Greetings, 

I didn't see an IPS patch creator that would run natively on Linux, so I 
took action. Presenting mkips, a hastily-written C++ script that takes 
two files,looks for differences, and produces an IPS file that will 
(hopefully) work when you try to apply it to an unaltered rom. 

Here's the syntax:
mkips <ipsfilename> <originalfile> <alteredfile>

Perhaps an example is in order. If you've made a hack of Mega Man 2 and 
you want an IPS file to apply to the original Mega Man 2 rom: 

mkips megamanultrahardmode.ips megaman2.nes megamanultrahardmode.nes

Easy enough, right? I tested it out on a variety of patched roms. 
As far as I can tell, it's doing what it needs to do. Please 
note that this script -doesn't- apply IPS files. For that I would 
recommend the wonderful IPS.pl Perl script which is already on 
Zophar's Domain and RHDN. 

Btw, I'm releasing this script into the public domain. The source code 
should be included in the zip file. You can choose to do whatever you 
want with it. If have any questions or comments, you can send me an email
at dumb180@gmail.com.

Regards, 
Charles
