diff --git a/emulators/rb5000.yml b/emulators/rb5000.yml
index 93eb1c72..9277193d 100644
--- a/emulators/rb5000.yml
+++ b/emulators/rb5000.yml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ profiled_date: "2026-10-17"
 source_commit:
   standalone: "8c75a4b48a5222b0332d0508600f8ddc7ac1191c"
   libretro: "7464996aa0cb1be77abf495dc901117e1af36e02"
+pin_frozen: "Recalbox, the only platform that ships the standalone build, builds its tag v1.1 at this standalone revision (Recalbox package/rb5000/rb5000.mk:7). Later commits are not part of that build. The libretro pin is the HEAD of libretro-rb5000."
 core_version:
   standalone: "v1.1"
   libretro: "v0.9"