Would it technically be possible...

[Articerile]

...to patch an actual cartridge of Super Mario World with a hack .ips with the right equipment?

[Sekna]

I don't think so...
It's a ROM, that being Read-Only-Memory :(

[Articerile]

I don't think so...
It's a ROM, that being Read-Only-Memory :(

That doesn't stop the naughty naughty ROMs people can get for their computers from getting .ips so that's why I wondered if it extended to the carts.

[CoolJosh3k]

Sekna is correct; it can't be done becuase they use Read-Only memory.

When the term ROM is used to talk about a file on a computer, it is actuallly wrong. The file is an image and is fully writable.

[Zeek]

I believe you have to have some sort of flash cart/programmable eproms. As I know people can make their own copies of Starfox 2 and such. (http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=13416) Probably asking the person in my link may be your best option, that I can think of, if you want to create a custom SNES cart.

[Dylan Yoshi]

If I recall, it's possible to do it but SMW Hacks won't play right because they're usually too big to fit on an SNES cartridge or something like that.

So short answer: Not SMW Hacks.