“Unofficial patch”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

An unofficial patch is a non-commercial patch for a piece of software, created by a user community instead of the original developer. Similar to an ordinary patch, it alleviates bugs or shortcomings. Unofficial patches do not usually change the intended usage of the software, in contrast to other third-party software adaptions such as mods or cracks.

Motivation

A common motivation for the creation of unofficial patches is missing technical support by the original software developer or provider. Reasons may include:

Types

In the computer game domain, where unofficial patches are most common, unofficial patches are also sometimes called Fan patches, especially if produced by an individual person. Combined patches, including the work of several developers and authors from the community, are also called Community Patch. They are aiming typical for critical bugs in the program flow which could lead to program crashes and technical compatibility fixes, e.g. for newer operating systems, increased display resolutions^[8]^[9] or new display formats.

While unofficial patches are most common for the PC platform, they are also existing for console games e.g. in context of the emulation community.^[6]

Translations

As another kind of unofficial patches are fan translations of software, especially games, to local languages.^[11] Fan translations are most common for Japanese role-playing games which are often not localized for Western markets.^[7]^[8]

Another variant of unofficial patches are slipstream like patches which combine official patches together, which are only available online or as small incremental patches.

Methods

The most common case is that the source code and the original development tools are not available for the software. Therefore, the faulty software's binary must be analyzed at run time by reverse engineering and debugging. If the problem is found, a fix to the program must be applied. Sometimes only small changes in configuration files or the registry are required, sometimes binary hacks on the executable itself are required to fix bugs. If a software development kit (e.g. for modding) is available, fixes to the content can be easily produced, otherwise the community would need to create their own tools. These found fixes are typically packed to user deployable patches (e.g. with NSIS, Innosetup).

If the source code is available, support can by provided most effectively. Sometimes the source code is released intentionally,^[14]^[15]^[16] sometimes by leaking^[9]^[10]^[11] or mistake,^[12] such as what happened with the game engine of the Thief series.^[13]^[14] Sometimes fans even completely reverse-engineer source code from the original program binary.^[15] With the source code available even the support of completely different but recent platforms with source ports becomes possible.

Law

While court cases directly involving unofficial patches are not existing, there were similar cases in court. The case of Galoob v. Nintendo found that it was not copyright infringement by a user to apply an unauthorized patch to a system (while the scope was very specific to the Game Genie). On the other hand, the case Micro Star v. FormGen Inc. found that user-generated maps were derivative works of the original game. In Sega v. Accolade, the 9th Circuit held that making copies in the course of reverse engineering is a fair use, when it is the only way to get access to the "ideas and functional elements" in the copyrighted code, and when "there is a legitimate reason for seeking such access". According to Copyright law of the United States 17 U.S. Code § 117, the owner of a copy of a program can modify it as necessary for "Maintenance or Repair",^[16] without permission from the copyright holder; an argumentation also raised by Daniel J. Bernstein professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.^[17] Similar user rights are given also according to European copyright laws. The question if and which copyright holder unauthorized changes of lawfully obtained software are fair and beneficial, is a long-standing debate among academic scholars.^[18] An article of Helbraun law firm remarks in the context of fan translations that redistributing complete games with adaptions most likely does not fall under fair use, but in patch form it might fall under fair use, while this was never tested in court.^[19]

Reception

Reception of unofficial patches is mixed, but by large, copyright holders are ambivalent. When the software is not considered commercially viable unofficial patches are ignored by the copyright holder as it is not seen as a source of lost revenue.^[20]^[21]

There have been seldom cases of cease and desist letters to unofficial patch and fan translation projects.^[22]^[23]

Sometimes the copyright holder actively support the patching and fixing efforts of a software community,^[32] sometimes even by releasing the source code under a software license which allows the software community the continued software support by themselves.^[16]^[24]^[25]^[26]^[27]^[28] Examples for such software are in the List of commercial video games with later released source code.

The free and open source software movement was founded in the 1980s to solve the underlying problem of unofficial patches, the limited possibility for user self-support in binary only distributed software due to missing source code. Free and open source software demands from distributed software the availability of source code, which prevents the technical problems and legal uncertainties of binary only user patching of proprietary software.

Examples in video games

Examples in general software

See also

References

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65. ^JA2 Stracciatella Feedback » Jagged Alliance 2 Android Stracciatella Port RC2 Release - please test {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023085701/http://www.ja-galaxy-forum.com/board/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=273148&page=1 |date=2012-10-23 }} on the Bear's Pit Forum, October 3, 2011
66. ^[https://bitbucket.org/gennady/ja2-stracciatella ja2-stracciatella] on bitbucket.org
67. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ja-galaxy-forum.com/board/ubbthreads.php/topics/315908/JA2_Stracciatella_Continued.html#Post31590|date=2013-03-04|title=JA2-Stracciatella Continued|accessdate=2013-03-22|author=Gennady|publisher=www.ja-galaxy-forum.com|quote=Update 2013-03-13: Added support for high video resolutions. For example, game can be started in 1024x768 mode like this: ja2.exe -res 1024x768. Any reasonable resolution should work. Some bugfixes from this forum have been integrated. [...]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130506032959/http://www.ja-galaxy-forum.com/board/ubbthreads.php/topics/315908/JA2_Stracciatella_Continued.html#Post31590|archive-date=2013-05-06|dead-url=yes|df=}}
68. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.pcgames.de/Legacy-of-Kain-Soul-Reaver-PC-88400/News/Legacy-of-Kain-Soul-Reaver-XP-Patch-282960/ |title=Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver - XP-Patch |date=2004-02-12 |accessdate=2011-07-17 |publisher=pcgames.de |language=german}}
69. ^{{cite web|url=http://home.comcast.net/~heavyweights/games/kain/index.htm|title=Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain 2000/XP Update v2.0 |date=2009-11-29 |first = Cuban |last=Raul |accessdate=2011-07-17 |publisher=comcast.net}}
70. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nosgothica.org/index.php?id=files_eng|title=Bink-support for BO1 (Video-Patch) |accessdate=2011-07-17 |quote=[…]now you can play in BO1 under Windows-7 without any problems with video. |date=2010-12-03 |author=wrace |publisher=nosgothica.org}}
71. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.la-patches.de/patches.php |title=Lucasarts-Patches |date=2010-12-23 |accessdate=2011-05-28 |first=Michael |last=Gantner |publisher=gandimann.de |language=german}}
72. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gamersglobal.de/news/23243|title= Master of Magic: Fanpatch behebt KI-Mängel|author=Robert Stiehl|date=June 8, 2010|publisher=gamersglobal.de|accessdate=2016-07-15}}
73. ^{{cite web|url=http://realmsbeyond.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4211 |title=MoM insecticide patch (latest version) - 28/06/2012 Latest version here: MoM unofficial patch 1.40n|accessdate=2012-07-14 |date=2011-10-24|author=kyrub |publisher=realmsbeyond.net |quote=What the Insecticide patch is all about? to make the MoM game as bug-free and as AI-challenging and as user-friendly as possible without modifying the content. The patch now features more than 200 bug-fixes, AI improvements and interface changes.}}
74. ^New year, New Master of Magic! v1.5 fan patch on realmsbeyond.net
75. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.golem.de/0309/27369.html|title=Deutsche Fan-Übersetzung zu Master of Orion 3 ist fertig| date=2003-09-10 |first=Thorsten |last=Wiesner|accessdate=2011-04-03 |publisher=golem.de |language=german}}
76. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPa2RWbs_Mw&list=UUzVkOGiIFUY47sWqMy7A4tA|title=ZipCode: Endportal Malfunction (Fixed Version: 1.6)}}
77. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1zM8gFB3ro&list=UUzVkOGiIFUY47sWqMy7A4tA |title=ZipCode: Netherportal Malfunction (Fixed in 1.7)}}
78. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBICFHdTBNk&list=UUzVkOGiIFUY47sWqMy7A4tA|title=ZipCode: Inconsistent Timing Bug (Fixed in 1.8)}}
79. ^Nine Years Later, Latin America's Leagues Keep MVP Baseball Alive on Kotaku by Owen Good (12/22/13)
80. ^{{cite web|url=http://grantland.com/the-triangle/mvp-baseball-2005-mod-community-mlb-video-games/ |title=‘MVP Baseball … 2015’? How the Best Baseball Video Game Ever Has Refused to Retire for 10 Years |date=April 14, 2015 |first=Ben |last=Lindbergh |publisher=Grantland.com |quote=Another factor in MVP’s favor: The game allows greater access to its innards than most titles. [...] 2K’s failure to match MVP’s approval rating despite several years of running unopposed on the PC market, made MVP the go-to game for modders even as it lost its looks relative to 2K and The Show. The community’s support peaked from 2005 through the first PC edition of 2K in 2009, tailed off for a time, and then ramped up again once Take-Two abandoned the PC market in 2013 and canceled 2K entirely last year. A decade of EA development made MVP the best baseball game on the PC market in 2005, and a decade of amateur development has helped it keep that title in 2015.}}
81. ^Open-Source-Breathes-New-Life-Into-MVP-Baseball-2005-Video-Game on protecode.com by Sara Purdon (on Sep 15, 2015)
82. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.vg247.com/2017/03/23/modders-fix-nier-automatas-resolution-bug-on-pc-drastically-improve-frame-rate-in-unofficial-patch/|title=Modders fix Nier: Automata’s resolution bug on PC, drastically improve frame-rate in unofficial patch|author=Sherif Saed|date=March 23, 2017|publisher=vg247.com}}
83. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/06/25/nuclear-throne-online-co-op-mod/ |title=Nuclear Throne Mod Adds Online Co-op |last=O'Connor |first=Alice |publisher=Rock, Paper, Shotgun |date=2016-06-25 |accessdate=2017-01-05 }}
84. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.pcgamer.com/nuclear-throne-online-co-op-mod-is-just-as-fast-and-deadly-as-playing-offline/ |title=Nuclear Throne online co-op mod is just as fast and deadly as playing offline |last=Fenlon |first=Wes |publisher=PC Gamer |date=2016-06-27 |accessdate=2017-01-05 }}
85. ^Paradroid Redux Project home page
86. ^{{cite web|url=http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/elder-scrolls-v/1220754p1.html| title=Unofficial Skyrim Patch Fixes Myriad Skyrim Bugs - Fan created uber patch designed to fix Skyrim's many problems. |first=Mike |last=Sharkey |date=2012-03-14 |accessdate=2012-12-22 |publisher=gamespy.com}}
87. ^{{cite web|url=http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/19/?/ |title=Unofficial Skyrim Patch Version: 1.3.3c |publisher=nexumods.com |date=2013-08-20 |accessdate=2013-10-03 |quote=[...]the goal of the Unofficial Skyrim Patch (aka USKP) is to eventually fix every bug with Skyrim not officially resolved by the developers [...]Hundreds of gameplay, quest, NPC, object, item, text and placement bugs fixed already |author=Quarn and Kivan}}
88. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.scharesoft.de/elder-scrolls/tes-v-skyrim/skyrim-directors-cut.html |title=Skyrim - Director's Cut |quote=Die Erweiterung Skyrim - Director's Cut hat es sich zum Ziel gemacht, die deutsche Version von The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim so gut es geht zu verbessern. Vorrangig geht es darum, fehlende Übersetzungen nachzuholen und Texte und Begriffe so anzupassen, dass sie auch zu den vorherigen Teilen der Reihe passen. Mit dem beiliegenden inoffiziellen Skyrim-Patch werden zudem eine Vielzahl Fehler des eigentlichen Spiels, die die offiziellen Patches noch nicht korrigiert haben, behoben. Mit der Erweiterung könnt ihr außerdem alle englischsprachigen Texturen nun in deutscher Sprache vorfinden. |language=german |publisher=scharesoft.de |accessdate=2012-12-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113213430/http://www.scharesoft.de/elder-scrolls/tes-v-skyrim/skyrim-directors-cut.html |archive-date=2012-11-13 |dead-url=yes |df= }}
89. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/11/30/rollcage-spiritual-successor-grip-is-a-blast-from-playstations-forgotten-past|publisher=ign.com|authors=Luke Reilly|quote=former Attention to Detail programmer Robert Baker, who also still had a candle burning for Rollcage. Baker had been contacted by hardcore Rollcage fans asking for his help to keep Rollcage running on drastically newer PC hardware, 15 years down the track. “I can’t speak for other developers, but for myself, I’ve worked on a dozen games and Rollcage is the only game that I’ve personally supported after release,” says Baker. “I don’t hold the source code to many games as that belongs to the company that develops these games of course, but Rollcage was a bit different.”|date=2015-11-30|title=Rollcage Spiritual Successor Grip Is a Blast from PlayStation’s Forgotten Past}}
90. ^¹²{{cite web|url=http://www.subsim.com/ssr/pcgamer_pmarticle.html |work=PC Gamer |title=Submarine marries Destroyer: The long vaunted union of SSI naval-sims is complete - thanks to fans. |first=William |last=Trotter |date=May 1, 2003 |accessdate=2017-05-06 |quote=gave source code to subsim.com [...] a fund raising drive netted more than $7000 to jump-start Project Messerwetzer [...] Skilled volunteers and playtesters rallied to the call [...] a free 5MB to 6MB patch that will be finally polished and playtested. The original crippling flaw, multiplayer instability, has been dramatically minimized}}
91. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.wargamer.com/articles/behind_the_lines_5/Default.asp|publisher=The Wargamer|title=Behind the LInes #5|author=Scott Parrino|date=24 May 2003|accessdate=2017-05-06|quote=Subsim Review served as the gathering place for Projekt Messerwetzer, the project that brought Silent Hunter II - Destroyer Command computability to full fruition|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051130005148/http://www.wargamer.com/articles/behind_the_lines_5/Default.asp|archive-date=30 November 2005|dead-url=yes|df=dmy-all}}
92. ^Projekt Messerwetzer "Silent Hunter II/Destroyer Command DirectPlay, Conversion and Multiplayer Upgrade, THIS UNOFFICIAL PATCH IS AUTHORIZED BY UBISOFT, HOWEVER, UBISOFT OFFERS NO SUPPORT." on subsim.com
93. ^PM_Readme on subsim
94. ^{{cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/10/after-four-years-volunteers-restore-missing-kotor-ii-data.ars |publisher=arstechnica.com |quote=After years of development, the cut content has been finally restored and the most of the bugs have been fixed, thanks to a project known as known as the "Restored Content Mod. |title=Fan-restored KOTOR II content creates refined, expanded game KOTOR II wasn't the most complete Star Wars title ever released, due to an … |first=Michael |last=Thompson |date=2009-10-06 |accessdate=2013-09-05}}
95. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/08/24/get-these-kotor-2-and-its-restored-content-mod/ |quote= On top of that, the mod fixes “over 500″ bugs, because Obsidian, basically.|title=Get These: KOTOR 2 And Its Restored Content Mod |first=Nathan |last=Grayson |date=2012-08-24 |publisher=Rock, Paper, Shotgun |accessdate=2013-09-05 }}
96. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/07/26/community-heroes-modders-debug-and-restore-cut-content-in-knights-of-the-old-republic-ii/ | title = Community heroes: modders debug and restore cut content in Knights of the Old Republic II | first = Tyler | last = Wilde | date = 2012-07-26 | accessdate = 2012-09-26 | publisher = PC Gamer}}
97. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/01/03/the-fixer-how-to-restore-knights-of-the-old-republic-ii/ | title = The Fixer: How To Restore Knights of the Old Republic II | first = Andrew | last = Tsai | date = 2013-01-03 | accessdate = 2013-01-28 | publisher = Rock Paper Shotgun}}
98. ^GPGNet Services Update 2 (GPGnet has been shutdown) {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219213249/http://forums.gaspowered.com/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=57459 |date=2014-12-19 }} on gaspowered.com
99. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/03/27/pc-gamer-uk-podcast-episode-87-ore-ore-never-changes/|title=PC gamer pod cast 87 |accessdate=2013-08-25}}
100. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/11/19/supcom-forged-alliance-servers-shut-down-community-made-forged-alliance-forever-keeps-the-war-alive/ |title=Community-made Forged Alliance Forever keeps Supreme Commander multiplayer alive |first=T.J. |last=Hafer |date=2012-11-19 |accessdate=2014-08-28 |publisher=PC Gamer |quote=The official multiplayer servers for Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance have been decommissioned for a while now, but fortunately [...] the community-driven Forged Alliance Forever has emerged. The self-patching multiplayer client allows players of the epic real-time strategy title to continue blowing things up in massive quantities. It even adds new units, a new faction, and some game modes that weren't available on the official servers, such as 6v6.}}
101. ^You're in charge! - From vital patches to game cancellations, players are often intimately involved. by Christian Donlan on Eurogamer "The same thing happened at the end of last year, actually, when Supreme Commander fans released Forged Alliance Forever and gave the game the online client it could otherwise only dream of. I haven't played it much, but I still got a tear in my eye when I read about the extents these coders had gone to. There's nothing quite so wonderful to witness as love, and this is surely love of the very purest order." (2013-11-02)
102. ^fans-rework-homeworld-2-system-shock-and-thief-2 on eurogamer.net (2012-09-26)
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106. ^[https://magervalp.github.io/2015/05/29/u4-remastered-v2.2.1.html Ultima IV Remastered v2.2.1] by Per Olofsson (29 May 2015)
107. ^[https://github.com/MagerValp/u4remastered u4remastered] on github.com
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109. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/07/15/undying-vampire-bloodlines-patched-anew/ |publisher=rockpapershotgun.com |title=Undying: Vampire Bloodlines Patched Anew|first=Alec |last=Meer |date=2011-07-15|accessdate=2011-08-02 |quote=Bloodlines […] was essentially abandoned by its publisher after its developer closed a few months after release, but the fans have just kept on going, fixing things, improving things, digging up locked away extra content […]}}
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112. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/11882-What-is-Xenonauts-Community-Edition-how-do-I-get-it |title=What is Xenonauts: Community Edition & how do I get it? |publisher=goldhawkinteractive.com |date= |accessdate=2015-07-09 }}
113. ^Treiber-Quellcode von 3dfx im Netz aufgetaucht - Von Nvidia offenbar geduldet by Christian Klaß on Golem.de (7 May 2003, in German)
114. ^NuAngel.net Drivers on nuangel.net
115. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/24/unofficial_adobe_patch/|title=Unofficial patch plugs 0-day Adobe security vuln. - Mind the gap |first=John |last=Leyden |date=2009-02-24 |accessdate=2013-07-09 |quote=Updated Security researchers have developed an unofficial patch for a zero-day Adobe Acrobat and Reader vulnerability that's become the subject of hacker attacks. Adobe acknowledged the vulnerability last week but said an official patch wouldn't be available until 11 March. |publisher=The Register}}
116. ^These BIOSes are fixed to support HDDs over 32GB (up to 64GB) or over 64GB (up to 128GB) and are tested to work. by Ondrej Zary on rainbow-software.org
117. ^Award BIOS Modifications by Petr Soucek on ryston.cz
118. ^K6plus by Jan Steunebrink on inter.nl.net
119. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.scmagazine.com/new-java-exploit-on-the-loose-unofficial-patch-may-help/article/256264/ |title=New Java exploit on the loose, unofficial patch may help|first=Dan |last=Kaplan |date=2012-08-27 |accessdate=2013-07-09 |publisher=scmagazine.com}}
120. ^[https://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2017/04/19/unlock-win7-win8-updates-ryzen-kaby/1 DLL patch unlocks Windows 7, 8.1 updates on Ryzen, Kaby Lake] by Gareth Halfacree on bit-tech.com (19th April 2017)
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125. ^KernelEx by xeno86 Sourceforge.net
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130. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1003298/nvidia-cuts-vista-support-nforce-chipset |publisher=www.theinquirer.net |title=Nvidia cuts Vista support for Nforce 2 chipset - Fare thee well, old friend|first= Fuad|last= Abazovic |date= 2006-11-17|accessdate=2011-05-28}}
131. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/xp-optimized-nforce-driver-packs-t70968.html|author=Fernando|title=XP: Optimized nForce Driver Packs|accessdate=2011-05-28|date=2011-02-07|quote=Many users with an nForce chipset mainboard, who are running or going to install Windows XP (32/64bit), are searching for actual nForce chipset drivers, which are suitable for their special chipset and will give them the best possible performance and stability of their system. NVIDIA itself doesn't offer them.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121123201842/http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/xp-optimized-nforce-driver-packs-t70968.html|archive-date=2012-11-23|dead-url=yes|df=}}
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133. ^[https://www.engadget.com/2009/10/19/unofficial-patch-lets-you-hang-up-palm-pre-calls-by-closing-the/ Unofficial patch lets you hang up Palm Pre calls by closing the slider] on engadget.com by Donald Melanson (10.19.09)
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135. ^{{cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2007/01/6785.ars |date=2007-01-28 |title=An unofficial Daylight Saving Time fix for Mac OS X 10.3 |publisher=Ars Technica |first=Erik |last=Kennedy |accessdate=2012-01-29}}