The "Beacause" patch for PS1 FF VII

[Phil The Hammer]

Anyone used the "Beacause" patch for FF VII, found on "Romhacking.net"?

I followed the directions given on the RHDN Project page, downloading the patch file & trying to drag/drop a FFVII iso onto the ,bat file as per directions. However, all I get is a command screen which sez "Press any key to continue", and which vanishes soon as any key is pressed. And nothing else happens.

I extracted the .bat file for that purpose. If I try to drag/drop without extracting the file, nothing happens.

Any suggestions, anyone?

[ReyVGM]

Make sure your isos match the sizes mentioned on the romhacking page.

You cannot patch anything if the files are inside the zip. Extract everything to a directory and try again.

I tried patching an unrelated iso and it told me the size was incorrect. So as long as your isos match the size the patcher is programmed for, then it should do it automatically.

[Phil The Hammer]

First thing I did was make sure the isos were the correct size, and were the USA versions, as the patch directions said. I then extracted the files, and, following directions, I dragged/dropped the isos into the .bat file, and all that happened was that a command line screen appeared, which said "Press any key to continue." Upon pressing a key, the screen disappears. I was told by someone on the "Romhacking' forum that meant the file had been patched, and the name of the iso should end in "beacause", but it didn't patch.

I'm not using any file patcher prog, but simply dragging/dropping as per Green Goblin's directions. I'll try something else & see what happens.

Meanwhile, thanx for the advice. I'm open to any other suggestion.

[ReyVGM]

The zip has the patcher program, the patches, and the .bat (batch) file that is supposed to patch the isos automatically. If everything is accurate, then I don't know what the problem is.

Try renaming each iso to the same name as the patches (cd1, cd2, etc), see if that works. Also, only drop one iso at a time.

[asasega]

it's not enough to have the same size images they have to be the same checksums as well
if you make a backup after your us version you have to obtain the same checksums as on the romhacking site which are the same found on redump.org database
xdelta will not patch if you don't have the correct checksums
if you are confortable with commandprompt you can patch'em yourself
xdelta -d -s orig.image cd1.xds newname.image
orig.image is your original image(ex: if you have bin+cue you will gibe the *.bin file)

[Helder]

Open up the bat file in notepad and edit the file names to match your ISO file names.

[Pyriel]

Back up the truck here. You "extracted the bat file for that purpose"? Did you extract the rest of it? It's expecting to find things in the same directory as the batch file. I'm assuming you are, otherwise you should get the error messages he put into the script.

The batch file is using argument 1 as the path of the source image. There aren't any ISO names to edit in it.

"%~dp0xdelta3" -dfs "%~1" "%~dp0%$PARCHE2%" "%~dp0%~n1 (Beacause)%~x1"

Edit: Where are you looking for your patched images? If you put the patch in C:\Users\You\Documents\FFVIIPatch His command line will happily patch a file from say C:\FFVII\, but the result would always be written to the other directory with the patch files in it.

[Phil The Hammer]

I have given up for now, as it doesn't seem my PC is friendly to the process. Green Goblin says he's gonna re-release the patch with a better extension for easier patching, so I'll simply wait till then.

Meanwhile, thanx to all who provided input and suggestions to try!