emulator: carried the file stem on 67 profiles, so site links read like ids. Each now takes the project's own name (libretro .info corename, README title, window title or site title). tests/test_profile_names.py allows the stem only on a commented list: lowercase project names, test cores, aliases and the template.
A system_directory read from retroarch.cfg under a folder this user cannot open ended the run, and the interface before its first screen, on a traceback. It now gets the refusal --dest gets. On a handheld, an idle close on an error screen shows that error for a few seconds instead of waiting for a button that cannot come.
The old-card test read the screen without reading what the key just drew, and pressed Enter twelve rows past its folder on a slow runner. The launcher device now has a sudo that refuses, as a runner's passwordless sudo ran the fake mapper as root and recorded nothing.
An idle close exited 0 on every screen, an error one too. It now exits with the error's or the result's code and prints that screen's words after the idle line.
The save-folder line came from the check run only: after Choose systems the result named it for an unticked system, and the Confirm screen left it out for a kept one. The confirm, preview and install runs now carry their own saves event.
Path.exists() raised PermissionError from _missing_dest in line mode and from _choose in the interface. The run now names the folder and exits 1 (error event stage dest), and the interface asks for another folder.
The config was looked up by the BIOS folder exactly as typed: a relative --dest, a link or another case sent save-folder files to a guessed folder and refused --installed-cores.
A closed console answered ModuleNotFoundError from _terminal_gone inside run_tui's except block. The interface paths now run in a test with the POSIX modules gone.
The plan and the result now say how many files go to the save folder and
where, from a new saves event. With --from-pack they say the files come
from the pack, not a download. A stop asked for (Start+Select, SIGHUP)
ends on the plain outcome, without the log's last lines.
install.py > log.txt at a terminal wrote the menu into the file and
waited for an answer nobody saw. A question now needs stdin and stdout on
a terminal, otherwise the run goes on as with --no-input and says so.
A window can still answer tcgetattr while refusing writes. The check now
tries both, as the audit asked, and takes the terminal itself so a stand-in
without a descriptor is never read.
Offline with nothing here to copy, Install was removed, and a folder
short of space or read-only then put Install anyway back: a run that
could only fail every file.
Any EIO was read as the window closing, so a failing SD card ended the
interface with 129 and no error.log. The error now counts as a closed
window only once the terminal itself no longer answers tcgetattr.
A run given --dest, as every interface run is, never read the config
naming libretro_directory, so only installed cores found none where line
mode found them. core_dirs now asks _retroarch_config_for, as the save
directory does, and the advice to drop --dest goes.
RETROBIOS_IDLE_EXIT only counted while the first screen was up. Given
--platform, the check runs and the plan follows without a key, so the
close never came. It now counts from the end of the last run, as long as
no key has been pressed.
A --from folder holding the BIOS folder kept the list's own archive open
after listing its members, and Windows then refused to move it aside or
replace it. The index now notes the places a run writes, closes the
archives among them and opens them only for the read at hand.
Path.exists() lets PermissionError through, so a BIOS subfolder without
search permission stopped --check and installs before any file. The file
is now reported unreadable and the run goes on with the others.
gptokeyb2 owns the pad in muxterm on muOS with PortMaster, and muxterm keeps PgUp and PgDn for its scrollback. The launcher now says so with RETROBIOS_PAD=gptokeyb_muxterm, and the hints name the gptokeyb buttons with no paging key.
The interface finds a muOS, Onion, spruceOS, MinUI, KNULLI or ROCKNIX card by itself (card_platform and the card rules in install.py) and lists it as a setup. The FAQ says so where it fills an SD card, within its word ceiling.
muxterm was allowed vendor and product 0001:0001, the id gpio-keys
gives the H700 pad on muOS before 2026-08-28: muxterm and gptokeyb2
both read it and every button acted twice. The allow-list is now
0000:0001, which SDL never reads back for a device (a vendor of 0 makes
a name GUID, read back as 0:0), so a pad plugged in later stays hidden.
- muxterm keeps PgUp and PgDn for its scrollback: in muxterm L1 and R1
send nothing, and the README and wiki stop promising paging there.
- The offline detection runs with RETROBIOS_INSTALL_OFFLINE=1 instead
of a closed loopback URL.
- Every launcher sets RETROBIOS_IDLE_EXIT=300 for the interface.
- ROCKNIX: control.ini's -sudokill goes through a sudo stub that runs
nothing, so the mapper starts with -1.
- The sentinel ends with its launcher, a closed terminal app writes its
status, a mapper lost mid-run is said and named (gptokeyb2 included),
and the unwritable-card message stays in view.
- Tests: an SDL GUID model, a gptokeyb2 that outlives its kill, an
interface that ignores SIGTERM, a zombie, a SIGHUP to the inner run,
arrow bytes at the question, ROCKNIX's sudo.
The exit status names 129 for a closed window and the --offline
refusals of --target and --list-targets, and the events say a crash
leaves no end line. RETROBIOS_PAD and RETROBIOS_IDLE_EXIT join the
environment table, muxterm's missing paging and the save directory
found under --dest are said, and the options at a glance list
--declared-only and --offline. The first install page no longer
promises a controller on a computer, and gives the RetroPie command
for Windows too.
Abdessamad Derraz