MAME and libretro MAME pass /userdata/bios/<bootdisk>.img with -flop1
when the option is in the generator's list, else <bootdisk>.chd with
-hard. Each branch is a {bootdisk} template: the list the code tests
for the floppy, and for the hard disk the choices es_features.yml
offers that the list does not take. The menu offers macos3 while the
code tests macos30, so System 3.0 is passed as macos3.chd.
configureINI writes [Folders] Bios = ../../../bios/ps2 into
inis/PCSX2.ini, which PCSX2 and AetherSX2 resolve against the config
folder configgen hands it. relative_folders reads the call, the ini
path and the value, and records the resolved /userdata/bios/ps2 as a
passes_path for pcsx2 and aethersx2.
A copies record names its files under search_dir, the folder the code
copies from, and passes_to is the target, as the schema and RetroPie,
RetroDECK and AmberELEC already write it. KNULLI listed patches.zip
under the BIOS folder it is copied into, and KNULLI and RetroBat wrote
the target as prose with the condition. The condition of a copy now
goes in depends_on_option. Only launcher records change in knulli.yml
and retrobat.yml.
amberelec_launchers reads runemu.py with ast and, at the commit the
scraper pins, the scripts its standalone table runs and the configs
their packages install: RetroArch and retrorun directories, the MAME
-rp path, atari800.cfg, Hatari's default TOS, amiberry's kickstarts
link and defaults, yabasanshiro, PICO-8, piemu, scummvm, freej2me and
easyrpg. 17 records.
The freej2me-lr.jar and pico8_64 notes now name the file in a sentence
about the emulator, as test_launcher_aliases asks once a launcher
records it.
knulli_launchers reads KNULLI's configgen and the PICO-8 installer at
the tag the scraper pins: Batocera's extractors where the generator is
still Batocera's code, KNULLI's own for lexaloffle, libretroOptions and
knulli-install-pico8, and one AST reader for the BIOS paths the other
generators pass on a command line, in a config key or the environment,
copy or test for. 52 records.
Batocera's lexaloffleGenerator runs bios/pico-8/pico8 and
bios/voxatron/vox, raises when the binary is missing or not
executable, and puts each folder on LD_LIBRARY_PATH. The new
extractor records both per system from the AST, with the lines
of batocera-43.1 that say it.
- The installer speaks without "you": the first screen asks "Where
to install?", rows read "Copy the BIOS files from an old card or a
folder", a close match reads "Close matches: ...". The handheld
launchers and their port text follow, and the pronoun guard no
longer lists any installer message.
- A setup that runs as an app opens on its one-line command, the
folder table after it; a setup that runs on its own device keeps
the network folder first, which its ZIP route needs.
- The home steps say what to do: "Its page gives one line to copy",
"Paste it, press Enter".
RetroPie 427e7621, ROCKNIX 20261101 (ES f6c54287 from the
ui/emulationstation package.mk) and RomM 5.4.1, the revisions the
platform files were scraped at. RetroPie now builds pico-8 with
lr-fake08, ROCKNIX adds SDM845 to three device conditions.
- The installer says "Every file on the list is in place." where it
said "Everything is in place.": a check covers the files the
collection holds, and the required ones it lacks follow.
- The FAQ, first install, legal and home pages state only what the
code shows (PlayStation 1 and Saturn run without a BIOS on some
emulators, save files are never touched, records are added).
- MinUI and MyMinUI show their own boot logos, and the Android,
Linux handheld and iPhone tiles show the Android robot, Tux and a
plain device icon, each credited in sources.json.
- Each Markdown copy, llms.txt and llms-full.txt name the commit
they were built from, version.json the current one, and the
answering rules tell assistants to fetch a stale copy again.
- The deploy lists the pages whose words changed (digests.json) and
posts them to IndexNow once the site is live.
make_demo.py records a second variant: the full-screen interface at the
640x480 screen of an R36S, on an ArkOS root made with bwrap, started as
the Tools menu launcher starts it (RETROBIOS_PAD=gptokeyb), driven by the
keys gptokeyb sends for the buttons. demo.json holds one entry per
variant with its alt text. No Windows variant: under pwsh on Linux the
installer's summary gives --dest /mnt/e/bios back.
The quick install box of Get your files gets an "On the device" tab with
the handheld recording, the terminal recording under the others but
Windows, and, under the text of each computer tab, a drawing of opening
the terminal and pasting (sitesteps.py, inline SVG in the theme's
colours, title and desc). The terminal steps name the physical action.
emulatorLauncher 228731e0 lists ten PS2 BIOS in one group: one held file
is enough and Program.cs reports the others OPTIONAL. The scraper keeps
group and optional, verify and the pack check apply the same rule.
MiSTer gains FM-7, Sharp X1 and VideoBrain boot ROMs, RetroArch three
CD-i files, RetroPie fake08, RomM 5.4.1. RetroBat follows emulatorLauncher
ca486005 (FM Towns reduced to the four ROMs Geartowns reads), ROCKNIX
20261101 (AetherSX2 dropped upstream, its PS2 BIOS now under armsx2/).
EmuDeck targets gain the new buildbot cores.
parallel_dc (libretro/flycast renamed), hyperscanemu, hypseushw, n64emu
and odin reached the RetroArch buildbot after the last targets scrape and
resolved to no profile. Targets rescraped, each core profiled from its
source.
MiSTer and BizHawk declare cores: []. --region, --one-per-slot and
--no-game-data read the profiles of the cores a platform runs, so their
packs and manifests withdrew nothing under a name and README that said
they had. generate_pack and verify now refuse the flags for a named
platform and leave it out under --all.
The v4.8 release publishes four images (Amlogic-ng, GameForce,
OdroidGoAdvance, OdroidM1, read from its asset names). The metapackage
(packages/sx05re/emuelec/package.mk:8-77) builds the S922X cores, dolphinSA
and mame only on Amlogic-ng, Amlogic-no, RK356x and OdroidM1, and removes
duckstation on the handhelds with a sed that replaces the first match only:
pcsx_rearmed, written twice, keeps its 64-bit build. Each package is mapped
to its cores by the .so or program its install step copies, PKG_ARCH is
applied as scripts/build:28-30 does, and es_systems.cfg is edited per
device as emuelec-emulationstation/package.mk:114-143 does. Amlogic-ng and
OdroidM1 list 124 cores, the handhelds 117.
RetroPie was the only platform with status: archived, which kept it out
of verify --all, slots, the pipeline and list_platforms unless
--include-archived was typed. release_pack already decides which packs a
release publishes and the installer serves every platform, so the status
set nothing apart. The field, its schema entry and the flag are gone, and
RetroPie is covered by every full run like any other platform.
AmberELEC's metapackage adds LIBRETRO_CORES_EXTRA (bsnes, Mesen, melonDS, geolith) only on RG552, RG353 and RG503, and deletes those cores from es_systems.cfg on every other device (packages/amberelec/package.mk:23-31, 45-58 at a21975bf). The new target scraper reads the Makefile's device images, that test and es_systems.cfg the way the platform scraper does: RG351P, RG351V and RG351MP list 125 cores, the other three 136. The installer reads the device from COREELEC_DEVICE in os-release (scripts/image:168).
Native RetroArch on Linux keeps retroarch.cfg under $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/retroarch when the variable is set, and falls back to ~/.retroarch.cfg (file_path_special.c fill_pathname_application_data, configuration.c open_default_config_file at e98e1da0). Detection read ~/.config/retroarch only.
The target scraper kept its own copy of the EmuScripts table and took
.ps1 files the platform scraper never read, so emudeck-we's template
skeleton was published as a core and removed afterwards by an override.
Both scrapers now read emulator_of_script, and the platform scraper
lists the installers at the pinned revision, as launchers: and the
SteamOS target already did. Targets rescraped, override dropped.
Abdessamad Derraz