AmberELEC and ROCKNIX install a retroarch.cfg whose system_directory
points every core at the BIOS folder. retroarch.yml (type utility, no
file, no system) reads that key, and ROCKNIX's systemfiles_in_content_dir,
at the RetroArch each one compiles: v1.22.2 and bdba046f. all_libretro
never picks a utility profile, and lists naming retroarch gain no file.
A libretro core option a frontend record writes stays the core's to
read: RetroDECK's pcsx2_bios keeps lrps2 as its reader.
duckstation.sh quotes its glob, so its copy names a file called * and
installs nothing. userconfig-setup copies /usr/config into
/storage/.config at every boot, an existing file kept (false | cp -i),
and /emuelec links there: that copy installs settings.ini and
advmame.rc. A quoted glob is no install, and a redirection ends the
copy's operands. Rescraped at v4.8: only these installs change.
RetroBat installs its stable archives, so each config_reads entry is
read at the build the binary names: Hatari 2.4.1, hatariB 0.3,
Hatari2014 at ab55c3e from the buildbot, Kronos 2.7.0 and Ymir 0.3.3.
SSF ships PreviewVer R28 and YabaSanshiro 1.20.32 has no public
source: binary_sha256 names the file their address refs are read in.
The seven RetroBat records citing an option list now hold.
The scraper read emulatorLauncher master on every run, so an extractor
change was diffed together with upstream's commits since the pin. It now
rereads the commit platforms/retrobat.yml pins. --revision master moves
it, and check_freshness and refresh_stale pass that through the
registry's rescrape_args.
The extractors also read master (f681f435): Kronos and YabaSanshiro
fall back to sega_101.bin then mpr-17933.bin when the chosen BIOS is
absent, Ymir writes a forced BIOS only under its override flag, and a
folder created below bios (Ymir's cdb) is a passes_path record. At the
pin the 187 records are unchanged.
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.
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.
Each EDK2 code image was run through a .qemu_cmd_line with -bios in the buildbot qemu_libretro.so (linux x86_64, 2026-07-27, 06ad814b) under scripts/core_probe.py, every pc-bios file staged in system/qemu.
edk2-aarch64-code.fd and edk2-arm-code.fd reach the TianoCore boot screen on -M virt with ramfb. edk2-x86_64-code.fd makes QEMU exit at once, as bios-256k.bin on the same command line does not: the x86 images are 3653632 bytes, not a multiple of 64 KiB, and x86_bios_rom_init refuses them (hw/i386/x86-common.c:1000-1002), the i386 and secure images included. edk2-riscv-code.fd leaves a black screen: it is S-mode code for pflash0 (docs/system/riscv/virt.rst:59-70).
The x86 and RISC-V images are read only as pflash drives, opened by path from the content folder, so the five entries are removed.
Abdessamad Derraz