All bugs list and fix?

By "dumb" I ment the opposite of intelligent. Examples:

* It doesn't care what rom it is being applied to, it only knows that data at X location needs to be changed to Y.

* They only compare two roms (during creation) and make note of the differences, and ONLY the differences. If the edited rom the patch was made from detected no changes when compaired to its base rom at a location, then it will disregard that adress entirely and only concern itself with the addresses of noted changes during creation. (Hence the size generally being smaller than a base rom, yet changing so much). This is also why some patches will work for V1.0, V1.1, and even JP sometimes because the data effected just happens to be located in the same place for all. Other times not so, but the patch will still patch because it doesnt care what is being wrote over.

* Again, when appling the patch, it doesn't care what rom, or changes to the rom, have been made. It will change the data it knows to what it wants to, regardless of what that data is at the time. Conflicts arise when two patches start over writing the same exact data. (Most of the time this is gonna be when free space is used for new code since a fix for say Runic would cover different code than a fix for Vigor overflow, ect)


Most of the bug fixes I've found (I say bug fixes, not tweaks) will say right up front if the cross a different fix, and some will even say do one before the other and they'll work because the second was adapted to use with the first. I say this as a general statement, not every case, hence reading the info and understanding what is being fixed is important even more so if you have already made changes.

And yes, I still say "patches are dumb" because they do no checks, just blind changing of hex at certain pre determined addresses. At the time of patching, that patch only knows the data should be FFFF so that's what it makes happen, period.

That statement does not reflect the usefulness of patches, just how unintelligent they are.