[spooky]

Hi,

Well im going to open out a little with one of Charlies answere's.

"What is a patch? What is it for?"

Patches come in three main formats which are Protection Fix, Trainer, and NTSC/PAL converter.

A protection fix is a patch to get arround any copyright protection that may be on the original game. A backup of a game that has protection but no protection fix patch would fail to boot or stop at some point during game play.

A Trainer patch would give you a choice of certain cheats usually in the form of a menu. Personaly i think these spoil the backup.

An NTSC/Pal converter, Charlie has already said enough on this one!

All patches have to be APPLIED to an image file of the game to be backed up and must be of the correct type, you would need PPF-O-Matic to apply most patches and CDRWin to create the image file to your hard drive.