diff --git a/scripts/pack_probe.py b/scripts/pack_probe.py
index 665943f3b..bb4adbfe1 100644
--- a/scripts/pack_probe.py
+++ b/scripts/pack_probe.py
@@ -350,12 +350,18 @@ def map_run(layout: Layout, staged: set[str], rep: dict, profile: dict) -> tuple
     by_name: dict[str, list[str]] = {}
     for rel in layout.files:
         by_name.setdefault(rel.rsplit("/", 1)[-1].casefold(), []).append(rel)
+    # An entry the core found under one of its names asks for nothing more:
+    # BlastEm tries tmss.md, then reads bios_MD.bin, both names of one entry.
+    read = {item["path"] for item in opened if not item["created"]}
+    satisfied = {entry["name"] for entry in libretro_entries(profile) if read & set(entry_paths(entry))}
     findings = []
     for path in rep.get("files_probed_absent") or ():
         names = declaring(profile, path)
         if path in layout.files:
             findings.append({"kind": "not_staged", "path": path, "declared_by": names, "paths": [path]})
             continue
+        if names and set(names) <= satisfied:
+            continue
         elsewhere = sorted(p for p in by_name.get(path.rsplit("/", 1)[-1].casefold(), ()) if p != path)
         if elsewhere:
             kind = "elsewhere"
diff --git a/tests/test_pack_probe.py b/tests/test_pack_probe.py
index 9b255b86d..fbca00844 100644
--- a/tests/test_pack_probe.py
+++ b/tests/test_pack_probe.py
@@ -144,6 +144,15 @@ class Mapping(unittest.TestCase):
             {"kind": "missing_undeclared", "path": "cfg.ini", "declared_by": [], "paths": []},
             {"kind": "unlisted", "path": "extra.bin", "declared_by": [], "paths": []}])
 
+    def test_a_name_tried_before_an_alias_that_is_read_is_no_finding(self) -> None:
+        profile = {"files": [{"name": "tmss.md", "aliases": ["bios_MD.bin"]}, {"name": "bios_CD_U.bin"}]}
+        lay = layout({"bios_MD.bin": 1})
+        rep = {"files_opened": [{"path": "bios_MD.bin", "sha1_after": "a" * 40}],
+               "files_probed_absent": ["tmss.md", "bios_CD_U.bin"]}
+        _, findings = pp.map_run(lay, {"bios_MD.bin"}, rep, profile)
+        self.assertEqual(findings, [{"kind": "missing_declared", "path": "bios_CD_U.bin",
+                                     "declared_by": ["bios_CD_U.bin"], "paths": []}])
+
     def test_manifest_entries(self) -> None:
         manifest = {"files": [{"dest": "a.bin"}],
                     "case_variants": [{"dest": "A.BIN"}, {"dest": "a.bin"}],
diff --git a/wiki/tools.md b/wiki/tools.md
index 6337d2b38..52fce570b 100644
--- a/wiki/tools.md
+++ b/wiki/tools.md
@@ -1047,6 +1047,9 @@ with the pack entry that put it there, and the findings:
 | `not_staged` | the folder holds it, but the staging did not close within 6 runs |
 | `unlisted` | the core opened a file of the folder that no pack member or manifest entry names |
 
+A name the core tried before it read another name of the same profile entry
+is no finding: BlastEm tries `tmss.md`, then reads `bios_MD.bin`.
+
 The run cannot see two things the platform does: core options a frontend
 sets (Batocera's configgen writes some), and the files the installer puts in
 the save directory, counted in `source.save_dir_files`. The Measurements page