diff --git a/schemas/emulator.schema.json b/schemas/emulator.schema.json
index 222c172d..cfdfdca2 100644
--- a/schemas/emulator.schema.json
+++ b/schemas/emulator.schema.json
@@ -815,7 +815,8 @@
       "required": ["url", "pattern"],
       "properties": {
         "url": {"type": "string", "format": "uri"},
-        "pattern": {"type": "string", "description": "Regular expression whose first group is the latest version the page announces."}
+        "pattern": {"type": "string", "description": "Regular expression whose first group is the latest version the page announces."},
+        "no_genuine_copy": {"type": "string", "description": "An announced version a search found only rebuilt or re-signed copies of. While the page announces it, the profile is not stale. A later version makes it stale again."}
       },
       "description": "For a project published outside any forge, the page that announces its releases. profile_sync --check-version compares the version read there with core_version."
     },
diff --git a/scripts/check_freshness.py b/scripts/check_freshness.py
index 217ca46c..ab765ab8 100644
--- a/scripts/check_freshness.py
+++ b/scripts/check_freshness.py
@@ -1110,11 +1110,16 @@ def summarize_profile_sync(report: object) -> list[Finding]:
             # Off any forge, the release page is the feed: a version there
             # beyond the declared one is a release the profile does not cover.
             declared, announced = str(row.get("declared_version") or ""), str(row["page_version"])
-            findings.append(Finding(
-                "profiles", name, OK if announced == declared else STALE,
-                local=declared, remote=announced,
-                detail="" if announced == declared else "a newer release is announced",
-            ))
+            if announced == declared:
+                status, detail = OK, ""
+            elif announced == str(row.get("no_genuine_copy") or ""):
+                # Searched for and found only rebuilt: the profile covers the
+                # newest build that can be read, until the page moves on.
+                status, detail = OK, "no genuine copy of the announced release"
+            else:
+                status, detail = STALE, "a newer release is announced"
+            findings.append(Finding("profiles", name, status, local=declared,
+                                    remote=announced, detail=detail))
             continue
         if row.get("skipped"):
             findings.append(Finding("profiles", name, UNKNOWN, detail=str(row["skipped"])))
diff --git a/scripts/profile_sync.py b/scripts/profile_sync.py
index e644dfd0..60db294e 100644
--- a/scripts/profile_sync.py
+++ b/scripts/profile_sync.py
@@ -1118,6 +1118,8 @@ class ProfileReport:
     # (version_source): the version read there, beside the one declared.
     declared_version: str | None = None
     page_version: str | None = None
+    # An announced version searched for and found only rebuilt or re-signed.
+    no_genuine_copy: str | None = None
 
     # Skips that say the profile cannot be checked as written: a repository
     # that no longer answers, no pin to read, a death the forge contradicts.
@@ -2040,6 +2042,9 @@ def format_report(report: ProfileReport, changed_only: bool = False) -> str:
         lines.append(
             f"  version page: declared {report.declared_version or '-'}, "
             f"announced {report.page_version or 'unreadable'}"
+            + (" (no genuine copy found)"
+               if report.page_version and report.page_version == report.no_genuine_copy
+               else "")
         )
     if report.skipped:
         lines.append(f"  skipped: {report.skipped}")
@@ -3841,6 +3846,8 @@ def main() -> None:
         if args.check_version and profile.get("version_source"):
             report.declared_version = str(profile.get("core_version") or "") or None
             report.page_version = page_version(profile, args.cache_dir, args.offline)
+            report.no_genuine_copy = str(
+                profile["version_source"].get("no_genuine_copy") or "") or None
         reports.append(report)
         if writes:
             try:
diff --git a/tests/test_check_freshness.py b/tests/test_check_freshness.py
index 8d7d0892..08291331 100644
--- a/tests/test_check_freshness.py
+++ b/tests/test_check_freshness.py
@@ -455,6 +455,35 @@ class AReleasePageMakesAProfileStale(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(found["altirra"], check_freshness.STALE)
         self.assertEqual(found["mednafen"], check_freshness.OK)
 
+    def test_a_release_with_no_genuine_copy_waits_for_the_next(self):
+        """FPse 13.0 exists only as rebuilt copies: the profile stays on 12.1
+        and flagging it on every run said nothing new. 13.1 would."""
+        import check_freshness
+
+        rows = [
+            {"name": "fpse", "skipped": "unsupported host: x", "declared_version": "12.1",
+             "page_version": "13.0", "no_genuine_copy": "13.0"},
+            {"name": "later", "skipped": "unsupported host: x", "declared_version": "12.1",
+             "page_version": "13.1", "no_genuine_copy": "13.0"},
+        ]
+        found = {f.subject: f for f in check_freshness.summarize_profile_sync(rows)}
+        self.assertEqual(found["fpse"].status, check_freshness.OK)
+        self.assertIn("no genuine copy", found["fpse"].detail)
+        self.assertEqual(found["later"].status, check_freshness.STALE)
+
+    def test_no_genuine_copy_is_never_the_profiled_version(self):
+        """The field names a release the profile could not read."""
+        import yaml
+
+        for path in sorted((REPO_ROOT / "emulators").glob("*.yml")):
+            text = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+            if "no_genuine_copy" not in text:
+                continue
+            profile = yaml.safe_load(text)
+            source = profile["version_source"]
+            with self.subTest(profile=path.stem):
+                self.assertNotEqual(source["no_genuine_copy"], str(profile["core_version"]))
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()
diff --git a/wiki/profiling.md b/wiki/profiling.md
index 10106dbf..02eb8bc6 100644
--- a/wiki/profiling.md
+++ b/wiki/profiling.md
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ partitions), and `game_count`.
 | `adler32_pairs_with`, `adler32_pairs` | the file hashed together with this one and the combinations the code accepts, this file's value first, in table order: Dolphin warns on a DSP ROM pair outside its `known_roms` even when each file passes alone |
 | `pin_frozen` | why `source_commit` is held on purpose rather than followed. The profile is then judged against its own revision, like one pinned to a superseded tag |
 | `prose_written_at` | the pin a reader confirmed the prose citations against. When the profile's history shows a text living under several pins, profile_sync takes this one as the revision the text describes, so a bump is no longer refused for a citation already reread. It never overrides a history with a single candidate |
-| `version_source` | for a project published outside any forge, `{url, pattern}`: the page that announces releases and a regular expression whose first group is the latest version. `profile_sync --check-version` compares it with `core_version`, and `check_freshness --profiles` calls the profile stale when they differ |
+| `version_source` | for a project published outside any forge, `{url, pattern}`: the page that announces releases and a regular expression whose first group is the latest version. `profile_sync --check-version` compares it with `core_version`, and `check_freshness --profiles` calls the profile stale when they differ. `no_genuine_copy` names an announced version found only rebuilt or re-signed: the profile stays on the newest unmodified build and is not stale until the page announces a later one |
 | `upstream_gone` | why the declared upstream can no longer be reached, when that is settled rather than transient. Records the death instead of leaving the profile failing every pass. profile_sync reports it as declared, and reports the contradiction if the forge answers again |
 | `source_mirror` | a repository carrying the same tree, consulted after `source` and `upstream`. What keeps a profile checkable once its own forge stops answering |
 | `validation` | checks the code performs: `size`, `crc32`, `md5`, `sha1`, `adler32`, `signature`, `crypto`. Can be a list or dict `{core: [...], upstream: [...]}` for divergent checks |