Kronos reads kronos/stvbios.zip, else stvbios.zip at the root of the
system directory, and a ST-V game stops without either
(libretro.c:1608-1617, 1676-1681 at the pin). The archive under
archive_prefix and the root copy are one need, but only loose entries
could be members, so the required-only pack carried both.
An archive's own entry now joins a set like a loose file. verify
--emulator and the emulator pack settle archive units with the loose
entries, the required-only pick covers them, find_undeclared_files
and cross_reference record them, and the unit under archive_prefix
ranks before the same name at the root. Its members still settle the
archive by their contents. Kronos' stvbios.zip is grouped stv-bios.
No other profile reads one archive under two paths: odin and
tgpulse_next_m1 place their own entries at the prefix path, and
flycast's naomi.zip has one path per build.
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.
Each list read at the profile's pin, every member required: true where
the code needs one of the set, the order left in priority.
- yabause, yabasanshiro, kronos: libretro.c tries saturn_bios.bin,
sega_101.bin, mpr-17933.bin (yabause 1035-1049, yabasanshiro
1048-1071, kronos 1619-1638 after kronos/saturn_bios.bin). kronos
also reads saturn_bios.bin at the system root, now its own entry.
yabasanshiro refuses the game with no file even under forced HLE
(1064-1071), so its hle_fallback is gone.
- yabadabadoo: bios_for_region (libretro.c:262-284) takes any of the
three in an order the disc region picks. One group, no priority:
region keeps that order, no single rank would be true.
- ymir libretro: kBiosFilenames (libretro.cpp:305-309), region first,
else the first found, no game without one (1231-1236).
- duckstation: FindBIOSImageInDirectory (bios.cpp:397-450) keeps any
image of the right size, a region mismatch only warns: one set.
- picodrive: find_bios walks one list per disc region
(libretro.c:1272-1336), three groups.
- px68k: BIOSFILE then cgrom.dat or cgrom.tmp (libretro.c:984-1032).
- px68k-sdl: BIOSFILE and FONTFILE lists (winx68k.cpp:277-331).
- numero: ti83se, ti83plus, ti83 (libretronew.cpp:575-594), no ROM
leaves a blank screen.
- freechaf: sl90025 then sl31253, HLE without either
(libretro.c:186-199), optional set.
- pcsx1: scph1001, scph5501, scph7001 then any scph* (libretro.c:1229),
HLE without, optional set.
- odin: three boot ROMs inside hikaru.zip.
Each libretro profile records version_basis and core_version is read
there at its pin. snes9x states 1.63 in snes9x.h, nestopia 2.0.0, mgba
0.11.0, vice 3.10, atari800's libretro tree 7.0.0. Cores whose build
takes its version from git carry the nearest tag in describe form
(flycast v2.7-90-ge88b0ce, ppsspp, duckstation, gearcoleco), placeholders
copied from .info files (Git, SVN) are replaced by the code's statement,
and a code that states none is null with kind none.
The bulk advance moved upstream_commit to upstream HEAD. On freej2me_plus,
hakux, kronos, mesen-s, np2kai and snes9x it was, and still is, the
merge base of upstream with the fork's pin (GitHub compare), the revision
the port carries. ax360e, nes-emu and snes9x-explus vendor an upstream
tree whose commit their notes name.
Every cited block was read again at HEAD: no ref left to review, no
file name or hash literal added to a cited file since the pin
(--detect-new-files --watch-hashes), refs recaled with their pins.
Profiles built by a platform at a fixed commit, or whose bump would
leave prose under an older pin, stay where they were.
upstream_commit is the merge base the compare API gives between each port at its source_commit and the upstream default branch. holani and melonds_ds take the revision their build fetches (tag 0.9.9, and the melonDS branch whose merge base is 906e9ebb). The upstream-role refs land on their declared values there, except mesence bios.col, whose line 70 is in MesenCE's own FirmwareTypeExtensions.cs.
Profiles that read two repositories, a libretro port and its upstream,
now prefix each citation with source or upstream, decided by which tree
carries the cited value at its pin. The emulator pages use the word to
tell libretro glue, emulator code as the port carries it, and the
upstream emulator apart.
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.
Sixteen prose citations wrote "file fn() lines N-M", a form the pin
tracker never reads, and four had fallen behind their pins. Each is now
a repository path with the span read at the profile's pin, and a test
refuses the untracked form.
Region tags must name the territory the code selects a file for. Each
entry tagged europe alone was read at its pin: PAL branches Australian
media reach now include oceania, and tags that follow a video standard,
a user setting or a hardcoded value are removed.
Upstream moved under 145 profiles: 679 refs shifted and 452 followed a
renamed file, against 6,483 that still anchor where they were written.
The recale rewrites the located ranges only, keeping the annotations and
the sentences that carry them, and 106 pins advance in the same commit
because refs and source_commit name one revision or the profile
describes two at once.
Nothing here was guessed. The 183 refs that are CHANGED, GONE or
AMBIGUOUS are untouched, and the 57 profiles holding them keep their old
pin until someone reads the diff: profile_sync refuses to recale a
profile while any of its refs needs a re-read. trident kept its pin too,
its annotated ref being one the writer will not rewrite.
Closes#43
FBNeo and Kronos expect BIOS archives in core-specific subdirectories
(system/fbneo/, system/kronos/). RetroArch firmware check uses .info
paths which include these prefixes, so files at root show as Missing.
Add archive_prefix field to emulator profiles. The pack code now places
archive copies in the prefixed subdirectory while keeping root copies
for cores that expect them there (e.g. Geolith for neogeo.zip).
add core_classification and upstream to all five profiles. kronos:
add ROM cartridge files (mpr-18811-mx.ic1, mpr-19367-mx.ic1), add
archive: field to STV blobs, remove unverified MD5 hashes, fix
cores list (remove yabause_libretro). jumpnbump: fix incorrect
note about embedded data. lowresnx, lutro, m2000: add missing
classification fields.
Every profile now has:
- profiled_date: date of source code analysis
- core_version: version from libretro-core-info .info files
- display_name: human-readable name from .info files
260/260 profiles complete. 294/294 libretro cores covered.
Standalone emulators (cemu, rpcs3, xemu, vita3k) versioned manually.
- Added profiled_date field to all 204 existing profiles for update tracking
- Created 56 alias profiles for cores that share BIOS with a parent
(e.g., mednafen_psx -> beetle_psx, fbalpha2012 -> fbneo)
260 total profiles covering all 294 libretro cores (204 unique + 56 alias).
Abdessamad Derraz