diff --git a/scripts/exporter/recalbox_exporter.py b/scripts/exporter/recalbox_exporter.py
index 71704304a..bad223329 100644
--- a/scripts/exporter/recalbox_exporter.py
+++ b/scripts/exporter/recalbox_exporter.py
@@ -245,6 +245,13 @@ class Exporter(BaseExporter):
 
         return f"    <bios {' '.join(attrs)} />"
 
+    def written_list(self, fe: NativeFile, field_name: str) -> list[str] | None:
+        """md5 is the comma list Bios.cpp splits and compares one by one, so
+        a list the truth extended is a change the report names."""
+        if field_name == "md5" and len(fe.hashes("md5")) > 1:
+            return fe.hashes("md5")
+        return None
+
     def states(self, fe: NativeFile, field_name: str) -> bool:
         """An element it cannot rewrite is written back as Recalbox wrote it.
 
diff --git a/scripts/exporter/retrodeck_exporter.py b/scripts/exporter/retrodeck_exporter.py
index 346c50521..b742b796c 100644
--- a/scripts/exporter/retrodeck_exporter.py
+++ b/scripts/exporter/retrodeck_exporter.py
@@ -96,6 +96,13 @@ class Exporter(BaseExporter):
             return fe.hash(field_name)
         return super().written(fe, field_name)
 
+    def written_list(self, fe: NativeFile, field_name: str) -> list[str] | None:
+        """Several md5 values are a JSON array in the manifest, as _entry
+        writes them: a list the truth extended is a change the report names."""
+        if field_name == "md5" and len(fe.hashes("md5")) > 1:
+            return fe.hashes("md5")
+        return None
+
     def states(self, fe: NativeFile, field_name: str) -> bool:
         if id(fe) in getattr(self, "_appended", ()):
             return False
diff --git a/tests/test_export_counts.py b/tests/test_export_counts.py
index ac46526b8..f0abfc261 100644
--- a/tests/test_export_counts.py
+++ b/tests/test_export_counts.py
@@ -1060,5 +1060,41 @@ class ARemovedSizeIsReported(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(changes.unsized, ["SNK - NeoGeo CD/neocdz.zip"])
 
 
+class AnExtendedListIsReported(unittest.TestCase):
+    """The truth adds an accepted md5 the platform lacks without
+    contradicting it: RetroDECK wrote [A, B] where the manifest had A and
+    Recalbox md5="A,B" where es_bios.xml had A, and the report listed
+    nothing. Only Batocera named the list it writes."""
+
+    def _records(self, exporter):
+        from export_native import landed_changes  # noqa: PLC0415
+
+        platform = {"name": "f.bin", "md5": A, "core": "libretro/mesen"}
+        fe = NativeFile("f.bin", "f.bin", "s", platform=platform,
+                        truth={"md5": [A, B], "validation": ["md5"]})
+        return landed_changes(exporter, {"s": NativeSystem("s", files=[fe])}).records, fe
+
+    def test_both_formats_report_the_list_they_write(self):
+        for exporter in (RetroDeck(), Recalbox()):
+            with self.subTest(exporter=exporter.platform_name()):
+                records, fe = self._records(exporter)
+                self.assertEqual(fe.hashes("md5"), [A, B])
+                self.assertEqual(
+                    [(r["kind"], r["field"], r["old"], r["new"]) for r in records],
+                    [("hash_corrected", "md5", A, [A, B])],
+                )
+
+    def test_an_unchanged_value_reports_nothing(self):
+        from export_native import landed_changes  # noqa: PLC0415
+
+        for exporter in (RetroDeck(), Recalbox()):
+            fe = NativeFile("f.bin", "f.bin", "s",
+                            platform={"name": "f.bin", "md5": A, "core": "libretro/mesen"},
+                            truth={"md5": A})
+            with self.subTest(exporter=exporter.platform_name()):
+                changes = landed_changes(exporter, {"s": NativeSystem("s", files=[fe])})
+                self.assertEqual(changes.records, [])
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()