Is there any patcher available that's able to patch multiple files? I mean, IPS and similar ones are geared towards ROM files and can only patch one file at a time, which means they're not very efficient for patching games with multiple files (you guessed: I mean my hard-disk ports).
Off course it could be worked-around using multiple IPS files and some scripting, but unfortunately the scripting part would not be multi-platform and would annoy the developer on having to create/test/debug .BAT and .sh files for both DOS-based and Unix-based systems.
Another time wasting workaround would be to make the patch to work over the original disk so the user could patch and then copy the files to the harddisk. But this would not be very time-efficient for this time-scarce developer, as off course all the development is done by patching and testing the game after it was copied to the harddisk. Putting the files right on the original order they were on the original disk is an annoying time-consuming task that sometimes would be impossible since some files get bigger than the original ones and would not fit on the same place.
So, the requirements for this patcher would be:
1) Be able to patch multiple-files at once
2) Free software or at least freeware
3) Multi-platform. It must have binaries for at least Win32 and Mac, with the source available for the other systems.
I googled around and found no suitable solution yet (only commercial softwares). But it is a very specific kind of tool, so probably it will be know by some small circles. I hope someone at MRC do know some tool for that.


