AmberELEC's metapackage adds LIBRETRO_CORES_EXTRA (bsnes, Mesen, melonDS, geolith) only on RG552, RG353 and RG503, and deletes those cores from es_systems.cfg on every other device (packages/amberelec/package.mk:23-31, 45-58 at a21975bf). The new target scraper reads the Makefile's device images, that test and es_systems.cfg the way the platform scraper does: RG351P, RG351V and RG351MP list 125 cores, the other three 136. The installer reads the device from COREELEC_DEVICE in os-release (scripts/image:168).
The target scraper stripped -sa from every standalone package while the platform scraper keeps both spellings. vice-standalone, scummvm-standalone and supermodel3 answer to vice-sa, scummvm-sa and supermodel-sa only, so every targeted ROCKNIX build left them out. Both now read standalone_emulators(), and the targets are rescraped at tag 20261001.
The platform scraper kept lr-dosbox-pure as dosbox-pure, which matched the standalone DOSBox Pure Unleashed profile, while the target scraper wrote dosbox_pure. Both now read core_name(), and platforms/retropie.yml is rescraped at its pinned revision 46128cd2: only the libretro core names change, and six Unleashed files leave the RetroPie manifest.
PCSX2 stats <bios>.rom1 then <stem>.rom1, case-sensitive on Linux (BiosTools.cpp:214-229), and so does PCSX2 1.6 for erom. The pack wrote the stored SCPH-70004.ROM1, never found. A companion entry also seeded a scan of its own with a 4 MB bound and swept cheats, GameIndex.yaml and DVD firmware to the BIOS root. A companion now scans its image's folder for its own extension only, any size, since the code reads min(size, filesize), and is written as the code spells it.
A data tree's archive came with no progress line, and the run ended on the BIOS bytes alone (310.5 KB where 82 MB arrived). Its download now draws the progress line and adds its bytes and time to the end line, a cut attempt taken back. It writes no progress event: those count the download event's files.
A BIOS folder this user cannot write no longer tries each data tree's archive and blames its URL with a raw errno. The tree is counted failed for the same cause as the BIOS files, so the summary keeps its one line and its advice.
Lakka keeps its BIOS on its STORAGE partition (/storage/system). A computer now tells that partition by the retroarch.cfg RetroArch writes there, whose system_directory is Lakka's /tmp/system overlay, and --platform lakka on a computer asks for the card instead of writing to /storage/system here.
Batocera and KNULLI write the image name, not the board, to the card's board file (post-image-script.sh). The target scraper now records each board's images from Config.in, the target lists carry them, and the installer maps a card's image to its board. KNULLI's boot/knulli.board is read too.
data/ppsspp-assets was refreshed after the manifests were written: 46 lang files changed. Regenerated so the next commits carry their own changes only.
A platform entry names no profile, so bios/Other/<emulator>/ was never foreign to it. EmuELEC's ports/VVVVVV/data.zip resolved to xrick's data.zip, then to xrick's data directory copy. A system that lists its cores now takes no name match only another emulator's tree answers.
--list-targets offline was refused, and its advice to give --manifest or --from-pack was refused in turn. It now reads the boards where --target reads them: the pack's list or targets/<platform>.json beside --manifest.
set5v0.972.ic507 (Katana Set5 v0.972, crc32 1a2f2a91, sha1 08df891f) entered MAME's dcdev set in 0.260. It comes from the archive.org item MAME_0.278_ROMs_non-merged_2025, whose dcdev.zip is the TorrentZip of the 0.260+ recipe. It becomes the primary dcdev.zip, and the five-member pre-0.260 set is kept as a variant.
Demul's dc set (11 rows of demul.exe's table) is built with build_torrentzip from members checked against the table's crc32 and sha1, in bios/Other/demul/. Only Demul reads dc.zip, so only its manifest entries move.
Demul 0.7 reads 44 NAOMI BIOS rows from naomi.zip, the HOTD2, F355 and Airline Pilots BIOS among them. No copy held them all. The set is built with build_torrentzip from members already in the collection, each checked against the crc32 and sha1 of demul.exe's table, and kept in bios/Other/demul/. Batocera, KNULLI and RetroBat place it at bios/naomi.zip, the file MAME cores there also open, so it carries the nine MAME members the Demul table does not list.
The resolver left another emulator's own copy out of the member and superset ranking, so Flycast and the MAME cores keep the copies they were served.
Demul 0.7 build 251220 (demul.exe sha1 e326ae66, the build RetroBat and Batocera 43.1 ship) loads its BIOS from MAME-style sets named in seven tables in the executable: dc, naomi, naomi2, segasp, awbios, hikaru, mie and segadimm, each member checked by size, crc32 and sha1. The profile lists every set with its members and cites the tables and the loader by address. dc_boot.bin, dc_flash.bin, naomigd.zip, hod2bios.zip, f355bios.zip, f355dlx.zip, airlbios.zip and jvs13551.zip are not read by this build and leave the profile.
Fourteen lists gain the data trees their cores read. AmberELEC and EmuELEC fetch the 192 blueMSX machine configs from the tree instead of holding them back, and RetroPie drops the blueMSX tree its lr-bluemsx module installs.
segadimm.zip holds fpr23905.ic36 and fpr23905c.ic36 under the same crc32, and segasp.zip four fpr-*.ic72 images. Ranked by crc32 alone, a copy missing some of them tied with the full set and the index order chose it. A crc32 that two declared members share now also requires the member name.
AmberELEC's nec-pc-88 declares DISK.ROM with an empty md5. QUASI88 reads
that name as n88sub.rom, the 2 KB PC-88 disk ROM (libretro.c:1085), but
the name step served the 16 KB MSX disk ROM, the only primary of that
name. The quasi88 alias never reached by_name, which refuses an alias a
primary already carries.
load_platform_config now writes each entry's system as platform_system.
A platform entry with no hash and no owning emulator, whose system id
names a maker, takes no name candidate filed under another maker, in
the name step and in the hash_mismatch step after it. When nothing is
left, by_shadowed_alias, the profile aliases by_name refuses, answers
within the system's maker folder. names_manufacturer and BUCKET_FOLDERS
move to common.py, and generate_site imports them.
Across every registered platform the only resolution that moves is
AmberELEC nec-pc-88 DISK.ROM, from bios/Microsoft/MSX/DISK.ROM to
bios/NEC/PC-88/N88SUB.ROM. Manifests, truth and exports are otherwise
byte-identical.
DecideNAND (MelonDS.cs:684-706) reads the JPN, USA, EUR, AUS, CHN and KOR
bits of header byte 0x1B0. A DSi title sold in Latin America carries the
USA bit, so the USA NAND serves it. Tagged north-america alone, it fell
out of an --emulator bizhawk --region br,jp pack.
Genesis Plus GX declares bios_U.sms and bios_E.sms with no hash. Only
.variants/ copies carried those names, so the name step served the Store
Display Unit BIOS and a 256 KB BIOS, while every platform pins v1.3 under
both. Two causes in generate_db: the v1.3 content's path was ZEsarUX's
sms.rom, which the resolver sets aside as another emulator's file, and a
name pinned by hash was refused when only variants carried it.
The scan now prefers a copy filed under its machine over one in an
emulator's own tree, and a name only variants carry can name the content
a hash pins it to.
Manifests: six contents change repo_path only (v1.3 SMS BIOS and five
ZEsarUX Spectrum ROMs, same sha1). On batocera, knulli, recalbox and
retrodeck the Genesis Plus GX bios_E.sms and bios_U.sms extras move from
the two variants to v1.3.
NP2kai and meowPC98 read font.bmp (PC-98 bitmap) and FONT.ROM (V98) as
separate files, each through its own reader (NP2kai font/font.c:192-195,
meowPC98 font/font.c:180-181). The V98 names hung on font.bmp as aliases
let a collection without font.bmp serve the PC-88 2 KB font.rom there.
FONT.ROM is now its own entry, at least 0x46800 bytes (fontv98.c:8, 51).
Manifests: np2/FONT.ROM and np2kai/FONT.ROM are added where the platform
did not declare them, served by the V98 font bios/NEC/PC-98/font.rom.
AmberELEC and EmuELEC declare blueMSX's Machines/<model>/config.ini and
Shared Roms/RS232.ROM with no hash. The name step served msx-emu's
ColecoVision config.ini in 192 machine folders and the 16 KB RS232.ROM,
while data/bluemsx held blueMSX's own file at that very path. A platform
declaration with no hash now reads its destination's tail in the data
directories before the name step. Profile entries keep the foreign-tree
redirect, so Dolphin's dsp_coef.bin dump still outranks the free copy.
Manifests: amberelec and emuelec omit 192 config.ini entries (held in
data/bluemsx only, so the installer has no URL) and serve colecodb.xml,
MSX2+/config.ini, MSXturboR/config.ini and RS232.ROM from blueMSX's bytes.
The resolver now keeps a name inside its own emulator tree and the retail Xbox dashboard files moved to bios/Microsoft/Xbox/C/, so the install lists, README counts, installer samples and games index are rebuilt from the merged tree. Built twice, identical.
Abdessamad Derraz