Tools & utilities: Patching and fixing tools

Boot-o-Matic Advance 1.2

Boot-o-Matic Advance—or BOMA for short—is another patching utility that is more flexible than the above exithack programs. You can restart a game or return to the game-selector menu using key combinations. BOMA works with 99% of all GBA games, and is compatible with EZ, XG and Visoly flash cards, as well as PogoShell.

  • Platform: Windows
  • Author: ph0x(?)
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IPSWin

IPSWin 2.0 is an easy to use program that's great for applying IPS patches. It can back up the original, and it has a nice simple interface.

  • Platform: Windows
  • Author: ZeroSoft
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GBA Tool Advance 0.6a

GBA Tool Advance, or GBATA, is a powerfoul set of tools in one little program. It includes a header viewer, intro remover, overdump fixer, IPS Patcher, SRAM Patcher, ROM trimmer and much more! This is an excellent tool for any needs you may have!

SmartIPS v1.0

SmartIPS is a IPS/IPS2-Creator/Applier for Windows 95/NT and was intended to be used especially with big N64-Images, though it can be used with any other program/image which needs to be IPS-Patched. Compatible with both IPS and IPS2 patches.

  • Platform: Windows
  • Author: Hartec
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sRAM-it 2.0

sRAM-it is a great tool that can act as a front-end for sram patcher, flash 512k patcher and BOMA. It can save patch Sram, Eeprom, Flash, and Flash 512k type saves. It can auto-detect the save type of a given rom and it can also rename internal file names in the rom header.

SRAM Patch

SRAM Patch will save fix most GBA games (including EEPROM_V124 games) for which there is not a specific patch. Either run from a command prompt, or drag and drop your roms onto the srampatch executable (or srampatch.bat if you use v2.3).