A file installed with its emulator is already on the user's machine and the packs leave it out. bundled_only.py lists the collected copies nothing else needs: no platform declares them, no entry of any build needs them, no install manifest ships them.
A file or tree installed with the emulator is already on the user's machine, so packs, install manifests and verify's pack count leave it out. bundled is scoped by mode like any entry: Dolphin's Sys and PPSSPP's assets ship with the standalone releases, not with the libretro cores, so they now follow the libretro build only and still reach RetroArch packs. PrimeHack, standalone only, ships its own Sys.
Counts were printed with a fixed plural and the site said "1 files" 234 times, "1 issues" and "1 entries" too. A shared helper picks the noun, and the generated-pages prose test refuses the form.
A hash mismatch row printed the hash the emulator accepts and stopped there, although the collection holds that exact dump for most rows. A column now links the held copy.
The database keeps one path per content, so a copy filed under another manufacturer was on no page of its own: the Channel F BIOS sat under Arcade > FBNeo and Fairchild had no system page. Every folder holding a copy now lists it, read from the full paths by_path_suffix records, and the index counts each content once.
Recalbox lists accepted md5s joined by commas, and platform pages printed the list as one code span. The site search took it for a single word, so 198 accepted values could not be found. Each value now has its own span.
A profile that reads a libretro core and the original emulator cited both trees alike, and readers could not tell whether the core or the emulator asked for a file. A cited path now opens with source or upstream, the repository its lines are in. Emulator code a port carries is attributed upstream when the original holds the same value on the cited line.
profile_sync --attribute-refs writes the words from where the lines are found and follows a word already written. The site links each citation to that repository's pin, labels it libretro core or upstream emulator, and says on each file card whose code asks for it. A recale keeps the word, and mame_ref_audit reads the tree it names.
A source_ref written as `stella src/a.c:120` names the repository its lines are in. The path is read without the word, and --rebase-refs wrote the new span back without it, losing the attribution.
Notes, file notes and platform details carried file:line citations as plain text although profile_sync keeps each on the profile's pin. A citation now links when the profile reads one repository and the path is rooted or already used by a structured source_ref. Platform detail source_refs go through the same renderer as file cards.
A card named only the platforms whose own list declares the file. A RetroBat user looking up scph5501.bin found every platform but RetroBat, whose pack installs it for six cores. The cards now read the install manifests and add each pack that places the file, with the destination it gives it.
Platform pages matched emulators to systems by the exact id, so the RetroArch page listed none for sega-mega-drive (genesis_plus_gx says sega-megadrive), and listed every emulator of a system instead of those the platform runs. Emulator cards linked only ids a platform uses: 2,057 of 4,215 system lines had no link, now 327, the rest having no page. Ids are compared as _norm_system_id reads them, and a system only profiles name is placed by the files they file under it.
The pack table, its parts sentence and the install commands were typed by hand from figures release.json already held. A copied cell or an old collection total at the top is how issue 81 happened. release_notes.py renders them and appends the hand-written account of what changed.
PR validation runs validate_schemas.py --source-only and the pipeline did not, so a profile with an unquoted numeric core name passed every step and failed CI on push. It is step 0 now, skipped where jsonschema is not installed.
Paid Android emulators announce versions that circulate only rebuilt or re-signed. The profile stays on the newest unmodified build, and version_source.no_genuine_copy names the release searched for, so check_freshness stops flagging it until the page announces a later one.
1024 bytes named scph5501.bin, a name every declaration sizes at 524288, were reported "File size OK" and offered a .variants slot at the repository root. The review now warns when no declaration of the name accepts the size, and places a variant beside the folder that holds the name.
Generating the model for every platform met the same two GameIndex.yaml declarations once per platform, and check_freshness opened on six identical warnings.
check_buildbot does not fail the run, yet the summary printed it FAILED right above Pipeline COMPLETE. It now prints WARN and a line saying the difference does not fail the run. The total is aligned under the step durations.
Offline, check_freshness labelled every scraped target list static and counted it OK although nothing was compared. Other sections say SKIPPED offline, and now this one does too.
A 2 GB part drew a 98-column line, and on an 80-column console every redraw wrapped and left a copy behind. The bar now shrinks to the width and goes below ten columns of room.
Scrapers resolve their tag or branch head in the constructor, which ran outside the try in scraper_cli: a refused GitHub call ended in a traceback. The error is now printed with the next step, setting GITHUB_TOKEN when the API refused an anonymous call.
The guides said files over 50 MB become release assets and that RPG Maker and ScummVM were the trees kept out of dedup. .gitignore decides the first, four committed files are over 50 MB, and NODEDUP_DIRS holds eleven trees.
generate_site --docs-dir sent the pages elsewhere but always rewrote the tracked mkdocs.yml, outside the lock taken on that folder, with the navigation of the work in progress. Two previews into two folders both wrote it. Another folder now gets <name>.mkdocs.yml beside it, docs_dir set and its paths rebased, which mkdocs builds with -f.
About forty profiles describe projects published outside any forge (Altirra, ePSXe, DraStic, mednafen, xroar). profile_sync skipped them as an unsupported host and check_freshness reported the same UNKNOWN line every run, so a new release adding a firmware went unseen. A profile can now name the page announcing its releases and a pattern for the version: --check-version reads it, and check_freshness --profiles calls the profile stale when the page announces another version than core_version.
The alias-free profile set was parsed separately from the full one, so a process asking for both read the 534 profiles twice, 1.6 s of a site build. It is now a filter over the full set.
With --all, an unknown --target skipped every platform that has targets and ran the others (BizHawk, MiSTer) unfiltered, so verify, slots and the pipeline exited 0 on a typo. A platform without targets is now left out like the rest, and a target no platform has is refused.
The pipeline rebuilds the database with --force, which discarded the previous digests and wrote whatever the CPU computed, on a host that has given an incorrect SHA-1 under load. The forced run still rehashes every file, but a digest that contradicts the cache for an unchanged mtime and size is computed again, and the two readings that agree win, with a warning naming the file.
The buildbot publishes .so cores for OpenDingux (mips32, its beta and RS-90 builds), RetroFW, MiyooCFW and webOS (armv7a, aarch64), 7 to 206 cores each. None was a target, so a handheld or TV user could not narrow a pack or an install to the board. They are scraped now, with opendingux, retrofw, miyoo and webos as aliases.
The project bans a short list of marketing words in what it publishes, and no test read for them: the site's platform table described Recalbox's interface with one. The line now says what Recalbox does, and test_prose_style fails on any of those words in a tracked file.
CONTRIBUTING and the testing guide installed pyyaml and jsonschema only, while the CI test job also installs markdown. On a contributor's machine the wiki heading test skipped and the run read OK. Both name it now, and a test compares them to the packages the tests import.
profile_sync skipped a profile whose repository no longer answers, which carries no pin, or whose declared death the forge contradicts, with empty counts. --strict counted refs to review only, so the CI job meant to stop an unchecked new profile passed a mistyped repository. Such skips now fail a strict run. An unsupported host, a declared takedown and a profile without refs stay accepted.
auto_fetch caught every network error in its repository and archive.org steps and reported the file as needing a community contribution. Offline or rate-limited, --create-issues asked the public for files the tool never looked for, and the errors counter stayed at 0. A 404 is still an answer. Any other failure now marks the file as not fully searched and keeps it out of issues.
list_registered_platforms skipped a registered platform whose YAML was missing and returned an empty list without a registry. verify --all --strict, every --all build, the CI matrix and the site then ran over fewer platforms and exited 0, and install.py kept serving the stale manifest. Both now raise and name the file.
group_identical_platforms fingerprinted each file by destination, sha1 and md5. Two platforms whose lists differed only in required, zipped_file, size or crc32, or in how the frontend checks a file, would have shared the representative's pack and verify result. The fingerprint now carries every field of every entry and the platform's verification_mode and hash_rule. No current platform is regrouped.
load_profile_hashes and load_platform_hashes read hash fields by hand: crc32 was never indexed and a comma list of sha256 stayed one key. A contribution a profile names by crc32 alone (clk's Electron os.rom, among 626 entries) or by one of mesence's four sha256 was reported as referenced nowhere. Both indexes now read through parse_hash_list, and a crc32 counts where no stronger hash is declared, bounded by the declared size.
The integrity step compared a member's md5 by hand and ignored hash_rule, so under RomM's rule (size, then any of md5, sha1 and crc32) it would refuse a revision the builder rightly shipped on its sha1. The rule now lives in digest_verdict, which the path check and the pack member check both call. The member's archive digest is computed without the path cache, whose key a buffer's reused address made collide.
When the truth takes over an entry without a size of its own, the format writes it without the platform's size: System.dat's neocdz.zip lost size 953078 and no counter said so. Removed sizes are now counted and named, and the summary counts read 1 size, 2 sizes.
The attribute pattern took letters only, so md5 never entered the comparison and an element whose digest the truth corrects kept Recalbox's text. A test written before the change caught it. The RetroDECK fixture now names the core that reads its addition, as the placement rule requires.
Every <bios> element the model held was rendered again, so attribute order, alignment, a line break inside md5 and the case of a digest changed in 222 elements that stated the same thing. The diff deleted 451 lines for 136 corrections. An element whose attributes say what Recalbox wrote now keeps Recalbox's own text: 175 lines, the corrections.
Notes were keyed by file path, so a comment before one of the items reading an archive came back before every item reading it: bk's '# MAME' twelve times. A comment after the list's opening bracket matched neither rule and was dropped (enterprise's ep128emu-core). Notes are now keyed by file and archive member, written once, and a head-line comment goes with the first item.
Additions took the component their system's entries sit in, whatever core reads them. 104 armsx2 and yaps2 files went into PCSX2's manifest, beetle_psx and rustation dumps into DuckStation's, a directxbox image into xemu's, all counted as added. An addition now lands only where a core reading it is that component's emulator: 132 additions instead of 581.
ROCKNIX registers DuckStation twice, as the libretro core under retroarch and as duckstation-sa under its own emulator. The exporter looked a standalone runner up as a core name, so standalone DuckStation's 98 additions were written for users of the libretro core, PS2 images included, and standalone ARMSX2 was refused. A libretro runner now answers with the retroarch pair, a standalone with its emulator's own.
cross_reference printed 20 runtime components bundled with their emulator as [MISSING] and counted them among the files to source. The collection leaves them out by design, as verify and the gaps page already say. They are now listed as [BUNDLED] and counted on their own line.
With no platform named, cross_reference passed no standalone cores, so every dual profile was laid out as libretro only. The CLI and the site's gaps page left out 133 files that Batocera and RetroBat run standalone and that no platform declares (eka2l1 90, dolphin 21, cemu 11). Both now pass the union of every platform's standalone cores.
EmuHawk finds every firmware by SHA1 against FirmwareDatabase.FirmwareRecords, and its cores are its own builds. The registry and the scraper both listed libretro cores whose systems overlap BizHawk's, so the pack shipped Clock Signal, O2EM, FBNeo, VICE and Citra files into Firmware/ that EmuHawk never reads. Both lists are now empty, as MiSTer's are: the database alone decides.
generate_readme, generate_site and slots resolve against data/ but took no hold when run on their own, as the documented commands do. A refresh swapping a tree mid-read then gave counts from half of it. Each now holds the trees shared, like verify and the builder.
The consistency check compared the platform's own files only. It now also compares verify's core files and game data with the builder's count of files taken from the cores.
The report counted claims, not files: several cores claim one path (rom.key by three Amiga cores, openbios.bin with and without a region) and the builder ships one file there. RetroArch read 1130 core files, 48 more than its pack. Game data ignored the in_pack marker, so RomM read 351 game data files in a pack that holds none. verify now takes both counts from its replay of the builder's placement, one per pack path.
When the forge truncates the HEAD tree, the rename search cannot see every path, yet a bare filename it did not find was reported GONE. eden's fs_paths.h and path_util.cpp exist under src/common/fs/. Such a citation is now AMBIGUOUS with the reason, as the realign path already says unclear and never absent.
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