Need for Speed SHIFT (DVD9 to 1xDVD5)

[mongrel]

ohh, so xdelta is a patching tool, right??
can anyone tell me exactly what this command does, i tried to find it online but couldn't!
xdelta3.0 -d -v -fs autorun.dat NFSS.dlt "autorun patched.dat"

[Joe Forster/STA]

Originally Posted by mongrel

ohh, so xdelta is a patching tool, right??

Right.

Originally Posted by mongrel

can anyone tell me exactly what this command does, i tried to find it online but couldn't!
xdelta3.0 -d -v -fs autorun.dat NFSS.dlt "autorun patched.dat"

Apply a patch (-d for decode) called "NFSS.dlt" (first filename = input) to "autorun.dat" (value of -s for source, not a stand-alone filename!), resulting in "autorun patched.dat" (last filename = output) which is to be overwritten (-f for force overwrite), and be verbose (-v for verbose) about the process.

(Yes, the command line syntax of this software is not trivial, it's somehow quite confusing...)

[mongrel]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

Apply a patch (-d for decode) called "NFSS.dlt" (first filename = input) to "autorun.dat" (value of -s for source, not a stand-alone filename!), resulting in "autorun patched.dat" (last filename = output) which is to be overwritten (-f for force overwrite), and be verbose (-v for verbose) about the process.

Thanks for clearing it out...but I still have doubts.
So, here, does the command decode "autorun.dat" or "nfss.dlt" ??
the source is "autorun.dat", i guess ??
what is the need to force overwrite the file, can't we just write it?
What is a .dlt file and how do we create it?

[peterf1999]

Originally Posted by mongrel

Thanks for clearing it out...but I still have doubts.
So, here, does the command decode "autorun.dat" or "nfss.dlt" ??
the source is "autorun.dat", i guess ??
what is the need to force overwrite the file, can't we just write it?
What is a .dlt file and how do we create it?

xdelta3.0 -e -fs oldfile newfile deltafile (create delta diff. bin file)
xdelta3.0 -d -fs oldfile deltafile newfile (apply the bin patch)

-f if it already present overwrite it

the source is always the oldfile

[mongrel]

@peterf1999
Thank you very much, I now understood evrything and thanx for telling all the commands (now I can create patches too...yippee)
Also, I compared the patched file and the original file, but I didn't find a line that said to extract "NFSS_arc.exe"...all I could find was a line that was added to unpack an "exe".
I have attached the differences between both patched and original files.

Difference.txt