diff --git a/games/supermariowar/libpng.patch b/games/supermariowar/libpng.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 1348cc548f..0000000000
--- a/games/supermariowar/libpng.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-Index: _src/savepng.cpp
-===================================================================
---- _src/savepng.cpp	(revision 6)
-+++ _src/savepng.cpp	(working copy)
-@@ -94,7 +94,11 @@
- 	}
- 	
- 	/* Set error handling. */
-+#if PNG_LIBPNG_VER > 10399
-+	if (setjmp(png_jmpbuf(png_ptr)))
-+#else
- 	if (setjmp(png_ptr->jmpbuf))
-+#endif
- 	{
- 		/* If we get here, we had a problem reading the file */
- 		IMG_SetError("Error writing the PNG file");
-@@ -142,10 +146,10 @@
- done:
-         if (row_pointers)
- 			delete [] row_pointers;
--	
-+#if PNG_LIBPNG_VER <= 10399	
- 	if (info_ptr->palette)
- 		delete info_ptr->palette;
--	
-+#endif	
- 	png_destroy_write_struct(&png_ptr, (png_infopp)NULL);
- 	
- 	
diff --git a/games/supermariowar/libpng.patch.gz b/games/supermariowar/libpng.patch.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..84c6a45a33
Binary files /dev/null and b/games/supermariowar/libpng.patch.gz differ
diff --git a/games/supermariowar/supermariowar.SlackBuild b/games/supermariowar/supermariowar.SlackBuild
index e5dce1fd61..1e6ed1f61f 100644
--- a/games/supermariowar/supermariowar.SlackBuild
+++ b/games/supermariowar/supermariowar.SlackBuild
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ find -L . \
 zcat $CWD/compilefixes.diff.gz | patch -p1
 
 # Patch for libpng16 (-current) thanks to Arch Linux
-patch -p0 < $CWD/libpng.patch
+# (this is gzipped to preserve CRLF line endings)
+zcat $CWD/libpng.patch.gz | patch -p0
 
 # the configure script isn't autoconf (yay), but it has CRLFs (boo)
 sed -i 's,\r,,g' configure