--standalone-copies named Linux and Windows folders for Azahar's aes_keys.txt and boot9.bin and Flycast's dc_boot.bin and dc_nvmem.bin, and nothing for macOS, where both emulators read a fixed folder: ~/Library/Application Support/Azahar/sysdata (common_paths.h:36,61) and ~/Library/Application Support/Flycast/data (osx-main.mm:83-101). A test now requires a macOS folder on every copy.
A platform named but not found fell back to a folder it never opens: ~/bios for RetroBat on Linux and for BizHawk picked from the menu, and on Windows the embedded systems' /userdata/bios, which resolves to the root of the current drive. Each run downloaded gigabytes and reported done. Where no folder on the OS is one the platform reads, a forced run now asks for --dest and the menu asks for a path with no default.
Lakka's image writes the board in /etc/os-release: LIBREELEC_DEVICE when built for a device, LIBREELEC_PROJECT otherwise, the very names of our Lakka targets. The installer read the board on Batocera, Recalbox and ROCKNIX only, so a Lakka RPi4 installed 5.7 GB of every board's files where its own needs 4.0.
Profiles, the wiki, comments, docstrings, command output and schema descriptions carried em-dashes, clause-joining semicolons, unicode arrows, box-drawing banners and check-mark glyphs. Each sentence was rewritten rather than having its character swapped. Hashes, paths, source_ref values and every cited file:line are unchanged, which a comparison of each parsed profile against the previous revision confirms.
validate_pr comments now say PASS and FAIL in words, and source_ref values in a profile's structured blocks render as code. test_prose_style fails if any of these comes back, in tracked files or in the generated site.
--check names each missing or corrupt file, a read-only folder is reported once, Ctrl+C before the downloads stops cleanly, stdout keeps its order in a log, and the local check shows its progress.
Windows rules ran under WSL with C:\ paths read as relative and no Windows variables, so nothing was found and a forced RetroBat install went to ~/bios inside the distribution.
BizHawk reads the Firmware folder next to EmuHawk wherever the archive was extracted. The installer looked in ~/.config/BizHawk/Firmware, which no build reads, and wrote there when nothing was found.
Manifests list each data directory's source archive and the hash of
every file; the installer rebuilds the tree from the archive and keeps
only the files whose hash matches.
The RetroArch list is folded for Windows and macOS. Its manifest
now carries the names a case-keeping directory also needs, and the
installer adds them after probing the BIOS directory.
The installer looked for retroarch.exe in C:\RetroArch-Win64 and
Program Files\RetroArch only, so a RetroArch under Program Files\
RetroArch-Win64, in a Steam library on another drive, or in an
installed ES-DE's Emulators folder went undetected. All three are
searched; Steam libraries come from Steam's own library list.
install.py held a local it never read and, since the registry path
rules, a loop variable shadowing the platform module, so the py38
ruff gate the installer is held to failed. Both are fixed, and the
suite reads the two rules from the syntax tree since CI has no ruff.
The registry declares where each platform keeps its BIOS and every
manifest publishes it, but the installer detects before it fetches
any manifest and never had RetroPie, BizHawk, RetroBat's paths, or
EmuDeck's default folder. It now carries the registry's path rules,
held equal to the registry by a test.
The registry names one path per standalone copy for every platform,
but each manifest places the file its own way, so the installer
looked where the pack had put nothing and copied nothing: EmuDeck's
aes_keys.txt for Azahar, Batocera's switch/prod.keys. Each manifest
copy now names its source, which the installer validates and reads.
Abdessamad Derraz