The RetroArch frontend profile (files: []) made the get/ page read
"BIOS pack for RetroArch", the order kept for a setup whose emulator
page is titled "<name> BIOS files". A profile listing no file titles
its page "<name> emulator": the setup keeps its own title.
A launcher record citing a config, option or feature file binds only
when the platform's code installs the file (installs), its launch code
was read for what replaces it (overrides), and the emulator's profile
shows where the shipped build loads it and reads each key
(config_reads, read at pin_build). Unproven records place no file and
hand no directory. verify, cross_reference and the platform page list
them apart, outside severity and --strict.
Tiles read "BizHawkWindows, Linux", stats "168/168Coverage" and a
file row "SVI603.ROMbios/Machines/...OK": the stylesheet lays them
out as boxes, the markup had no space between them. A setup without a
logo draws its initials from the stylesheet, so its name is read once.
A filter box read "Filter Options41 rows" in the page text and the
file picker an empty "Setup Choose a setup": both do nothing without
the script. They are written hidden, keep their room so nothing moves,
and site.ts or the picker's script shows them. The count describes the
input and is spaced from the label. One box markup for the build and
the generator, and the Markdown copy skips hidden chrome.
An inline SVG put every label of both layouts, its title and its desc
into the page text, next to the prose that already says the steps: a
text dump of the Steam Deck tab read the steps three times, glued.
Each drawing is now one SVG file per layout and theme under
assets/diagrams, shown through <picture> with alt="". The figure says
its words once, in one screen-reader line and its caption.
build_port's four archives carry install.py pinned by SHA-256, so they
change with the installer, not with the packs. The site now builds them
from its own commit and serves them under get/handheld/. Each get/ page
of Batocera, KNULLI, ROCKNIX and AmberELEC names its file, size, hash,
folder and menu, and get/linux-handhelds/ does the same for muOS, ArkOS,
dArkOS and JELOS. The installer's handheld section opens on a download
table, both tables written from sitehandheld.LAUNCHERS.
A query word matches the start of a longer word. Since the index grew,
the "2" of "playstation 2 bios" matched the 2026 of every page's date
line and the "u" of "wii u bios" the "use" of Next steps, so the
PlayStation and Nintendo pages held every query word and ranked above
the PlayStation 2 and Wii U pages. Both blocks carry
data-pagefind-ignore now: search_gate answers 58 of 58 queries, the
four console pairs by 9 to 14 percent. Batocera's pages weigh 882
bytes more for it.
The PlayStation section opened on psxonpsp660.bin under 'every
region': since sets carry the requirement, ARMSX1's region-free member
of its required BIOS set counts as required, and the world line came
first, above the scph files most emulators read, and its card first.
A file read for every region is a stand-in for each region's BIOS, so
that line now follows the territories.
The Apple II start now leads on BizHawk's and Mednafen's files, a tie
of two readers with CLK's and POM2's apple2e.rom. The test named that
one file. It now checks that every start file is a link, its intent.
KNULLI's system pages linked /emulators/test/ from the cores examined for an entry: the test core resolves as a downloadable core and has no page, which failed the site's link check. Cores examined now link only the profiles the site writes a page for.
Since the groups model, load_emulator_profiles marks every member of a
required set required, and the page counted each one: DuckStation,
which needs one BIOS of the game's region among the 105 images of its
ps-bios set, read "105 required, 0 optional". The site counts a
required set once and says one file fills it, and a set whose members
the code picks by region reads as one choice. The tests were not keyed
by a count but by the profile's name, through raw YAML that no longer
carries the derived requirement: they now read the profile as the site
does, take the count from the set, and keep their guard against a
get-all-of-them reading. Fourteen other profiles with required sets
(kronos, pom2, picodrive...) were overcounted the same way.
2048 and gong (game), radio and video_processor (utility) and the test
cores (test) are libretro builds, but their role sat in type:, which
resolve_platform_cores filters on: all_libretro left them out, so no
platform resolved them and RetroArch's manifest named none, the
--installed-cores gap of issue 87. The role moves to role:, and type
stays libretro: type keeps saying how a profile is built and run, which
the resolver reads, while teaching the resolver that three role values
mean libretro would make type a classification again. The site and
coverage leave test cores out by role. fluidsynth, a library and no
libretro core, keeps type utility. A test keeps every buildbot core
named by RetroArch's resolution.
Three changes to the search-list model, one commit because the readers
and the profiles must move together for the schema to hold.
Set requirement in a groups map. pom2 falls back on apple2.rom for the
][ and the ][+, and on apple2e.rom for the //e it boots and for the
unenhanced //e: one required on the file could not say both. A profile
now declares groups: {name: {required}}, a member writes no required
of its own (schema and validate_schemas refuse one) and load_emulator_
profiles derives it, true when one of its sets is. group takes a name,
a list, or a map from set to rank where the rank differs per set. pom2
is grouped from SystemProfile.cpp and MainWindow.cpp:246-296 at its pin.
One member per required set under --required-only. The pick is the
first the code reads among the held members the region filter leaves,
by rank then declaration order; a set the platform declares a member
of is carried by that declaration. The emulator pack, verify
--emulator, the platform pack, its manifest and verify --platform read
alternatives.required_only_spares or core_file_spares.
variant_group is now selection_slot: files a core chooses between by
a rule other than first found (disc territory for PicoDrive and
Pizza Boy SC, the o2em_bios option, a WebAssembly probe in SWF
Player). Where the code takes any one, the field became a group:
ARMSX1 (ArmSxBackend.java:149-157, name order), ePSXe (load_bios
0x433540-0x433621 of the 2.0.5 Linux x64 binary, one configured path,
HLE when BiosHLE is set), FPse and FPse-NG, DXX-Rebirth's HOGs
(inferno.cpp:472-512). odin and zesarux carried it with no effect.
slot.py compares ranks only between candidates that share a set.
- The installer speaks without "you": the first screen asks "Where
to install?", rows read "Copy the BIOS files from an old card or a
folder", a close match reads "Close matches: ...". The handheld
launchers and their port text follow, and the pronoun guard no
longer lists any installer message.
- A setup that runs as an app opens on its one-line command, the
folder table after it; a setup that runs on its own device keeps
the network folder first, which its ZIP route needs.
- The home steps say what to do: "Its page gives one line to copy",
"Paste it, press Enter".
Every archive has a recipe in recipes/archives.json, and no page a user
reads said so. A short reference page says what a recipe is, how to
rebuild one archive and what exact and canonical mean. Its counts and the
README line are counted from the recipe file at each build.
The README gains a row of four badges: PyPI version, Python versions,
the Validation workflow on main and the license. Tests hold the badges,
the counts and the page's command.
- The installer says "Every file on the list is in place." where it
said "Everything is in place.": a check covers the files the
collection holds, and the required ones it lacks follow.
- The FAQ, first install, legal and home pages state only what the
code shows (PlayStation 1 and Saturn run without a BIOS on some
emulators, save files are never touched, records are added).
- MinUI and MyMinUI show their own boot logos, and the Android,
Linux handheld and iPhone tiles show the Android robot, Tux and a
plain device icon, each credited in sources.json.
- Each Markdown copy, llms.txt and llms-full.txt name the commit
they were built from, version.json the current one, and the
answering rules tell assistants to fetch a stale copy again.
- The deploy lists the pages whose words changed (digests.json) and
posts them to IndexNow once the site is live.
make_demo.py records a second variant: the full-screen interface at the
640x480 screen of an R36S, on an ArkOS root made with bwrap, started as
the Tools menu launcher starts it (RETROBIOS_PAD=gptokeyb), driven by the
keys gptokeyb sends for the buttons. demo.json holds one entry per
variant with its alt text. No Windows variant: under pwsh on Linux the
installer's summary gives --dest /mnt/e/bios back.
The quick install box of Get your files gets an "On the device" tab with
the handheld recording, the terminal recording under the others but
Windows, and, under the text of each computer tab, a drawing of opening
the terminal and pasting (sitesteps.py, inline SVG in the theme's
colours, title and desc). The terminal steps name the physical action.
Readers reached the 404 page with a pasted command (/i.ps1%20%7C%20iex),
a file name, a GitHub path or a section below a page: the page now says
which it is and leads on. Beside "Start with", the first file's
download sits next to its name.
The README shows the GIF under the commands. The home page and Get your
files show the video through InstallDemo.astro: nothing is fetched until
it is on screen, reduced motion and Save-Data keep the poster with a play
button, and a description is read to screen readers.
llms.txt and an ARD manifest name the pages and the JSON API, and lead
an agent setting up a device to --for-games --required-only. Every page
registers four read-only WebMCP tools: the setup command, a hash lookup,
an emulator's files and the site search.
og:title and twitter:title carry the search title ("mGBA BIOS
files"), an emulator page shares its maker's card, a download page is
dated by its release in the sitemap, and a Switch emulator's files are
called keys.
_pack_version took the text after the last underscore of the pack name.
AmberELEC's prerelease-20261019_1835 read as 1835 and the page would
announce a version gap that does not exist. The site now removes the
platform part the builder writes (platform_pack_prefix).
Only generate_pack.py and pipeline.py checked the interpreter. verify.py,
slots.py, validate_pr.py, cross_reference.py and the probe tools started
under 3.8 and stopped halfway on a str.removeprefix AttributeError. The
check now lives in common.py, which every build script imports, and in
core_probe.py and region_check.py, which do not. generate_site.py imports
common before siterender, which raised a TypeError at load under 3.8.
RetroPie was the only platform with status: archived, which kept it out
of verify --all, slots, the pipeline and list_platforms unless
--include-archived was typed. release_pack already decides which packs a
release publishes and the installer serves every platform, so the status
set nothing apart. The field, its schema entry and the flag are gone, and
RetroPie is covered by every full run like any other platform.
A search for gba_bios.bin or scph5500.bin landed on a page described as
"It reads 4 files, none of them required". The snippet now names the
console and the files, required first, in the longest form that fits.
Abdessamad Derraz