Apollo Command-line Tools Reference

CLI Tools

Apollo command-line tools are useful for code creators and developers, to test SW codes and BSD scripts locally on a computer.

• dumper

• patcher

patcher

The patcher command-line tool reads a .savepatch file and a comma-separated list of patches, and apply the selected cheat codes to the target file. It defaults to little-endian data mode and also supports -b/--big-endian and -l/--little-endian to select the mode at run-time.

Apollo Cheat Patcher v2.1.0 - (c) 2022-2026 by Bucanero

Patching:
 USAGE: ./patcher [-b|--big-endian] [-l|--little-endian] file.savepatch 1,2,7-10,18 [data-file.bin]

  -b,--big-endian:    Use big-endian data mode
  -l,--little-endian: Use little-endian data mode
  file.savepatch: The cheat patch file to apply
  1,2,7-10,18:    The list of codes to apply
  data-file.bin:  The target file to patch

Listing:
 USAGE: ./patcher file.savepatch [-c 1,2,7-10,18]

  file.savepatch: The cheat patch file to list
  -c:             Display code details (Optional)
  1,2,7-10,18:    The list of codes to display (Optional)

dumper

The dumper command-line tool reads a binary file and generates a .savepatch file with a SW code that writes the raw content of the binary data.

Apollo binary file SW dumper v1.4.0 - (c) 2023-2025 by Bucanero

USAGE: ./dumper filename.ext