Utility to remove the SNES ROM header requirement from IPS patches.
ipsbehead is an utility to adjust IPS patches that require a header in the
target SNES ROM in order to use these patches with a headerless SNES ROM. It
does so by discarding any alterations before 0x200 and recalculating offsets
of the other records.
Although the program was intended for SNES ROMs, output patches should work
with any ROM file that has a fixed size 512 byte wide header.
It is not recomended to directly patch your ROMs because broken patches may
damage your ROM. Please use an emulator or ROM loading tool that has built-in
IPS patch loading support.
ipsbehead does not depend on any third party libraries and is known to compile
under gcc and clang. Microsoft compilers have not been tested.
To compile under windows, make sure you have Mingw or Mingw-w64 installed, go
to ipsbehead directory and type make win. An executable called
ipsbehead.exe will be created.
To compile under unixes, make sure you have the development packages
installed (build-essential, XCode, base-devel or whatever it is called in
your system) and run make unix in the ipsbehead directory.
./ipsbehead input.ips output.ips./ipsbehead.exe input.ips output.ips