Lars, can you send me a zip file with the patch files? Should be easy to tell what the issue is. Even if it's a corrupt/bogus patch file, I'd like to handle it gracefully.
I found the issue with the decompilation. Well, basically at some point I decided I had done enough work on the decompiler, and any "sticky situations" it got into, I would just say "ok, bail, and fall back to disassembly". But I missed some of the sticky situations, so it's just a matter of identifying them properly. It was the same issue for both Dr Brain and Hoyle (btw, most of the resources in Hoyle 3 don't load properly - I may look at it eventually, but Hoyle isn't high on the list of games to have working).