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<p class="title">IPS File Format</p>
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<p><b>IPS specifications.</b><br>
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IPS format was created a lot of time ago and so the specs for many people are too restrictive for the modern needs.
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Well, let see these specs.</p>
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<ul>
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<li>IPS files can patch every file not larger than 2^24-1 bits (2047 Mb)</li>
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<li>Every patch should not be larger than 2^16-1 bits (7.99 Mb)</li>
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<li>An
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IPS file can hold as many patches he can, assumed that the specified
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offset and the size of every single patch doesn't overflow the
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specified bounds.</li>
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<p>As you should realize it isn't so restrictive... 8 )</p>
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<p><b>IPS file format</b><br>
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The IPS file structure is made just like that:</p>
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<td bgcolor="#800080" width="32%"><font color="#ffffff" size="2" face="Arial"><b>Section</b></font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#800080" width="33%"><font color="#ffffff" size="2" face="Arial"><b>Size (Bytes)</b></font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#800080" width="85%"><font color="#ffffff" size="2" face="Arial"><b>Description</b></font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="32%"><font color="#800080" size="2" face="Courier New">Header</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="33%"><font size="2" face="Arial">5</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="85%"><font size="2" face="Arial">The header show ever the same string: </font><font color="#800080" size="2" face="Courier New"> PATCH</font><font size="2" face="Arial"> note that the string is not NULL terminated.</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="32%"><font color="#800080" size="2" face="Courier New">Record</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="33%"><font size="2" face="Arial">3+2+Variable</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="85%"><font size="2" face="Arial">It's the record of a single patch, see below</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="32%"><font color="#800080" size="2" face="Courier New">....</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="33%"> </td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="85%"><font size="2" face="Arial">The numbers of record may vary</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="32%"><font color="#800080" size="2" face="Courier New">End Of file marker</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="33%"><font size="2" face="Arial">3</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="85%"><font size="2" face="Arial">A string (not NULL terminated) saying </font><font color="#800080" size="2" face="Courier New"> EOF</font></td>
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<p><b>IPS Record structure:</b></p>
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<table bgcolor="#000080" border="0" width="100%">
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<td bgcolor="#800080" width="22%"><font color="#ffffff" size="2" face="Arial"><b>Section</b></font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#800080" width="25%"><font color="#ffffff" size="2" face="Arial"><b>Size (Bytes)</b></font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#800080" width="53%"><font color="#ffffff" size="2" face="Arial"><b>Description</b></font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="22%"><font color="#800080" size="2" face="Courier New">Offset</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="25%"><font size="2" face="Arial">3</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="53%"><font size="2" face="Arial">The offset where the patch will be placed in the file to patch</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="22%"><font color="#800080" size="2" face="Courier New">Size</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="25%"><font size="2" face="Arial">2</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="53%"><font size="2" face="Arial">The size of the data to put from the specified offset in the patching file</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="22%"><font color="#800080" size="2" face="Courier New">Data</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="25%"><font color="#800080" size="2" face="Courier New">Size</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="53%"><font size="2" face="Arial">Contains a number of Size bytes of data to be copied in the file to patch </font></td>
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<p>And that's the info you can find around. Now the technical stuff and RLE infos.</p>
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<p><b>IPS RLE encoding</b><br>
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The next big step in the comprehension of the IPS format is that some patches can be RLE encoded to save space. The
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encoding is very simple but can easily be overlooked if someone is not aware of that. If when you read the size value
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of a record this field contains 0 you have a RLE encoded patch. You should read again a 16 bit value to obtain the size
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of the RLE patch and then you should read a single byte. This byte must be repeated as many times as the value of the
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second 16 bit read. An IPS RLE Record should look like that:</p>
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<p><font color="#000080" size="2" face="Arial">IPS RLE Record structure:</font></p>
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<table bgcolor="#000080" border="0" width="100%">
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<td bgcolor="#800080" width="28%"><font color="#ffffff" size="2" face="Arial"><b>Section</b></font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#800080" width="26%"><font color="#ffffff" size="2" face="Arial"><b>Size(Bytes)</b></font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#800080" width="100%"><font color="#ffffff" size="2" face="Arial"><b>Description</b></font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="28%"><p><font color="#800080" size="2" face="Courier New">Offset</font></p></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="26%"><font size="2" face="Arial">3</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="100%"><font size="2" face="Arial">Any Value</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="28%"><font color="#800080" size="2" face="Courier New">Size</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="26%"><font size="2" face="Arial">2</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="100%"><font size="2" face="Arial">0</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="28%"><font color="#800080" size="2" face="Courier New">RLE_Size</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="26%"><font size="2" face="Arial">2</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="100%"><font size="2" face="Arial">Any nonzero value</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="28%"><font color="#800080" size="2" face="Courier New">Value</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="26%"><font size="2" face="Arial">1</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="100%"><font size="2" face="Arial">This is the value to write </font><font color="#800080" size="2" face="Courier New">RLE_Size</font><font size="2" face="Arial"> times starting from Offset</font></td>
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<p> </p>
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<p><b>Encoding Of Offset and Size</b><br>
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For peoples using low level languages a little bytes-swapping is needed to make read right the values of Offset and Size.
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These values are written linearly, just like Pascal and Basic does when handling numerical variables. The problem is that
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low level languages like ASM and C/C++ use the same endianess format of the machine, so every couple of two bytes are
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swapped. A 16 bit value is written like this in the IPS: 0x6712, a 24 bit value in this way: 0x671234. If read with a low
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level language they'll throw up: 0x1267 and 0x341267 respectively. Here two C macros that does
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the conversion after you read them. bp should be a char array:</p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Courier"><font color="#800080">#define BYTE3_TO_UINT(bp) \<br>
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(((unsigned int)(bp)[0] << 16) & 0x00FF0000) | \<br>
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(((unsigned int)(bp)[1] << 8) & 0x0000FF00) | \<br>
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((unsigned int)(bp)[2] & 0x000000FF)<br><br>
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#define BYTE2_TO_UINT(bp) \<br>
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(((unsigned int)(bp)[0] << 8) & 0xFF00) | \<br>
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((unsigned int) (bp)[1] & 0x00FF)</font></font></p>
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<p>16 bit compiler users may find useful to substitute <font size="2" face="Courier">unsigned int</font>
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<font size="2" face="Arial"> to </font><font size="2" face="Courier New">unsigned</font><font size="2" face="Arial">
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</font><font size="2" face="Courier New">long in </font><font size="2" face="Arial">
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the </font><font size="2" face="Courier New">BYTE3_TO_UINT</font><font size="2" face="Arial"> macro...</font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial">Real simple once someone has hacked the format for you, isn't it?</font></p>
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<p align="right"><b><a href="mailto:z.e.r.o@softhome.net"><font color="#800080" size="3" face="Arial">Z.e.r.o</font></a></b></p>
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