ROCKNIX builds amiberry 5c54536 (target.h declares 5.6.5). Every file
it reads lies below its start path, the working directory: the ROM
database dumps, aros-ext.bin, aros-rom.bin and rom.key in kickstarts/,
the WHDLoad booter files in whdboot/. Profiled from that revision,
pin_frozen with pin_build on ROCKNIX's package.mk.
The ROCKNIX scraper records the folder its start script enters and the
kickstarts link it carries there by copying /usr/config/amiberry, so
<cwd>/kickstarts binds to the BIOS root. A standalone + libretro profile
under a name the platform's own build answers to no longer resolves
there: ROCKNIX's amiberry is 5.6.5, not 8.5.0.
The configs root place joins roms and emulator folders in the split
handed directories, and RetroBat's portable folder table keeps both
sides. Batocera, KNULLI and RetroBat records regenerated.
RetroBat passes XRoar -rompath bios/coco for the coco system, and its
es_features offers the CoCo 3 machines there. The per-system record now
carries those machines (machines:), and an entry whose name the
platform list does not declare is launched for the system offering
its own profile system as a machine, by _norm_system_id. coco3.rom and
coco3p.rom move from bios/dragon to bios/coco. RetroBat offers no
MC-10 machine, so the mc10 ROMs keep the default bios/dragon.
Sudachi.Generator.cs:28-30 creates user/ beside sudachi.exe, and
sudachi reads it as PORTABLE_DIR (path_util.cpp:92, fs_paths.h:9) in
place of %APPDATA%. Its keys now go below emulators/sudachi/user/.
Both binding sides kept: roms_place, named handles and environment
variable directories from integ run through the pool and per-system
binding of this branch. Batocera, KNULLI and RetroBat launcher records
regenerated from the merged extractors.
RetroBat's generators create user/ beside yuzu.exe and eden.exe and
portable/ beside Ryujinx.exe, which the emulators read in place of
%APPDATA% (PORTABLE_DIR, Ryujinx AppDataManager.cs:12, 60). Their keys
now go below emulators/<key>/.
Batocera and KNULLI start shadPS4 from CONFIGS/shadps4, so its user
folder sits below /userdata/system/configs. The scrapers read that root
from batoceraPaths and write configs_root with its source_ref. The
manifest names it configs_directory, and install.py honours it through
the same checks as roms_directory: character rules, at most two ups,
the ancestor match and the lexical bound.
The standalone Amiberry scans rom_path, ROMs below its content root by
default, for the ROMs of its database, without descending into
folders, and reads rom.key beside the Kickstart and the MT-32 ROMs
from mt32-roms. Those entries now carry standalone_path relative to
it, the four Kickstart labels holding slashes flattened. The kick*.rom
names stay the libretro build's.
Batocera's config_directories reads its rom_path save, KNULLI reuses
it. On Batocera, KNULLI and RetroPie the ROMs move from the BIOS root
to bios/amiga.
XRoar reads a ROM by name from the directories of rompath. The entries
take their file name as path, relative to ~/.xroar/roms or
${prefix}/share/xroar/roms, and rompath and -rompath are declared as
search lists.
Batocera records its rompath line, Recalbox -rompath bios/<system>
(the placeholder its extractor already writes), RetroBat its -rompath
as two records, bios/dragon and bios/coco for coco. An entry whose
name the platform list does not declare follows the launch its
profile system is listed under: Recalbox lists mc10.rom under
trs80coco, so alice.rom is read there.
Batocera ROMs move from the BIOS root to bios/xroar, Recalbox ROMs to
bios/dragon and bios/trs80coco, RetroBat ROMs to bios/dragon and
bios/coco. RetroDECK and RetroPie keep them at the BIOS root.
KNULLI's configgen-defaults.yml picks suyu for the Switch, which its
es_systems.yml does not offer and no package of its tree, its batocera
submodule or its buildroot builds: KNULLI does not ship suyu. A default
es_systems.yml does not offer now counts only when a package of the
build's trees has that name, or when its launcher runs a program from
the BIOS folder (Batocera's lexaloffle). Batocera's lists are unchanged
by the rule. suyu leaves KNULLI's cores, and the XDG_DATA_HOME record
that served it goes.
openMSX reads share/systemroms below OPENMSX_HOME or ~/.openMSX and
every filepool entry by SHA1. The profile paths drop RetroBat's
openmsx/ prefix and declare those directories and the filepool.
Batocera's config_directories reads the filepool lines its generator
writes, KNULLI reuses it. RetroBat records OPENMSX_HOME, RetroPie the
moveConfigDir of ~/.openMSX that its systemroms link lies in, and the
configure --prefix of xroar that its roms link lies in.
Batocera and KNULLI system ROMs move from openmsx/share/systemroms to
openmsx/, beside the files their own lists declare, RetroPie's to
BIOS/openmsx, the folder linked as share/systemroms.
Batocera's 002-adjust-paths.patch rewrites Citron's KeysDir to
/userdata/bios/switch: patched_paths reads it from the patch, and KNULLI
from its batocera submodule at the pinned commit. Batocera and KNULLI
start shadPS4 from /userdata/system/configs/shadps4 (os.chdir), KNULLI
sets suyu's XDG_DATA_HOME to /userdata/saves/switch, and RetroBat creates
the portable user folder beside citron.exe and shadPS4.exe. Each platform
file differs from its scraper's full output by these records only.
A profile names a folder a handle rewrites as "<handle> = <subfolder>",
and a record setting a variable or a working directory a declared folder
is spelled from binds the whole layout below it.
ROCKNIX's start_pico8.sh runs pico8_64 or pico8_dyn from
/storage/roms/pico-8 and RetroBat's Pico8 generator runs pico8.exe from
its pico8 emulator folder. Both are recorded as exec records, read from
the scripts at the revisions the platform files pin.
MAME and libretro MAME pass /userdata/bios/<bootdisk>.img with -flop1
when the option is in the generator's list, else <bootdisk>.chd with
-hard. Each branch is a {bootdisk} template: the list the code tests
for the floppy, and for the hard disk the choices es_features.yml
offers that the list does not take. The menu offers macos3 while the
code tests macos30, so System 3.0 is passed as macos3.chd.
configureINI writes [Folders] Bios = ../../../bios/ps2 into
inis/PCSX2.ini, which PCSX2 and AetherSX2 resolve against the config
folder configgen hands it. relative_folders reads the call, the ini
path and the value, and records the resolved /userdata/bios/ps2 as a
passes_path for pcsx2 and aethersx2.
A copies record names its files under search_dir, the folder the code
copies from, and passes_to is the target, as the schema and RetroPie,
RetroDECK and AmberELEC already write it. KNULLI listed patches.zip
under the BIOS folder it is copied into, and KNULLI and RetroBat wrote
the target as prose with the condition. The condition of a copy now
goes in depends_on_option. Only launcher records change in knulli.yml
and retrobat.yml.
amberelec_launchers reads runemu.py with ast and, at the commit the
scraper pins, the scripts its standalone table runs and the configs
their packages install: RetroArch and retrorun directories, the MAME
-rp path, atari800.cfg, Hatari's default TOS, amiberry's kickstarts
link and defaults, yabasanshiro, PICO-8, piemu, scummvm, freej2me and
easyrpg. 17 records.
The freej2me-lr.jar and pico8_64 notes now name the file in a sentence
about the emulator, as test_launcher_aliases asks once a launcher
records it.
knulli_launchers reads KNULLI's configgen and the PICO-8 installer at
the tag the scraper pins: Batocera's extractors where the generator is
still Batocera's code, KNULLI's own for lexaloffle, libretroOptions and
knulli-install-pico8, and one AST reader for the BIOS paths the other
generators pass on a command line, in a config key or the environment,
copy or test for. 52 records.
Configgen takes the configgen package path and whether the importer has
a legacy map, so KNULLI's copy at package/system/knulli-configgen reads
with the same extractors. hatari accepts the bare filename KNULLI builds
and joins to BIOS, and options read by subscript or isOptSet. melonds
accepts a console type read by subscript. Batocera's records are
unchanged at batocera-43.1.
emuelec_launchers.py reads emuelecRunEmu.sh and the scripts and
configs it starts at the tag batocera-systems is read at (v4.8): 36
records for RetroArch, retrorun, freej2me, MAME, PICO-8, Flycast,
Amiberry, DuckStation, Yabasanshiro, jzIntv, Mupen64Plus, Hatari,
AdvanceMAME, ScummVM, Dolphin and the MIDI synths.
RetroPie starts UAE4All2 with pushd $md_inst, the directory whose
kickstarts folder it links to BIOS/amiga. The scriptmodule reader now
emits that working directory as it does for DraStic.
Batocera's lexaloffleGenerator runs bios/pico-8/pico8 and
bios/voxatron/vox, raises when the binary is missing or not
executable, and puts each folder on LD_LIBRARY_PATH. The new
extractor records both per system from the AST, with the lines
of batocera-43.1 that say it.
emulatorLauncher 228731e0 lists ten PS2 BIOS in one group: one held file
is enough and Program.cs reports the others OPTIONAL. The scraper keeps
group and optional, verify and the pack check apply the same rule.
ArcadeDuck searches the folder above a CHD-only set, GSplus writes the
first of four ROM names it finds, Hatari falls back on EmuTOS, hatariB
copies a TOS from bios/hatari/tos, and #region lines precede method
headers. ROCKNIX renamed start_hatari.sh and dropped aethersx2-sa.
The importer keeps the archive names the collection holds and every set whose member list equals an archive the collection keeps under another name (aga.zip is isa_aga), under the collection's name with the upstream one in set. All 113 MAME listxml releases (0.177 to 0.289) are imported, not one in five, and FBNeo is read again at its tip: 2,936 MAME recipes and 145 FBNeo ones, compacted as before.
fccpu20.zip, fcisio1.zip and interpod.zip now have recipes and carry slot ROMs beside their own set. Trimmed, each equals the archive under the newer MAME name, so they are kept as they are until the storage decision.
Six places read an md5 shorter than 32 digits, each with its own bound.
digest_verdict accepted any prefix down to one digit, while Batocera
compares the whole string (batocera-systems:1088). A cut value now names
a dump only when one held md5 starts with it (cut_md5_owner, read by the
scraper, the resolver and --from-md5), and every verdict compares whole
digests.
The v4.8 release publishes four images (Amlogic-ng, GameForce,
OdroidGoAdvance, OdroidM1, read from its asset names). The metapackage
(packages/sx05re/emuelec/package.mk:8-77) builds the S922X cores, dolphinSA
and mame only on Amlogic-ng, Amlogic-no, RK356x and OdroidM1, and removes
duckstation on the handhelds with a sed that replaces the first match only:
pcsx_rearmed, written twice, keeps its 64-bit build. Each package is mapped
to its cores by the .so or program its install step copies, PKG_ARCH is
applied as scripts/build:28-30 does, and es_systems.cfg is edited per
device as emuelec-emulationstation/package.mk:114-143 does. Amlogic-ng and
OdroidM1 list 124 cores, the handhelds 117.
RetroPie was the only platform with status: archived, which kept it out
of verify --all, slots, the pipeline and list_platforms unless
--include-archived was typed. release_pack already decides which packs a
release publishes and the installer serves every platform, so the status
set nothing apart. The field, its schema entry and the flag are gone, and
RetroPie is covered by every full run like any other platform.
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).
game_dat_importer and arcade_parent_importer each kept an exact-text
copy of write_if_changed, so a redump refresh rewrote every catalog for
its fetched date alone. Both now use artifacts.write_if_changed, which
treats fetched as a timestamp. A No-Intro rebuild still rewrites its
catalogs, since asset_updated_at moves with it, so check_freshness keeps
reading a fetched date no older than the pack.
The target scraper kept its own copy of the EmuScripts table and took
.ps1 files the platform scraper never read, so emudeck-we's template
skeleton was published as a core and removed afterwards by an override.
Both scrapers now read emulator_of_script, and the platform scraper
lists the installers at the pinned revision, as launchers: and the
SteamOS target already did. Targets rescraped, override dropped.
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.
Abdessamad Derraz