The copy rewrite moved the legal analysis to wiki/legal.md and the project terms to wiki/reference-terms.md, linked from the FAQ and the glossary but missing from the nav. They now sit in Explore and Reference, as their level says.
The Start here pages ran 460 to 2,100 words and the first command of
Get your files sat 254 words down. Each page now opens on its action,
with short sentences and one fact per block. The facts a newcomer does
not act on moved one level down: the legal analysis to wiki/legal.md,
the project terms to wiki/reference-terms.md, the annotated run and the
installer failures to the installer page, collection figures to a new
Explore index.
tests/test_site_copy.py holds the budgets on the generated pages, and
the testing guide states them with their reasons.
Four statements the repository contradicts are rewritten: prboom.wad
is compiled into PrBoom (emulators/prboom.yml), Batocera reports a
mismatch as UNTESTED (batocera-systems checkBios), 13 hle_fallback
entries are required, and the gaps headline splits missing firmware
from game data and unread entries.
A manufacturer page over 500 KB of Markdown becomes a summary: its
largest consoles move to pages of their own, cut into parts when one
console is still too large, and every console keeps its heading there.
MAME's 1,564 cards move to four pages, its page keeping a row per entry
with the card's old anchor. RetroDECK's arcade list gets its own page.
site.js follows a moved card by content or by its row.
The largest page drops from 10.5 MB to 0.88 MB. Emulator groups of the
navigation open by initial (65 KB to 41 KB before the content). File
cards are level 3 under a level 2, and the hook keeps the table of
contents of card pages to level 2: platform pages no longer list every
system id. Key/value cards name their columns. The sweep runs before
the decoration, which kept every page no generator wrote any more.
Hashes, link lists, install commands, member tables and long reference
tables leave the site search: the index drops from 21.0 MB (4.88 MB
gzip) to 6.8 MB (1.33 MB gzip). Names and prose stay searchable.
files/?hash= takes a SHA1, MD5, CRC32 or SHA256 and reads one shard of
api/v1/lookup/ (about 22 KB gzip, was 675 KB) listing the collection
card, the platforms that declare the value and the profiles that check
it. files/?sha1= still opens the card, and a sha1- anchor missing from
a page is looked up there, so a card can move between pages.
Excluded blocks are section elements: the search plugin compares
elements by tag, so a div ended at the first nested div.
The header logo was a 256 px compressed raster whose navy chip vanished on the indigo bar. The chip is now an SVG, white with the glyph cut out, and the favicon set (SVG, 32 px and an opaque 180 px touch icon) comes from scripts/make_site_icons.py.
The two redesign branches and the archive repair met in the testing guide and the prose rules: list test_archive_recipes, drop three clause semicolons, write the forbidden glyphs as escapes in the image test. README and mkdocs.yml regenerated from the merged generator.
bios/Bungie holds the Marathon scenarios Aleph One reads, entries its profile files as category game_data. Listed with the other publishers' trees, they leave the system files count and sit under Game engines and PC games on the site.
Five tabs from Start here to Contribute, a level on every page, a device picker on Get your files that lists every registered platform, and platform pages that open on where the files go, the command, the pack and how to check. FAQ and troubleshooting keep the questions asked before installing, the technical ones move to their own page, and getting started points to the pages that took its content.
The search splits a page at its headings. Emulator cards were titled in
bold and platform systems folded into blocks under one heading, so a
pasted hash opened the top of a page or the systems overview of a
100-block platform page. Each file card is now a level 4 heading kept
out of the table of contents, and each platform system a heading.
Card lines that list other pages (platforms, packs, source citations,
collection paths) leave the search index: 24.7 MB down to 18.1 MB, the
names, hashes and notes still searchable.
Profiles, the wiki, comments, docstrings, command output and schema descriptions carried em-dashes, clause-joining semicolons, unicode arrows, box-drawing banners and check-mark glyphs. Each sentence was rewritten rather than having its character swapped. Hashes, paths, source_ref values and every cited file:line are unchanged, which a comparison of each parsed profile against the previous revision confirms.
validate_pr comments now say PASS and FAIL in words, and source_ref values in a profile's structured blocks render as code. test_prose_style fails if any of these comes back, in tracked files or in the generated site.
The sitemap gave every page the build date. A page now states its own date
and a mkdocs hook passes it on, or leaves lastmod out. The values added to
the site's code spans today are also escaped: a backtick in a profile or
file name could close the span and inject markup.
A null upstream, version or detail is a stated fact. It now reads as
none, and a null upstream shows the project's own source. The site's
exclusion of local working notes no longer names the tool writing them.
Core lists now come from each platform's own sources: ROCKNIX gains
its standalone emulators, RetroBat drops the Batocera ports it never
ran, Recalbox reads its two MAME releases.
Rebuilt from the complete state: 8923 files indexed, 436 emulators, and
coverage up on every platform that gained a profile. The gap count falls
from 9 to 7, the three that closed being the C128 kernal, the Cave Story
build and Supermodel's Games.xml.
Whole pipeline green on this revision: database, provenance, recipes,
data directories, hash scrapers, truth, verify, packs, manifests,
consistency and pack integrity across the twelve platforms.
The README said 14 files were 'not in the collection yet', which
implies somebody could still put them there. Nine of them cannot be:
WHDLoad.key is a per-user signed registration, Custom.dat and key.txt
are slots the emulator expects the user to fill, gpib.rom and
dragonfly-2.3.rom have never been dumped, CARTS.CRC belongs to a dead
code path. The profiles already record why, so the two are now counted
apart: five still to be found, nine that cannot be.
Links to this site get shared on Discord, Reddit and forums, where a
page with no Open Graph tags renders as a grey rectangle. The pages
already carry a per-page title and description, so a theme override
fills the tags from those; mkdocs-material would otherwise only emit
them through its social plugin, which pulls in Pillow and CairoSVG to
render a preview image these pages do not need.
The database drops the duplicate PS3UPDAT.PUP entry and regains
adler32 on every file. RetroPie gains an install manifest, so the
download table reports its size instead of a dash.
The metadata behind the verifier, the pack builder and the site is now
served as static files: a versioned JSON API, CSV extracts, a SQLite
snapshot, and a catalog carrying a SHA-256 for each artifact.
The gaps dataset covers both layers behind a layer column. It previously
held one row, the single platform-verification anomaly, while the page
offering it as a download led with the emulator-level count.
source_ref renders as a permalink pinned to the revision the profile
cites. When a profile declares two repositories, a path that belongs to
neither by name is left as plain code: a citation without a link still
names the file and the lines, a link to the wrong repository does not.
The table filter, focus outlines and tap targets are progressive
enhancement; the pages work without them.
Abdessamad Derraz