Instead we could use an unmodified/clean extended SM64 ROM(65MB) with a modified extended SM64ROM(65MB). For example, if our ROM was extended to 24MB and expanded to 65MB (Level Importer) we're not able to create a patch from the original SM64 File (8MB) with the extended/modified SM64 ROM(65MB). What we have to keep in mind is, that our ROM haves to be equal the filesize.
An unmodified ROM (same ROM, just unmodified) (make a backup) Now, after we got through the historical part, how do I create a PPF Patch? You might know already (from the sticky) how to patch a PPF file to a clean ROM, but how do we now create one? For this, we're going to need following tool: (You can look in the Acmln Board Archives to look how SM64 Hacking Development went and how it reached what it is today) N64 Hacking) IPS patches were still used, until someone (I believe it was VL-Tone himself) discovered the PPF Format, which allowed to patch bigger files. In the early stages of SM64 Hacking (incl. Later, with the introduction of IPS Patching, PPF felt in the background (actually it never got that much popularity anyway except the PlayStation Hackers). Even early ROM Hackers used PPF Patches (before the Lunar IPS Patching Tool came out) before to distribute their hacks and modifications without releasing the whole game dump on the internet.
It was also used sooner or later for legal purposes, as it turned out to be a quite good patching format. PPF stands for, as a handful people may know already, for PlayStation Patch File and was originally made in 1999 by a cracking group to distribute patches which bypass copy protections on PlayStation games. But as this doesn't exist yet, we shall use PPF as it's pretty good for SM64 Hacks. PPF is a good patching format, however I really wish (in my opinion) for a better patching format.
Some, who work on their own hacks, have been probably wondering how to 'create' patches. PPF (Rating: Okay, but mostly used) return
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