The manifest names the cores that read a tree no platform system
declares, every reader of a shared tree included. An install for the
games of a card keeps such a tree only when its plan runs one of them:
a SNES game on ArkOS (snes9x) no longer takes FBNeo's cheats and samples.
A system no setup names a core for keeps every core's tree.
--for-games --required-only on a dArkOS card from a computer kept every
file of the list: --dest skipped the card's detection, so its rom
folders were never found. The games part beside the BIOS folder now
names them. The manifest marks a data tree every core runs without
(optional), and --required-only leaves it out: one GBA and one SNES game
took FBNeo's cheats and samples, 3,472 files no game opened.
Mini vMac opens no MinivMacBootv2.dsk at babdf7b5: disks come from a .cmd
(libretro-core.c:181-195) or disk1.dsk to disk9.dsk
(OSGLUERETRO.c:563-579). The name is the one Recalbox's configgen writes
into its .cmd, already recorded in its launchers: layer. Nine manifests
no longer send the 24 MB image to platforms that never open it.
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.
A tarball tree was announced at its extracted size: yaps2 at 6.5 MB for a 21.2 MB download, Cemu's game profiles at 9.9 KB for 21.4 MB. refresh_data_dirs records the size of each archive it downloads (a tree current from before is measured, not refetched), the install lists carry it as archive_size, and the plan, the menu and the data event count it.
PCSX2 stats <bios>.rom1 then <stem>.rom1, case-sensitive on Linux (BiosTools.cpp:214-229), and so does PCSX2 1.6 for erom. The pack wrote the stored SCPH-70004.ROM1, never found. A companion entry also seeded a scan of its own with a 4 MB bound and swept cheats, GameIndex.yaml and DVD firmware to the BIOS root. A companion now scans its image's folder for its own extension only, any size, since the code reads min(size, filesize), and is written as the code spells it.
Fourteen lists gain the data trees their cores read. AmberELEC and EmuELEC fetch the 192 blueMSX machine configs from the tree instead of holding them back, and RetroPie drops the blueMSX tree its lr-bluemsx module installs.
segadimm.zip holds fpr23905.ic36 and fpr23905c.ic36 under the same crc32, and segasp.zip four fpr-*.ic72 images. Ranked by crc32 alone, a copy missing some of them tied with the full set and the index order chose it. A crc32 that two declared members share now also requires the member name.
Genesis Plus GX declares bios_U.sms and bios_E.sms with no hash. Only
.variants/ copies carried those names, so the name step served the Store
Display Unit BIOS and a 256 KB BIOS, while every platform pins v1.3 under
both. Two causes in generate_db: the v1.3 content's path was ZEsarUX's
sms.rom, which the resolver sets aside as another emulator's file, and a
name pinned by hash was refused when only variants carried it.
The scan now prefers a copy filed under its machine over one in an
emulator's own tree, and a name only variants carry can name the content
a hash pins it to.
Manifests: six contents change repo_path only (v1.3 SMS BIOS and five
ZEsarUX Spectrum ROMs, same sha1). On batocera, knulli, recalbox and
retrodeck the Genesis Plus GX bios_E.sms and bios_U.sms extras move from
the two variants to v1.3.
The resolver now keeps a name inside its own emulator tree and the retail Xbox dashboard files moved to bios/Microsoft/Xbox/C/, so the install lists, README counts, installer samples and games index are rebuilt from the merged tree. Built twice, identical.
Same files per platform. The manifests catch up with the per-system MAME
filing, the platform system join and declared_in, and name sfiii2a.zip as
missing. The games index fallback sets and the installer page samples
follow.
install/<platform>.json wrote the constant "1.0" as the version of the
list it was built from. The manifest now carries the version the platform
YAML records, and generate_pack refuses a YAML without one.
inherits: no longer passes a parent's version to a child: Lakka was
published as RetroArch v1.22.2 in its manifest, pack name and site page.
lakka.yml records v6.1, the Lakka-LibreELEC tag its target list is read
at. The MiSTer scraper refuses a BiosDB without a timestamp instead of
writing an empty version.
A pack's manifest.json records list_version, so an install from the pack
alone knows it too. Manifests regenerated twice and compared: only
version and generated changed.
The copy shipped first was the European MK-80310 Video CD card (its header reads VIDEO CD PLAYER PAL MK-80310, version 1.105). Lunar Silver Star Story MPEG, the Saturn game that needs a card, names the Movie Card, so the Japanese HSS-0119 (V1.102) now leads and the MK-80310 stays as a variant. No emulator tested reads the card's content today (records in measurements/beetle_saturn.jsonl), and no platform pins a hash for this file. Issue 85.
After the second bring-to-head pass: 40 bumps, ten profiles by hand,
five off-forge apps, the G-NET BIOS sets and the new hiscore.dat.
Manifests generated twice, identical.
Core extras placed under the bios prefix are now one claim per path, so
DuckStation's region-tagged PS2 images carry their regions in the
manifests. Generated twice, identical.
After section A of the round 5 audit and the ROCKNIX standalone profiles
(data_root on 58 profiles, 67 display names, three alias folds, 33 core
names mapped, scummvm and vice standalone, yabasanshiro both modes).
Manifests generated twice, identical.
Each manifest carries system_titles, the name the site prints for every system its files list (Sony PlayStation, not sony-playstation or psx), so the installer can show it. Older installers ignore the field.
QEMU's 79 files go to QEMU/QEMU and Roland's four loose ROMs to MT-32
and CM-32L. The mt32-roms, soundcanvas-roms and sounddata trees stay as
the code addresses them. Chihiro joins Sega and the Oric joins
Tangerine, the names the site and libretro already use. No destination
held other bytes.
The three QEMU EDK2 images are release assets, and their .gitignore
lines follow them. Database and manifests are regenerated together.
verify --all and cross_reference give the same output once moved paths
are mapped.
DS and DSi split into Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi. 64DD, Mega-CD,
ZXSpectrum, VSmile, BBC and Game Engines/DOOM merge into the folder
of the same console. Same-named dumps with other bytes are kept:
BBC Micro's earlier zips in .variants/, the vsmilem set in vsmilem/,
the Doom II 1.666 IWAD in v1.666/, BizHawk's DSi firmware in bizhawk/.
Galaksija and Vircon get a console folder, sdlpal's desc.dat joins
its tree, VICE's PET and CBM-II ROMs leave C128 with their vice/ tail.
Database and manifests regenerated together. Verify and cross
reference give the same result once moved paths are mapped.
Pin moves to 2de3bf8 (v8.4.2). roms/aros-ext.bin, roms/aros-rom.bin and whdboot/game-data/whdload_db.json changed upstream and are collected at that revision. The WHDLoad database is matched on the archive SHA1 first and refreshed from the bundled copy when newer. kick02019.AROS and its .ext are names the Recalbox launcher writes, so the profile now documents the kickstart_rom_file settings instead.
55 device sets the collection lacked or held incomplete. 24 are rebuilt from ROMs already in bios/, 31 come from the archive.org item mame-roms-non-merged. Every member matches the 0.289 listxml size, crc32 and sha1, and each archive is built with build_torrentzip. The complete nss_tvinterface goes to .variants since RetroDECK pins the incomplete copy. The old at_keybc.zip held two of the three ROMs, its md5 is pinned by no platform, and is replaced by the complete set RetroDECK pins (63536a7d). Database and install manifests are regenerated with the files, including the vMac.ROM move.
opera-boot.bin, blueMSX's own RS232.ROM, the GameCube IPLs filed under their system, and Triforce's codehandler.bin from the Dolphin Sys tree the pack carries.
Abdessamad Derraz