I've finally found a easy enough way for me to make patches for Final Fantasy XI so i can put them up as alternative downloads to Square Enix slow update server
My patches will be a lot Smaller than Kriz'z since I'm using more uptodate compression which will results in faster download times
The patches will be simply named by date in YYYYMMDD.exe name format.
Any feedback is welcome
-- edit 2015/26/06 --
Returning to the game after a couple of years break I am now restarting the updates. All updates are based on the downloadable Aoudolin edition.
If your version is older than that you will need to use the automatic update feature to download additional files. You can still use these update to cut down on that download time though.
The Patches requires up to around 1GB of free memory otherwise the install process will be pretty slow.
The updates are posted in proper install order, stating from top
-- edit 2017/14/10 --
Returing oncem ore to the game and gonan make this offline updates
Due to increased compression levels you should have at least 1.5gb ram in your system for these
Update Patches:
FFXIpatch20171011full.exe - FFXI FULL patch (from Seekers install) 2017-10-11 (859 MB)
FFXIpatch20171011.exe - FFXI Patch 2017-10-11 (33.6 MB)
FFXIpatch20171109.exe - FFXI Patch 2017-11-09 (48.3 MB)
FFXIpatch20171210.exe - FFXI Patch 2017-12-10 (30.2 MB)
Janurary 2018 Update is missing :(
FFXIpatch20180208.exe - FFXI Patch 2018-02-08 (19.2 MB)
FFXIpatch20180312.exe - FFXI Patch 2018-03-12 (18.1 MB)
Tools:
ResetPOL.reg - Reset POL windows size/location