SNES Patcher

Create patched copies of Super Nintendo ROMs with IPS or BPS patches.

Features

• Native GTK 4 interface designed for GNOME
• Safe workflow that preserves the original ROM
• IPS records, RLE records, and optional truncation support
• BPS actions, metadata, and checksum validation

What is this?

SNES Patcher is a small GTK 4 application for applying IPS and BPS patches to SNES ROMs. Choose a patch format, select a ROM and patch, then choose where to save the result. The original ROM remains untouched.

Why?

The idea to build this application came from the Super Mario World widescreen patch built by Victor Vilela. Being a big fan of Super Mario World, I was eager to try it out. I happened to find FLIPS, another IPS/BPS patching utility. Functionally, FLIPS worked but aesthetically, FLIPS looked horrible. I decided to scratch my own itch and built the same utility, but from scratch. Thus, SNES Patcher was born.

Where can I download it?

Currently, you can build from source by downloading rustup, thusly downloading rustc and cargo. Packages coming soon!

Building

Install the GTK 4 development files and GLib resource compiler, then run:

cargo run