diff --git a/scripts/generate_site.py b/scripts/generate_site.py
index 215f50a4..b6475431 100644
--- a/scripts/generate_site.py
+++ b/scripts/generate_site.py
@@ -2304,6 +2304,13 @@ def _render_emulator_file(
             lines.append(f"- {d}")
     if fnote:
         lines.append(f"- {_escape_tags(str(fnote))}")
+    if not in_repo and f.get("unsourceable"):
+        # The badge alone sent readers after a dump that cannot exist; the
+        # reason was only on the gaps page, which the card did not link.
+        lines.append(
+            f"- Not collectable: {_escape_tags(str(f['unsourceable']))} "
+            "([acknowledged gaps](../gaps.md#acknowledged-gaps))"
+        )
     if contents:
         # Every member with the hashes the emulator checks: MAME and FBNeo
         # verify the members, never the archive, so a member's crc32 is the
diff --git a/tests/test_audit_regressions.py b/tests/test_audit_regressions.py
index 65e8e025..a929f56b 100644
--- a/tests/test_audit_regressions.py
+++ b/tests/test_audit_regressions.py
@@ -4498,5 +4498,22 @@ class GapsPageCountsOneWay(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(result["settled_by"], "arcade")
 
 
+
+class UnsourceableCardSaysWhy(unittest.TestCase):
+    """DraStic's nds_firmware_modified.bin carried an 'unsourceable' badge
+    and nothing else; the reason was only on the gaps page."""
+
+    def test_reason_and_link(self):
+        from scripts.generate_site import _render_emulator_file
+
+        entry = {"name": "nds_firmware_modified.bin", "path": "x.bin",
+                 "unsourceable": "written by the firmware editor, so no dump of it exists"}
+        text = "\n".join(_render_emulator_file(
+            entry, {"files": [entry]}, None, [entry], lambda f: False, "file-x",
+        ))
+        self.assertIn("Not collectable: written by the firmware editor", text)
+        self.assertIn("../gaps.md#acknowledged-gaps", text)
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()