Insane Difficulty: Problems with PPF-O-Matic and Windows 10 - Insane Difficulty

I've been wanting to try some different FFT mods but I've found running the latest Windows 10 that PPF-O-Matic just seems to sit there forever applying a patch. I've tried multiple patches and multiple ISOs. If I quit the patch prematurely and then test out the patched product it will have problems like missing sprites. I've tried compatibility settings and running it as Administrator. Any ideas? Anyone encounter this before? All my Windows machines are 10 so I was thinking of just making a VM with Windows XP (like the XP Mode download available from Microsoft).

...Darn, I'm getting the same problem from virtualized Windows XP. Must be the FFT image I'm using. I think I originally used rips from my actual discs but I lost the rips and didn't want to dig the discs out of storage.

Edit: Seems it was just the speed of the patcher. I had waited up to 10 minutes in the past on a 7200RPM HDD but after moving it to a SSD the thing finally completed in about 5 minutes. That's one slow patcher!

Seems like something is wrong, shouldn't take that long, regardless of HDD. However, glad you got it sorted out/your game patched!

If you want to replace your own backup off the game with one that we know works, you can download a copy at emuparadise. Not saying it will work better, just something you could try.

Emuparadise was actually where I got the first image. Not sure what's up with PPF-O-Matic: the reason I didn't just leave it overnight is because I was watching the activity in Task Manager and Resmon and didn't see anything for the program after a few minutes (watching it for several minutes), though the program was technically still responsive (it just kept saying it was still applying the patch). Likely something was blocking it in a way this old program couldn't deal with--it doesn't even come with a progress indicator--but I don't know why it'd also do this on a virtualized Windows XP install. Sometimes too much knowledge of troubleshooting can be a dangerous thing. Anyway, instead of asking that my thread be deleted I thought I might keep it up in case someone else encounters this. #ppfomatic

I used to think there might be a problem on my end as well. (HDD, 5400 RPM here). It took maybe 1, 2 minutes tops, but never as much as you mentioned...

I'm guessing PPF-O-Matic is unmaintained? Can't say I've made an extensive search, but a quick one didn't yield much of interest. Maybe it needs some modern love...