Backups? How do you "do it"?

My method is a bit different.

I have txt files I like to call patchtxt files. They basically describe in text what to change and where. Then I have an assembler written in python that converts the patchtxt files to ips files.

basic example of patchtxt:

Code:

@ 026A6F:     4C F3 57    # put Magtek-Armor in snow as intro

so the format is roughly:

Code:

@ ADDRESS:    DATA (HEX)    # COMMENT

There are a number of commands and modes I've been making that allow for: table mapping, text -> DTE conversion, includes, logging, size assertion, basic ASM conversion, pointer allocation and data allocation based on dynamic pointers. And so on but since I'm the only one using this at the moment I've been changing things around a lot.

I consider patchtxt a data representation format. So it's not a programming language or a proper assembly assembler, it only maps data to locations. Keeping that in mind I'm trying to make the ways of representing the data as flexible as possible.

Using patchtxt files helps me keep my changes and documentation in the same place. It creates readable documents that have proper formatting to be converted.