When creating a patch you will select the original, unmodified ROM first then you will select the hacked ROM. Once that's done your ROM will be patches and ready to play. Then you will be asked to select the ROM to patch. When applying a patch you will be first asked to identify the IPS patch to use. Select the option you want and a file selection screen will appear. You are confronted with two options, applying a patch to a ROM or creating a patch from a ROM. You start out at the main menu of the program. I will be demonstrating with LunarIPS, the most popular of the programs I listed. The ROM and the patch must have the same name (EX: Fire Emblem Fuuin no Tsurugi.gba and, Fire Emblem Fuuin no Tsurugi.ips), soft patching is great for people who don't have the memory to make back up copies of the original game.įirst off your going to need a program to patch the file, some common ones are In VBA go to Options -> Emulator and make sure there is a check mark next to Automatic IPS Patching. This is a feature of the Visual Boy Advance emulator. Soft patching is when you use an IPS file with the ROM without altering the data in the ROM itself.

Basically it applies the changes you made with Nightmare/WindHex/whatever you use onto another ROM.

An IPS Patch is essentially a checklist that notes everything in the file, it can be applied to another file and everything that the patch's checklist has different is changed so that everything is the same.

Nups patch