A platform pack carried only the trees its own systems declared, so for_platforms reached RetroArch, Lakka and RetroPie alone and every other platform running blueMSX, FBNeo or Dolphin got no tree. The pack, the install list and the pipeline's tree members now add the trees of the libretro cores the platform runs, below the system directory and build folder the core reads, unless the platform installs or never opens them. A platform entry the manifest resolved into a carried tree becomes that tree's member, which the installer can fetch: AmberELEC and EmuELEC no longer hold 192 blueMSX machine configs back. stonesoup reads its tree beside the content and pcee2 compiles its resources in, so neither tree reaches a BIOS pack.
Each registered platform running a core that reads a data directory was checked against its own image at the revision its platform YAML pins. A platform that installs the tree goes in installed_on, one that never opens it in unread_on, and one that leaves it to the user joins for_platforms. The install steps are cited beside each _data_dirs.yml entry.
pin_frozen was prose, and no tool read the build file it cites, so a platform building another revision left the profile holding one nobody ships. pin_build records the platform, its repository, the revision read, the file, the variable and its value. check_freshness reads the file again where the platform's YAML now stands and reports STALE when the value moved. 36 of the 46 held profiles carry it, each value read from the build file at the platform's scraped revision. The other ten name no build file and are counted on one row: six RetroBat binary packages and four holds not tied to a platform build.
upstream_commit 25b54e3f was dev's HEAD at the 2026-10-23 bump. dev has
been rewritten since, and the pin is on no branch (diverged 109/114), so
profile_sync reports it orphaned. libretro-pcem shares no history with
sarah-walker-pcem/pcem: it took mainline patches by hand until 2016-04-13
(c9f3593f, 223f434f). Its sound_adlibgold.c holds 10739b96, the last
upstream commit before that date, and the port has none of the 6x86 work
of 2016-04-27. The pin is held there with upstream_frozen.
pcsx1, rustation and np2kai called a project abandoned, dead or never completed. Each now gives the date of the last commit or the project's own words, and a test refuses the verdicts yabause and gearboy carried too.
"abandoned fork frozen at v2.6.0 from 2018" was a verdict, and the fork took a commit on 2026-09-04. The note now says it is archived, quotes its description and the version its src/definitions.h states.
"Upstream project is dead" was a verdict published on the emulator page. The note now gives the date of the last commit on Yabause/yabause master, 2018-07-07 (7e38821d).
The pin 87b176a0 and tag v2.0.1 sit on preview (ahead 129, behind 0) and
not on the default xenios branch, which diverged (ahead 1784, behind 24).
The preview-v2.0.1 releases carry the dmg and ipa the notes name. With no
source_branch, profile_sync called the pin orphaned and listed 19 refs to
review that only measured the branch divergence. It now reads 1.
ecwolf.pk3 carried md5 c011b428, which its note said came from the .info.
The code checks no hash (src/wl_iwad.cpp:664-672) and the pk3 is built
from wadsrc/static/ at the pin, so no shipped file is designated by it.
The entry still resolves to the same file by name, and the platform lists
that pin this md5 are untouched.
FS-UAE scans its Kickstarts directory and names a ROM by checksum
(src/fs-uae/config.c:121-140, main.c:431-470), opens kick.rom by name
only as a fallback (memory.cpp:1597-1606) and loads AROS when no ROM is
found (memory.cpp:2374-2379). required: true and the launcher's dialog
came from RetroPie's fs-uae.sh, which retropie.yml launchers: records.
The entry is now optional and found by content. kick13.rom stays as its
label, the name amiberry and uae4all give this 256 KB dump.
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.
apt.cpp:128-140 picks the shared font archive by GetRegionValue: CHN, KOR
and TWN get their own, every other CFG region gets 0x00014002. The CFG
region set has USA and no Latin America value, so the USA font serves the
Americas, which the repo writes [north-america, latin-america]. With
latin-america missing, --region br,cn kept only the Chinese archive.
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.
POM2 v1.1.0 ships no firmware dump in any package, so the 26 Apple II files dropped in ef8b37281 return byte for byte, with the DAN ][ slot EPROM from ThorstenBr/Apple2Card. The profile is re-read at de86e8e3: bundled false on the firmware, 8 entries for the new cards, refs re-anchored. (#86)
libretro/hatari rewrote main on 2026-11-04: it is now hatari/hatari
c453b85f with 23 port commits on top, and the old pin 50929946 survives
only as the tip of main-old. Every citation is read again at 25f488b1 and
c453b85f. The libretro build now reads files through
src/retro/file_retro.c, with no .gz or archive unpacking, and a missing
tos.img clears bUseTos in retro_init instead of a have_bios gate in
retro_run, so the core runs the built-in test stub.
A bulk advance moved fheroes2, supertux and supermariowar past the
revision EmuELEC compiles, and nothing stopped it: bump_commit refused
built_by only. It now leaves a profile a single registered platform ships
until it carries pin_frozen or the new pin_follows, which says that
platform builds the branch tip.
hode, bermuda, bennugd-monolithic and ccleste are held on the
PKG_VERSION of their EmuELEC v4.8 package.mk, equal to their pins.
rigelengine was one commit past it (README.md only) and goes back to
f05996f9.
bermuda.yml (the EmuELEC build) and bsyndrome.yml (RetroBat's bs.exe)
document the same cyxx/bermuda engine under two slugs, bermuda-syndrome
and bsyndrome, so the site gave the game two system pages. bsyndrome now
files its entries under bermuda-syndrome.
openMSX reaches a ROM in share/systemroms through its file pool by SHA1
alone. A filename is only looked up beside the machine's XML
(src/memory/Rom.cc:121-170, HardwareConfig.cc:279-280,
FileContext.cc:152-156 at a557de7b). The labels read as names the core
opens, and the export added 15 of them to KNULLI and 2 to Batocera.
DEV9 opens eeprom.dat and flash.dat by bare name (pcsx2/DEV9/DEV9.cpp:144
at f0523f8a, AetherSX2 DEV9/flash.cpp:89, PCSX2 1.6 dev9ghzdrk/flash.cpp:73),
so the process working directory answers, never the BIOS folder. Only
yaps2 said so: the other PCSX2 profiles had the file packed into the BIOS
folder and the RetroDECK export add it there.
PCSX2 and its forks keep the first 4 to 8 MB image with a romdir in
the BIOS folder (pcsx2/ps2/BiosTools.cpp:258-282, 317-332 at f0523f8a),
and PCSX2 1.6 lists the same test in its BIOS picker
(BiosSelectorPanel.cpp:151-177). The names are labels. Without found_by
the truth model read ps2-0230a-20080220.bin as a name the core opens, and
the RetroDECK export added it as a required file.
Notes compared a core with another profile of this directory (unlike
beetle_pce, unlike the other engines in this directory), which means
nothing once a profile is read alone, and shouted NOT, ALL and MUST. The
facts stay, the comparisons and capitals go. Comparisons with a core's
own upstream remain.
The profile declared libretro/redream, which answers 404, with no pin and
no source_ref: profile_sync skipped it and the boot.bin md5 came from the
libretro docs. It now reads inolen/redream at ffb73022, the last public
tree, whose libretro core opens dc/boot.bin and dc/flash.bin in the system
directory. boot.bin is checked against four md5 and the flash against its
size, and both fall back to the high level BIOS, so neither is required.
core_version went null although doc/CHANGES.html at the pin opens on
Version 0.16.0. ti99sim cites v0.16.0 and v0.0.11 parts side by side,
and with no documented version every part read as another program:
profile_sync reported 6 external, 0 to review, nothing checked. The v0.16.0
parts are anchored at the pin again, the v0.0.11 parts stay external.
XRoar reads the Dragon 200-E and Alice ROMs for those machine configs
(src/xroar.c:437-444, 552-558 at 1.12.1), and VICE the Japanese kernal
and chargen for the C64 JAP and VIC-1001 models: a (Japan) file name
selects the NTSC model (libretro-core.c:2018-2034). No code branches on a
territory for these files, so region: is removed, as profiling.md rules
for a model enum.
Extracted from the ep128emu ROM package (http://ep128.hu/Emu/ep128emu_roms-2.0.11.bin, sha256 775f65b4...0441) that installer/makecfg.cpp downloads, unpacked with Ep128Emu::decompressData from src/decompm2.cpp and split per the makecfg.cpp table. The ROM identifies as EPIDE version 1.2.
CLK reads every export cartridge as Europe or USA and boots the western
BIOS for any region but Japan (StaticAnalyser.cpp:49-66,
MasterSystem.cpp:137-140). The tag named brazil without its parent, so
--region mx dropped the BIOS from the Batocera pack.
higan and nSide look program.rom up in the option's folder, SGB.sfc/,
then Super GameBoy.sfc/. Only the SGB1.sfc/ and SGB2.sfc/ folders were
entries, and both names are files bsnes, Mesen-S and ares read from the
same system directory, so no pack could give the higan cores a Super
Game Boy. SGB.sfc/ collides with SuperSnes9x's sgb.sfc on a
case-insensitive file system. Super GameBoy.sfc/ collides with nothing.
The rom folder survey joined 463 folders to their default core's whole
profile, no system of it matching. SYSTEM_ALIASES, the one table
_norm_system_id reads, now folds ten more spellings of one machine:
apple2gs, astrocade, astrocde, creativision, gamepocketcomputer,
nintendo-super-game-boy, cps1, cps2, cps3 and pgm. The profiles that
used them take the canonical id (mame, groovymame, mamemess, mame0258,
mame0278, bsnes, mesen-s, mesence, jollycv, fbalpha2012 and its three
CPS cores, fbneo_cps12), as test_system_ids requires.
With bsnes and bsnes-hd now filing SGB1.sfc under one system, their
claims fold onto one report entry. _names_content read only the first
claim, hashless, and nSide's SGB1.sfc/ tree took the path before the
file. A hash on any folded claim now counts: every pack keeps the
destinations it had.
The site drops the eight display names the canonical ids replace and
names tvgames. README counts 533 systems instead of 541.
934 of the 1,563 mame.yml entries named no system and so served every
system of the profile: each MAME-run system's set was the whole profile.
The 65 BIOS root sets written by hand take the system groovymame.yml
gives the same 0.289 archive (sega-systemsp, konami-gx, taito-gnet and
41 more ids, added to systems:). The 19 XaviX sets take tvgames, the
directory MAME keeps xavix.cpp in. They seed the device walk.
mame_hash_scraper --devices files a device set under arcade when a
machine no entry places loads it: MAME starts such a machine from its
set name, as an arcade folder passes it. 1,106 of the 1,254 device sets
now carry arcade, alone or beside the systems of their placed machines.
qsound, ym2413 and ym2608, written by hand, take the same answer.
Left without a system: 41 device sets no machine of the listxml
instantiates (a software list slot selects them), and the hash/,
plugins/ and floppy/ trees every machine reads.
libretro/FBNeo 32958a8 to da14132, upstream 697e385 to c110542, through
profile_sync --rebase-refs then --bump-commit. core_version v1.0.0.03
read again from src/burn/version.h: unchanged.
BIOS entries between the two pins: d_cps3.cpp adds the sfiii2a driver
(SF3 2nd Impact, Asia 970930) with its own SH-2 BIOS,
sfiii2_asia.29f400.u2 (crc32 4518d589), filed like the other CPS-3
chips. The 19 CPS-3 refs after it move by 15 lines. d_neogeo.cpp,
d_pgm.cpp, d_spectrum.cpp, d_nes.cpp, d_ngp.cpp and d_snes.cpp change
game sets only, no BIOS set.
locate_archive now tries system/fbneo/romdata/ first while a RomData
file starts. The notes list it, and drop rom_path.opt, which no file of
src/burner/libretro reads.
The pin moves past the merged Video CD card PR (libretro/beetle-saturn-libretro#99). The core now reads the Video CD player out of mpeg_card.bin with command 0xE2, so the entry and the notes no longer say the image is never read. Refs rebased, core_version still v1.32.1 at libretro.c:58. source-paths.json gains the new pin and the Kenji-NX pin that was missing.
The check each core runs on every listed file is cited in the profile notes instead of on each entry: the per-entry citations pushed the RomM platform pages past their byte budget (573900 against 572487).
Lunar - Silver Star Story Complete (Japan) needs the MPEG card and stops Yabause after its logos. Lunar - Silver Star Story (Japan) reaches its title on Beetle Saturn and Yabause with the RetroArch pack's BIOS (records 2026-10-28-6b5b55d3480f, 2026-10-28-9270d1928be7), judged against the reference frames added to the oracle.
Lunar - Silver Star Story Complete (Japan) stops after its logos with the pack's v1.00 Japan image and with v1.01 alike (record 2026-10-28-32cdefcdb231). The CD block passes the MPEG card check (cs2.c:3172-3212) and decodes nothing (2870-2884). The pack's saturn_bios.bin is not the cause.
try_use_bios skips a listed file that is not 512 KB (frontend/libretro.c:3632) and one without the kernel's first instruction or "PS compatible" at 0x12c (3646-3651). validation: [size, signature] on the seven listed names. Closes the four open pcsx_rearmed findings.
The region BIOS option names scph5500/5501/5502.bin by default and LoadImageFromFile checks only the size (host_interface.cpp:124-133, bios.cpp:82-105). The md5 table serves the directory scan and the Fast Boot patch. validation: [size], found_by: name. Closes the open swanstation finding.
firmware_is_present logs a SHA1 that differs and returns true (libretro.c:853-860), the override path does the same (744-756). on_mismatch: warn on every hashed entry. Closes the two open beetle_psx findings.
The required: false evidence of scph5500, scph5501 and scph5502 cites the records judged again, whose log says Firmware is missing, and the notes say the boot ran the built-in OpenBIOS with the other regions' files refused.
When the region's file is absent, libretro.c (7fea57a5) finds no name and no matching sha1, then maps its built-in OpenBIOS (libretro.c:3425-3511). The region runs show it: each region's disc reaches its game with only the other regions' BIOS staged, under the oracle's reference frames (records 2026-10-27-55dd1e4943c4, 13be0e68b799, 33780d47efdf). scph5500.bin, scph5501.bin and scph5502.bin are required: false, hle_fallback stays true. Written through campaign_profiles.
Abdessamad Derraz
VERHILLE Arnaud