[webber]

patches fix or patch a problem with the first release of the title, example for tokyo extreme racer 2 the original release from ECHELON had a problem with the save function it would not save your game,
so the patch that he released fixed that problem, all the instructions for the patches are usually included in the patch release so follow them closely and you can get most all of the patches at dccopyworld.com in the patches section (bottom right hand corner of the page)

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webber