(This is an idea I just had a few hours ago. Sorry if this post doesn't make sense, I'm half asleep.)
FLIPS is a fantastic and elegant tool, but... is it just me, or is applying patches with it a bit of a hassle? Even with .bps files set to auto-open in FLIPS, in order to apply a patch I have to go through the same three windows every time:
Most of the time I just copy a clean ROM to the desktop and apply the patch to that — so all I really need is a simple "bps to ROM" conversion, with no user input.
Luckily FLIPS has a command-line interface, so you can set up a .bat script to do that. From what I can tell, it works like a charm!
I could post the source code of that script here so you could tweak and use it, but, uh... I may have gone a step further and made a tool that generates those .bat scripts.
Okay, so, long story short: Enter the paths to FLIPS, your default clean ROM and your default output folder, and it'll generate a tool that puts the patched ROM into that folder, with no user input required. The tool is a .bat script, and you can open BPS files with it just like you can with FLIPS itself. It's basically your own custom wrapper around FLIPS, no more, no less.
Give this tool-creating tool a try, and let me know why it's utterly useless!
(There will probably be bugs, but I won't get around to fixing them until tomorrow.)
FLIPS is a fantastic and elegant tool, but... is it just me, or is applying patches with it a bit of a hassle? Even with .bps files set to auto-open in FLIPS, in order to apply a patch I have to go through the same three windows every time:
- the "select unmodified file" dialog
- the "select modified" file dialog
- the "successfully patched" window
Most of the time I just copy a clean ROM to the desktop and apply the patch to that — so all I really need is a simple "bps to ROM" conversion, with no user input.
Luckily FLIPS has a command-line interface, so you can set up a .bat script to do that. From what I can tell, it works like a charm!
I could post the source code of that script here so you could tweak and use it, but, uh... I may have gone a step further and made a tool that generates those .bat scripts.
Okay, so, long story short: Enter the paths to FLIPS, your default clean ROM and your default output folder, and it'll generate a tool that puts the patched ROM into that folder, with no user input required. The tool is a .bat script, and you can open BPS files with it just like you can with FLIPS itself. It's basically your own custom wrapper around FLIPS, no more, no less.
Give this tool-creating tool a try, and let me know why it's utterly useless!
(There will probably be bugs, but I won't get around to fixing them until tomorrow.)