I fiddled around last night with the ips patching script by Belgarath and it works like a charm in Snes9x 1.43 and 1.51, for some reason ZSNES didn't like it.
However one too many of the patches needs headers in the roms making it no less than a mess (hey that rhymed
).
So for now I'll stick to pre patched roms, sorry for the inconvenience folks.
@TheCyberDruid.
Thanks anyway matey for looking into the 7z thingie.