't work right in xp. snestool is just archaic.
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I agree.phonymike wrote:I'm sorry but I've been using ipswin for a while and not had one problem. it would be cool if you could give a rom and a patch that definately gets 'mangled beyond repair or even recognition' because I haven't had any problems. all I hear about ipswin is exagerated he said she said crap.
lunar ips is cool by the way, but snestool you're fucking kidding me. its gui doesn't work right in xp. snestool is just archaic.
IPSWin has worked just fine for me. It has even successfully patched a Nintendo 64 rom I have (a bad Zelda Master Quest dump into a good dump). And as I said in my above post, it's small, gets the job done, and doesn't use the registry.
/edit: For those of you who say IPSWin is bad, I'm not saying that you're wrong. It's just that I don't use patches often anyway, and so far IPSWin has worked fine.