The second pass, the archive-prefix pass and the agnostic scan built
extras without source_name or source_path, so verify found no gap report
entry for them and counted game data such as hiscore.dat as core files.
Every extra now carries its entry's category and key, and verify reads
the category from the extra the builder places.
verify --emulator listed only OK destinations, while the emulator pack
also writes a copy whose hash the profile contradicts, loose or archive.
pack_destinations now records the paths the replay places, and both
branches resolve through packresolve.resolve_file as the pack does.
FileConsumers resolved platform declarations with their destination as
a hint, which the builder, the manifest and verify never pass. RetroBat's
63 mame/hash lists and the curated gc-ntsc-12.bin credited another copy
than the one the manifests install.
verify resolved platform entries with common.resolve_local_file and put
the slot override first, and the region pass added a destination hint.
packresolve.resolve_declaration now serves the builder, the manifest,
verify and the region pass: release assets cached for a file absent from
bios/ count as shipped in all four, and a release asset keeps its answer
over a slot override.
cross_reference --platform read bundled from the profile alone and never
read unread_on. It now calls validation.installed_with_emulator and
unread_on with the platform key, as verify does, and a file installed
with its emulator is reported as bundled whether held or not.
DecideNAND (MelonDS.cs:684-706) keeps, for a DSi title, only the NAND
slots whose bit is set in header byte 0x1B0. The six DSi_Nand entries
now carry that territory, so --region keeps one 240 MB image, not six.
AUS answers oceania, as every other Australian slot does.
Systems a core covers without a file were added while walking a set,
so the hash seed placed them and two runs wrote dist/truth/<platform>.yml
in two orders. The normalized system map was built from a set too.
The buildbot serves nicaiemu_libretro (frozen at 4c9b73f7, last built
2026-10-16 05:15) beside coolbaremu_libretro. They are two builds: each
reads its own orientation list from the system directory, so both
profiles stay, each with its own core name. Both read the same .cbe
archives from the same workspace, which builds a standalone binary at
both revisions: one system id and one build type for the two.
The slot and claim decisions above change which copy some paths take
(EmuDeck neocdz.zip, RetroBat DS firmware, hiscore.dat on six platforms)
and settle case variants on folding filesystems.
Ranking contested core claims sorted the whole gap report, which
reordered every manifest. Only the claims on one contested path move now,
grouped where the first of them stood, and two spellings of a path are
one group where the filesystem folds case (RetroBat's 64DD_IPL_DEV.bin).
An entry without a destination (EmuDeck's system:md5 whitelist) no
longer counts as a pack path in verify, and step 5 prints one status for
counts and paths together. A full offline run compared all 12 archives
and 930 emulator packs path by path, every one equal.
Thirty one-line labels in verify.py, generate_site.py and
generate_truth.py named the statement under them ("# Load registry",
"# Copy branding assets"). Comments that give a reason stay, as do the
module section headers. A test reads the three files for new ones.
The which-pack page announced itself ("This page picks the right pack
for a setup") before naming a pack. The sentence goes, the pointer to
Getting started stays.
Ymir reads sega_101.bin or saturn_bios.bin, so the sega_101.bin entry
carries saturn_bios.bin as an alias. kronos, yabause and yabasanshiro
open saturn_bios.bin and fall back to sega_101.bin: they were in that
entry's _cores but not its _required_by, while their saturn_bios.bin
entry had them requiring it. A reader that requires one of an entry's
aliases now requires the entry. No reader is added, and same-name
entries kept apart by path are left alone. No export changes.
Pin moves to 2de3bf8 (v8.4.2). roms/aros-ext.bin, roms/aros-rom.bin and whdboot/game-data/whdload_db.json changed upstream and are collected at that revision. The WHDLoad database is matched on the archive SHA1 first and refreshed from the bundled copy when newer. kick02019.AROS and its .ext are names the Recalbox launcher writes, so the profile now documents the kickstart_rom_file settings instead.
Pins move to libretro/hatari 5092994 and hatari/hatari 90949cf. The port now reads floppy.raw from the system directory (floppy_sound.c:146-186), documented as an optional user sample. Upstream decodes IPF without capsimage, the icon block moved by four lines, and the launcher file names leave the tos.img note for the platform layer.
A prose citation of the port's own lines was read only in the upstream file that a source_ref attributes the path to, and a range past that file's end came back GONE although the port carries it.
The Dolphin Sys, PPSSPP assets and blueMSX trees stay required, and the
profiles now cite why. blueMSX finds no machine without Machines/, the
C-BIOS ones included, and the load fails (Src/Board/Machine.c:637-656,
libretro.c:1447-1449). Its tree reference cited libretro.c:1119-1120,
which at the pinned revision is the Sunrise IDE option, and now cites
1196-1197. PPSSPP has no internal font without flash0/font, so
sceFontOpen fails for games using the system fonts
(Core/HLE/sceFont.cpp:805-864, 984-986). Dolphin loads no GameCube font
without Sys/GC/ or an IPL dump and warns that games may crash
(Source/Core/Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:328-340).
Recalbox hashes a .zip by its members. diff_truth set that composite
against the profile's container md5 and reported neocdz.zip and
neocd.zip as mismatches. _hash_mismatch now drops it through
comparable(), the rule pair_entries and the export already apply.
mkstemp creates its scratch 0600 and os.replace kept that mode, so
database.json, the manifests, the packs, the recipe snapshots and the
large-file cache were readable by their owner only. set_plain_mode
gives the scratch 0o666 less the umask, as open() would, before each
rename. A test walks every function that renames a mkstemp file.
The contributor install line left out mkdocs-material and
pymdown-extensions, so pipeline step 8b (render site) was skipped.
The ranges are the ones deploy-site.yml installs, and a test reads
them from the workflow.
profile_sync gains --changed (added or edited profiles, uncommitted
ones included) and --added, both against the merge base of --base
(origin/main by default). CONTRIBUTING runs --changed --strict instead
of one --emulator call per new profile, and the CI job runs --added
in place of its own diff loop.
eduke32 and fury declare https://voidpoint.io/terminx/eduke32 and were
skipped as an unsupported host. The instance serves the GitLab v4 API
(/api/v4/projects/terminx%2Feduke32 answers 200) and /-/raw/ paths.
GitHub, GitLab and Gitea redirect a renamed repository, and every call
follows the redirect: AloysHF/NicaiEmu answers as AloysHF/CoolbarEmu
and the profile read as current. profile_sync now reads the name the
forge answers under and counts a move as review work.
check_freshness ran profile_sync with --json and the detection flags,
which profile_sync refuses, so --profiles always reported an unreadable
report. The version check now lives on the report and travels in the
JSON and markdown outputs; check_freshness asks for --json
--check-version only.
FirmwareDatabase.cs:405-410 declares NDS+NAND_JPN, EUR, USA, AUS, CHN
and KOR, each with a placeholder hash and 251658240 + 64 bytes. In DSi
mode DecideNAND takes the first one set, limited to the regions a
DSi-enhanced header allows, and stops the load with none
(MelonDS.cs:114, 304, 484, 684-706). DSi mode is off by default, so the
entries are optional, like DSi_Firmware.bin and the DSi BIOS slots.
A missing extended ROM only raises a notice (memory.cpp:1833-1849), but
the machine then runs on the Kickstart alone. cdstrap, cd.device,
cdtv.device and cdfs.library are resident modules of the CD32 and CDTV
extended ROMs and absent from their Kickstarts, the CD32 and base CDTV
models have no floppy drive (cfgfile.cpp:9375-9379, 9405-9406), so no CD
is read or booted. Both entries stay required. The AROS replacement
stands in only for a missing Kickstart (memory.cpp:3055-3063), so the
CDTV entry loses hle_fallback.
FreeIntv declared no data tree while its alias freeintv_ts_overlay,
the same code, declared freeintv_overlays. The core reads
freeintv_overlays/<rom>.png only with the multi-screen option and draws
its embedded keypad image without one (src/libretro.c:278-280, 294,
321-325), so the tree is optional. A test holds every alias to the trees
of its core.
Each core picks its US image for a disc licensed by Sony Computer
Entertainment America, and DuckStation, SwanStation and Beetle PSX
also for a disc whose region they cannot read. Tagged north-america
alone, a --region brazil,jp pack withdrew those images.
RomM 5.4 reads each platform's firmware where filesystem.structure.firmware
in config.yml says, bios/{platform} by default, and suggests {platform}/bios
for a {platform}/roms library (rommapp/romm 5.4.0,
backend/config/config_manager.py:58,101-109,205-225,564-568,1105-1124).
The installer only wrote bios/<platform>/. It now reads the template from
config.yml beside the library, takes --romm-firmware when that file is
elsewhere, refuses a platform-first library with no template, and detects
RomM by /romm/config/config.yml too.
The search splits a page at its headings. Emulator cards were titled in
bold and platform systems folded into blocks under one heading, so a
pasted hash opened the top of a page or the systems overview of a
100-block platform page. Each file card is now a level 4 heading kept
out of the table of contents, and each platform system a heading.
Card lines that list other pages (platforms, packs, source citations,
collection paths) leave the search index: 24.7 MB down to 18.1 MB, the
names, hashes and notes still searchable.
Abdessamad Derraz