A keep line gave every emulator the file of the first profile claim:
Recalbox's neocdz.zip line said geolith reads the archive fbneo reads.
The JSON 'expected' lists each file with its emulators (finding 4).
install.py took --list-platforms, generate_pack.py --list and verify.py
nothing. Both tools now take --list-platforms and print the same list
from common.py. generate_pack.py keeps --list (finding 80).
A file was matched by its container sha1 or md5 alone. A zipped_file
member, a Recalbox member digest, a RetroDECK sha256 and a RomM size and
crc32 are now read the way verify reads them, and an identical copy's
folder is where its variants go.
diff_truth read sha1, md5 and crc32 and let one shared value settle the
entry, while export_native corrected each of the four fields on its own.
contradicted_hashes is now the single decision both read.
--all --system built every pack asked for and exited 1 on a platform
that has no such system. The scope is now decided before the lock:
skipped under --all, refused under --platform (finding 15).
A system the target leaves no core for was verified 0/0 with exit 0,
and generate_pack blamed the platform for lacking it. Both read
platform_scope_systems and system_scope_error now (findings 13, 14).
A one-member archive whose member carries the zipped_file md5 under
another name has that md5 as its composite. The name step returned it as
md5_composite_exact, which slots and the site take as content proof, while
Batocera looks the member up by name and finds nothing.
A platform declaration that names only an md5 left the size check
undecided, and an undecided same-named match overrode a profile's
system:. The size the database holds for that md5 now refutes it: clk's
Oric basic10.rom no longer joins Batocera's BK list.
Only the first BIOS clause of a help string was read, so naomi2.zip and
segasp.zip went into flycast's Dreamcast sentence. A file now joins the
clause whose names the platform files under its system, or is not added.
reminiscence's Flashback module reunion resolved to skyline's
zoneinfo/Indian/Reunion through the case-insensitive name step, and the
emulator pack shipped the time-zone file. Another casing found only in
another emulator's tree says nothing about the entry.
A BiosDB entry is one record: md5, size and url describe one dump. The
first md5 the truth accepts replaced an accepted one with no change
reported. The exporter now writes record_hash, as RomM and System.dat do.
The first core to tag a file set its region. The pack's region index takes
the union of the tags and voids it on an untagged reader: the truth now
applies the same rule (psxonpsp660.bin, epr-17952a.ic8).
GitLab refused the hundred raw reads per IP. A GitLab directory is now
read from one archive request, else a shallow sparse git fetch, and the
cache keeps its file list so offline runs know what is absent.
Each board builds system.ini against its defconfig: a core whose package
the board does not enable is dropped (pisnes was the SNES default
everywhere), and a system with no core is not built. The row names the
default most boards share, board_defaults the others. A files: list
names whole files and is carried as files through the index and the
installer.
A folder no name resolves, run by a core of several machines, now holds
those machines: thomson, multivision and pcv2 had no fallback, so their
games got no file. Arcade-indexed cores keep naming files per set.
board_cores walked only the plain [core.N] sections and replaced a board
section whole. romfs2 systemholder.py reads a slot present as
[core.N.<board>] alone (gb and gbc bsnes on x86_64) and each key from the
board section, then <key>.<board>, then the plain key. The committed
target lists are unchanged on all seven boards.
A section shares its page's search fields, and "playstation 3 bios" found the PlayStation page before the Sony page that held the PS3. CONSOLE_PAGES splits Sony by console whatever the size. The search gate now expects the PlayStation 3 page in the top two for that query, the order of words being something Pagefind does not weigh, and the page first for "ps3 bios".
The games importers wrote through fixed .part names, the new options had
no help text, and romfolders stopped on the first setup the offline cache
lacked. RetroArch's rom folder map is regenerated from its source spec
(path null, as the schema says). The installer's Python 3.8 job imports
the games tests without pyyaml, so the region rules load lazily.
--for-games reads the card's rom folders through install/games/ and keeps
what the games need: per system what its default core reads, one region
where the content proves it (crc32 and size, a disc serial, a header the
core reads), an arcade set's BIOS parents. A game not recognised gets
every BIOS of its system and is named. --required-only keeps only what
starts. The plan and the line menu open on it when the card holds games,
everything one press away. A cache keeps what reading a card found.
Abdessamad Derraz