diff --git a/scripts/profile_sync.py b/scripts/profile_sync.py
index 50577df2..2bcdc5db 100644
--- a/scripts/profile_sync.py
+++ b/scripts/profile_sync.py
@@ -1104,7 +1104,7 @@ def select_views(
             continue
         seen.add((repo.host, repo.slug))
         views.append(RepoView(repo, pin, head, origin, field))
-    return _follow_submodule(views, cache_dir, offline)
+    return _follow_fork_base(_follow_submodule(views, cache_dir, offline), cache_dir, offline)
 
 
 def _follow_submodule(
@@ -1144,6 +1144,34 @@ def _follow_submodule(
     return followed
 
 
+def _follow_fork_base(
+    views: list[RepoView], cache_dir: str, offline: bool
+) -> list[RepoView]:
+    """An upstream the port is a fork of moves with what the port merged.
+
+    snes9x, kronos, np2kai and six others pinned upstream_commit on the merge
+    base of upstream with the fork, the upstream code the port carries. Read
+    against upstream's own HEAD, the bump moved it past anything the port
+    built from. Outside one fork network the HEAD stays the reference.
+    """
+    source = next((v for v in views if v.field == "source"), None)
+    if source is None:
+        return views
+    followed: list[RepoView] = []
+    for view in views:
+        if view.field != "upstream" or view.pin == view.head or " via " in view.origin:
+            followed.append(view)
+            continue
+        base = upstream.fork_base(
+            view.repo, view.head, source.repo, source.head, cache_dir, offline
+        )
+        followed.append(
+            replace(view, head=base, origin=f"{view.origin}, fork base of {source.repo.slug}")
+            if base else view
+        )
+    return followed
+
+
 def declared_repositories(profile: dict) -> list[tuple[str, str, str]]:
     """Every repository URL the profile declares, source before upstream.
 
diff --git a/scripts/upstream.py b/scripts/upstream.py
index bb652fe2..1c225600 100644
--- a/scripts/upstream.py
+++ b/scripts/upstream.py
@@ -840,6 +840,26 @@ def _commits_ahead(payload: object, family: str) -> int | None:
     return value if isinstance(value, int) else None
 
 
+def fork_base(
+    repo: Repo, sha: str, fork: Repo, fork_sha: str, cache_dir: str,
+    offline: bool = False,
+) -> str | None:
+    """The commit of ``repo`` that ``fork`` at ``fork_sha`` has merged up to.
+
+    GitHub compares across a fork network and names the merge base. Two
+    repositories outside one network answer 404, and None is returned.
+    """
+    if repo.family != "github" or fork.family != "github":
+        return None
+    payload = _api(
+        f"{repo.api_base}/repos/{repo.slug}/compare/"
+        f"{sha}...{fork.owner}:{fork.name}:{fork_sha}",
+        cache_dir, offline,
+    )
+    base = payload.get("merge_base_commit") if isinstance(payload, dict) else None
+    return base.get("sha") if isinstance(base, dict) else None
+
+
 def ancestry(
     repo: Repo, base: str, head: str, cache_dir: str, offline: bool = False
 ) -> tuple[int, int] | None:
diff --git a/tests/test_profile_sync.py b/tests/test_profile_sync.py
index 10c2f780..f81b3eb5 100644
--- a/tests/test_profile_sync.py
+++ b/tests/test_profile_sync.py
@@ -1181,6 +1181,12 @@ class TestBuildReport(unittest.TestCase):
             profile_sync.upstream._http_text,
             profile_sync.upstream.list_gitlinks,
             profile_sync.upstream.current_slug,
+            profile_sync.upstream.fork_base,
+        )
+        self.fork_bases: dict[str, str] = {}
+        profile_sync.upstream.fork_base = (
+            lambda repo, sha, fork, fork_sha, cache_dir, offline=False:
+            self.fork_bases.get(fork_sha)
         )
         self.current_slugs: dict[str, str] = {}
         profile_sync.upstream.current_slug = (
@@ -1243,6 +1249,7 @@ class TestBuildReport(unittest.TestCase):
             profile_sync.upstream._http_text,
             profile_sync.upstream.list_gitlinks,
             profile_sync.upstream.current_slug,
+            profile_sync.upstream.fork_base,
         ) = self._orig
         self.tmp.cleanup()
 
@@ -4789,6 +4796,39 @@ class UpstreamVendoredAsASubmodule(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(views[1].head, "nesbox-tip")
 
 
+class UpstreamForkedByThePort(unittest.TestCase):
+    """snes9x, kronos and np2kai pinned upstream_commit on the merge base of
+    upstream with the fork. Compared to upstream's own HEAD, a bump moved it
+    past anything the port carries."""
+
+    def _views(self, base):
+        from unittest import mock  # noqa: PLC0415
+
+        fork = profile_sync.upstream.make_repo("github.com", "f", "port")
+        self.up = profile_sync.upstream.make_repo("github.com", "o", "up")
+        self.fork = fork
+        views = [
+            profile_sync.RepoView(fork, "src-pin", "src-head", "source_commit", "source"),
+            profile_sync.RepoView(self.up, "old-base", "up-tip", "upstream_commit", "upstream"),
+        ]
+        with mock.patch.object(
+            profile_sync.upstream, "fork_base", return_value=base
+        ) as asked:
+            followed = profile_sync._follow_fork_base(views, "cache", True)
+        return followed, asked
+
+    def test_the_upstream_head_is_the_fork_base(self):
+        views, asked = self._views("new-base")
+        self.assertEqual(views[1].head, "new-base")
+        self.assertEqual(
+            asked.call_args.args[:4], (self.up, "up-tip", self.fork, "src-head")
+        )
+
+    def test_a_port_outside_the_network_keeps_the_tip(self):
+        views, _ = self._views(None)
+        self.assertEqual(views[1].head, "up-tip")
+
+
 class OfflineCacheMissIsNotGone(TestBuildReport):
     """Offline, a file the cache never stored came back as None and the
     report read "GONE (absent at HEAD, no rename found)" for files that
diff --git a/tests/test_upstream.py b/tests/test_upstream.py
index 2aa04c4b..fec3da0c 100644
--- a/tests/test_upstream.py
+++ b/tests/test_upstream.py
@@ -957,5 +957,32 @@ class TestNamedTagCommit(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(upstream.tag_commit(repo, "1.2.35", self.tmp.name), "c74fc36")
         self.assertTrue(asked[0].endswith("/repository/tags/1.2.35"))
 
+
+class TestForkBase(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.tmp = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory()
+        self.saved = upstream._http_json
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        upstream._http_json = self.saved
+        self.tmp.cleanup()
+
+    def test_the_merge_base_github_names(self):
+        asked = []
+
+        def answer(url):
+            asked.append(url)
+            return {"merge_base_commit": {"sha": "base"}, "status": "diverged"}
+
+        upstream._http_json = answer
+        up, fork = make_repo("github.com", "o", "up"), make_repo("github.com", "f", "port")
+        self.assertEqual(upstream.fork_base(up, "tip", fork, "head", self.tmp.name), "base")
+        self.assertTrue(asked[0].endswith("/repos/o/up/compare/tip...f:port:head"))
+
+    def test_no_network_is_none(self):
+        upstream._http_json = lambda url: None
+        up, fork = make_repo("github.com", "o", "up"), make_repo("github.com", "f", "port")
+        self.assertIsNone(upstream.fork_base(up, "tip", fork, "head", self.tmp.name))
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()