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 PPF stands for, as a handful people may know already, for PlayStation Patch File and was originally made in 1999 by a cracking group to distribute patches which bypass copy protections on PlayStation games.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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