fix: count only the hash changes an export writes

RomM kept hashes the truth contradicts beside the corrected one, RetroDECK kept a cleared md5, Recalbox counted changes on an element it writes back whole, and two record formats counted fills no record could hold.

scripts/exporter/base_exporter.py

@@ -179,6 +179,20 @@ class BaseExporter(ABC):
         """
         return field_name in self.carries()
 
+    def fills(self, fe: NativeFile, field_name: str) -> bool:
+        """Whether a hash only the truth names lands in the written entry."""
+        return self.states(fe, field_name)
+
+    def clears(self, fe: NativeFile, field_name: str) -> bool:
+        """Whether a platform hash the truth contradicts leaves the entry."""
+        return self.states(fe, field_name)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def record_fills(fe: NativeFile, field_name: str) -> bool:
+        """A record format writes a filled hash only when record_hash names
+        one: two values the truth accepts make no single record."""
+        return bool(fe.record_hash(field_name))
+
     def withheld(self) -> list[str]:
         """Corrections the render proved and still did not write, named.
 

scripts/exporter/recalbox_exporter.py

@@ -98,6 +98,17 @@ class Exporter(BaseExporter):
 
         return f"    <bios {' '.join(attrs)} />"
 
+    def states(self, fe: NativeFile, field_name: str) -> bool:
+        """An element it cannot rewrite is written back as Recalbox wrote it.
+
+        es_bios.xsd makes md5 required: an entry whose md5 the truth
+        contradicts without naming another keeps its element whole, and
+        counting the md5 cleared announced a change absent from the file.
+        """
+        if fe.platform is not None and not self.writable(fe):
+            return False
+        return super().states(fe, field_name)
+
     @classmethod
     def writable(cls, fe: NativeFile, require: str = "") -> bool:
         """es_bios.xsd makes md5 and core required; without them, no element.

scripts/exporter/retrodeck_exporter.py

@@ -247,6 +247,12 @@ class Exporter(BaseExporter):
                 (field, value) for field, value in by_key[keys[0]].items()
                 if field in cls.carries() and not (field == "system" and declared)
             )
+            # A hash of theirs that ours no longer carries is one the truth
+            # contradicts: kept, it went on rejecting the dump the emulator
+            # loads while the summary counted it cleared.
+            for field in ("md5", "sha256"):
+                if field in cls.carries() and field not in by_key[keys[0]]:
+                    combined.pop(field, None)
             if _md5_set(entry.get("md5")) == _md5_set(combined.get("md5")):
                 combined["md5"] = entry.get("md5")
             elif isinstance(entry.get("md5"), list) and isinstance(combined.get("md5"), str):

scripts/exporter/romm_exporter.py

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
 from scraper.romm_scraper import SLUG_MAP
 
 from .base_exporter import BaseExporter
-from .baseline import NativeFile, NativeSystem, Report
+from .baseline import NativeFile, NativeSystem, Report, _hash_values
 
 SOURCE_URL = (
     "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rommapp/romm/master/backend/models"
@@ -143,11 +143,25 @@ class Exporter(BaseExporter):
                     value = fe.record_hash(hash_name)
                     if value:
                         self._write(entry, field, value, fe, hash_name)
+                    elif self._contradicted(fe, hash_name):
+                        # RomM accepts any one hash: a value the truth
+                        # rejects, left beside the corrected md5, still
+                        # passes the dump it describes.
+                        entry.pop(field, None)
                 output[key] = entry
 
         text = json.dumps(output, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False) + "\n"
         return {self.native_filename(): text}
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _contradicted(fe: NativeFile, name: str) -> bool:
+        """A hash the platform states and the truth, taking the entry over,
+        does not keep."""
+        return bool(_hash_values(fe.platform or {}, name)) and not fe.hashes(name)
+
+    def fills(self, fe: NativeFile, field_name: str) -> bool:
+        return self.states(fe, field_name) and self.record_fills(fe, field_name)
+
     def _write(
         self, entry: dict, field: str, value: str, fe: NativeFile, name: str
     ) -> None:

scripts/exporter/systemdat_exporter.py

@@ -134,6 +134,9 @@ class Exporter(BaseExporter):
         )
         return lines
 
+    def fills(self, fe: NativeFile, field_name: str) -> bool:
+        return self.states(fe, field_name) and self.record_fills(fe, field_name)
+
     def render(
         self,
         systems: dict[str, NativeSystem],