diff --git a/scripts/generate_site.py b/scripts/generate_site.py
index 0bad09ca..efcf28d7 100644
--- a/scripts/generate_site.py
+++ b/scripts/generate_site.py
@@ -125,19 +125,95 @@ CLS_LABELS = {
 }
 
 
+def _copy_places(db: dict) -> dict[str, set[tuple[str, str, str]]]:
+    """sha1 -> every (manufacturer, console, file name) holding a copy.
+
+    The database keeps one path per content, deduplication having left one
+    copy. by_path_suffix still records the other folders a copy is filed in,
+    under the name that folder gives it.
+    """
+    files = db.get("files", {})
+    bios_dir = Path(str(db.get("bios_dir") or "bios"))
+    places: dict[str, set[tuple[str, str, str]]] = {}
+    for sha1, entry in files.items():
+        parts = str(entry.get("path", "")).split("/")
+        if len(parts) >= 3 and parts[0] == "bios":
+            places.setdefault(sha1, set()).add((parts[1], parts[2], parts[-1]))
+    for tail, sha1s in db.get("indexes", {}).get("by_path_suffix", {}).items():
+        parts = tail.split("/")
+        if len(parts) < 3 or parts[1].startswith(".") or len(sha1s) != 1:
+            continue
+        if sha1s[0] in files and (bios_dir / tail).is_file():
+            places.setdefault(sha1s[0], set()).add((parts[0], parts[1], parts[-1]))
+    return places
+
+
+# bios/Other/<emulator> and bios/Arcade/<emulator or board> file a copy by
+# who loads it, not by machine. A copy also filed under a machine's maker
+# places the system there.
+_BUCKET_FOLDERS = frozenset({"Other", "Arcade"})
+
+
+def _slug(manufacturer: str) -> str:
+    return manufacturer.lower().replace(" ", "-")
+
+
+def _names_manufacturer(sys_id: str, manufacturer: str) -> bool:
+    slug = _slug(manufacturer)
+    return sys_id == slug or sys_id.startswith(f"{slug}-")
+
+
+def _copies_by_path(db: dict) -> dict[str, set[tuple[str, str, str]]]:
+    """The copy places of each content, keyed by the path the database keeps."""
+    files = db.get("files", {})
+    return {
+        str(files[sha1].get("path", "")): where
+        for sha1, where in _copy_places(db).items()
+    }
+
+
 def _system_folder(
-    files: list[dict], db: dict, name_consoles: dict[str, set[tuple[str, str]]]
+    files: list[dict],
+    db: dict,
+    name_consoles: dict[str, set[tuple[str, str]]],
+    sys_id: str = "",
+    copies: dict[str, set[tuple[str, str, str]]] | None = None,
 ) -> tuple[str, str] | None:
-    """The bios/<manufacturer>/<console> folder a system's files live in."""
+    """The bios/<manufacturer>/<console> folder a system's files live in.
+
+    A content votes for every folder holding a copy under the name the system
+    declares, not only the one deduplication kept: disksys.rom is kept as
+    Arcade/FBNeo/fdsbios.nes and filed again under Nintendo/Famicom Disk
+    System. A copy filed under another name, outside the manufacturer the id
+    names, is another machine's file and votes only when no copy carries the
+    declared name. An id that names its manufacturer (nintendo-fds) keeps the
+    votes cast inside that manufacturer when there are any, and a maker's
+    folder outranks the folders that file copies by emulator.
+    """
+    if copies is None:
+        copies = _copies_by_path(db)
     votes: dict[tuple[str, str], int] = {}
     for fe in files:
         local, status = resolve_local_file(fe, db)
-        parts = (local or "").split("/")
-        if len(parts) >= 4 and parts[0] == "bios" and resolution_is_hash_exact(status):
-            place = (parts[1], parts[2])
+        if not local or not resolution_is_hash_exact(status):
+            continue
+        held = copies.get(local, set())
+        if not held:
+            parts = local.split("/")
+            if len(parts) >= 4 and parts[0] == "bios":
+                held = {(parts[1], parts[2], parts[-1])}
+        declared = str(fe.get("name", "")).casefold()
+        named = {
+            (m, c) for m, c, base in held
+            if base.casefold() == declared or _names_manufacturer(sys_id, m)
+        }
+        for place in named or {(m, c) for m, c, _ in held}:
             votes[place] = votes.get(place, 0) + 1
     if votes:
-        return max(sorted(votes), key=lambda place: votes[place])
+        own = [place for place in votes if _names_manufacturer(sys_id, place[0])]
+        makers = [place for place in votes if place[0] not in _BUCKET_FOLDERS]
+        candidates = own or makers or list(votes)
+        return max(sorted(candidates), key=lambda place: votes[place])
     for fe in files:
         places = name_consoles.get(fe.get("name", ""), set())
         if len(places) == 1:
@@ -145,6 +221,32 @@ def _system_folder(
     return None
 
 
+def _folders_by_name(manufacturers: dict) -> dict[str, set[tuple[str, str]]]:
+    """Normalized system name -> the console folders that spell it.
+
+    nintendo-nes, nes and the NES folder normalize alike, as do
+    sega-mastersystem and Sega/Master System.
+    """
+    from common import _norm_system_id
+
+    index: dict[str, set[tuple[str, str]]] = {}
+    for mfr, consoles in manufacturers.items():
+        for console in consoles:
+            spelled = console.lower().replace(" ", "-")
+            for key in {
+                _norm_system_id(f"{_slug(mfr)}-{spelled}"), _norm_system_id(spelled)
+            }:
+                index.setdefault(key, set()).add((mfr, console))
+    return index
+
+
+def _folder_named(sys_id: str, by_name: dict[str, set[tuple[str, str]]]) -> tuple[str, str] | None:
+    from common import _norm_system_id
+
+    places = by_name.get(_norm_system_id(sys_id), set())
+    return next(iter(places)) if len(places) == 1 else None
+
+
 def _system_pages_from_data(
     manufacturers: dict,
     coverages: dict,
@@ -189,21 +291,28 @@ def _system_pages_from_data(
                 console_norm[key] = entry
 
     # Map system_id -> (manufacturer, console) via platform file entries
+    copies = _copies_by_path(db)
+    folders_by_name = _folders_by_name(manufacturers)
     pages: dict[str, tuple[str, str]] = {}
     for cov in coverages.values():
         config = cov["config"]
         for sys_id, system in config.get("systems", {}).items():
             if sys_id in pages:
                 continue
-            # Strategy 1: the folder holding the files the system declares,
+            # Strategy 1: the one console folder the id spells (nintendo-nes,
+            # NES). A copy of the disk system BIOS in the NES list does not
+            # move the NES to the folder that copy sits in.
+            # Strategy 2: the folder holding the files the system declares,
             # found by content, and most votes win. A bare name stands in only
             # where the collection files it in a single console.
-            place = _system_folder(system.get("files", []), db, name_consoles)
+            place = _folder_named(sys_id, folders_by_name) or _system_folder(
+                system.get("files", []), db, name_consoles, sys_id, copies
+            )
             if place is not None:
                 mfr, console = place
                 pages[sys_id] = (mfr.lower().replace(" ", "-"), console)
                 continue
-            # Strategy 2: fuzzy match system_id against console directory names
+            # Strategy 3: fuzzy match system_id against console directory names
             if sys_id in console_norm:
                 pages[sys_id] = console_norm[sys_id]
             else:
@@ -228,7 +337,9 @@ def _system_pages_from_data(
                 if isinstance(entry, dict)
                 and (entry.get("system") == sys_id or len(systems) == 1)
             ]
-            place = _system_folder(files, db, name_consoles)
+            place = _folder_named(sys_id, folders_by_name) or _system_folder(
+                files, db, name_consoles, sys_id, copies
+            )
             if place is not None:
                 mfr, console = place
                 pages[sys_id] = (mfr.lower().replace(" ", "-"), console)
@@ -2151,21 +2262,9 @@ def _group_by_manufacturer(db: dict) -> dict[str, dict[str, list]]:
     read from the full paths by_path_suffix records.
     """
     files = db.get("files", {})
-    bios_dir = Path(str(db.get("bios_dir") or "bios"))
-    places: dict[str, set[tuple[str, str]]] = {}
-    for sha1, entry in files.items():
-        parts = str(entry.get("path", "")).split("/")
-        if len(parts) >= 3 and parts[0] == "bios":
-            places.setdefault(sha1, set()).add((parts[1], parts[2]))
-    for tail, sha1s in db.get("indexes", {}).get("by_path_suffix", {}).items():
-        parts = tail.split("/")
-        if len(parts) < 3 or parts[1].startswith(".") or len(sha1s) != 1:
-            continue
-        if sha1s[0] in files and (bios_dir / tail).is_file():
-            places.setdefault(sha1s[0], set()).add((parts[0], parts[1]))
     manufacturers: dict[str, dict[str, list]] = {}
-    for sha1, where in places.items():
-        for manufacturer, console in sorted(where):
+    for sha1, where in _copy_places(db).items():
+        for manufacturer, console in sorted({(m, c) for m, c, _ in where}):
             manufacturers.setdefault(manufacturer, {}).setdefault(console, []).append(files[sha1])
     return manufacturers
 
diff --git a/tests/test_site_system_links.py b/tests/test_site_system_links.py
index 17f05e3d..9e1edf78 100644
--- a/tests/test_site_system_links.py
+++ b/tests/test_site_system_links.py
@@ -147,6 +147,89 @@ class AnIdNamesOneCardPerPage(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(page.count("rb-sys-file"), 2)
 
 
+class ACopyFiledByEmulatorDoesNotMoveAMachine(unittest.TestCase):
+    """The database keeps one path per content, and the system links followed
+    it: nintendo-nes and nintendo-fds led to Arcade > FBNeo, where
+    disksys.rom is kept as fdsbios.nes, sega-mastersystem and
+    sinclair-zx-spectrum to Other > zesarux."""
+
+    def _db(self, tmp: str) -> dict:
+        for rel in ("Arcade/FBNeo/fdsbios.nes", "Nintendo/Famicom Disk System/disksys.rom",
+                    "Nintendo/NES/other.rom"):
+            (Path(tmp) / rel).parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+            (Path(tmp) / rel).write_bytes(b"x")
+        return {
+            "bios_dir": tmp,
+            "files": {
+                "d" * 40: {"path": "bios/Arcade/FBNeo/fdsbios.nes", "sha1": "d" * 40,
+                           "name": "fdsbios.nes"},
+                "e" * 40: {"path": "bios/Nintendo/NES/other.rom", "sha1": "e" * 40,
+                           "name": "other.rom"},
+            },
+            "indexes": {
+                "by_sha1": {}, "by_md5": {}, "by_name": {},
+                "by_path_suffix": {
+                    "Arcade/FBNeo/fdsbios.nes": ["d" * 40],
+                    "Nintendo/Famicom Disk System/disksys.rom": ["d" * 40],
+                    "Nintendo/NES/other.rom": ["e" * 40],
+                },
+            },
+        }
+
+    def test_the_copy_under_the_declared_name_places_the_system(self):
+        import tempfile
+
+        with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(dir=REPO_ROOT / "tmp") as tmp:
+            db = self._db(tmp)
+            files = [{"name": "disksys.rom", "sha1": "d" * 40}]
+            self.assertEqual(
+                gs._system_folder(files, db, {}, "nintendo-fds"),
+                ("Nintendo", "Famicom Disk System"),
+            )
+            # A file named otherwise still finds the maker's copy before the
+            # emulator's folder.
+            files = [{"name": "FDS_disksys-nintendo.rom", "sha1": "d" * 40}]
+            self.assertEqual(
+                gs._system_folder(files, db, {}, "fds"),
+                ("Nintendo", "Famicom Disk System"),
+            )
+
+    def test_an_id_that_spells_a_folder_links_to_it(self):
+        import tempfile
+
+        with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(dir=REPO_ROOT / "tmp") as tmp:
+            db = self._db(tmp)
+            manufacturers = gs._group_by_manufacturer(db)
+            config = {"systems": {"nintendo-nes": {"files": [
+                {"name": "FDS_disksys-nintendo.rom", "sha1": "d" * 40}]}}}
+            pages = gs._system_pages_from_data(
+                manufacturers, {"p": {"config": config}}, db)
+        self.assertEqual(pages["nintendo-nes"], ("nintendo", "NES"))
+
+    def test_repository_systems(self):
+        if not (REPO_ROOT / "database.json").exists():
+            self.skipTest("database.json is not built")
+        previous = os.getcwd()
+        os.chdir(REPO_ROOT)
+        self.addCleanup(os.chdir, previous)
+        from common import load_database, load_emulator_profiles
+
+        db = load_database("database.json")
+        manufacturers = gs._group_by_manufacturer(db)
+        pages = gs._system_pages_from_data(
+            manufacturers, {}, db, load_emulator_profiles("emulators", skip_aliases=False))
+        expected = {
+            "nintendo-nes": ("nintendo", "NES"),
+            "nintendo-fds": ("nintendo", "Famicom Disk System"),
+            "sega-mastersystem": ("sega", "Master System"),
+            "sinclair-zx-spectrum": ("sinclair", "ZX Spectrum"),
+            "commodore-vic20": ("commodore", "VIC-20"),
+        }
+        for sys_id, page in expected.items():
+            with self.subTest(system=sys_id):
+                self.assertEqual(pages.get(sys_id), page)
+
+
 class SystemEmulatorsWhenNoIdMatches(unittest.TestCase):
     """RetroArch files NAOMI and Atomiswave as sega-dreamcast-arcade and the
     Enterprise as enterprise-64-128, ids no profile uses: the emulator cell