NanoBoyAdvance opens general.bios_path, default bios.bin (src/platform/core/src/config.cpp:36 at 3bb6f478). gba_bios.bin is the path ROCKNIX's config.toml sets, recorded under launchers: in rocknix.yml.
Without the alias the entry met only PCem's and QEMU's bios.bin, 64 and 128 KB, which BIOSLoader refuses (bios.cpp:17-48). verify counted it held by name, so the launcher layer left it alone and the ROCKNIX pack gained PCem's image. A hashless entry whose every same-named copy fails its size is now not held, and the gba_bios.bin ROCKNIX declares settles it.
validate_pr.py built its folder advice from platform lists alone, so a
file only an emulator profile declares got the generic
bios/Manufacturer/Console/ advice. Profiles now feed the same table
through each entry's system, and the contributing guide says the
command answers where a file goes.
A fork's clone has origin alone. Pushed to the fork's main, the commit
left origin/main...HEAD empty and --changed reported nothing with rc 0.
When no remote names the project, its main is fetched and compared, and
a fetch that fails is an error.
RetroArch defaults system_directory to :\system, the folder of retroarch.exe (platform_win32.c), for the installer as for the portable archive. %APPDATA%\RetroArch holds only a fallback retroarch.cfg.
The pack README's one-line install was written per platform: ROCKNIX and MiSTer had none, EmuDeck's Windows edition was told to open Konsole, and RomM users were sent to library/bios/ whatever their firmware template. The automatic section now follows each platform's install.detect systems, the EmuDeck and RomM manual steps name every layout, and the download page lists EmuDeck under Windows and macOS.
The Batocera example is dated and carries the Not installable line and the closing list of files the collection does not hold, which every Batocera run prints. Disk sizes are no longer hand-kept: the run prints its size. The no-platform case describes the menu install.sh makes possible by handing over the terminal.
archive_members scanned the whole file list on every call, and callers ask once per entry of the same profile: 38 million entries walked in one verify --all over mame.yml. Lists of 64 entries or more are now indexed by archive once (held so the id is not reused, indexed again when the length changes), members still read from the entries at each call. archive_members drops from 2.30 s to 0.14 s tottime under the profiler. verify --all (text and --json), slots --json and the retroarch manifest are byte-identical.
Run from another directory, validate_pr.py read no database, platform or
profile and reported every file as referenced by no platform and outside
bios/. It now moves to the root as verify.py does, reading the files
named from where they were typed.
Without Python, install.ps1 at a console now offers to run winget install Python.Python.3.12, rereads PATH from the registry and carries on. The Store's python.exe placeholder fails the version check like a missing Python.
A browser upload into bios/ lands on a fork and opens the pull request, and CI already hashes the file and names its folder. CONTRIBUTING asked for a fork, a clone, five packages and the whole suite, and promised a PR comment that a fork's read-only token cannot post. The issue chooser links the upload page.
The quick install block gains the PowerShell form that passes options and a link to the installer page. The collection size uses the GB format of the download table and the site, counts get separators, and the sentences about RetroArch's existence check and the method describe the code instead of judging documentation.
CommentsSayWhy read three scripts while 22 comments in 13 other files
named the next statement. They are removed or replaced by the reason,
and the test reads every tracked script and install.py.
Step 2a advanced mame.yml's core_version and upstream_commit to a new
release and left the device ROM sets on the previous one. A plain run
that moves the pin now fetches that release's listxml into .cache/dats
and runs the device merge, which checks version and commit itself.
The acquisition report never read a profile, so XM7's required DICROM.ROM
sat among 2 287 targets at the rank of dumps no core reads. A missing
entry that a profile reads and the collection lacks is now listed first
with the profile, matched by hash or, for a hashless entry with a size,
by name and size. 29 entries on the current snapshots.
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.
A crc32 and a size can be met by crafted bytes, so a remote download
matched on them could land in bios/. verify_content now requires every
sha256, sha1 and md5 the entry declares to match, and an entry declaring
none is reported as not verifiable from the network and nothing is
written. crc32 and size still find a file the database already holds.
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.
check_crypto_validation keeps its answer keyed by the file and keys file as compute_hashes keys them (path, inode, size, mtime, ctime). verify --all ran the verifiers 35 times for 5 files (0.88 s), now 5 times (0.13 s). verify --all --json output is byte-identical.
The guard spelled out every name it forbids and skipped its own file.
The names are now assembled from parts, the file is checked like any
other, and the generated-page filter reads the site's own list of
local note directories.
mame2000 opens hiscore.dat, history.dat and mameinfo.dat from IMAMEBASEPATH, the content directory (src/libretro/fileio.c:1002-1014, libretro.c:1044-1052). mame2014 and mame2015 open hiscore.dat through emu_file with no search path, the working directory (src/emu/hiscore.c:330-337, fileio.c:141-143). With no load_from the entries claimed system/ and the packs shipped files neither core opens there. ANoteOutsideTheSystemDirCarriesLoadFrom holds libretro notes and load_from together.
ares finds firmware by sha256 (desktop-ui/settings/firmware.cpp:116-136) and names no file. Its FDS entry (RP2C33-01, crc32 1c7ae5d5) was labelled disksys.rom, the name nestopia, fceumm and four more cores read for RP2C33A-01A: ROCKNIX and EmuDeck got ares's revision at disksys.rom. It now carries MAME's member name rp2c33-01.bin.
The LaserActive v1.05 entry, the PAC-S10, PAC-N10, PAC-N1, PCE-LP1 and Neo Geo Pocket aliases are names RetroBat's launcher passes (Ares.Generator.cs:435-555): mega-ld.cpp:16-17 holds only the v1.04 US and v1.02 Japan hashes. RetroBat declares each name in its own list.
AHashScanLabelNamesNoOtherDump compares every found_by: content label with other profiles' entries of that name through the hash indexes.
Ten profile notes graded a .info (correct, accurate, still, missing, omits). Each now says what the file declares and what the code reads. test_no_grade_on_another_projects_file reads every profile line that names a .info, core-info or System.dat.
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.
verify_content read sha1 then md5 only, so an entry pinned by sha256 or
crc32 could be searched and never accepted, and one without any hash was
announced as searched. The strongest declared hash now decides, crc32
counts with its size, the database lookup reads sha256 and crc32, and an
entry with nothing to prove a download by is reported, not searched.
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.
Most modules write under tmp/, which a fresh clone lacks, and only three
created it on import. A module run alone failed with FileNotFoundError on
a temporary directory.
Equal files have equal sizes, and the scan only uses the sha1. Files alone at their size are no longer read and the rest get one digest instead of five. Same 278 groups (645 paths), same dry-run output, 36.7 s to 1.9 s.
download.py authenticated its release lookup and download.sh did not, so
past the anonymous quota the shell twin failed with 403. The header goes
to api.github.com only and is read from stdin, out of the process list.
check_freshness exited 0 when no upstream answered. An unknown row now
holds the exit code, and a profile skipped by nature is reported skipped
so it does not hold it forever. --only names the valid areas, a stale
native row names its platform, and the summary names refresh_stale.py.
--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 summary in exports/<platform>.json read '82 hashes corrected' and '854 additions left out'. It now counts what the written file carries, in the exports page's terms (hashes updated to the emulator source, required flags aligned with the code). Files the format cannot carry, withheld updates and content-found labels are printed on a line of their own and stay in the report's counts.
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.
docs/ is gitignored and was built after the tests, so the three guards
that read rendered pages skipped on every CI run. The site is generated
first, the suite runs whatever that step returns, and the guards fail
in CI when the pages are absent.
refresh_stale ran a parent's rescrape and its children's truth and
export jobs side by side, so a child read the parent mid-rewrite. A job
now starts once the rescrapes of its ancestors have ended, and a child
no row names gets its export rewritten after them. A rescrape chain ends
on verify.py --platform, whose summary closes the report.
When two cores declare different values for one file, the truth keeps the first and marks the entry hash_conflict. Its hashes pair an entry and never replace the platform's: armsx2's GameIndex.yaml no longer overwrites System.dat's line for LRPS2.
Bios::Scan takes Zip::Md5Composite for every .zip (Bios.cpp:64-68). The resolver already honoured zip_digest: composite, but digest_verdict accepted the container's own md5 first, so the pack check passed bytes Recalbox marks red. The page described that order.
Step 1b read 18 924 held files and members for 7 407 distinct contents and ran every transform on each read. A content already transformed is now skipped (the first path still keeps the match), the power-of-two crc shift operators are squared once for the pass instead of once per length, and a group pairs members by the sizes it holds. derivable.json and the step output are byte-identical, 33.4 s to 25.1 s.
Abdessamad Derraz