diff --git a/scripts/verify.py b/scripts/verify.py
index 74151d22..58083eaf 100644
--- a/scripts/verify.py
+++ b/scripts/verify.py
@@ -957,6 +957,7 @@ def verify_platform(
     file_severity: dict[str, str] = {}
 
     region_drops: set[str] = set()
+    region_fallbacks: list[str] = []
     region_extra_dests: dict[tuple[str, str, str], str] = {}
     if regions:
         import region as region_mod
@@ -978,11 +979,15 @@ def verify_platform(
             target_cores=target_cores,
             held_out=held,
         )
+        region_index = region_mod.platform_region_index(config, profiles, target_cores)
         region_drops = region_mod.resolve_region_drops(
-            region_groups,
-            region_mod.platform_region_index(config, profiles, target_cores),
-            regions,
-            held,
+            region_groups, region_index, regions, held,
+        )
+        # The pack README names these: no file answers the request, so every
+        # candidate stays. Reported here too, or verify reads all OK for a
+        # system that has no BIOS for the region asked.
+        region_fallbacks = region_mod.fallback_groups(
+            region_groups, region_index, regions
         )
 
     # A destination two systems declare with two hashes ships one file, the
@@ -1170,6 +1175,7 @@ def verify_platform(
         "status_counts": status_counts,
         "undeclared_files": undeclared,
         "exclusion_notes": exclusions,
+        "region_fallbacks": sorted(region_fallbacks),
         "details": details,
         "ground_truth_coverage": {
             "with_validation": with_validation,
@@ -1393,6 +1399,12 @@ def print_platform_result(
         if missing:
             parts.append(f"{missing} missing")
     print(f"{label}: {', '.join(parts)} [{mode}]")
+    fallbacks = result.get("region_fallbacks") or []
+    if fallbacks:
+        from packreadme import _group_label
+
+        print(f"  No BIOS for the requested regions, all kept ({len(fallbacks)}): "
+              + ", ".join(_group_label(g) for g in fallbacks))
 
     seen_details: set[str] = set()
     _print_detail_entries(result["details"], seen_details, verbose)
diff --git a/tests/test_region.py b/tests/test_region.py
index c2c06a91..ac275da7 100644
--- a/tests/test_region.py
+++ b/tests/test_region.py
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import contextlib
+import io
 import os
 import sys
 import unittest
@@ -707,6 +709,30 @@ class TestReportAndBuilderNarrowTogether(unittest.TestCase):
             common._emulator_profiles_cache.clear()
             tmp.cleanup()
 
+    def test_the_report_names_the_fallback_groups(self):
+        """The pack README lists the systems kept whole because nothing
+        answers the request; verify said all OK and named none."""
+        sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", "scripts"))
+        import common
+        import verify as reporter
+
+        tmp, root, db, config = self._fixture()
+        try:
+            common._emulator_profiles_cache.clear()
+            profiles = common.load_emulator_profiles(str(root / "emulators"))
+            result = reporter.verify_platform(
+                config, db, str(root / "emulators"), profiles,
+                supplemental_names=set(), regions=["brazil"],
+            )
+            self.assertEqual(result["region_fallbacks"], ["demo-system"])
+            out = io.StringIO()
+            with contextlib.redirect_stdout(out):
+                reporter.print_platform_result(result, ["Demo"])
+            self.assertIn("all kept (1): demo-system", out.getvalue())
+        finally:
+            common._emulator_profiles_cache.clear()
+            tmp.cleanup()
+
     def test_one_grouping_pass_serves_both_sides(self):
         """A second hand-rolled grouping is how the two drifted apart.