Recalbox compiles libretro/mame at 0.258 and 0.278 itself; typed
libretro, both profiles were resolved for every all_libretro platform
although the buildbot RetroArch installs from has neither. A profile
now names the platforms that build it (built_by), and is reached only
when a platform lists it by name.
RetroBat starts Sonic 3 A.I.R., Sonic Mania, the RSDK v3/v4 ports,
Xash3D and SimCoupe as sonic3air, sonicmania, sonicretrocd,
sonicretro, xash3d and simcoupe; the profiles now list those names so
a RetroBat core list reaches them.
Recalbox ships libretro/mame built at 0.258 and at 0.278, and no
profile described either release. mame_hash_scraper gains --release,
which reads the BIOS root sets at one mamedev tag and writes a profile
pinned to it; mame0258 and mame0278 are generated from it, every
source_ref anchored at its tag.
The profile described an Odin edition no branch carries any more. At
the pinned commit core.c embeds VXTBIOS, VXTX and the EGA BIOS, never
asks for the system directory, and writes its FreeDOS image to the
save directory; an INI machine can load a ROM from a path it names.
The libretro pin carries nesbox/TIC-80 as a submodule at ae1195a9.
Without upstream_commit the comparison read nesbox at the profiled
date, and the cited lines pointed at comments: valid_extensions and
need_fullpath are 339-340 there, serialization 1203-1243.
EightyOne lists the Spanish and French Spectrum ROMs in a per-model
drop-down (Source/HW_.cpp) and the user picks one: the code never
selects them by territory, so --region france dropped the five Spanish
ROMs and --region spain the French one.
Only the "MSX2 - Arabic" machine config loads Shared Roms/PAINT.rom;
the Al Alamiah machines load their own copies and no Japanese machine
loads it at all. Tagged japan, it lost to CLK's msx-american.rom under
--region us and RetroDECK's md5 check reported it missing.
Abdessamad Derraz