Xdelta Patching

Xdelta is a popular binary diff format used to share translation hacks and other game modifications.

Installation

• installation, might be already in your distro

apt install xdelta3

• otherwise, head towards https://github.com/jmacd/xdelta

Usage

• if you trust the original filename given by the patch (caveat: you may end up with a filename that's a Windows absolute path)

xdelta3 -d -s original.bin patch.xdelta

• if you want to specify you own filename (caveat: you will have to update original.cue to reflect the changes)

xdelta3 -c -d -s original.bin patch.xdelta > patched.bin