Has someone made an up-to-date IPS (Sim City bug fixes)

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CaseyStrange
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Has someone made an up-to-date IPS (Sim City bug fixes)

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I'm really struggling to understand the Github page. I don't know how to apply this to an IPS for patching the ROM.
I'm not sure if asking this is shaky grounds on this forum or not. I'm not inquiring about how to find the game. Just wondering if
there is an IPS somewhere that saves me the headache of navigating raw disassembled code on the github page.
I would love to test these bug fixes personally on my PowerPak.

(I've read that not everything is fixed. But a few bits of code was adjusted to trigger things in the game that you can't with the dumped ROM from Xmas of 2018)

*edit*
Link to the github here:
https://github.com/g0me3/bfs_nes_sims
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Re: Has someone made an up-to-date IPS (Sim City bug fixes)

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Github usually has the final build under the Releases but there is none in this case. Otherwise they may have a link on the readme page but I don't see one. I only see the source-code and it doesn't even seem to have any sort of build instructions.

It's really up to the user to make things understandable to other people in a Github archive and in this case that doesn't seem to have been a priority.
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Re: Has someone made an up-to-date IPS (Sim City bug fixes)

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Strange, given that Frank Cifaldi is involved. I have a level of respect for that man.
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Re: Has someone made an up-to-date IPS (Sim City bug fixes)

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There are simple batch files and shell scripts in the repo. You can see the small number of tools they need based on the commands they execute. Documentation would be better, but the requirements are fortunately not buried.
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Yeah this works just fine, barring that the included copy of dasm is x86_64 Linux kernel, lord help the ARM64 BSD people out there. Of note, it assembles into a fully working ROM complete with CHR, so that means this repository is technically just piracy with extra steps. Exercise caution when you don't see a directive to extract content from a ROM, that means the disassembly is "dirty".