An entry with one md5 to correct was written again whole: atarist lost
its eight blank lines, every '"x"},' became '"x" },', and most of the
819 lines Batocera's export changed were layout. Each item now keeps
its own text and only the md5 inside it changes; an addition follows
the last item in its indentation and spacing. The patched entry must
read as the one that would have been written, or that one is written.
Batocera's diff to the original drops to 273 lines, ROCKNIX's to 3.
RetroBat separates every system after the first with a blank line.
json.dumps dropped all 100 of them: 100 hunks of noise in a diff meant
to show corrections. The separator is written again where the original
has it, and an added system takes it too where the original separates
them all. An empty truth gives back the cached file byte for byte.
The BiosDB is published as a single line of JSON without a final
newline. Written with indent=2 it came out as 1499 changed lines for a
database whose content had not changed, which would bury any real
correction. It is now written in MiSTer's own form: an empty truth
gives back the cached database byte for byte.
With nothing to correct, nine of ten manifests still changed: a final
newline was added where the original ends without one, "md5": null was
written 39 times where no md5 key was, and PPSSPP's single bios object
became a list rebuilt from our data. A manifest now ends as the
original does, keeps no key it did not have, and a single object stays
one while nothing is added. An empty truth gives back every cached
manifest byte for byte.
write_text translated line ends on Windows, so FirmwareDatabase.cs's
CRLF would have come out CR CR LF; it replaced the published file in
place, so a run stopped mid-write left it truncated; and it dropped the
mode, while rocknix-systems is 100755 in ROCKNIX's tree. Files are
written atomically as UTF-8 bytes, and an exporter states the mode of
any file the platform does not publish as 0644.
Eight scriptmodules write "bios" in lower case (xm7, np2pi, quasi88,
minivmac, px68k...) and none was examined. A module reported "left as
is" for a name no profile documents was written all the same: the skip
had no continue. The cap of six names came from that case-sensitive
reading, where xm7 writes thirteen: a sentence now grows no longer than
the longest RetroPie writes. lr- was stripped whatever the build, so the
standalone minivmac package matched the libretro profile, which reads
another file. A file of a system RetroPie lacks is proposed to no
package: lr-geargrafx adds pcengine only (lr-geargrafx.sh:41-42) and
was given the LaserActive's pac-n1.bin and pac-n10.bin.
A platform with nothing left to correct writes no file, so its output
directory was never made: RetroPie's report then raised
FileNotFoundError into a fresh --output-dir and stopped --all.
The scraper declared every standalone package launched both ways,
reasoning that RetroArch carries every libretro core. package.mk says
otherwise: it adds ARMSX2 as armsx2-sa only (add_emu_core ps2 armsx2
armsx2-sa true), so the libretro build's pcsx2/resources entries
reached ROCKNIX's list as armsx2-sa files the standalone installs
itself. An emulator is now dual-mode only when package.mk also adds it
as a retroarch core: ten of the 63 standalone names.
The pack leaves out what an emulator installs itself
(validation.deliverable); the truth did not. RetroPie's gngeopi help
asked users to copy gngeo_data.zip, which make install puts in the
package's data directory, and amiberry's whdboot tree, scummvm's extra
data and dosbox-x's FREECG98.BMP went into platform lists as files to
bring.
The truth applies deliverable per platform and per build: an entry
nobody has to bring is kept and marked bundled, never added, still
corrected where the platform declares it. A rebuilt archive is
installed only when every member is. The runner written beside an
addition is the build that needs the file (_brought_by), and the
RetroPie sentence names only what its package's core must be given.
libretro titles each section with the system as it spells it,
"Commodore - Amiga". An addition for a system it has no section for
opened one under our slug: 21 sections came out as commodore-c64,
quake, laseractive or xrick, which no libretro DAT carries. An addition
now lands only in a section the original holds and is otherwise counted
as left out, so the export keeps the original's 66 sections. A platform
entry is always written, under its own section.
DuckStation identifies its BIOS by MD5 in a folder it scans
(bios.cpp:208), so its entries' names are labels. The export wrote them
into Batocera's and ROCKNIX's lists as files to hold: a user with only
scph5501.bin read 104 missing BIOS where DuckStation boots. Labels also
lent their md5 to a name another core opens, and paired by name they
replaced System.dat's scph5000.bin hashes.
found_by: name | content, on a profile or a file and keyed by build like
load_from. The truth records which cores open each name (_named_by). A
label pairs with a platform entry by hash only, is never added, merges
with an opened name only on a shared hash, and is counted in the export
report rather than listed as missing.
A name the platform declares filed an entry under that system before
its own system:, and the last declaration of a name won. fmsx's 16 KB
DISK.ROM went to nec-pc-88 for quasi88's 2 KB disk.rom and came out as
a second DISK.ROM line under "NEC - PC-8801"; dosbox's SC-55
ROM1.BIN/ROM2.BIN went to galaksija.
A declaration now files an entry only when it can be the same file: a
shared hash, or no size both admit. The same content declared under two
systems is filed under both, an entry's own system stands against a
refuted homonym, and a systemless profile's placeholder takes only names
the platform does not declare. Merging reads the same size rule, so a
24 KB ROM and an entry capped at 16 KB stay two files.
validate() ran after the files were written, so an export the
exporter's own validator refused still replaced the published one in
exports/, and only the exit code said so. The platform now fails before
anything is cleared or written.
pinned_base returned an empty base when the platform's source named no
revision or no longer ended in the exported file, and the exporter's
own branch URL was then patched without a word. Every file an export
reads must now carry the revision the platform YAML records, or the
platform fails and asks for a rescrape. The check covers every file of
every platform: ROCKNIX's second file, RetroDECK's manifests and
RetroPie's tarball were checked by nothing before.
A cached bios_db.json.zip that was not a zip raised BadZipFile out of
run(): --all stopped and the platforms after it were never exported.
fetch() also cached any 200 reply, so an error page replaced a good
archive and was served on every later run, and an IncompleteRead or an
oversized reply escaped the same way. An archive is now read before it
is cached, and an unreadable file fails its own platform with the
--refresh-cache remedy.
A machine that instantiates a device loads the device's ROMs from <shortname>.zip (src/emu/device.cpp:140-152), and a missing required ROM stops that machine (romload.cpp:529-570, 667-671). The BIOS root scan never sees these sets. mame_hash_scraper --devices --listxml reads them from the -listxml of the release mame.yml pins, refuses another release, and cites each set at the ROM_START block holding its ROMs. The BIOS root merge also wrote refs without the upstream prefix and would have rewritten all 171 of them in mame.yml.
System.dat, RomM, Recalbox and RetroBat were rebuilt from our data when
their file was not cached: libretro's quoted names, Recalbox's comments
and one of its two zxspectrum blocks were lost, and the run said OK.
needs_original now follows native_sources, so every format we patch
fails without the file it patches and writes nothing.
dist/ is not committed and exports/ is. On a fresh clone, or with a
mistyped --truth-dir, the export copied each platform's file back
uncorrected, said OK and replaced the corrected export in exports/.
check_freshness then reported a stale export instead of the missing
model. The platform now fails, writes nothing, and names the
generate_truth command.
validation: names what the code verifies. dosbox checks
MT32_CONTROL.ROM against nine sha1 and size; the truth's one md5 and
crc32 describe one of those revisions, and the export wrote them beside
System.dat's own sha1, a rom line no file satisfies, and replaced
Batocera's md5. pcsx_rearmed and DuckStation check scph1001.bin by size,
and the v2.0 md5 platforms name was replaced by v4.1's.
checked_hashes keeps a hash the code does not name only where a checked
hash pins one content. Otherwise it still pairs a renamed file but never
corrects or fills a value the platform wrote. Additions keep every hash.
diff_truth reads the same rule.
A profile states where the code reads a file as path: or destination:,
and the resolver reads both. The truth copied path only: redream's
dc_bios.bin, read at dc/boot.bin, reached the export with no path, so
System.dat's dc/boot.bin was not seen and a dc_bios.bin line was added,
and Batocera got bios/dc_bios.bin instead of bios/dc/boot.bin.
Each truth entry claimed its platform line in turn, so the first one to
arrive won. dosbox-x's system.rom (alias bios.rom, no path) took
Batocera's np2kai/BIOS.ROM by name before np2kai's own np2kai/bios.rom
was tried, and the export wrote an IBM PCjr md5 on it. A path also
outranked a contradicting hash: the truth's MSX.rom joins bluemsx's path
and fmsx's md5, which replaced the blueMSX dump on Recalbox's and
System.dat's Machines/Shared Roms/MSX.rom while fmsx's own line held it.
pair_entries runs each test over every entry before the next, tests that
contradict no hash first. export_native and diff_truth both read it.
The intro gave an opinion on the effort lists take and said nothing is removed, while RetroArch and Lakka lose three hashes and one size. It now says no entry is removed, that dropped values are listed per platform, and names exactly what the tests run on patched code.
Profile notes and wiki pages called .info entries phantom or incorrect, and labelled an upstream list a known defect. They now state what each file declares and what the code reads. The wiki claimed Batocera prefix-matches truncated md5s; its script compares the full string (batocera-systems:1088), which the page now says. The gaps column reads "Not read by profiles" and notes that a profile may be incomplete.
The page called the original "their file" and listed hashes "corrected" and additions "left out", a verdict on work the page only proposes to extend. It now says what each updated file changes in neutral terms built from the report's numbers, gives the reason a file is not added, credits the effort a list takes to keep current, and invites an issue when a change does not fit a platform. A test keeps the judging words off the page.
The nested list structure stays, so each label renders bold instead of showing its asterisks. The platform details block becomes a list as well: its labels were paragraphs followed by items with no blank line between them. validate_site now reports any asterisks that reach a rendered page outside code, which runs in the deploy and in pipeline step 8b.
A key holding a mapping was written as a paragraph, and its children landed eight spaces deep inside the four-space admonition, where Markdown reads an indented code block: the clownmdemu analysis showed raw asterisks. Each level is now a list item with its children as a sublist, booleans read yes or no, and a null reads none.
BlastEm opens 32X_M_BIOS.bin and PicoDrive 32X_M_BIOS.BIN. On a case-insensitive platform the manifest kept the first and dropped the second core's claim, so an install narrowed to PicoDrive (RetroArch on Switch) lost the 32X BIOS its pack carries. The claim now joins the entry kept.
Recalbox compiles uae4all from Chips-fr/uae4all-rpi, a libretro core, while RetroPie's uae4all package is the standalone uae4all2. A profile whose built_by names the platform now wins the name there, and a bare key match still decides everywhere else.
unread_on names the platforms whose launcher points the emulator at other files. RetroBat writes absolute BIOS paths into standalone BlastEm's config, so the default names were reported as required and missing there. Such an entry leaves that platform's gap report and pack, and its emulator page says where it is never opened.
A file that arrives with the emulator is already on the user's machine
and the packs leave it out. 4558 collected copies (1.4 GB) were reached
only by such entries, with no platform, other profile entry or install
manifest needing them. They are removed, and two release-asset copies
leave the ignore list. bundled_only.py now lists every copy of a listed
file, since the database keeps one path per content, and pipeline step
4d fails while one remains.
The per-system lookup named its dictionary declared, which the file loop below reassigns to a list, so the second system of a platform page raised AttributeError.
exports/ is committed but CI cannot rebuild it, since the originals it
patches live in the local cache. The native freshness check now runs
the export offline and compares it with the committed files, and
refresh_stale writes the export again after refreshing an original.
exports/ now holds the twelve platforms' own files, corrected, with a
report of every change, read by the site's corrected files page. Two
summaries are reworded for the page: an addition the format cannot
carry is counted as left out, and RetroPie names each skipped package
by sentence instead of joining reasons with semicolons. Its parser no
longer reads "e.g" as a file name.
Batocera, Recalbox and RetroBat launch pcsx2 standalone and as LRPS2.
The name matched the standalone profile's key, so lrps2, which lists
pcsx2 among its cores, was left out and its files never reached those
packs. A name in dual_mode_cores now also resolves to the libretro
profiles that claim it.
RetroArch, Lakka, RetroPie, EmuDeck and RetroBat group NAOMI and
Atomiswave as sega-dreamcast-arcade and the Enterprise 64 and 128 as
one system. No profile uses those ids, so the emulator cell was empty.
When no id matches, a platform page now names the emulators that read
a file the system lists. Archive members do not count.
export_native now writes into exports/ by default, and beside each
platform's corrected file a report naming every change, where the run
printed five per kind. A new site page lists each platform with its
original file, a download of the corrected one and every corrected,
filled or withheld value. Each platform page links to its row.
Dropping the double-dash asides left 72 comments and docstrings with
half a dash glued to the next word ("shape -a size or a size range -is
all"). They now read as a colon, a comma or parentheses, and a prose
style test names any that comes back.
install.py --emulator NAME keeps what the named emulators read on the detected platform: their own files and the platform's files of the systems they run, as a pack built for them carries, without the systems no core is mapped to. Each emulator page now gives that command for Linux, macOS and Windows, beside the per-file links.
A libretro port carries the emulator's own sources beside its glue: pcem cites src/mem.c in the port, which is PCem's code. A citation in the port is labelled libretro glue when it is one of the libretro interface files, emulator code otherwise, and upstream emulator when it is in the original repository.
A file a core reads at several destinations is added again at each one by a second pass that worked from the raw profile entries, so files the emulator or the platform's package installs came back into the packs and manifests by that route: the installer's per-target replay disagreed with the builder on six files.
A copy filed under two consoles of one maker was listed twice with the same id, and a data directory listed the same bytes twice, so the site deploy refused 20 pages. The first card keeps the id. The pipeline only generated the pages, so it now renders them with mkdocs build --strict and runs validate_site as the deploy does. The resumed-speed test read the clock and failed on a slow runner, it now fixes the elapsed time.
The platform layer names data trees for its systems: retroarch.yml carries dolphin-sys and ppsspp-assets, and Lakka inherits them, while Lakka's core packages install both trees into the system directory. A profile records that with installed_on on its data directory, and the pack and the install manifest now leave those trees out for that platform.
A file the emulator installs itself is left out of the packs, per build and per platform. The profiling guide documents bundled, installed_on and not_bundled_on, the FAQ says why a file the emulator reads may be missing from a pack, and an emulator page names the build that installs it and the platforms whose package differs.
A data directory appeared on its emulator page as a URL whose content moves, and the 2,534 files the packs ship from these trees were on no page. Each tree now shows the revision it was fetched at and its files with size and sha1, and the site lookup by sha1 resolves them. The page description reads the repository list the JSON-LD now carries.
The structured data of an emulator page published one repository and one commit. A profile whose builds live in two repositories, or a port with an upstream_commit, now lists each repository with its own pin.
The collection DAT named its sets "Sony - PlayStation", and the data page said it audits a copy of bios/. clrmamepro and RomVault looked for a folder of that name and reported the 330 sets missing. A Logiqx set name writes a subfolder with a backslash: Sony\PlayStation.
Abdessamad Derraz