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   | image = File:Patch-chan and eric.png
   | image = File:Patch-chan and eric.png
   | artist = Paddle
   | artist = Paddle
  | caption = Patch-chan (left) and [[Eric]] (right)
   | based_on = The 4GB patch from [[Deadly Premonition]]
   | based_on = The 4GB patch from [[Deadly Premonition]]
   | character_designer = Paddle
   | character_designer = Paddle
  | see_also =
<!----->* [[Eric]]
   | debut = {{YTCite|XwHcU6hX_8Y|channel=Falco|title=<nowiki>Joseph Anderson Gravity Rush stream 3 with chat [03/24/2023]</nowiki>|time=751|channel_icon=Falco.jpg}}
   | debut = {{YTCite|XwHcU6hX_8Y|channel=Falco|title=<nowiki>Joseph Anderson Gravity Rush stream 3 with chat [03/24/2023]</nowiki>|time=751|channel_icon=Falco.jpg}}
}}Patch-chan is the embodiment of "the 4 gigabyte patch", which is a program that you can run alongside old PC games to make them use 4 GB of virtual memory instead of 2 GB, which makes them crash less frequently on modern PCs. During Joe's streams of Deadly Premonition, the game kept crashing, and people in chat kept on telling him to download the 4 gigabyte patch.<ref>{{YTCite|K_9Rqe6KXBo|channel=Falco|title=<nowiki>Joseph Anderson Deadly Premonition stream 2 with chat [03/09/2023]</nowiki>|time=2946|channel_icon=Falco.jpg}}</ref><ref>{{YTCite|K_9Rqe6KXBo|channel=Falco|title=<nowiki>Joseph Anderson Deadly Premonition stream 2 with chat [03/09/2023]</nowiki>|time=4040|channel_icon=Falco.jpg}}</ref> But Joe didn't understand what this was, so he thought it was a mod for the game and that the file for it was 4 GB in size. This became a running joke up until the point that Joe couldn't progress beyond a certain part of the game because it always crashed there, resulting in chat convincing him to install the patch.<ref>{{YTCite|K_9Rqe6KXBo|channel=Falco|title=<nowiki>Joseph Anderson Deadly Premonition stream 2 with chat [03/09/2023]</nowiki>|time=17811|channel_icon=Falco.jpg}}</ref>
}}Patch-chan is the embodiment of "the 4 gigabyte patch", which is a program that you can run alongside old PC games to make them use 4 GB of virtual memory instead of 2 GB, which makes them crash less frequently on modern PCs. During Joe's streams of Deadly Premonition, the game kept crashing, and people in chat kept on telling him to download the 4 gigabyte patch.<ref>{{YTCite|K_9Rqe6KXBo|channel=Falco|title=<nowiki>Joseph Anderson Deadly Premonition stream 2 with chat [03/09/2023]</nowiki>|time=2946|channel_icon=Falco.jpg}}</ref><ref>{{YTCite|K_9Rqe6KXBo|channel=Falco|title=<nowiki>Joseph Anderson Deadly Premonition stream 2 with chat [03/09/2023]</nowiki>|time=4040|channel_icon=Falco.jpg}}</ref> But Joe didn't understand what this was, so he thought it was a mod for the game and that the file for it was 4 GB in size. This became a running joke up until the point that Joe couldn't progress beyond a certain part of the game because it always crashed there, resulting in chat convincing him to install the patch.<ref>{{YTCite|K_9Rqe6KXBo|channel=Falco|title=<nowiki>Joseph Anderson Deadly Premonition stream 2 with chat [03/09/2023]</nowiki>|time=17811|channel_icon=Falco.jpg}}</ref>