A machine that instantiates a device loads the device's ROMs from <shortname>.zip (src/emu/device.cpp:140-152), and a missing required ROM stops that machine (romload.cpp:529-570, 667-671). The BIOS root scan never sees these sets. mame_hash_scraper --devices --listxml reads them from the -listxml of the release mame.yml pins, refuses another release, and cites each set at the ROM_START block holding its ROMs. The BIOS root merge also wrote refs without the upstream prefix and would have rewritten all 171 of them in mame.yml.
export_native now writes into exports/ by default, and beside each
platform's corrected file a report naming every change, where the run
printed five per kind. A new site page lists each platform with its
original file, a download of the corrected one and every corrected,
filled or withheld value. Each platform page links to its row.
The gaps page and the Advanced usage, Verification modes, Release process and Testing guide pages titled in Title Case beside sentence-case pages. A test now reads every wiki heading.
CONTRIBUTING and the testing guide installed pyyaml and jsonschema only, while the CI test job also installs markdown. On a contributor's machine the wiki heading test skipped and the run read OK. Both name it now, and a test compares them to the packages the tests import.
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.
The documented command, discover tests, makes tests/ the top level,
so tests/__init__.py never ran and the variable it sets to keep tests
offline was missing from every local run. Every documented and CI
run now passes -s tests -t ., and a test requires it.
validate.yml triggered on pull_request alone, and it holds the only
unittest invocation in the repository: deploy-site.yml stops at
validate_schemas, generation and the freshness diff. Work lands on main
by direct push far more often than by pull request, so 1,318 cases were
guarding the road almost nothing takes.
The suite and the schema check now run on both events. validate-bios and
label-pr read pull request context and carry an event guard. The
concurrency group falls back to the ref, so a push series collapses to
the tip: what stays verified is the head of main.
The path lists are spelled out per event because the workflow parser
reads no YAML anchor, which PyYAML would have accepted in silence. Four
tests hold the wiring: the suite reachable from a push, the two path
lists equal, every job reading pull request context guarded, and no
anchor in any workflow.
The pages described workflows, an installer pinning and a CI permission
model that are not the ones in the tree. Corrected: the release process,
the CI table, the resolution chain and its statuses, the hash-mismatch
policy per verification mode, the archive convention, and the romset
recipe store.
The FAQ keeps the project's own reading of the legal question rather
than a version that reaches no conclusion.
Update wiki source files (the single source of truth for the site):
- tools.md: renumber pipeline steps 1-8, add step 6 (pack integrity),
add missing CLI flags for cross_reference.py and refresh_data_dirs.py
- architecture.md: update mermaid diagram with pack integrity step,
fix test file count (5 files, 249 tests)
- testing-guide.md: add test_pack_integrity section, add step 5 to
verification discipline checklist
9 new wiki pages: getting-started, faq, troubleshooting,
advanced-usage, verification-modes, adding-a-platform,
adding-a-scraper, testing-guide, release-process.
Updated architecture.md with mermaid diagrams, tools.md with
full pipeline and target/exporter sections, profiling.md with
missing fields, index.md with glossary and nav links.
Expanded CONTRIBUTING.md from stub to full contributor guide.
Filter .old.yml from load_emulator_profiles, generate_db alias
collection, and generate_readme counts. Fix BizHawk sha1 mode
in tools.md, fix RetroPie path, fix export_truth.py typos.
Abdessamad Derraz