There’s a whole black art to crafting binary bugfixes – the space for a fix is severely limited, and if the new code is too big you have to find additional unused code area elsewhere to jump into (or optimize a different routine to make some free space!)įor some games, more than one bugfix patch is available. The SNES hackers then identify the code problem behind the bug, and patch the raw binary code to close the hole. Often these are found from the work of speedrunners, who spot a glitch and exploit it to break the game in some way.

In some cases, people have found bugs or glitches in the original code, and release an IPS patch to fix it. IPS patches for SNES games are widespread, and often do things like enable cheats, alter graphics, translate text, etc. IPS is an antiquated binary patch file format, used to provide a “diff” of raw bytes that should be applied over an existing file. It continues to be a somewhat controversial title in the otherwise spotless Squaresoft SNES library… but I like it, and my wife plays it as a “comfort game” whenever she is feeling sick. Secret of Evermore is a game for the Super Nintendo released in 1995.

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