diff --git a/emulators/alephone.yml b/emulators/alephone.yml
index 00c887d3..a44938d6 100644
--- a/emulators/alephone.yml
+++ b/emulators/alephone.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ source: "https://github.com/Aleph-One-Marathon/alephone"
 upstream: "https://github.com/Aleph-One-Marathon/alephone"
 profiled_date: "2026-10-20"
 source_commit: "07a9c36aff403d143a0608815f725631a01e382c"
+pin_frozen: "RetroPie, the only platform that ships it, builds the release-20250829 tag at this commit (scriptmodules/ports/alephone.sh, _get_branch_alephone). Debian 10 and older get release-20250302."
 core_version: "1.11 (20250829)"
 display_name: "Marathon (Aleph One)"
 cores:
diff --git a/emulators/chocolate-doom.yml b/emulators/chocolate-doom.yml
index c33c97d1..69d96a9d 100644
--- a/emulators/chocolate-doom.yml
+++ b/emulators/chocolate-doom.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ core_classification: game_engine
 source: "https://github.com/chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom"
 profiled_date: "2026-10-22"
 source_commit: "72d9e9318c4ccc61dab29bb9cc30bc8a9a93266d"
+pin_frozen: "EmuELEC, the only platform that ships it, builds this revision (EmuELEC packages/sx05re/emuelec-ports/chocolate-doom/package.mk:5). Later commits are not part of that build."
 core_version: "3.0.0"
 display_name: "Doom (Chocolate Doom)"
 cores:
diff --git a/emulators/fheroes2.yml b/emulators/fheroes2.yml
index b1ffbbf5..6cd29936 100644
--- a/emulators/fheroes2.yml
+++ b/emulators/fheroes2.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ core_classification: game_engine
 source: "https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2"
 profiled_date: "2026-10-22"
 source_commit: "35ca4c915be00098547d5050412a325dd55cfd7f"
+pin_frozen: "EmuELEC, the only platform that ships it, builds this revision (EmuELEC packages/sx05re/emuelec-ports/fheroes2/package.mk:5). Later commits are not part of that build."
 core_version: "1.0.11"
 display_name: "Heroes of Might and Magic II (fheroes2)"
 cores:
diff --git a/emulators/piemu.yml b/emulators/piemu.yml
index f1e77de3..f5bb484a 100644
--- a/emulators/piemu.yml
+++ b/emulators/piemu.yml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ upstream: "https://github.com/autch/piemu"
 profiled_date: "2026-10-22"
 source_commit: "0785214f13746bdfd709b1909f007e213b470ba1"
 upstream_commit: "23208626e16e53b73fd21a2fbd0c429338625dc4"
+pin_frozen: "AmberELEC, the only platform that ships it, builds this revision (AmberELEC packages/games/emulators/piemu/package.mk:5). Later commits are not part of that build."
 core_version: "git"
 display_name: "Aquaplus - P/ECE (P/EMU/SDL)"
 cores:
diff --git a/emulators/supertuxkart.yml b/emulators/supertuxkart.yml
index 1c58b5d2..5701311e 100644
--- a/emulators/supertuxkart.yml
+++ b/emulators/supertuxkart.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ core_classification: game_engine
 source: "https://github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code"
 profiled_date: "2026-10-22"
 source_commit: "fab79150111944c9e33396db68eb5de84f2efeaa"
+pin_frozen: "EmuELEC, the only platform that ships it, builds this revision (EmuELEC packages/sx05re/emuelec-ports/supertuxkart/package.mk:5). Later commits are not part of that build."
 core_version: "git"
 display_name: "SuperTuxKart"
 cores: