DraStic opens nds_bios_arm9.bin, nds_bios_arm7.bin and nds_firmware.bin and checks their size. Its nine aliases are in none of its binaries, and neither platform launcher passes them: ROCKNIX links the two BIOS names from its bios folder, and RetroPie runs DraStic from $md_conf_root/nds/drastic (drastic.sh:48), now a passes_path record. The collection answers DraStic's names with its DS dumps in generate_db, where repository names belong.
A links record naming a file is where the emulator reads it: ROCKNIX links /storage/roms/bios/nds_bios_arm9.bin into DraStic's system folder (start_drastic.sh:37-41). $biosdir, ${biosPath} and $bios_path are the BIOS directory as RetroPie, EmuDeck and RetroDECK write it, and every place of those platforms was dropped as an unknown folder. A core name the launcher replaces is no longer packed when held: EmuDeck passes Complex_4627v1.03.bin to xemu (emuDeckXemu.sh:60-61), which never opens Complex_4627.bin.
The launcher layer now reads the Saturn emulators whose option replaces
the default path, DeSmuME's pair and firmware, the melonDS DSi files and
NAND region, jzIntv arguments, BlastEm's SetBiosPath, Dolphin, Raine,
GSplus, the DOSBox and capsimg copies, Tsugaru's folder chain, RPCS3,
EKA2L1, BizHawk's GB switches and the folders that MAME, FBNeo, Snes9x,
Flycast, ScummVM, XRoar, XM6 Pro, ArcadeDuck, Demul and B-Syndrome get.
Every line of these generators that names the bios folder must be read
by a record or a stated exception, or the scrape stops.
RetroBat's launcher layer now records the Saturn names its generators
pick. The ymir aliases are the libretro port's own kBiosFilenames, and
the SSF aliases label dumps of a slot whose file name SSF leaves free.
Both entries now say so next to their source_ref.
The -listxml names the software lists each machine and slot card
declares and the floppy drives it can instantiate. --devices now writes
one entry per hash/<list>.xml the release ships under the systems of its
placed machines (111 lists, 666 stay with hash/), and files each floppy
sample under the systems whose drives select its form factor
(floppy.cpp:1428-1473, 1759-1767).
Machines a registered platform declares under one of the profile's
systems seed the walk too: bbcb, cdimono1, cdimono2, dragon32, ep64 and
ep128. Unplaced device sets go from 903 to 861.
6eabf224..6664c602 rewrites the .rom1 extension swap and shares one path buffer between the .nvm and .mec reads (BiosTools.cpp:189-230, CDVD.cpp:194-243). The names read and the fallbacks are unchanged. profile_sync: 0 to review.
The libretro port reads sega_101.bin, mpr-17933.bin and saturn_bios.bin in that order, gives the first two the JP and US_EU regions by hash, and loads the candidate the ymir_region option or the disc area code asks for (apps/ymir-libretro/src/libretro.cpp:305-309, 596-606, 627-702, 1231-1238, 1290-1306 at 8174cbbe). Area K maps to KR, which neither image carries.
sf7000.rom is read only by the sega-sf7000 entries of blueMSX. It sat in bios/Microsoft/MSX because blueMSX keeps its machine folders together, which is a pack destination, not where the collection files a dump.
The semantic check read systems: only. mame2010 filed seven BIOS root
sets under systems its list lacked: cpzn1, cpzn2 (zn.c:4543, 4563),
konamigv (konamigv.c:877), skns (suprnova.c:1686), alg_bios (alg.c:782),
maxaflex (maxaflex.c:541) and hng64 (hng64.c:2189) are GAME_IS_BIOS_ROOT
in mame2010-libretro at source_commit.
storage: large_file alone no longer counts as held (e65ece74). The fixture now holds jp.bin the way the large-files release does: indexed by the database, listed in .gitignore, absent from the checkout and the cache of this offline run.
The flycast standalone paths (eb04fb50) stay out until the packs read the
platforms' launcher links. Two rosalies-mupen-gui aliases that only
RetroBat's launcher writes leave the profile, now that its layer
records them.
The -listxml names, for every machine, its parent (romof), the devices of its default configuration (device_ref) and the cards its slots offer (slotoption). A machine takes the system of the first set on its romof chain a written entry lists, and passes it to each device it can instantiate. A device set reached from one system gets system:, from several the new per-entry systems:, from none neither, and keeps serving every system of the profile. The gap report, the core extras and slots read the entry's own systems, so generate_pack --system and the installer pick by them.
The builder keeps a held regional fallback when the requested file is
missing (since 2026-10-17), and the comment beside the manifest's
omissions still said the opposite. A file the builder holds but the
manifest cannot download sat in omitted_files counted unheld, so the
installer kept a fallback the pack drops. Such an omission now carries
held: true and narrow() counts it held, as the builder does.
After --all-variants, --verify-packs printed "hashes checked during the
build" for the platform-only, truth and required-only packs and compared
none of them, so one missing a file its narrowed list requires passed.
Each pack is now held to the platform list narrowed the way it was built:
source and required_only, read from its name, reach the baseline, the
region grouping and the replay of the core extras.
profile_sync --all reported 18 repositories the forge answers under another owner or name. Each pin resolves in the renamed repository, so the URLs change and the pins stay. flycast2021 builds from metallic77/flycast 603814c9 (ROCKNIX package.mk), whose upstream libretro/flycast now answers as libretro/parallel-dc with 4c293f30 still in its master history.
StrikerX3/Ymir answers as ymir-emu/Ymir, and the buildbot builds the libretro branch of warmenhoven/Emir, PR #746 having closed unmerged. The libretro build now reads all three BIOS names and picks one by region (apps/ymir-libretro/src/libretro.cpp:584-712, 1285-1306).
fgsfdsfgs/perfect_dark answers as perfect-dark-pc-port/perfect_dark. At 32a1cb9f the home path test reads the size lookup correctly, so data beside the executable is the last fallback (port/src/fs.c:96-121).
LRPS2 reads pcsx2/resources/GameIndex.yaml through its data directory
and declares no file entry for it, so the truth entry other cores build
named armsx2 and yaps2 alone and hash_conflict missed LRPS2's copy. A
core whose data directory holds a file at an entry's path now folds in
as a reader with the cached copy's hashes, unless the profile lists what
it reads under that tree (yaps2, pcee2).
DraStic opens only nds_bios_arm9.bin, nds_bios_arm7.bin and nds_firmware.bin, and the collection holds those dumps under other names. Without the aliases the ROCKNIX and RetroPie packs lose all three files the emulator reads, and no launcher record fills those places.
generate_pack and verify read --system beside --platform through common.resolve_system_arg, built on platform_system_names, the mapping the manifest's system_names comes from. verify --platform --system now reports on the narrowed pack. Unknown names are refused with suggestions before the database is read.
Find_SoundFont (src/gui/midi_synth.h:82-134) now searches the working, resource and program directories before the system ones and adds GeneralUser-GS.sf2. Pin moved to 029bd65c with the shifted refs.
The standalone build reads BIOS files from its data directory root, not from dc/ (core/oslib/oslib.cpp:118-196, core/stdclass.cpp:95-125, core/linux-dist/main.cpp:74-99). Each entry now carries standalone_path.
Aliases equal to a name a platform launcher chooses were read in each emulator's code at its pin. Removed where the code opens no such name: xemu Complex_4627v1.03.bin (the core offers Complex_4627_v1.03.bin), mednafen gecard.pce, dosbox bios.rom, raze Roland_SC-55.sf2, nine DraStic names, and clk's upper-case MSX names, whose paths now read msx.rom, msx2.rom and msx2ext.rom as ROMCatalogue.cpp:777-841 names them. Kept aliases now name the code list they come from in the entry note.
verify resolved offline, so a release asset absent from bios/ and the
cache read as missing while an online build fetched and packed it. verify
now reads the database record of the registered path and counts such a
declaration present, listed as fetched at build time. --offline keeps the
old count, and the offline pipeline passes it to its verify step.
SGB1.sfc, SGB2.sfc, STBIOS.bin and BS-X.bin cited EmuDeck's launcher. ares names none of them: the file opened as the Super Famicom game is the base cartridge, identified by the SHA-256 in mia's database or by its header (desktop-ui/emulator/super-famicom.cpp:158-217, mia/medium/super-famicom.cpp:42-62, 88-95, 570-602).
A core extra resolved by name shipped on existence platforms even when
the core's own size check turns the copy away. The RetroPie pack carried
the 128 KB Apple IIGS ROM as Basilisk II's ROM (min 512 KB). The builder,
the manifest and verify now read validation.core_size_refusal, which
accepts a copy any version of the same profile slot takes.
mame.yml filed BBC Micro, Elektronika BK, Enterprise and Vectrex sets under systems its systems: list lacked, so a --system pick of those never reached the profile. The three Astrocade sets were filed under astrocde while mame.yml and groovymame.yml list bally-astrocade, the id a pick of Batocera's astrocade matches. Full packs keep the same files.
naomi.cpp:10918-10921 declares hod2bios, f355dlx, f355bios and airlbios on the naomi machine config as NAOMI BIOS roots, viper.cpp:3213 declares kviper as the Viper BIOS. Every other MAME profile listing them already files them under sega-naomi and konami-viper.
emulatorLauncher writes a BIOS path into an emulator's configuration
only when the file exists: string x = Path.Combine(bios, "name");
if (File.Exists(x)) ini.WriteValue(section, key, x). The extractor now
records each such write as a fixed_name launcher record, with the
enclosing if and early-return conditions, and a key that receives the
bios folder itself as passes_path. A path reassigned before the check,
or a write under a loop or an else, is not read.
Generators read at 48cdc616: KegaFusion (SCD and 32X keys, GenesisBIOS
given the folder), Jgenesis, MelonDS (DS), Mupen64, Project64, mGBA.
The RetroBat paragraph of the Kega Fusion profile now lives in the
launcher layer.
Seven CommonPaths.h refs were written in March against a 2025 layout (bfef65a9..8cbfee21, IPL.bin at 138), and SYSCONF was later set to 118 from the current file, so no revision held all eight. They now cite d8558142, the merge base of shiiion/dolphin@53f53e0f with dolphin-emu master, where each define sits on the cited line, and upstream_commit names it.
EightyOne/Source/ROMs/... answers 404 at charlierobson/EightyOne@4de3cdb8. Source/ROMs/{FDCs/interface1.edition1,spectrum48.arabic,tk90,tk95}.rom hash to the md5 each entry declares. The notes refs drop the clone-directory prefix too and name their repository.
These refs were labelled upstream but land in the port at source_commit: flycast sb_mem.cpp:55-59,196-231, reios.cpp:737 and naomi_roms.h:87-94 in libretro/flycast@bde196bf (filestream_open, get_rom_names), lrps2 BiosTools.cpp:189-229,339-340 and CDVD.cpp:196-245 in libretro/ps2@6eabf224 (RETRO_VFS reads absent from PCSX2), mesence bios.col at FirmwareTypeExtensions.cs:70 in MesenCE@20f497c9 (line 62 in Mesen2).
source_commit 953db38f is the tip of branch groovymame0289, its makefile:1513 writes BARE_BUILD_VERSION "0.289", and the compare with mamedev tag mame0289 is 83 ahead, 0 behind, with no file under src/mame or src/devices. The notes described the earlier pin e3fa1305 (branch groovymame0288).
detect_pinned_tag matched core_version against every view, so an upstream_commit set to the release tag a port was cut from (triforce on Dolphin 2407, dosbox_pure on 1.0-preview7, GroovyMAME on mame0289) froze the whole profile: the port was no longer compared with its HEAD and bump_commit refused. Only the documented build's repository freezes the profile now. An upstream on its tag is self-checked at that tag, is not reported orphaned, and a bump leaves upstream_commit on it.
Abdessamad Derraz