21 device archives collected for MAME 0.289 are byte-identical to sets already held under another name: a set renamed in 0.289 (tms32030 to tms320c30, hardbox to gpib_hardbox) or one ROM set several devices share (sys68k_cpu21 family, voicebox). One copy stays and the other names go to the MAME clone map, through which each name still resolves.
55 device sets the collection lacked or held incomplete. 24 are rebuilt from ROMs already in bios/, 31 come from the archive.org item mame-roms-non-merged. Every member matches the 0.289 listxml size, crc32 and sha1, and each archive is built with build_torrentzip. The complete nss_tvinterface goes to .variants since RetroDECK pins the incomplete copy. The old at_keybc.zip held two of the three ROMs, its md5 is pinned by no platform, and is replaced by the complete set RetroDECK pins (63536a7d). Database and install manifests are regenerated with the files, including the vMac.ROM move.
Seven artwork zips from the core's metadata/artwork are read from mame2003-plus/artwork/ when Display Artwork is on, the default (artwork.c:2242-2258).
A file that arrives with the emulator is already on the user's machine
and the packs leave it out. 4558 collected copies (1.4 GB) were reached
only by such entries, with no platform, other profile entry or install
manifest needing them. They are removed, and two release-asset copies
leave the ignore list. bundled_only.py now lists every copy of a listed
file, since the database keeps one path per content, and pipeline step
4d fails while one remains.
100 emulator names the two platforms run had no profile, so their packs carried nothing for them. Each was read from the platform's own launcher or scriptmodule: the same program as an existing profile takes the name in cores:, a different build gets its own profile read from that version, a launcher or self-contained game goes to remove_cores, and the rest are new profiles written from their source or shipped binary. The files they need that the collection lacked are collected from the upstream distributions. Bungie and splitwolf trees are read by path and stay out of dedup.
The new-format hiscore.dat was served by name to cores whose parser reads
only legacy lines. Eight cores now pin the hiscore.dat their own
repository ships, four revisions newly collected.
A copy under .variants/ exists to hold a content its primary does
not. 29 held bytes another file already carried, under a second or
third identity: msx.rom and MSX.ROM variants equal to
MSX_8020-20bios.rom, naomi2.zip.da79eca4 whose suffix named the
primary's sha1 rather than its own. dedup now removes such a copy,
keeping one when only variants hold the content. The LaserActive
PAC-S10 BIOS lived only under .variants/ while RetroBat names it
without a hash; it moves beside its siblings.
RetroArch pins 23 ScummVM engine-data files and FBNeo's hiscore.dat at
revisions upstream history still holds; they are now collected. The
two profiles claim the revision their core is built from, so the pack
keeps serving the core its own files and the pins sit beside them.
dedup.py removes a copy only when another file has the same SHA-1 and
the same name, keeping the higher-priority path, so resolution by hash
still finds the content. Verified rather than assumed: all 17268
manifest entries ship the same bytes as before, no destination gained
or lost, only the source paths consolidate. Every deleted path's content
is still held elsewhere.
12.1 MB and 48 empty directories go with them. The index and the
published artefacts are regenerated on top.
Four files, each with a verifiable origin.
logo.tga and logo_red.tga come from the loader's own resources/logo.h:
hook.c's fread maps FILE_LOGO_TGA to logoLL or logoLLRed depending on
which path was opened, one array per file, so the extraction is exact.
Both decode as valid RLE TGA at their declared lengths.
lgp.zip and timetrav.zip carry crc 0 in Hypseus and in Daphne upstream,
so MAME vouches for them instead. lgp maps onto MAME's set by base name,
confirmed by the five members whose bytes already agreed, and the four
that were missing came from the same set. timetrav is MAME's timetrv:
tt061891.bin, 262144 bytes, crc a3d44219.
The four Sega fonts stay open, and the profile now says why: the loader
embeds one 128x256 atlas and one metrics table answering all four paths,
so it substitutes for the originals rather than reproducing either.
Sixty-nine of the seventy-one sets Hypseus Singe loads, assembled from
atoms retrieved from public archives and rebuilt with torrentzip under
the member names its source expects.
Every set is anchored: the profile already carried each member with its
CRC32, read from Hypseus' own source, so a candidate is either an exact
match or discarded. Sixty-seven verified that way. For gpworld and
firefoxa, Hypseus declares crc 0 and gives no anchor, so MAME's recipe
for the same game vouched for the bytes instead: 17/17 and 6/6.
lgp and timetrav stay out. Hypseus declares crc 0 for both, MAME covers
only 5 of lgp's 9 members and has no timetrav at all, so nothing can
vouch for them and half-verified is not verified.
The six Lindbergh font and logo files gain has_builtin: true. hook.c
serves them from resources/logo.h and resources/font.h unless built-ins
are disabled, so they are not a gap the collection can close.
bios/Sega/Triforce/.variants/segaboot.gcm was never a SegaBoot image:
its header reads "(C) 1999-2001 Nintendo" and it matches Redump's
"Triforce (ARCADE BOOTROM)". crediar's Dolphin fork reads the IPL from
GC/<region>/IPL_TRI.bin and SegaBoot from Triforce/segaboot.gcm, two
separate paths, so it moves to GC/USA/IPL_TRI.bin.
segaboot.gcm.e475c7dc is SegaBoot v3.11, the sha1 emulators/triforce.yml
already declared with no local file.
spec128.zip.1a524bfa is rebuilt from the FinalBurn Neo ZX Spectrum
recipe and roms already held, closing one of the pinned archives listed
as unobtainable.
Four archives carried member names no MAME version uses. Each is decided
against MAME 0.289 at the revision the profiles cite:
manager.zip 1 -> 01 crvision.cpp:957
sys573.zip 700a01(gchgchmp).22g -> , ksys573.cpp:3575
cedmag.zip Magnet-Master-VID-E03.BIN cedar_magnet.cpp:1040
advision.zip b225__/b8223__ prefixes cut advision.cpp:456,459
Content is untouched: every member keeps its crc32 and size. The
archives are rebuilt with torrentzip so their bytes depend only on their
contents, which is the repository convention (51 of 60 sampled archives)
and what two of these four already were.
Batocera, RetroBat and RetroDECK pin the older naming, so the upstream
archives stay verbatim under .variants/ and resolve_local_file serves
each layer the copy it expects.
cdos20.rom (Cumana DOS 2.0), yados.rom (YA-DOS 0.5a),
dragonfly-1.3.rom (Ikon Ultra Drive v1.3) from World of
Dragon Archive and CCHDD GitHub. delta-premier.rom variant.
mameinfo.dat for MAME 2000/2003/2003-Plus game info.
Add BIOS files for CLK (Apple II, Mac, Atari ST, Enterprise, MSX,
Commodore, Thomson, PC, Acorn), FBNeo (CPS3 redearthn/sfiii2h),
and QEMU variants. Sources: Asimov mirror, MAME chip extraction,
86Box, Theodore, XRoar upstream, official QEMU repo.
Fix cross-reference in verify.py to group archived files by archive
unit instead of reporting individual ROMs as missing. Add path-based
fallback for descriptive names. Update generate_pack.py extras to
use archive name for resolution. 6 new E2E tests.
MISSING required: 321 -> 6 (zero false positives).
shared groups in _shared.yml: np2kai, keropi, quasi88, kronos, ep128emu
with source references for each subdirectory requirement.
libretro_scraper: CORE_SUBDIR_MAP applies subdirectory prefixes at
generation time (np2kai/, keropi/, dc/). EXTRA_SYSTEMS adds QUASI88.
SYSTEM_SHARED_GROUPS injects includes for kronos/np2kai/keropi.
new BIOS: CPS3 (23 ZIPs), Cannonball OutRun (40 ROMs), PCem PC BIOS
(73 files), VICE Commodore ROMs, Spectrum ZIPs, dc_bios.bin, X1 fonts.
new emulator profiles: redream, melonds_ds, lrps2 with doc vs source
notes. platforms/README.md documents shared groups architecture.
New files: OpenTyrian data (11), Cave Story (2), SeaBIOS,
VGA BIOS, OpenSBI, Cromwell, xbox_hdd, Sega CD Model 2 (3),
NGP Color BIOS, Pentagon 128p-1.rom, X1 font, BK TERAK.
cross_reference.py: basename + case-insensitive lookup.
Abdessamad Derraz