Kerebron: BTW - MCP is not "modding". It is a patcher (as the name says), that
modifies original game executable file to get rid of bugs, add new functionalities and options.
HunchBluntley: That sounds like a pretty good description of what
mods (short for
modification[s]) do. ;D
Vast majority of modding is modifying of various game files (textures, meshes/models, sounds, scripts, etc.), but not the main executable. Obviously it can be done, I did it myself a couple of times (e.g. Arcanum, HoMM III), but it is rare and usually much more complicated (to know what to do, not the hex-editing itself) than modding.