How to Patch an IPS File to a.GBC/.GBA File. Patch your ROM with your IPS. Now you can start playing your ROM! Just open up your emulator and choose the ROM. Jan 22, 2012 Patching Tutorial For IPS and UPS Files. How To Patch Roms With.ips And.ups Files In Android! How to apply a.ips patch to a.gba rom - Duration.

Just a little app I made a few months ago, thought it might get more use here. It can patch roms/binary files (game roms, not OS's, though those can probably be patched too if patches are created) using most popular patching formats. Supported are what I am pretty sure are all versions ips, ups, bps, bsdiff, ppf, and xdelta Select a file to patch, select a patch, decide whether to make a backup version, and patch.

Larger files may take a while and cause the app to hang. This is normal, just wait for it to become responsive again. AFAIK all patch formats work, bsdiff is the only untested format. If a rom does not work after being patched, verify that the rom is correct and has been 'extended' if needed. The libraries in this app were taken from a mac rom patcher called multipatch and the source is licensed under GPL and is available if anybody needs it.

Edit: probably should've posted in the android subforum, sorry. Celebrating nearly 2000 downloads, here is an updated version that has a spinner while patching and displays an error message if the rom cannot be patched properly. The android launcher name name has also been changed to 'ROM Patcher'. I may upload to google play soon (still going to be completely free). Computer Stops Responding Vista. All patch types (including bsdiff) are now confirmed as working. You will probably need to uninstall the old version before installing this version. Test patches used: Animal Forest N64 English Translation (BPS) Alternate Animal Forest N64 English Translation (XDELTA) Mother 3 English Translation (UPS) Hatsune Miku Project DIVA English Translation (PPF) Rockman Exhaust (Rockman 2 hack) (IPS) Random Text Files (BSDIFF).

#1 What does your patcher even do? What specifically is it patching? Anti-piracy hacks? Compatibility hacks?

Glitch fix hacks? What emulator(s) specifically are you 'patching' these games for? #2 You also have to be specific with things like 'English Translations' As many games get multiple fan-made English Translations, some better than others. Pretty sure theres no one-and-only fan-translation for the games listed. For example whose to say my Project Diva translation was by the same group as yours. My Project Diva, Project Diva 2, and Project Diva Extend all have translations from three separate fan teams. #3 Pretty sure disc-rips are isos and cart-rips are roms.

#1 What does your patcher even do? What specifically is it patching? Anti-piracy hacks? Compatibility hacks? Glitch fix hacks?

What emulator(s) specifically are you 'patching' these games for? #2 You also have to be specific with things like 'English Translations' As many games get multiple fan-made English Translations, some better than others. Pretty sure theres no one-and-only fan-translation for the games listed. For example whose to say my Project Diva translation was by the same group as yours.

My Project Diva, Project Diva 2, and Project Diva Extend all have translations from three separate fan teams. #3 Pretty sure disc-rips are isos and cart-rips are roms. Patch for what? Why do you need a patch in the 1st place? My Project Diva, Animal Forests, Mother 3 translated work and play without problems in the emulators I tried them with.

So why do they need to be patched? You're supposed to patch a game to fix a problem with that game, but I see no problems with these games that keep them from working on Android Emulators.

You patch to address a specific problem, I may be misinformed, but I don't know what problem everyone is having on Android that requires them to patch a file. I've never personally encountered a problem with my emulation, as well as I don't see any threads about anyone having any problem running a specific rom or iso on a specific Android emulator. Seeing as no one here is making any threads or reporting problems running emulators/games on their Android devices, to me, this patcher seems to address a problem that isn't among my personal awareness, or the problem itself doesn't really exist. To any-kind patch my PSP ISOs I use a homebrew for that purpose. To English-patch roms, translation teams often include the applications they used to easy apply such a patch.

Let me sum up my questions. 'What the hell makes this Android-specific?' Why not PC in general or mobile in general, why Android?

Why is it in this sub-forum as apposed to an N64, PSP, NDS, GBA section? What part of Android emulators makes it as though English-patched roms and iso's need this patcher or any other patcher? Because I'm having no problem with my translated Mother, Animal Forest, Project Diva. I mean I'd understand if more than one or two users even made a thread here in the past year (I skimmed the threads since December 2012) asking for a fix for a problem regarding emulating on Android that had anything to do with patching being a solution and I just don't see any. So apparently this app has been downloaded nearly 2,000, no one says 'thanks' and also no one has made a thread here regarding rom issues at a reasonable time before and after this very thread was created. By comparison, in the past, if a game had an issue and needed to be patched, you'd see a noticeable amount of threads or posts discussing the issue for that one thing, and then multiple people would often have a solution or an explanation of the solution needed.