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LinkPizza posted...

I feel like the reason cheats and patches are different would be because thats the company who owns the game who did them The cheats are usually put in the game from the beginning, which means its just about unlocking them, so those are way different As for patches, since the clowning company does them, its different Even if those werent different, the company could also choose not to sue themselves

A cheat that's built into the game is part of the game.

A "real" cheat is a tiny scripted program that directly modifies the game's memory during runtime. Patches override the ROM at certain addresses, either acting as a middleman for the address space over overwriting the ROM. There's no technical difference between a mod and a patch. Me writing a program to flip a single bit could be referred to interchangeably as a mod or a patch. Patches carry the connotation that it's "fixing something", while a mod is used to refer to the same thing except it's "adding or modifying features".