> On Wednesday 11 December 2002 16:27, Christopher Tumber wrote:
> > I'm thinking a patch utility program and then a series of patches, propably
> > using a simple scripting language. The upside is that there would be no
>
> This was actually how I originally distributed the Space Invaders hack I did
> which you recently made obsolete. (Thank you, by the way! Looking forward
> to getting that one on a cartridge.) I just wrote a little perl script that
> looked for an existing Space Invaders .bin, applied my changes from a patch
> file (basically a list of comma separated byte values) and saved it under a
> new name. After lots of people from rgvc chided me for doing that (mainly
> because no one wanted to install perl just to patch a ROM) I gave in and
> started distributing my hacks the conventional way. Later I thought about
> doing such a thing in VB since it's pretty trivial, but the need didn't seem
> too great.
>
I have the ability to turn perl scripts into Windows .exe, albeit at
the cost of making a fattish binary...
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