WIN IPS: ROM Patching Tool

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WIN IPS: ROM Patching Tool

Post by joe_devore »

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.

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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:

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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.

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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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Post by Kagerato »

I prefer Lunar IPS, in the rare case I need to hard-patch.

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Post by Agozer »

IPSWIN is the devil in disguise.
whicker: franpa is grammatically correct, and he still gets ripped on?
sweener2001: Grammatically correct this one time? sure. every other time? no. does that give him a right? not really.
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Post by joe_devore »

Agozer wrote:IPSWIN is the devil in disguise.
Why do you say that?? :?: :?: :?:

It hasn't caused me any problems yet..
Seems to work just fine.
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Post by Joe Camacho »

joe_devore wrote:
Agozer wrote:IPSWIN is the devil in disguise.
Why do you say that?? :?: :?: :?:
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.
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Post by joe_devore »

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.
Are you sure you are talking about the right IPS program.
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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Joe Camacho wrote:
joe_devore wrote:
Agozer wrote:IPSWIN is the devil in disguise.
Why do you say that?? :?: :?: :?:
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.
You are correct sir.
whicker: franpa is grammatically correct, and he still gets ripped on?
sweener2001: Grammatically correct this one time? sure. every other time? no. does that give him a right? not really.
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Post by grinvader »

Agozer wrote:
Joe Camacho wrote:
joe_devore wrote:
Agozer wrote:IPSWIN is the devil in disguise.
Why do you say that?? :?: :?: :?:
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.
You are correct sir.
Double-correct.

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grinvader wrote:
Agozer wrote:
Joe Camacho wrote:
joe_devore wrote:
Agozer wrote:IPSWIN is the devil in disguise.
Why do you say that?? :?: :?: :?:
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.
You are correct sir.
Double-correct.

SNESTool for lyfe.
Damn straight. I <3 teh SNESTool.
whicker: franpa is grammatically correct, and he still gets ripped on?
sweener2001: Grammatically correct this one time? sure. every other time? no. does that give him a right? not really.
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Post by PKFAIRY »

likewise, though UIPS comes in a close second : )
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Post by joe_devore »

Are you all finished dising it yet.
I HAVE not seen any prolems YET.
Have any of you tried the last version released? :?: :?: :?: :?: :?:
SnesTools=DOS=Iwillmostlikely never use.

Oh by the way UIPS= dos was the first I used.
I HATED IT.
I was so glad when I found WinIPS2.0.
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Post by Esturk »

I have to agree that IPSwin DOES screw perfectly good roms sometimes. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
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Post by Agozer »

joe_devore wrote:SnesTools=DOS=Iwillmostlikely never use.
Yet, SNESTool has a GUI... and it's not just for patching rom images.
whicker: franpa is grammatically correct, and he still gets ripped on?
sweener2001: Grammatically correct this one time? sure. every other time? no. does that give him a right? not really.
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Post by Joe Camacho »

Agozer wrote:
joe_devore wrote:SnesTools=DOS=Iwillmostlikely never use.
Yet, SNESTool has a GUI... and it's not just for patching rom images.
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.
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The Split/Join is a useful feature, but sometimes gives ill results (very rarely though).
whicker: franpa is grammatically correct, and he still gets ripped on?
sweener2001: Grammatically correct this one time? sure. every other time? no. does that give him a right? not really.
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Post by Zuzma »

I used to use ucon by chicken and chp back in the day. Then when ucon64 came around I just switched to that. Though I guess for you gui junkies lunar ips would probably be one of the better choices.
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Post by Clements »

I use GBA Tool Advance for hard-patching my GBA roms to fix them up. This thing is very useful for fixing overdumps, trimming roms, viewing info, removing intros and all sorts. It also has a fantastic GUI.

Otherwise soft-patching all the way.
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Post by Kagerato »

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.
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Post by xamenus »

I'd prefer any IPS patching tool that is small, does the job, and does not use the Windows Registry. IPSWin fits that description, but if it really is that bad... :?
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Just remember to backup your roms and nothing serious will happen.
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Post by Warrax »

grinvader wrote:
Agozer wrote:
Joe Camacho wrote:
joe_devore wrote:
Agozer wrote:IPSWIN is the devil in disguise.
Why do you say that?? :?: :?: :?:
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.
You are correct sir.
Double-correct.

SNESTool for lyfe.
Trible-correct.

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 :P
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Post by rage46 »

Are any of those for linux?
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Post by ThunderClaw »

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.
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Post by PHoNyMiKe »

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.
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Post by xamenus »

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.
I agree.

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.
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