EmuDeck writes mame.ini rompath ${romsPath}/arcade;${biosPath};
${biosPath}/mame (emuDeckMAME.sh:66-68). Steam ROM Manager starts MAME
through tools/launchers/mame.sh with the game alone, so that list is
read there. Every standalone MAME command of ES-DE v3.5.0, which EmuDeck
installs, passes -rompath %GAMEDIR%\;%ROMPATH%/<system>, and the command
line outranks mame.ini. A set the mame.ini record places keeps that
place and also goes to each folder a command passes for a machine that
reads it.
The Model 3 folder, live in EmuDeck's list and commented out in
RetroDECK's, holds the machines of sega/model3.cpp.
Manifests: EmuDeck gains 1483 files (466.7 MB) below roms/, 480 each in
arcade, consolearcade and mame, the others in adam, daphne, laserdisc,
macintosh and 15 more. The pack ZIP does not change, roms/ being
written by the installer. No file leaves.
ES-DE starts the libretro MAME core with a command line as its content
in 22 commands across 21 systems ("apple2e -rompath \"%GAMEDIRRAW%;
%ROMPATH%/apple2\" -flop1 ...", resources/systems/linux/es_systems.xml
at RetroDECK's 15e1b236 and EmuDeck's ES-DE v3.5.0), run through the
shell by popen (es-core/src/utils/PlatformUtil.cpp:231, 257).
At 5f5a0774 the core reads content that is no file as a command line
(retro_init.cpp:966-1008). Set_Path_Option passes its own -rompath
<content dir>;<system>/mame/bios;<system>/mame/roms (580-597), then
every word of the command line follows, -rompath included, only -rp
being dropped when mame_paths_enable is off (902-940, 914-919). MAME
keeps the later value of an option given twice at one priority
(src/lib/util/options.cpp:260-276, clifront.cpp:243). Those commands
read their sets in the folders they name, and mame/bios stays read by
every command that passes none.
The ES-DE parser records these commands in searched_by with their core,
the mame profile declares libretro_pools (-rompath and -rp stand for
mame/bios), and a set there also goes to each folder a command names
for a machine that reads it.
Manifests: EmuDeck gains 16 files below roms/ (apple2, apple2gs,
astrocde, crvision, gamate, gamecom, gmaster, intellivision, odyssey2,
scv, supracan, vectrex, videopac, vsmile). RetroDECK does not change:
its standalone MAME commands already put the same sets at the same
paths. No file leaves.
amadvance/advancemame rewrote the tip of master: e291032 is no ancestor
of the branch any more, and 799060b replaces it (same parent abfc3c8,
same message). The two differ in makefiles and the removed jedutil
sources only, none of the files the profile cites, so the refs keep
their lines at 799060b (v5.0-453-g799060b).
From e1a9aad5 the branch renames the Sony ZN BIOS archives after MAME
(cpzn1 becomes coh1000c, zn.c BIOS() at 4801) and loads firmware with
BIOS_LOAD. EmuELEC (6a34ec0), AmberELEC (0f6a767) and Recalbox
(5f301c8) build earlier revisions that read the names the profile
lists, so the pin is held with pin_frozen and the two other builds join
pin_build. RetroPie builds the branch tip (advmame.sh:16, 39-41).
profile_sync: 0 to review. Manifests do not change.
KNULLI 20260511 ships libretro/mame lrmame0278 and GroovyMAME
gm0277sr221e (the batocera submodule's libretro-mame.mk and mame.mk).
mameGenerator.py and libretroMAMEConfig.py pass the Macintosh boot disk
as -hard. MAME names the option of a machine's one hard disk image by its
brief type name: harddriv.h:43 returns "hard", update_names keeps it
without an index (diimage.cpp:1131-1165) and the option entries are
registered under it (emuopts.cpp:389-404, 680-694), the LC III holding
one harddisk at scsi:0 (maclc3.cpp:266). GroovyMAME's diimage.cpp,
harddriv.h and maclc3.cpp equal mamedev mame0277.
The mame profile carries that read as config_reads with KNULLI's two
builds in pin_build, and both -hard records bind. The manifest does not
change: KNULLI's own list already puts mac608, mac701 and mac755.chd in
/userdata/bios, the folder the records search.
EmuELEC builds AdvanceMAME at 6a34ec0 (package.mk PKG_VERSION, v4.8).
At that build advmame.rc is read from the home, host and data folders
(advance/osd/emu.c:754-757, 779-791) and the dir_* keys set each search
folder (advance/osd/fileio.c:72-86, 798-815). With the config_reads the
launcher evidence rule asks for, EmuELEC's advmame.sh dir_rom records
bind again: its manifest gets back the 29 sets in roms/arcade and the
29 in roms/mame.
ES-DE starts standalone MAME with -rompath %GAMEDIR%\;%ROMPATH%/<system>
in 78 live commands across 54 systems (resources/systems/linux/
es_systems.xml at retrodeck-main-20261103-162710, 15e1b236; two more
are commented out). The command line outranks mame.ini, so RetroDECK's
MAME reads its sets in the roms folder each command names and in no
BIOS folder. The ES-DE rom folders parser now records, per folder, the
folders a standalone command passes as its ROM search path and the
machines it starts, or that the game is the machine (%BASENAME%).
Rescraped at the pinned revisions: retrodeck, emudeck and
emudeck-windows gain these records and nothing else.
A command reads the sets its machines load: the machine's own set, the
BIOS sets on its romof chain and the device sets with ROMs it
instantiates, from games/arcade/mame.json (mame0289 -listxml). That
index now also lists the game and device sets of each driver source
file, so a %BASENAME% folder reads for its board: neogeo and stv by
their BIOS root, cps1-3 and model2 by source file, daphne and laserdisc
by the laserdisc player devices, gameandwatch and lcdgames by the
handheld sources, any other (arcade, mame, consolearcade) for every
machine. The published installer copy of the index leaves the sources
out.
Manifests: RetroDECK gains 1399 files, 378.2 MB, below roms/. Of the 219
sets named as read outside the BIOS folder, 58 reach 146 files (25.9 MB),
161 stay named, no command's machine reading them. 441 sets RetroDECK's
list also declares at bios/ reach 1253 files (352.3 MB), 429 each in
arcade and mame and 480 in consolearcade. No other platform changes.
Where each shipped build finds the config a platform installs and reads
every key it opens a file from, read at the build the platform ships:
duckstation (EmuELEC, ROCKNIX, RetroBat), xemu, armsx2, hatari, melonDS,
dsperate, NanoBoyAdvance, mednafen (ROCKNIX's sydarn fork) and ares,
gzdoom, xroar, lrps2 and the amiberry builds at their pins. pin_build
names the builds ROCKNIX, EmuELEC and AmberELEC compile, revision the
ones RetroBat and Flathub install unpinned.
tests/test_launcher_evidence.py covers the rule, the extractor helpers,
the invariants and the chains that move placements.
MAME 2000, 2003, 2003-Plus, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016 and UME 2015
search the folder of the loaded game for their sets and never the system
folder: osd_get_path gives FILETYPE_ROM the content path (mame2003 and
mame2003-plus src/fileio.c:217-220), -rompath is MgamePath (mame2009
retromain.c:432-434, mame2014 retromain.c:1851-1856, mame2015 and
ume2015 retromain.c:1980-2042, mame2016 retromain.cpp:1364-1402), ROMs
open with libretro_content_directory (mame2010 romload.c:667-685) or
IMAMEBASEPATH (mame2000 libretro.c:1044-1053, 1247). Their 421 sets are
load_from: content_dir. Samples, artwork, cheats and the data files read
from the system folder keep their paths.
A set read beside the game goes to the roms folder of each system the
platform launches the core for: libretro_systems, the default core of a
rom folder, the cores a system offers under its own name, the systems a
RetroPie package registers (the lr-mess packages build SUBTARGET=mess,
lr-mess2016.sh:31, and read none of these arcade sets). A roms root in
the install tree takes a plain dest, as a standalone entry placed there.
A platform with no folder per system, or none it can place (RetroArch,
Lakka, RetroBat, EmuDeck, MyMinUI), names the set as read outside the
BIOS folder. EmulatorJS writes the BIOS and the game to one folder
(emulator.js:845, 990, 1054): RomM keeps its firmware entries. Game data
read beside the content is left to the game.
Manifests: roms folders gain 408 files on RetroDECK, 182 on RetroPie,
179 on Recalbox, 140 on AmberELEC, 134 on KNULLI, 52 on Batocera and
ROCKNIX, 39 on EmuELEC. BIOS root copies no other core reads leave: 80
on RetroArch, Lakka and ROCKNIX, 61 on EmuELEC, 60 on Recalbox, 59 on
AmberELEC, 57 on RetroPie, 26 on MyMinUI, 20 on RetroDECK, 19 on
Batocera and EmuDeck, 16 on KNULLI, 13 on RetroBat. verify --all keeps
its severity and status counts.
RetroBat's es_features.cfg and KNULLI's es_features.yml list the values
a menu offers. They move out of source_ref into choices_from, beside the
generator that writes the choice. RetroBat's xemu flashrom record holds
outside a Chihiro launch (Xemu.Generator.cs:48, 284), and KNULLI's
libretro boot disk records name the one core es_features offers them
for. Rescraped at the pinned revisions.
ROCKNIX, EmuELEC, AmberELEC, EmuDeck and RetroDECK records citing a
config now carry the code installing it, whether that keeps a file
already there, and the launch code rewriting its keys. Rescraped at the
pinned revisions.
Records the shipped code never reads are no longer written: EmuELEC's
mame.ini folders (MAME.opt turns paths off), AmberELEC's atari800.cfg
(read only under an option that is off), the six RetroDECK XRoar ROM
lists no machine looks up, and the ROCKNIX melonDS DSi BIOS keys
(DSiExternalBIOSEnable is set by no shipped ini).
Conditions added: ROCKNIX and AmberELEC amiberry kickstarts hold only
outside a WHDLoad --autoload boot, ROCKNIX NanoBoyAdvance exits without
its BIOS, the EmuELEC scummvm.ini copy runs from an action no launch
passes, and the EmuDeck melonDS.toml keys need ExternalBIOSEnable (DS)
or ConsoleType 1 (DSi).
A launcher record citing a config, option or feature file binds only
when the platform's code installs the file (installs), its launch code
was read for what replaces it (overrides), and the emulator's profile
shows where the shipped build loads it and reads each key
(config_reads, read at pin_build). Unproven records place no file and
hand no directory. verify, cross_reference and the platform page list
them apart, outside severity and --strict.
Readme claims give way to the boot routine of SSF.exe R38: the Saturn
BIOS must read 0x80000 bytes, a failed read or NoBIOS falls back to the
embedded boot ROM, so the BIOS is optional with an HLE fallback, and
ST-V reads its EPROM whatever NoBIOS says.
A body is written as .md and the decoration pass, after the sweep,
gives a page with components its .mdx name. The sweep did not count the
.mdx of the run before as produced: 402 pages were deleted and written
again on every run, so write_if_changed never kept their bytes.
The word and the page title were split by a <br> only, which a copy,
textContent and an assistant read as "PreviousWhat the packs do not
hold". The override keeps Starlight's look, spaces them, names each link
by direction and page, and makes the pair a navigation landmark.
sitesources.py --fetch records the three pinned trees the merged
profiles added and drops paths they no longer cite. generate_site.py
records the new MSX part pages.
GZDoom now declares the path of each IWAD, so their files resolve by
path and these ids count as held. Their IWADs sit in the Doom folder,
and no parent led them there: the Doom section is theirs too.
The -home, -palette, DEFAULT.Z80 and Sam Coupe claims now cite the
option table and loaders of the Speccy 5.9 desktop binary. Quotes with
no code behind them are gone.
Notes now cite code for the fpRam directory, the registry keys and the
Tables path, and drop the manual, installer and Batocera changelog
wording. The code spells the directory fpRam.
The four camera plugins link OpenCV statically. Refs now cite the
CascadeClassifier::load call, its path built from the plugin directory
and the three-entry table, and the empty detector that follows a
failed load.
The step from the frame's create handler down to Memory::Init was
inferred from the error message. Refs now give the chain through
AfxWinMain, InitInstance, the message map, VM::Init and the device
vtable, and the notes say where the SRAM machine index is set.
The media board ROM ref now cites the XBE directory build, the boot.id
exists test that makes the system Chihiro and the gate that skips the
ROM checks in TeknoParrot's cxbxr-emu.dll.
Each built-in ROM resource of Caprice.exe 26.4 is listed with the sha1
of its bytes and the dump it equals in this and other profiles. The
release date taken from History.txt is gone.
Generated and built pages read without the stylesheet, skipping hidden,
aria-hidden, scripts and styles: no step or figure text read twice, no
counter glued to a label, no empty picker, every laid out box spaced.
The build's filter box is compared with the generator's through node.
Tiles read "BizHawkWindows, Linux", stats "168/168Coverage" and a
file row "SVI603.ROMbios/Machines/...OK": the stylesheet lays them
out as boxes, the markup had no space between them. A setup without a
logo draws its initials from the stylesheet, so its name is read once.
A filter box read "Filter Options41 rows" in the page text and the
file picker an empty "Setup Choose a setup": both do nothing without
the script. They are written hidden, keep their room so nothing moves,
and site.ts or the picker's script shows them. The count describes the
input and is spaced from the label. One box markup for the build and
the generator, and the Markdown copy skips hidden chrome.
An inline SVG put every label of both layouts, its title and its desc
into the page text, next to the prose that already says the steps: a
text dump of the Steam Deck tab read the steps three times, glued.
Each drawing is now one SVG file per layout and theme under
assets/diagrams, shown through <picture> with alt="". The figure says
its words once, in one screen-reader line and its caption.
A source_ref part that names a compiled image now has to carry an
address, a decompiled function or an IL method. An import directory, a
string table or readelf output only says the binary exists. A name
under a directory is a file of the tree and a .dll.map is not a DLL.
The exception list is empty: every closed profile now cites code.
The flag, star, FAQ and notice assets cited format strings only. They
now name the decompiled methods that build each asset path and open it
through the AssetManager or a WebView, in all three builds.
Import and .rdata citations now name the loader, LoadLibrary, cascade
and SQLite call sites in BAM.dll and its plugins. TrackIR.dll keeps the
NPClient.dll Future Pinball loads, Kinect10.dll is imported by the two
Kinect plugins only, and the PostFX, iCom and OpenVR configs gain
entries.
Import directory lines and manual pages gave way to the IAT ranges and
the calls that use each library in Future Pinball.exe 1.9.1.20101231.
fpLatestTables.xml is written by the program, not by libcurl.
Batocera starts MAME with -rompath <romDirname>;/userdata/bios/mame;
/userdata/bios, /userdata/roms/mame and the softlist folder added for
MESS systems, and -samplepath, -artpath and -crosshairpath below
/userdata/bios/mame (generators/mame/mameGenerator.py:129-143, 189 at
batocera-43.1, MAME_BIOS in mamePaths.py). No extractor read that
generator. It now goes through the generic reader KNULLI uses for its fork
of the same file, keeping the command line search settings: the
Macintosh boot disk the command names is a file.
Rescraped at batocera-43.1: the six records are the only change.
Manifests: Batocera drops samples/bbc.zip at the BIOS root, read by
neither build. mame/samples/bbc.zip, which its list declares, serves both.
The sets stay at the BIOS root, which the rompath lists.
RetroPie writes MAME's mame.ini with samplepath $romdir/mame/samples;
$romdir/arcade/samples and artpath the same way (scriptmodules/emulators/
mame.sh:135-136), and MAME4ALL's mame.cfg with rompath and samplepath
below $romdir (mame4all.sh:78-79). The extractor kept the lines naming
$biosdir only. An iniSet whose value lists folders below $romdir is now a
search path, one folder alone being where the program writes
(cfg_directory and the others). $romdir is read as RetroPie's roms root
(retropie_packages.sh:47-49).
Rescraped at the pinned revision 427e7621: the four records are the only
change.
Manifests: RetroPie's standalone MAME reads bbc.zip in roms/mame/samples,
no longer named as read outside the BIOS folder, and its 19 floppy
samples there.
A tree installed with MAME sits where its search setting points by
default. When a launcher passes the setting, MAME reads the folder it is
given and never the installed copy: RetroBat passes -hash bios/mame/hash
and -sp bios/mame/samples (Mame64.Generator.cs:30, 101, 106-107, 172,
177-178), KNULLI -samplepath /userdata/bios/mame/samples
(mameGenerator.py:129), RetroDECK samplepath $bios_path/mame-sa/samples
(mame/component_prepare.sh:94, 117). A bundled entry whose layout folder a
passed search setting (standalone_pools) binds is now delivered there.
A moved directory entry is found by its layout path and laid out below
the platform's folder, the folder proving nothing about content. A layout
tail two trees answer (MAME's hash/) falls back on the platform's tail. A
file the profile names itself only shadows a tree member of the same build
below the same root.
Manifests: RetroDECK gains the 19 floppy samples in bios/mame-sa/samples/
floppy. RetroBat's hash/ and samples/floppy and KNULLI's samples/floppy
reach the folders the libretro layout already fills, with the same files.
EmuELEC starts AdvanceMAME for arcade, mame and cps1-3 (es_systems.json).
advmame.sh sets dir_rom to /storage/roms/arcade for arcade and keeps
/storage/roms/mame for every other system (advmame.sh:26-30, 80), so an
arcade set is read in both. A binding gave each entry one place: an entry
launched both for a system a record names and for one it does not now
takes the place of each, in the pack, the manifest and verify. A system
the platform's list or machines put the entry under stands for the
entry's own ids, so XRoar's coco3.rom stays in RetroBat's bios/coco alone.
The AdvanceMAME sets are filed under arcade as well as their board.
A second-pass copy outside the BIOS tree now carries its layout path and
resolves by it, as the first pass does: EmuELEC's roms/mame/stvbios.zip
took bios/Arcade/MAME's set by that tail, roms/arcade/stvbios.zip the
Arcade/Arcade one.
Manifests: EmuELEC gains the 29 sets in roms/arcade, each the file
roms/mame holds. roms/mame/stvbios.zip changes from bios/Arcade/MAME to
bios/Arcade/Arcade/stvbios.zip, the copy the entry resolves to. Nothing
else moves.
libretro/mame hands MAME the rompath <content folder>;<system>/mame/bios;
<system>/mame/roms (src/osd/libretro/libretro-internal/retro_init.cpp:580-597
at 5f5a0774, 573-579 at dc1a9653 for 0.258, 582-588 at fba50741 for 0.278,
CORE_NAME "mame" in libretro_shared.h). The system folder itself is never
searched, and every pack put the sets there. The mame, mame0258, mame0278,
mamearcade and mamemess profiles now lay their sets out in mame/bios, the
standalone build keeping the top of its rompath. The release profile writer
and the device and set merge write the same paths on new entries.
RetroBat offers MAME as the libretro core mame and as the standalone mame64
(es_systems.cfg), two names of one profile, and laid out only the
standalone build. A libretro name whose profile the platform also runs
standalone under another name now makes the profile dual mode.
Manifests: mame/bios gains 1453 sets on RetroArch, Lakka, RetroPie,
EmuDeck and RetroDECK, 1427 on Batocera, KNULLI, RetroBat, ROCKNIX,
AmberELEC and EmuELEC, 78 on Recalbox. Root copies only these cores
claimed leave: 1373 on RetroArch and Lakka, 1372 on RetroPie, 1349 on
ROCKNIX, 1347 on AmberELEC, 1365 on EmuELEC, 240 on RetroDECK, 26 on
EmuDeck, 9 on Recalbox. Batocera, KNULLI and RetroBat keep theirs for the
standalone rompath. RetroBat gains the libretro layout: mame/hash (725),
mame/samples/floppy (19) and mame/plugins (71). The root copies other cores
still claim now hold the copy those cores resolve (38 on RetroArch).
Recalbox drops three Arcade/Arcade copies (coh3002t, pumpitup, naomi2)
that only the root claim reached, mame/bios holding the copies with every
member the 0.258 and 0.278 sets list. No set is lost.
Abdessamad Derraz