非官方补丁

非官方补丁（unofficial patch）是由用户社区而非原始开发者为一款软件创作的非商业（英语：Non-commercial）补丁。与普通的官方补丁一样，非官方补丁一般也是为修复软件缺陷或劣势制作，而通常不会改变软件的预期用法，这不同于第三方的软件适配（例如游戏模块或破解补丁）。

非官方补丁是一种通常经过万维网传播的用户生成内容，可以被视作Web 2.0与重组文化（英语：remix culture）的一部分。

动机

创建非官方补丁的一个常见原因是缺少软件原作者或提供者的技术支持。一些潜在的原因是：

• 软件产品已达预定的产品寿命并/或被其他产品取代（计划报废）^[1]
• 软件最初是为另一个不同的环境设计，并且可以被改进/优化（移植）
• 开发者已经停产（老软件）^[2]
• 官方支持所要求的经济成本过高（例如对小市场的本地化）
• 对紧迫问题的快速解决方案（例如安全漏洞），如果官方响应过缓^[3][4][5]
• 官方开发人员无法解决此问题

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类型

在电脑游戏领域中，非官方补丁最为常见，它们有时也被称为爱好者补丁（Fan patches），尤其是如果为一人独自完成。社区中多名作者共同完成则一般称为社区补丁（Community Patch）。这些补丁着眼典型程序流程中的关键错误，进行崩溃和兼容性方面的修复，例如适配新版操作系统、增加分辨率等。

虽然非官方补丁常见于PC平台，但在主机游戏中也有它们的存在，例如仿真社区中的交流。^[6]

翻译

另一种非官方补丁是爱好者翻译（英语：Fan translation (video gaming)）（中国称汉化补丁）。爱好者将日本角色扮演游戏（英语：Japanese role-playing game）翻译为英语很是常见，因为这些游戏通常不会为西方市场进行本地化。^[7][8]

还有一种非官方补丁是补丁集，是将官方的零散补丁汇总集成，以便安装使用。

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方法

最常见的情况是没有软件的原始码和原开发工具。因此，可能只得在执行期以逆向工程和调试方法分析缺陷软件的二进制文件，找到问题所在后再设法进行修复。有时解决问题只需修改配置文件或注册表，而有时则需对二进制文件或可执行文件进行修改才能解决文件。如果有软件开发工具包（例如Mod系统）可用，修复补丁的制作可能会更为容易，否则就需要自己使用工具（例如NSIS、Innosetup）打包给用户使用的修补程序。

如果可以获得原始码，则或许能更有效地解决缺陷。有时原始码已获公开发布，而有时是从原始码泄露（英语：Source code leak）^[9][10][11]或失误^[12]得来，例如《Thief（英语：Thief (series)）》系列游戏引擎的泄露事件。^[13][14]有时游戏粉丝甚至对原始程序进行完全的反向工程（英语：Game engine recreation#Bottom up）。^[15]

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法律

虽然直接涉及非官方补丁的法庭案件不常见，但历史上有过类似的案件^[16]。

已隐藏部分未翻译内容，欢迎参与翻译。

Galoob v. Nintendo（英语：Galoob v. Nintendo） found that it was not 盗版 by a user to apply an unauthorized patch to a system (while the scope was very specific to the Game Genie（英语：Game Genie）). On the other hand, the case Micro Star v. FormGen Inc.（英语：Micro Star v. FormGen Inc.） found that user-generated maps were 派生作品s of the original game. In 世嘉诉Accolade案, the 美国联邦第九巡回上诉法院 held that making copies in the course of 逆向工程 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 美国著作权法 17 U.S. Code § 117, the owner of a copy of a program can modify it as necessary for "Maintenance or Repair",^[17] without permission from the copyright holder; an argumentation also raised by Daniel J. Bernstein professor at the 伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校.^[18] 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.^[19] 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.^[20]

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反响

对非官方补丁的存在各方褒贬不一，很多著作权持有人对此十分矛盾。^[21][22]对于非官方补丁和粉丝翻译的项目，很少出现停止并终止的要求。^[23][24]

有时著作权持有者还会主动支持软件社区的补丁和修复工作，少数情况下甚至可以以某个软件许可证发布原始码来允许软件社区继续进行软件支持工作。^{[25][26][27][28][29]}

1980年代出现的自由及开放原始码软件运动有助解决非官方补丁的根本问题，避免用户因缺少原始码而无法对仅二进制分发的软件进行自行支持。自由及开放原始码软件对原始码可用性的要求能防止对专有软件的二进制文件打补丁时可能遇到的技术和法律问题。

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电子游戏中的例子

游戏	类型
源毒	缺陷修复补丁[30]
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura	缺陷修复补丁[31]、爱好者翻译
终极战区II：战斗指挥官	缺陷修复补丁[32][33][34]
文明IV	修复缺陷及扩展[35]（有SDK原始码[36][37]，可访问XML配置及Python文件）[38]
时空之轮	爱好者翻译、缺陷修复补丁[39]
命令与征服 (1995年游戏)	缺陷修复补丁、分辨率修复，添加语言包支持[40][41][42]
上古卷轴II：匕首雨	缺陷修复补丁[43]、爱好者翻译
黑暗之魂II	修复缺陷[44]
Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut	分辨率修复[45]
Ecco the Dolphin（英语：Ecco the Dolphin）	修复缺陷，为新版系统移植[46][47]
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	修复缺陷[48][49]
辐射2	缺陷修复补丁[50] 、分辨率修复
辐射4	缺陷修复补丁[51][52][53]
自由枪骑兵	缺陷修复补丁[54]
Galactic Civilizations II（英语：Galactic Civilizations II）	脚本更正，数据库错误更正，引擎修复[55]
Gothic 3（英语：Gothic 3）	缺陷修复补丁[56][28][57]
BioWare（博德之门系列，冰风谷等）	缺陷修复补丁、分辨率修复[58]
Jagged Alliance 2（英语：Jagged Alliance 2）（现为JA2-Stracciatella）	缺陷修复补丁, 分辨率修复，移植[59][60][61][62][63][64]
Legacy of Kain（英语：Legacy of Kain）系列	缺陷修复补丁[65][66][67]
LucasArts冒险游戏（猴岛小英雄系列、圣战奇兵等）	爱好者翻译[68]
Master of Magic（英语：Master of Magic）	爱好者补丁[69][70][71]
Master of Orion 3（英语：Master of Orion 3）	爱好者翻译[72]、修复缺陷
我的世界	爱好者修复被采纳到最新补丁[73][74][75]
MVP Baseball 2005（英语：MVP Baseball 2005）	修复，继续支持[76][77][78]
Nuclear Throne（英语：Nuclear Throne）	合作模式修复与增强[79][80]
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim	缺陷修复补丁[81][82]、翻译修正[83]
Rollcage（英语：Rollcage (video game)）	缺陷修复补丁[84]
Silent Hunter II（英语：Silent Hunter II） / 驱逐舰指挥官	缺陷修复补丁（Ubisoft原始码协助）[85][86][87][88]
星之海洋系列	爱好者翻译[7]
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords	修复缺陷[89][90]、恢复内容、[91]支持宽屏[92]
最高指挥官	缺陷修复、多用户客户端及替代伺服器（私人伺服器）[93][94][95][96]
Dark Engine（英语：Dark Engine） (神偷：暗黑计划、神偷II：金属时代、System Shock 2（英语：System Shock 2）)	缺陷修复补丁[13][14][97]
泰坦之旅	缺陷修复补丁[98][99]
Ultima series	缺陷修复补丁[100]、爱好者翻译
创世纪IV：圣者传奇	缺陷修复补丁、易主[101][102]
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines	缺陷修复补丁，恢复内容，宽屏和现代操作系统支持[103][104][105]
Xenonauts（英语：Xenonauts）	缺陷修复补丁和继续支持[106][107]

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普通软件中的例子

软件	类型
3dfx Interactive驱动程式	驱动程式修复，继续支持[108][109]
Adobe Acrobat	快速安全修复[110]
Socket 7 主板的Award（英语：Award Software） BIOS	支持超过32GB的硬盘、支持AMD K6-2/3+[111][112][113]
Java	快速安全修复[114]
Windows 7、Windows 8	解锁硬件支持[115]
Windows 98	Slipstream补丁、缺陷修复补丁[116][117]、支持超过137GB的硬盘、[118]支持2k API[119][120][121]
Windows XP	更新包[122][123]
Internet Explorer	快速安全修复[124]
英伟达 NVIDIA nForce 晶片组 驱动程式	在较新Windows操作系统上支持旧款晶片组[125][126][127]
Palm Pre	功能扩展[128]
WMF格式	快速安全修复[3][4][5]
Windows URI问题	快速安全修复[129]
MacOS 10.3	夏时制补丁[130]

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59. Ancheta, Justin. Bringing Good Old Games To Modern Macs. Inside Mac Games（英语：Inside Mac Games）. 2012-06-01 [2014-03-29]. （原始内容存档于2020-08-08）. Jagged Alliance 2 [...] and maintains both a tutorial for getting GOG games to run on Mac OS X, and a list of games he has personally tested to work on Mac OS X through CrossOver, Wineskin, and open source ports.
60. Mac Friendly GOG Games （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） Jagged Alliance 2 [...] Source ports available at: http://ja2.monkeyphysics.com/home/osx （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, and at https://bitbucket.org/gennady/ja2-stracciatella/downloads （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）存档副本. [2017-11-25]. 原始内容存档于2021-01-24.
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76. Nine Years Later, Latin America's Leagues Keep MVP Baseball Alive （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） on Kotaku by Owen Good (12/22/13)
77. Lindbergh, Ben. ‘MVP Baseball … 2015’? How the Best Baseball Video Game Ever Has Refused to Retire for 10 Years. Grantland.com（英语：Grantland.com）. April 14, 2015 [2017-11-25]. （原始内容存档于2021-01-21）. 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.
78. Open-Source-Breathes-New-Life-Into-MVP-Baseball-2005-Video-Game （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） on protecode.com by Sara Purdon (on Sep 15, 2015)
79. O'Connor, Alice. Nuclear Throne Mod Adds Online Co-op. Rock, Paper, Shotgun. 2016-06-25 [2017-01-05]. （原始内容存档于2021-01-21）.
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81. Sharkey, Mike. Unofficial Skyrim Patch Fixes Myriad Skyrim Bugs - Fan created uber patch designed to fix Skyrim's many problems.. gamespy.com. 2012-03-14 [2012-12-22]. （原始内容存档于2012-11-19）.
82. Quarn and Kivan. Unofficial Skyrim Patch Version: 1.3.3c. nexumods.com. 2013-08-20 [2013-10-03]. （原始内容存档于2020-08-07）. [...]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
83. Skyrim - Director's Cut. scharesoft.de. [2012-12-22]. （原始内容存档于2012-11-13） （德语）. 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.
84. Luke Reilly. Rollcage Spiritual Successor Grip Is a Blast from PlayStation’s Forgotten Past. ign.com. 2015-11-30 [2017-11-25]. （原始内容存档于2021-01-27）. 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.”
85. Trotter, William. Submarine marries Destroyer: The long vaunted union of SSI naval-sims is complete - thanks to fans.. PC Gamer. May 1, 2003 [2017-05-06]. （原始内容存档于2016-06-10）. gave source code to subsim（英语：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
86. Scott Parrino. Behind the LInes #5. The Wargamer（英语：The Wargamer (website)）. 24 May 2003 [2017-05-06]. （原始内容存档于2005年11月30日）. Subsim Review served as the gathering place for Projekt Messerwetzer, the project that brought Silent Hunter II - Destroyer Command computability to full fruition
87. Projekt Messerwetzer （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） "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
88. PM_Readme （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） on subsim（英语：subsim）
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90. Grayson, Nathan. Get These: KOTOR 2 And Its Restored Content Mod. Rock, Paper, Shotgun. 2012-08-24 [2013-09-05]. （原始内容存档于2012-08-25）. On top of that, the mod fixes “over 500″ bugs, because Obsidian, basically.
91. Wilde, Tyler. Community heroes: modders debug and restore cut content in Knights of the Old Republic II. PC Gamer. 2012-07-26 [2012-09-26]. （原始内容存档于2014-07-13）.
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95. Hafer, T.J. Community-made Forged Alliance Forever keeps Supreme Commander multiplayer alive. PC Gamer. 2012-11-19 [2014-08-28]. （原始内容存档于2014-09-03）. 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.
96. You're in charge! - From vital patches to game cancellations, players are often intimately involved. （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） 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)
97. fans-rework-homeworld-2-system-shock-and-thief-2 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） on Eurogamer (2012-09-26)
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104. Meer, Alec. Undying: Vampire Bloodlines Patched Anew. rockpapershotgun.com. 2011-07-15 [2011-08-02]. （原始内容存档于2014-07-12）. 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 […]
105. Haas, Pete. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines Still Getting Patches. GAMING BLEND. 2009-07-03 [2012-01-07]. （原始内容存档于2021-01-19）.
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108. Treiber-Quellcode von 3dfx im Netz aufgetaucht - Von Nvidia offenbar geduldet （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） by Christian Klaß on Golem.de (7 May 2003, in German)
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115. DLL patch unlocks Windows 7, 8.1 updates on Ryzen, Kaby Lake （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） by Gareth Halfacree on bit-tech.com (19th April 2017)
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122. Vahldiek, Axel. Microsoft geht gegen unautorisierte Update-Packs vor. heise online（英语：heise online）. 2007-03-20 [2011-04-06] （德语）.
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125. Abazovic, Fuad. Nvidia cuts Vista support for Nforce 2 chipset - Fare thee well, old friend. www.theinquirer.net. 2006-11-17 [2011-05-28]. （原始内容存档于2009-09-18）.
126. Fernando. XP: Optimized nForce Driver Packs. 2011-02-07 [2011-05-28]. （原始内容存档于2012-11-23）. 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.
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128. Unofficial patch lets you hang up Palm Pre calls by closing the slider （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） on Engadget by Donald Melanson (10.19.09)
129. Barwise, Mike. Unofficial patch for Windows URI problem. The H Security. 2007-10-16 [2012-01-29]. （原始内容存档于2021-04-29）.
130. Kennedy, Erik. An unofficial Daylight Saving Time fix for Mac OS X 10.3. Ars Technica. 2007-01-28 [2012-01-29]. （原始内容存档于2012-01-01）.