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named the next statement. They are removed or replaced by the reason,
and the test reads every tracked script and install.py.
Without Python the bootstrap told every system to run sudo apt install python3. It now reads Termux, macOS and /etc/os-release to name pkg, xcode-select, apt, dnf, pacman, zypper or apk, and in Termux offers to run pkg install python, which needs no root.
With no platform detected, a machine running standalone emulators (ES-DE with DuckStation and PCSX2) was offered RetroArch's folder. The installer now fills the emulator folders of the standalone copies list that exist here, from the EmuDeck then RetroArch file lists, asking first at a terminal.
Every install ended on 'Standalone copies skipped', on machines with no standalone emulator as on one whose DuckStation lacked its BIOS. The line now lists the emulator folders that exist here, and nothing is said when there are none.
A mistyped --dest was created with every missing parent and reported done. The run now names the missing folder and the nearest one that exists, asks at a terminal before creating more than one level, and prints the folder it created. The free-space check now runs before the folder is made and ends with 2, nothing installed.
--list-systems, --list-cores, --list-emulators and --list-targets with nothing detected were answered with an install command that dropped the listing and added --dest. The hint now names the platform and keeps the listing.
The manifest now carries system_names, each system's native_system names from the platform's own file, and --system, its suggestions and --list-systems read them: --platform batocera --system psx installs sony-playstation.
EROFS was advised like a permission refusal, and sudo fails the same way on a read-only mount. The advice now reads the mount flag and says to check and remount the card or drive.
BusyBox wget has no --https-only and refused the whole command, so a curl-less Alpine system (the RomM image) could never bootstrap. The flag is passed only when wget lists it.
EmuDeck's macOS build reads ~/.config/EmuDeck/settings.sh like the Linux one (functions/all.sh:3-4,24 and vars.sh:2 at dddb3022). The settings and ~/Emulation/bios rules now run on darwin too.
RomM 5.4 reads each platform's firmware where filesystem.structure.firmware
in config.yml says, bios/{platform} by default, and suggests {platform}/bios
for a {platform}/roms library (rommapp/romm 5.4.0,
backend/config/config_manager.py:58,101-109,205-225,564-568,1105-1124).
The installer only wrote bios/<platform>/. It now reads the template from
config.yml beside the library, takes --romm-firmware when that file is
elsewhere, refuses a platform-first library with no template, and detects
RomM by /romm/config/config.yml too.
No Batocera build writes /etc/batocera-version: batocera-system.mk:21-22
(batocera.linux 38845725, unchanged since batocera-30) writes
/usr/share/batocera/batocera.version. Knulli (knulli-linux 57afa662) adds
OS_NAME=knulli to os-release, writes /usr/share/knulli/knulli.version and
removes /usr/share/batocera, and no Knulli source writes /etc/knulli-release.
Neither was detected. A Knulli board is named and not narrowed by
Batocera's per-board lists, and an unlisted board is named.
muOS runs RetroArch on a config copied from its default, which reads
/run/muos/storage/bios, bound to MUOS/bios on the second card when that
card holds one, and loads cores from /opt/muos/share/core (MustardOS/internal
f41f4a89, script/control/retroarch.sh:8-20, script/device/bind.sh:116-150,
retroarch.default.cfg:2806,3151). The installer wrote to /mnt/mmc/MUOS/bios
and --installed-cores found no core. The config now decides both.
functions/all.ps1:4-14 (emudeck-we 037460ef) reads the APPDATA
settings.ps1, else the one under the profile, and takes C:\Emulation when
neither names a folder. Only the first was read and a forced platform fell
back to %USERPROFILE%\Emulation\bios. A network install names its share
through $VolName (JSONtoPS1.ps1:166-172), and a UTF-16 settings file is
decoded.
RetroBat.exe writes its folder to HKCU\SOFTWARE\RetroBat
LatestKnownInstallPath on every start (retrobat-executable 702da66a,
Program.cs:57 and 99, RegistryTools.cs:15-50). Only C:\RetroBat and the
profile folder were looked at, so an install on D: was missed and a forced
--platform retrobat wrote into C:\RetroBat\bios. The value is read
through winreg, or reg.exe under WSL, before the fixed folders.
A run whose downloads were all cut ended on "Location that was being
written to" and "once that is resolved", pointing at the disk. A
failure caused by the connection (lookup, reset, timeout, TLS, a cut
transfer, HTTP 5xx or 429) is now marked as such, and the summary says to
check the connection and HTTPS_PROXY.
An unknown --emulator name pointed at --list-cores and counted 441 names
while --list-cores prints 189: the buildbot names --emulator accepts
(mednafen_psx for beetle_psx) were listed nowhere. --list-emulators prints
each accepted name beside the emulator it stands for, and the hint names
it.
kronos tags the ST-V BIOS epr-19854.ic8 taiwan, mednafen_stv tags it
asia-ntsc, the SMPC area Mednafen names for Taiwan (ss.cpp:1119,
2363-2364). As siblings under asia they never matched, so a request in
one spelling dropped the file tagged in the other, and --region
taiwan,us dropped the Saturn sega_101.bin. AREA_TERRITORIES relates
each area to the territory it serves, china for asia-pal included, in
region.py and its installer copy.
A link already at the destination was skipped without a word and counted
as "dir not found" while the folder existed, so the emulator kept the file
the link pointed at. The link now gives way to the file, written beside it
and renamed over the name, and a name leading out of the folder is a named
failure.
On Windows a verified partial copy is closed before its rename. A second
run that claimed it in that moment truncated it and the first rename failed
with a sharing violation, reported as an unwritable folder. A complete
partial is now left whole there, the rename waits for a sharing violation
to clear, and a sharing violation no longer reads as a refused folder.
install.region_drops now skips one-file groups (:file:) and lets no
omitted match displace an installable file, as region.resolve_region_drops
does on the builder side. The property test draws both cases and
compares against the builder.
Names are matched on letters and digits, so the site's display names
work, and a typo gets the closest names instead of a full list. Hints
and advice give back the command the user ran (curl or PowerShell form,
every flag kept), --dest alone follows detection and says whose list it
installs, Ctrl+C at a question exits 130, and --cores-dir names a core
folder. install.ps1 runs in its own scope so irm | iex leaves the
session alone, and an override that causes a fingerprint mismatch is
named. --check lists hash mismatches first, missing required files are
grouped by system, and --help ends with examples.
On Windows the partial copy of a file of 16 MB or more is locked with msvcrt.locking, a LockFile region: the locking process cannot access that region through a second handle (Microsoft LockFile remarks). Hashing reopened the path, the read failed with a sharing violation, and every large file was reported as 'folder not writable' (issue 82). Both digests are now read in one pass through the handle that holds the lock. A read-only file already at the destination had the same misleading report: on Windows its attribute is now cleared before the verified copy replaces it, and a refusal that remains is named for what it is.
install.py --emulator NAME keeps what the named emulators read on the detected platform: their own files and the platform's files of the systems they run, as a pack built for them carries, without the systems no core is mapped to. Each emulator page now gives that command for Linux, macOS and Windows, beside the per-file links.
A copy refused by a read-only emulator folder raised the error count with no failures entry: the summary named no file, gave the BIOS folder as the location and no advice. The failure now carries its path, and the summary names the emulator folder and what to do.
--check counted the required files the list leaves out and named none, then said all files were up to date. A Recalbox user asking why Caesar III would not start learned nothing, though the list names c3.555. The count line no longer calls a file not found unsafe.
The live line divided every byte by the run's time, a partial copy left by an earlier run included, and showed a 3 GB resume as 2.5 GB/s with nothing left.
scoop install retroarch puts retroarch.exe under ~\scoop\apps\retroarch\current, its system folder persisted through a junction. The Windows search covered the installers' folders, Program Files, Steam, ES-DE and the Store package only, so the run offered C:\RetroArch-Win64\system, a folder that RetroArch never opens. The user and global Scoop roots are searched now, %SCOOP% and %SCOOP_GLOBAL% included.
--list-systems, --list-cores and --list-targets read the manifest and write nothing, yet with --platform bizhawk they went through the portable-install refusal and stopped asking for --dest. Someone checking BizHawk's firmware before downloading BizHawk got an error. A listing now runs whether the platform is installed or not.
A platform named but not found fell back to a folder it never opens: ~/bios for RetroBat on Linux and for BizHawk picked from the menu, and on Windows the embedded systems' /userdata/bios, which resolves to the root of the current drive. Each run downloaded gigabytes and reported done. Where no folder on the OS is one the platform reads, a forced run now asks for --dest and the menu asks for a path with no default.
Lakka's image writes the board in /etc/os-release: LIBREELEC_DEVICE when built for a device, LIBREELEC_PROJECT otherwise, the very names of our Lakka targets. The installer read the board on Batocera, Recalbox and ROCKNIX only, so a Lakka RPi4 installed 5.7 GB of every board's files where its own needs 4.0.
Opening and locking a partial download are two steps. Between them another run could finish, rename the same file into place and release its lock. The second run then locked the installed BIOS, read its full size as a finished partial and truncated it to download again. After the lock the partial's name must still point at the locked file, or the run downloads into a private copy.
RomM lists a platform's firmware folder without descending (base_handler.py:1002, recursive=False) and EmulatorJS writes the chosen file, or each zip member, under its bare name. 543 files of the RomM pack sat below a folder where no core could read them. The registry now marks RomM's folder flat, and such files are omitted with the reason below_platform_folder in the manifest and the installer.
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.
--check names each missing or corrupt file, a read-only folder is reported once, Ctrl+C before the downloads stops cleanly, stdout keeps its order in a log, and the local check shows its progress.
Windows rules ran under WSL with C:\ paths read as relative and no Windows variables, so nothing was found and a forced RetroBat install went to ~/bios inside the distribution.
BizHawk reads the Firmware folder next to EmuHawk wherever the archive was extracted. The installer looked in ~/.config/BizHawk/Firmware, which no build reads, and wrote there when nothing was found.
Abdessamad Derraz