Geargrafx drops a 512-byte header before its crc32 (src/media.cpp:754-773
at 7c447b0b), and its profile lists both sizes. slots compared the crc32
of the whole file, so EmuELEC's headered syscard3.pce read as contested.
Without --verbose each missing core file was followed by a bare '[size]'
line that told the reader nothing. It now reads 'validates size', the
verbose wording without the expected values.
'Bundled with their emulator, not collected: 154' listed the 14 required
firmware names and nothing said the rest existed. The line now ends with
'139 more, --verbose lists them', as the Core files line does.
Every profile is loaded whatever the command, so one misindented key in
an unrelated profile stopped verify.py --emulator handy and generate_pack
on a 37-line yaml traceback. The sources common.py reads (profiles,
platform files, registry, shared groups, targets) now raise
SourceUnreadable, which run_cli prints on one line with the file, the
line and the validate_schemas command. It is not a FileNotFoundError:
ten callers skip a platform whose file is absent, and a damaged one must
not be skipped the same way.
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.
dsi_bios7.bin and dsi_bios9.bin hold the DSi Panda devkit boot ROMs, eMMC
key-Y zeroed. Every md5 and crc32 declared under those names designates
a retail dump in the same directory, yet hashless entries (RetroBat,
dsperate) got the devkit ROMs by name. by_proven_name maps such a name to
the proven primaries beside it. kick13.rom, dsi_firmware.bin and
spectrum.zip follow the same rule.
--db databse.json, with database.json in the same folder, was told to run
generate_db --force --output databse.json: a rescan of the whole
collection into a second file under the typo. load_database now names the
closest .json in that folder first, and gives the rebuild command only
when none is close.
A mistyped --system said '--list-systems lists all 579' and the listing
prints 532: the hint counted every spelling across profiles, and
system_index merges the ones that differ in case or separator before
printing. Both verify.py and generate_pack.py now pass that count to
suggest_names, whose listed parameter exists for this case.
The closing summary of verify --all grouped platform to names: sfiii2a.zip,
missing on 15 platforms, was printed 15 times on a 1 060-character line and
counted 24 files for 10 distinct ones. It now groups by file and names the
platforms by the shorter side (every platform but BizHawk, MinUI, MiSTer
FPGA).
Only generate_pack.py and pipeline.py checked the interpreter. verify.py,
slots.py, validate_pr.py, cross_reference.py and the probe tools started
under 3.8 and stopped halfway on a str.removeprefix AttributeError. The
check now lives in common.py, which every build script imports, and in
core_probe.py and region_check.py, which do not. generate_site.py imports
common before siterender, which raised a TypeError at load under 3.8.
Every signature carries annotations and nothing read them. mypy 1.18.2
over install.py and scripts/ reports 993 errors today, among them the
six pack helpers typed zipfile.ZipFile that every caller also hands a
PackRecord. The errors sit in mypy-baseline.txt and the schema job fails
on any error outside it, or on an entry that no longer occurs. Third-party
packages are left out so the result does not depend on the machine: 6 s
locally, run twice and on 3.12 and 3.13 with the same errors.
_ships and _emulator_ships resolved without the data directories, the
archive index and the slot override the builder uses: 400 platform
declarations and 178 emulator entries read as missing while the pack
held them.
A search that found nothing sent any short text, which a name could be.
Its words now go out only as a file name or a hash, every other search
is counted as "other" without them.
Pages, referring domains and a few actions (searches that found
nothing, downloads, missing addresses, "Did this page help?") are sent
to GoatCounter. Nothing is stored on the device, and nothing is sent
under Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control. wiki/privacy.md says what
is sent.
EmuELEC's scripts/image writes COREELEC_DEVICE to os-release (v4.8, line
189), as a GameForce image shows. The installer reads it the way it does
for AmberELEC and applies install/targets/emuelec.json. MiSTer FPGA takes
EmuELEC's place in the test of a platform without targets.
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.
Abdessamad Derraz