docs: keep the release page to packs and launchers

The release carries the packs, the handheld launchers and the signed checksum list. The installer and the file lists are pinned from the tag (installer page, For packagers), and check_release.py now refuses them as unrecorded files. The notes link each pack's files on the release itself, in a beginner's page: one idea per line. The handheld section links the latest release.

scripts/release_notes.py

@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@
 The notes carried the pack table, typed by hand from figures release.json
 already held: a copied cell or an old collection total at the top is how
 issue 81 happened. Install commands, the parts sentence and the table come
-from the record and the registry. Each row links the platform's page under
-get/ on the site, which outlives the release, and the setups the registry
-does not mark release_pack are named with the command. The maintainer writes
+from the record and the registry. Each row links the files of this release,
+which sit right below the notes, and the setups the registry does not mark
+release_pack are named with the command. The text is a beginner's page: one
+idea per line, plain words (owner, 2026-11-10). The maintainer writes
 what changed, and that text is appended as given once it holds none of the
 REFUSED phrases.
 
@@ -84,9 +85,8 @@ def no_pack_paragraph(platforms_dir: str) -> list[str]:
         return []
     listed = ", ".join(names[:-1]) + f" and {names[-1]}" if len(names) > 1 else names[0]
     return [
-        (f"No ZIP for {listed}. ZIPs are made for the setups most people download."
-         " The command above installs every file for these setups and checks each one."
-         " Add `--dry-run` to see what it would install."),
+        (f"No ZIP for {listed}. The command above installs them."
+         " Add `--dry-run` to see what it would do."),
         "",
     ]
 
@@ -96,11 +96,13 @@ def _match_key(value: str) -> str:
     return re.sub(r"[^a-z0-9]", "", value.lower())
 
 
-def _link(name: str, pack: dict) -> str:
-    """The pack's permanent page, which lists the files of the current release."""
-    parts = len(pack["assets"])
-    label = "Download" if parts == 1 else f"Download, {parts} parts"
-    return f"[{label}]({release_record.get_page(_owner(name, pack), SITE)})"
+def _link(pack: dict, tag: str) -> str:
+    """The pack's files on this release, one link per part."""
+    base = f"https://github.com/{REPO}/releases/download/{tag}"
+    assets = pack["assets"]
+    if len(assets) == 1:
+        return f"[Download]({base}/{assets[0]})"
+    return ", ".join(f"[part {i}]({base}/{name})" for i, name in enumerate(assets, 1))
 
 
 # Words the published notes of v2026.10.10 carried by hand: "never from a
@@ -120,11 +122,11 @@ def refused_words(text: str) -> list[str]:
 def render(record: dict, platforms_dir: str, whats_new: str) -> str:
     packs = record.get("packs", {})
     folders = _extract_folders(record, platforms_dir)
+    tag = str(record.get("tag", ""))
     lines = [
         "### Install in one command",
         "",
-        ("The installer detects the platform and its BIOS folder, downloads only"
-         " what is missing and checks every file. Running it again is safe."),
+        "It finds your setup and its BIOS folder, then downloads only what is missing.",
         "",
         "**Linux, macOS, Steam Deck**",
         "```sh",
@@ -136,35 +138,39 @@ def render(record: dict, platforms_dir: str, whats_new: str) -> str:
         install_command("powershell"),
         "```",
         "",
-        "### Download a pack",
+        (f"**On a handheld**: copy the `RetroBIOS` file for your system to the card"
+         f" ([which one]({SITE}wiki/installer/#on-a-handheld-the-retrobios-port))."),
         "",
-        ("One complete pack for each platform below: the BIOS list the platform"
-         " publishes plus the files its emulators open. Files no pack carries yet"
-         f" are listed in the [gap analysis]({SITE}gaps/). Each link is a page"
-         " that keeps its address from one release to the next. Files is what the pack"
-         " holds once extracted, the count a file manager shows. Extracted size"
-         " is the space those files take, and the download is smaller."),
+        "### Or download a pack",
+        "",
+        "Extract it into your BIOS folder.",
         "",
     ]
     if any(len(pack["assets"]) > 1 for pack in packs.values()):
         lines += [
-            ("A pack over 2 GB comes as parts that are each an ordinary ZIP of whole"
-             " files (`Pack.part1of2.zip`, `Pack.part2of2.zip`). Download every part"
-             " and extract them all into the same folder. Nothing needs joining."),
+            ("A pack in parts: each part is an ordinary ZIP. Extract every part into"
+             " the same folder. Nothing needs joining."),
             "",
         ]
     lines += [
-        "| Platform | Download | Extracted size | Files | Extract to |",
-        "|----------|----------|---------------:|------:|-----------|",
+        "| Platform | Download | Size | Files | Extract to |",
+        "|----------|----------|-----:|------:|-----------|",
     ]
     for name, pack in sorted(packs.items(), key=lambda item: -item[1]["extracted_size"]):
         folder = folders.get(name)
         lines.append(
-            f"| {_display(name)} | {_link(name, pack)} |"
+            f"| {_display(name)} | {_link(pack, tag)} |"
             f" {_size(pack['extracted_size'])} | {pack['files']:,} |"
             f" {f'`{folder}`' if folder else '-'} |"
         )
-    lines += ["", *no_pack_paragraph(platforms_dir), whats_new.strip(), ""]
+    lines += [
+        "",
+        f"Files no pack holds yet: [gap analysis]({SITE}gaps/).",
+        "",
+        *no_pack_paragraph(platforms_dir),
+        whats_new.strip(),
+        "",
+    ]
     return "\n".join(lines)