yuzu, eden, Ryujinx and Azahar declare the data directories their code
reads, so EmuDeck's links place their keys in bios/<emulator>/keys and
leave the 3DS NAND files it links nowhere named, not at the BIOS root.
A platform that binds part of a standalone layout leaves the entries no
binding covers in a folder outside the BIOS tree: they are no longer
packed at the BIOS root, and the manifest names them (root: emulator,
outside_bios_folder). A launcher that executes a profile's file binds
the program folder: in the BIOS tree, below the roms directory a registry
entry names (root: roms, installed into the folder holding the BIOS
folder), or nowhere a pack reaches. A moved entry resolves by its own
path as well as by its destination.
uae4all gains kick.rom and rom.key in its working directory and loses a
not_bundled_on that named Recalbox, which runs uae4all-rpi. lexaloffle
declares that its programs read beside their executable, lists the
Windows build RetroBat runs and the pico8_dyn ROCKNIX runs on x86_64.
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.
FluidSynth 2.0.6 (EmuELEC fluidsynth-git, PKG_SHA256 matched) loads
any argument whose header is RIFF sfbk and names no SoundFont.
SC-55.sf2 is named only by emuelec-utils:67 and no EmuELEC package
or script installs or fetches it, so the entry is unsourceable: user
supplied, no canonical file.
Each blob is TWLCFG 0x88-0x1AF, HWINFO_N 0x88-0x9B and HWINFO_S 0x88-0x9F, read from a retail NAND dump by DSperate's own nand_boot_blobs at ddf2910e. The primary comes from dsi_nand.bin, the seven others from the regional dumps and the dsi_nand.bin variant.
The note named freej2me-lr.jar only in its ROCKNIX sentence, so a
launcher record naming the jar read as a platform choice.
freej2me_libretro.c:488 joins it to the system directory.
standalone_bindings maps each subfolder of a standalone layout to the
folder of the BIOS tree a platform's links and passed directories give
it, followed through a working directory. platform_layouts applies it,
so the pack, the manifest, verify and slots read one destination.
uae4all paths are now what the emulator reads, kickstarts/<name> below
its working directory, and RetroPie still receives them in amiga/.
dsperate-headless reads a 0x154-byte console data blob through --dsi-boot and stops on any other size. The flag has no default, so the name is a label. Without it the bytes come from the NAND's TWLCFG and HWINFO files, are generated for DSiWare run without a NAND, or stay zero in card mode.
LoadFileToIPL reads a standalone font with no size check, keeping what fits in the IPL image. The sizes stay as the IPL dump fonts' lengths and the notes say so. No HLE stands in for a missing font: the IPL read raises an alert and the game runs on, so hle_fallback goes.
The standalone runs without the MCPX ROM and the disk image, queuing an error, and stops only without a flash ROM: vl.c clears autostart. bootrom_path, flashrom_path and hdd_path have no default, so their names are labels and the standalone entries lose path. The core still refuses to load without the MCPX ROM or the flash.
The engine checks no hash: only the Windows installer compares the packages.nsh MD5s, so validation and verification go. The content pack stays required from LoadKernel, which exits without a .rmp index at the content root and names the pack.
prepare_dsi_hle refuses a TWLFontTable.dat under 256 bytes and reads its layout from bytes 0x84 and 0x86, warning on a mismatch. No hash is checked, so the three retail NAND sha1s go, and one entry states the size floor and the three layouts.
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.
Abdessamad Derraz