--for-games --required-only on a dArkOS card from a computer kept every
file of the list: --dest skipped the card's detection, so its rom
folders were never found. The games part beside the BIOS folder now
names them. The manifest marks a data tree every core runs without
(optional), and --required-only leaves it out: one GBA and one SNES game
took FBNeo's cheats and samples, 3,472 files no game opened.
Mini vMac opens no MinivMacBootv2.dsk at babdf7b5: disks come from a .cmd
(libretro-core.c:181-195) or disk1.dsk to disk9.dsk
(OSGLUERETRO.c:563-579). The name is the one Recalbox's configgen writes
into its .cmd, already recorded in its launchers: layer. Nine manifests
no longer send the 24 MB image to platforms that never open it.
IPL_USA.n64 and IPL_DEV.n64 are the names RetroBat's mupen64 generator
writes for Rosalie's Mupen GUI (Mupen64.Generator.cs:232-238).
Mupen64Plus, Mupen64Plus-AE and M64Plus FZ fix no IPL name: the path
comes from the IPL-ROM key or --dd-ipl-rom, then the Android front ends
copy the chosen file to dd_rom.n64.
The reason named only MSX and FPseNG fonts, while fm7.zip and fm77av.zip
hold a Fujitsu kanji ROM (MAME kanji.rom, crc32 62402ac9). Rendered at
the codes kanji.c:353-380 swaps between JIS78 and JIS83 (0x3646, 0x445B,
0x4768), it draws the JIS83 forms: the ROM is a first standard JIS83
table, not the JIS78 one XM7 reads as KANJI.ROM.
At be1a3716 find_firmware rejects a candidate by size alone (platforms/libretro/libretro.cpp:811-816), and an OS-7, EOS or SmartWriter image whose CRC32 differs is logged and loaded (lines 875-876, 928-935). The three entries keep crc32 in validation with on_mismatch warn, so another 8 KiB OS-7 revision such as colecoa.rom no longer reads as rejected.
teknogods/TeknoParrotUI and simple64/simple64 answer 404 on the API and the web, and neither organisation lists them now. simple64's README at the pin archives the project for gopher64. Each profile declares upstream_gone and a fork that keeps its default branch at the analysed commit: thecrixux/TeknoParrotUI master is b75872ad, simple64-vault/simple64 main is d8c969c7. realign_prose reads a source declared gone through that mirror, which unblocks five teknoparrot notes citations that anchor unchanged.
A location written without its file, (:507), reads in the file named last in the scalar, either cited or named as 'path:' before a list. A dotless file cited with its directory (tools/errorgen:20) is a citation too. devilutionx, corsixth, starship, plastic, eden-nightly, theforceengine, lightspark and higan_sfc gain 33 citations that bump and realign now follow. Two read that way pointed at another file and now name theirs: devilutionx assets.cpp:511-518, corsixth app.lua:1591.
realign_prose dated a whole field from the last commit that changed any of its citations. idtech4a++ corrected two notes citations by hand in the commit that advanced its pin, so the untouched Game.java:69-72 and GameResourceUrl.java:14-118 read as written under the current pin and were never offered again. Each citation is now followed through the history on its own. The two idtech4a++ ranges move to 72-75 and 15-121, read at ce49510f.
libmt32emu scans the ROM folder and identifies every file with identifyROMFile (src/midi/mt32_lasynth_model.cpp:68-91 at fa1856c0), and the Nuked SC-55 plugin loads with RomLoader::Hashing, matching SHA-256 against its table. The 50 MT-32 and Sound Canvas entries now carry found_by: content, so the truth no longer says dosbox-staging opens their labels.
The entry documents the pcsx2x6 component, whose FindBiosImage (pcsx2/ps2/BiosTools.cpp:268-291 at 583f0e90) takes the first 4 to 8 MB romdir image whatever its name. pcsx2x6.yml already said so, and the RetroBat truth gave the file two identities. The guard no longer needs an agnostic flag to read an entry.
FindBiosImage (pcsx2/ps2/BiosTools.cpp:278-302 under app/src/main/cpp/pcsx2 at bda532f3) keeps the first 2 to 8 MB file with a romdir, whatever its name, as upstream PCSX2 does. The guard reads entry-level agnostic flags too, which is how it surfaced.
FindArcadeBiosFor (pcsx2/ps2/BiosTools.cpp:366-419 at 7f914418) scans the BIOS folder for 2 to 8 MB COH-H images and picks by EXTINFO serial, never by name. r27v1602f.8g, r27v1602f.7d and COH-H31000.BIN now carry found_by: content, and the truth no longer says armsx2 opens those names. The guard covers the 2 MB lower bound.
The note said RetroBat leaves out DSI-SD.ZIP and still carries the v3.04 executable. It now states what the package holds. The prose test refuses a platform name followed by such a phrase in a profile.
The note judged the CHECKBIOS handling instead of describing it. It now says what memory.cpp:80 does: the MD5 comparison runs only for YES_VAL, so AUTO accepts any content. A rejected BIOS is filled with 0xFF (line 97), not zeroed.
mame2003 src/hiscore.c:14, np2pi np2ver.h:1 and osmose Version.h:3 are blank at their pins. db_filename, NP2VER_CORE and __OSMOSE_VERSION__ are at lines 15, 2 and 5.
Demul 0.7 build 251220 (demul.exe sha1 e326ae66, the build RetroBat and Batocera 43.1 ship) loads its BIOS from MAME-style sets named in seven tables in the executable: dc, naomi, naomi2, segasp, awbios, hikaru, mie and segadimm, each member checked by size, crc32 and sha1. The profile lists every set with its members and cites the tables and the loader by address. dc_boot.bin, dc_flash.bin, naomigd.zip, hod2bios.zip, f355bios.zip, f355dlx.zip, airlbios.zip and jvs13551.zip are not read by this build and leave the profile.
A platform pack carried only the trees its own systems declared, so for_platforms reached RetroArch, Lakka and RetroPie alone and every other platform running blueMSX, FBNeo or Dolphin got no tree. The pack, the install list and the pipeline's tree members now add the trees of the libretro cores the platform runs, below the system directory and build folder the core reads, unless the platform installs or never opens them. A platform entry the manifest resolved into a carried tree becomes that tree's member, which the installer can fetch: AmberELEC and EmuELEC no longer hold 192 blueMSX machine configs back. stonesoup reads its tree beside the content and pcee2 compiles its resources in, so neither tree reaches a BIOS pack.
Each registered platform running a core that reads a data directory was checked against its own image at the revision its platform YAML pins. A platform that installs the tree goes in installed_on, one that never opens it in unread_on, and one that leaves it to the user joins for_platforms. The install steps are cited beside each _data_dirs.yml entry.
pin_frozen was prose, and no tool read the build file it cites, so a platform building another revision left the profile holding one nobody ships. pin_build records the platform, its repository, the revision read, the file, the variable and its value. check_freshness reads the file again where the platform's YAML now stands and reports STALE when the value moved. 36 of the 46 held profiles carry it, each value read from the build file at the platform's scraped revision. The other ten name no build file and are counted on one row: six RetroBat binary packages and four holds not tied to a platform build.
upstream_commit 25b54e3f was dev's HEAD at the 2026-10-23 bump. dev has
been rewritten since, and the pin is on no branch (diverged 109/114), so
profile_sync reports it orphaned. libretro-pcem shares no history with
sarah-walker-pcem/pcem: it took mainline patches by hand until 2016-04-13
(c9f3593f, 223f434f). Its sound_adlibgold.c holds 10739b96, the last
upstream commit before that date, and the port has none of the 6x86 work
of 2016-04-27. The pin is held there with upstream_frozen.
pcsx1, rustation and np2kai called a project abandoned, dead or never completed. Each now gives the date of the last commit or the project's own words, and a test refuses the verdicts yabause and gearboy carried too.
"abandoned fork frozen at v2.6.0 from 2018" was a verdict, and the fork took a commit on 2026-09-04. The note now says it is archived, quotes its description and the version its src/definitions.h states.
"Upstream project is dead" was a verdict published on the emulator page. The note now gives the date of the last commit on Yabause/yabause master, 2018-07-07 (7e38821d).
The pin 87b176a0 and tag v2.0.1 sit on preview (ahead 129, behind 0) and
not on the default xenios branch, which diverged (ahead 1784, behind 24).
The preview-v2.0.1 releases carry the dmg and ipa the notes name. With no
source_branch, profile_sync called the pin orphaned and listed 19 refs to
review that only measured the branch divergence. It now reads 1.
ecwolf.pk3 carried md5 c011b428, which its note said came from the .info.
The code checks no hash (src/wl_iwad.cpp:664-672) and the pk3 is built
from wadsrc/static/ at the pin, so no shipped file is designated by it.
The entry still resolves to the same file by name, and the platform lists
that pin this md5 are untouched.
FS-UAE scans its Kickstarts directory and names a ROM by checksum
(src/fs-uae/config.c:121-140, main.c:431-470), opens kick.rom by name
only as a fallback (memory.cpp:1597-1606) and loads AROS when no ROM is
found (memory.cpp:2374-2379). required: true and the launcher's dialog
came from RetroPie's fs-uae.sh, which retropie.yml launchers: records.
The entry is now optional and found by content. kick13.rom stays as its
label, the name amiberry and uae4all give this 256 KB dump.
DecideNAND (MelonDS.cs:684-706) reads the JPN, USA, EUR, AUS, CHN and KOR
bits of header byte 0x1B0. A DSi title sold in Latin America carries the
USA bit, so the USA NAND serves it. Tagged north-america alone, it fell
out of an --emulator bizhawk --region br,jp pack.
apt.cpp:128-140 picks the shared font archive by GetRegionValue: CHN, KOR
and TWN get their own, every other CFG region gets 0x00014002. The CFG
region set has USA and no Latin America value, so the USA font serves the
Americas, which the repo writes [north-america, latin-america]. With
latin-america missing, --region br,cn kept only the Chinese archive.
NP2kai and meowPC98 read font.bmp (PC-98 bitmap) and FONT.ROM (V98) as
separate files, each through its own reader (NP2kai font/font.c:192-195,
meowPC98 font/font.c:180-181). The V98 names hung on font.bmp as aliases
let a collection without font.bmp serve the PC-88 2 KB font.rom there.
FONT.ROM is now its own entry, at least 0x46800 bytes (fontv98.c:8, 51).
Manifests: np2/FONT.ROM and np2kai/FONT.ROM are added where the platform
did not declare them, served by the V98 font bios/NEC/PC-98/font.rom.
POM2 v1.1.0 ships no firmware dump in any package, so the 26 Apple II files dropped in ef8b37281 return byte for byte, with the DAN ][ slot EPROM from ThorstenBr/Apple2Card. The profile is re-read at de86e8e3: bundled false on the firmware, 8 entries for the new cards, refs re-anchored. (#86)
libretro/hatari rewrote main on 2026-11-04: it is now hatari/hatari
c453b85f with 23 port commits on top, and the old pin 50929946 survives
only as the tip of main-old. Every citation is read again at 25f488b1 and
c453b85f. The libretro build now reads files through
src/retro/file_retro.c, with no .gz or archive unpacking, and a missing
tos.img clears bUseTos in retro_init instead of a have_bios gate in
retro_run, so the core runs the built-in test stub.
A bulk advance moved fheroes2, supertux and supermariowar past the
revision EmuELEC compiles, and nothing stopped it: bump_commit refused
built_by only. It now leaves a profile a single registered platform ships
until it carries pin_frozen or the new pin_follows, which says that
platform builds the branch tip.
hode, bermuda, bennugd-monolithic and ccleste are held on the
PKG_VERSION of their EmuELEC v4.8 package.mk, equal to their pins.
rigelengine was one commit past it (README.md only) and goes back to
f05996f9.
bermuda.yml (the EmuELEC build) and bsyndrome.yml (RetroBat's bs.exe)
document the same cyxx/bermuda engine under two slugs, bermuda-syndrome
and bsyndrome, so the site gave the game two system pages. bsyndrome now
files its entries under bermuda-syndrome.
openMSX reaches a ROM in share/systemroms through its file pool by SHA1
alone. A filename is only looked up beside the machine's XML
(src/memory/Rom.cc:121-170, HardwareConfig.cc:279-280,
FileContext.cc:152-156 at a557de7b). The labels read as names the core
opens, and the export added 15 of them to KNULLI and 2 to Batocera.
DEV9 opens eeprom.dat and flash.dat by bare name (pcsx2/DEV9/DEV9.cpp:144
at f0523f8a, AetherSX2 DEV9/flash.cpp:89, PCSX2 1.6 dev9ghzdrk/flash.cpp:73),
so the process working directory answers, never the BIOS folder. Only
yaps2 said so: the other PCSX2 profiles had the file packed into the BIOS
folder and the RetroDECK export add it there.
PCSX2 and its forks keep the first 4 to 8 MB image with a romdir in
the BIOS folder (pcsx2/ps2/BiosTools.cpp:258-282, 317-332 at f0523f8a),
and PCSX2 1.6 lists the same test in its BIOS picker
(BiosSelectorPanel.cpp:151-177). The names are labels. Without found_by
the truth model read ps2-0230a-20080220.bin as a name the core opens, and
the RetroDECK export added it as a required file.
Abdessamad Derraz
VERHILLE Arnaud