What the difference between byuu's upset patcher & D's NINJA patcher?

I can't seem to find a lot of details about these programs and was wondering what benefits one has over the other?

NINJA was made years before the UPS standard existed, so it will naturally not support it.

IPS is the most widely-supported, but 1. it doesn't work on files larger than 16MB and 2. for this reason, we're trying to break the community's overreliance on it.

Breath of Fire 2 should've been UPS, dammit. Don't know what I was thinking releasing it as an IPS.

For games which use a virtual file system, or in which you've had to move a lot of stuff around, an xdelta patch is probably the best way to go. Fortunately, KaioShin's developed a glorious GUI frontend, which you can get here.

This is better for power-users for sure, but I guarantee you, every additional button or check-box is 5 too many for the average end-user. Lot's of people already find mine too complex, and there is nothing to do besides choosing a patch file and a target file. And giving people the option to ignore checksums and patch to any random file... I didn't put that in for good reasons. People who think they are smarter than the patching standard will use it, and then they'll come to you complaining about unexplainable bugs, caused by patching to the wrong files

The more choice the merrier. And the "Ignore CRC" button shouldn't be a problem, especially if it's unchecked by default and you out a warning about how dangerous it would be turning it on. Otherwise, it's regular administration and I don't really see how a few more buttons can confuse people more than they usually are when it comes to patching.