find_missing kept undeclared files reached only by bundled entries, so auto_fetch searched for and offered files the emulator installs itself, and a placed copy would fail bundled_only.py --strict. RetroPie drops from 55 to 14 missing files.
--emulator mednafen_psx refused with 'use --emulator beetle_psx' although the profile names its target. The alias now selects that profile and says so on stderr, in verify, generate_pack and cross_reference alike. Launchers are still refused, and pipeline step 5 skips aliases since they compare under the profile they name.
pyproject had no [build-system] and no module list, so setuptools' flat-layout discovery found scripts/ and tests/ and refused to build. Nothing is packaged now and pip install -e ".[dev]" installs the tooling.
With found_by content the openMSX entries read as labels, and two of
them, COLECO.ROM and fmpac.rom, are names other profiles give another
dump. openMSX's own machine XMLs name both (ColecoVision_SGM.xml:56,
Boosted_MSX2_EN.xml:83) and try them beside the XML, so they are code
names, not labels.
Continued if-conditions were cut at their first line, so GLES3 held on every board, and selects guarded by a negation stayed on once fired. Derived flags are read line by line, each pass rebuilds the symbol set from the board, and the architecture comes from the board's BR2_<arch> choice.
Comments, docstrings and test texts ended on tags that name private review notes no clone holds. The tags go, the facts stay. Test methods named after a finding number are named after what they hold. test_prose_style refuses a tag that comes back. install.py changes in comments only: its pin and the launcher index follow.
openMSX reaches a ROM in share/systemroms through its file pool by SHA1
alone. A filename is only looked up beside the machine's XML
(src/memory/Rom.cc:121-170, HardwareConfig.cc:279-280,
FileContext.cc:152-156 at a557de7b). The labels read as names the core
opens, and the export added 15 of them to KNULLI and 2 to Batocera.
DEV9 opens eeprom.dat and flash.dat by bare name (pcsx2/DEV9/DEV9.cpp:144
at f0523f8a, AetherSX2 DEV9/flash.cpp:89, PCSX2 1.6 dev9ghzdrk/flash.cpp:73),
so the process working directory answers, never the BIOS folder. Only
yaps2 said so: the other PCSX2 profiles had the file packed into the BIOS
folder and the RetroDECK export add it there.
PCSX2 and its forks keep the first 4 to 8 MB image with a romdir in
the BIOS folder (pcsx2/ps2/BiosTools.cpp:258-282, 317-332 at f0523f8a),
and PCSX2 1.6 lists the same test in its BIOS picker
(BiosSelectorPanel.cpp:151-177). The names are labels. Without found_by
the truth model read ps2-0230a-20080220.bin as a name the core opens, and
the RetroDECK export added it as a required file.
Notes compared a core with another profile of this directory (unlike
beetle_pce, unlike the other engines in this directory), which means
nothing once a profile is read alone, and shouted NOT, ALL and MUST. The
facts stay, the comparisons and capitals go. Comparisons with a core's
own upstream remain.
higan and nSide look program.rom up in the option's folder, SGB.sfc/,
then Super GameBoy.sfc/. Only the SGB1.sfc/ and SGB2.sfc/ folders were
entries, and both names are files bsnes, Mesen-S and ares read from the
same system directory, so no pack could give the higan cores a Super
Game Boy. SGB.sfc/ collides with SuperSnes9x's sgb.sfc on a
case-insensitive file system. Super GameBoy.sfc/ collides with nothing.
The gaps page said the exporter regenerates each platform's file, which it patches, and opened on 48 missing above a heading of 10 files. The provenance total sat above three lists that add up to more, and the cores page counted every profile as run by the platforms.
The site serves install.sh at /retrobios/i and install.ps1 at
/retrobios/i.ps1. generate_site.py writes both copies with the
installer address set to install.py at the commit the site is built
from (GITHUB_SHA in CI, HEAD locally), so the pinned SHA-256 and the
downloaded installer always come from one commit, including while a
deploy is still running.
Every command a user copies names the short address. The raw form
stays on the installer page as the fallback. Deploy Site now runs on
changes to install.sh and install.ps1. The install box weight keeps
the address length its ratio was fitted on, so no console page moves.
System and emulator file cards show the name, size, download, a short
SHA1 with a copy button, the setups and the emulators. The full hashes
and the other facts sit in one closed fold, each hash with a copy button.
A system's install box shows one command under the OS tabs for the
setup picked in a list, remembered across pages. Without the script the
list of every command shows, open. The Markdown the page budgets are
measured on is unchanged, so no card moves.
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 FAQ table of arcade romsets was typed by hand and told readers to
collect MAME 0.160 and FinalBurn Neo 1.0.0.2 sets for cores whose source
states 0.159 and 1.0.0.03. generate_site now writes it between generated
markers from the profiles, and a test holds the page to the generator.
An emulator page names where its version is read (the file, the tag and
the commits after it, the package), and says when the code states none
or the version could not be confirmed. HBMAME no longer claims a MAME
romset. tools.md and profiling.md document version_basis and the two
modes.
The home page is the site: named RetroBIOS, part of nothing. A source repository states the core_version of its build when it names a release, never a commit id or a pin, and no placeholder description.
The render step's npm build wrote Node's compile cache to /tmp, a 4 GB
tmpfs on this host, and a day of pipeline runs filled it to 3.4 GB.
Every child the pipeline starts now carries NODE_DISABLE_COMPILE_CACHE=1.
Romset row and line on MAME and FinalBurn pages, files an app ships
under their own badge and section, collection counts under the table,
empty or constant summary columns dropped, short hashes with the full
value in the title, the profile card and cards past Required folded,
data directory pages kept out of the search.
Required BIOS first with a Start with line by region, a fact grid with
setup display names and a key, a link icon in place of the word
permalink, a console table on the systems index.
The intro names systems and, when required files are one per region, says to pick the one for the game's region. Cards go under Required, Optional and Game data with a summary table above, split pages in the same order. Header and index read singular classes, system names, one spelling per core and plain counts.
load_from: save_dir entries of a libretro build were left out of every
pack. They now go below the platform's save folder (registry
save_directory: RetroArch saves/, Lakka savefiles/, by core), the
manifest marks them root: save, and verify replays the same placement.
Platforms keeping saves per system or per game list them as omitted.
generate_site.py writes the Starlight project in website/ and nothing
else: mkdocs.yml, the MkDocs hooks, theme overrides and stylesheet go,
and the wiki is written in Starlight's syntax. Both workflows set up
Node with the official actions/setup-node pinned by commit, run npm ci
from the committed lockfile, build with the strict link validator and
check the result with validate_site.py.
The search weighs a page by what it answers: Start here pages first,
a system page's cards and file names before a guide citing them, deep
guides, launchers, aliases and frozen copies after. Status badges,
hash blocks and the export change lists leave the index. The ranking
sits at the centre of a range where the 13 queries of search_gate.py
all answer, in the search box itself.
839 pages, every URL and 45,611 ids match the MkDocs build. The tests
read the Starlight content and syntax.
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.
The image and diagram scripts accepted abbreviated options and bypassed
run_cli. The FAQ checks read faq.md only, while the questions on hashes
and checks moved to technical-faq.md.
A platform list can name a game's data files or a file no core it runs opens. Verify gives each missing entry a category read from the profiles of the platform's cores: firmware, game data or unread. Only firmware gaps carry a severity and fail --strict; the others are counted on their own line, and the pack check no longer counts them as pack errors. Missing firmware stays a conformance error.
generate_pack and verify read --system beside --platform through common.resolve_system_arg, built on platform_system_names, the mapping the manifest's system_names comes from. verify --platform --system now reports on the narrowed pack. Unknown names are refused with suggestions before the database is read.
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