reading-reports quotes a RetroDECK run, which now prints the bundled count and 30 missing game data instead of 38. The comment introducing the bundled names also loses its semicolon.
Walking the systems sorted reordered the declarations doubled.py
reports from, so the export report named the CoCo reader first. The
declarations keep the platform's order again, and the packed file is
picked from the sorted walk the builder makes.
A search for gba_bios.bin or scph5500.bin landed on a page described as
"It reads 4 files, none of them required". The snippet now names the
console and the files, required first, in the longest form that fits.
A data archive cut mid-download was deleted on every failure: the retry and the next run started from zero, while the run said nothing was lost. The archive is now kept beside its tree with the validator its server sent, and the rest is asked for with Range and If-Range. Checked against the release: fbneo-samples stopped at 16 MB, the next run downloaded 34.6 MB of 50.5.
AmberELEC's metapackage adds LIBRETRO_CORES_EXTRA (bsnes, Mesen, melonDS, geolith) only on RG552, RG353 and RG503, and deletes those cores from es_systems.cfg on every other device (packages/amberelec/package.mk:23-31, 45-58 at a21975bf). The new target scraper reads the Makefile's device images, that test and es_systems.cfg the way the platform scraper does: RG351P, RG351V and RG351MP list 125 cores, the other three 136. The installer reads the device from COREELEC_DEVICE in os-release (scripts/image:168).
Every change to install.py meant a sha256sum pasted by hand into
install.sh and install.ps1, and the tests that caught a stale pin
failed on two bare hashes. scripts/pin_installer.py writes both pins
(--check only reports), the pin tests name it, check_freshness reads
the pins through it and refresh_stale runs it for a stale pin row.
At be1a3716 find_firmware rejects a candidate by size alone (platforms/libretro/libretro.cpp:811-816), and an OS-7, EOS or SmartWriter image whose CRC32 differs is logged and loaded (lines 875-876, 928-935). The three entries keep crc32 in validation with on_mismatch warn, so another 8 KiB OS-7 revision such as colecoa.rom no longer reads as rejected.
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.
A card's BIOS folder zipped to upload it was hashed as one file and
reported not recognised, its contributor asked where the dump came from
and told to place it under bios/. A ZIP no list or profile declares as a
whole is now read member by member: each is named held, declared and not
held, or not recognised, and the contributor is asked for the files
unzipped. A declared archive (a MAME or FBNeo set) is never opened.
render padded the local value but not the remote one, so in an area
where some rows carry a remote value their detail started fifteen
columns later than the rows without one. The remote value is padded to
its column, and a row without one leaves the same blank span.
check_freshness gained a romfolders area and refresh_stale did not:
its rows were dropped from a saved report without a word, and --only
romfolders was refused. A rom-folder pin is moved by hand, so the area
is listed for a human, a test holds the two area lists equal, and the
--only help names every area.
--dry-run printed its text plan and returned before --json was read,
so a caller parsing the output as JSON failed. With both flags the plan
is printed as JSON: planned jobs with their commands and follow-ups,
the rows left to a human, and the count ignored.
A collision line named two files and neither the system declaring each
nor the one the pack ships, so the reader went back to the platform
file. find_collisions walks the systems in the builder's sorted order,
takes the builder's preferred declaration, and the line and the JSON
now name each system and the file packed. RetroDECK's bios/disk.rom
reads as the CoCo ROM packed, the PC-88 one left out, as its manifest
holds.
The JSON report put "outcome": "new" on every file without another
outcome, so a path that does not exist, or a file that failed a check,
was listed as a new contribution. A failed file now reads "failed".
artifact_lock created its directory even for a shared reader, so a
mistyped path given to --verify-packs or release_record was left as a
directory holding a .lock, and split_pack created the parent before
printing a bare errno. A reader now raises ArtifactDirectoryMissing,
which run_cli prints on one line, and split_pack checks its target
before taking the lock.
A refresh blocked on a data directory lock printed only that another
run held it, then waited with no limit. The line now names the lock
file and the lsof command that shows its holder, and for a refresh,
the generate_pack --no-refresh-data and --offline runs that read the
cache without waiting.
The manifest guard compared repo_path with database.json only, so a
git mv under bios/ committed without regenerating either left both
naming the old path and every test passed. A new test requires each
database path to be tracked or gitignored, and a manifest entry whose
repo_path git neither holds nor ignores now fails as untracked.
264 TemporaryDirectory() and mkdtemp() calls without dir= wrote to the
/tmp tmpfs, and a full tmpfs failed modules no change touched. The test
package now points tempfile and TMPDIR at tmp/tests, and sets
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES there so git run in a scratch directory does
not find the checkout above it. The package test asserts both.
verify counted game data installed with its emulator as missing, which cross_reference files as bundled: 24 of Batocera's 427. Bundled firmware already left the lists, and the line naming it never printed. Every bundled entry is now counted on that line, required firmware named and the rest under --verbose.
adding-a-platform listed what a format can hold and none of what counts the written file. lands, states, fills, clears, names_anew and withheld are what seven exporters override so the summary matches the diff; a test reads the page for every one an exporter overrides.
RetroPie, ROCKNIX, AmberELEC, EmuELEC and RomM keep their save directory in no fixed place, and their lists leave those files out with no hash or address. The run said to name the folder with --save-dir, and said it again when --save-dir was given. It now says the list holds none of them.
The --dest refusal for a path under a file stopped two fixtures: muOS's MUOS marker was written as a file with the BIOS folder below it, and the folder that cannot be created was a path under a file. The marker is now a folder and that case uses a folder this user cannot write.
The entry pattern required four spaces of indent. EmuELEC indents 23 systems with one tab, so render appended each again whole and the published export carried 21 duplicated keys, the md5 fills only in the second copy. Any indent opens an entry now, and an entry written again keeps its own. The EmuELEC export is regenerated: one copy of each system, the amiga entry also gaining the eight WHDLoad Kickstarts the profiles added since 2026-10-22.
--strict fails on a profile no declared repository answers for, yet --triage scored it 0 under the clean profiles and left it out of the count to review. It now weighs as a pin to set again and is counted.
teknogods/TeknoParrotUI and simple64/simple64 answer 404 on the API and the web, and neither organisation lists them now. simple64's README at the pin archives the project for gopher64. Each profile declares upstream_gone and a fork that keeps its default branch at the analysed commit: thecrixux/TeknoParrotUI master is b75872ad, simple64-vault/simple64 main is d8c969c7. realign_prose reads a source declared gone through that mirror, which unblocks five teknoparrot notes citations that anchor unchanged.
A location written without its file, (:507), reads in the file named last in the scalar, either cited or named as 'path:' before a list. A dotless file cited with its directory (tools/errorgen:20) is a citation too. devilutionx, corsixth, starship, plastic, eden-nightly, theforceengine, lightspark and higan_sfc gain 33 citations that bump and realign now follow. Two read that way pointed at another file and now name theirs: devilutionx assets.cpp:511-518, corsixth app.lua:1591.
Two listing options printed one list, and --list-platforms, --list-targets and --list-emulators printed the same output with --system, --region or --core as without, code 0. A run now prints one list, and an option a listing ignores is refused.
realign_prose dated a whole field from the last commit that changed any of its citations. idtech4a++ corrected two notes citations by hand in the commit that advanced its pin, so the untouched Game.java:69-72 and GameResourceUrl.java:14-118 read as written under the current pin and were never offered again. Each citation is now followed through the history on its own. The two idtech4a++ ranges move to 72-75 and 15-121, read at ce49510f.
A BIOS folder that is a file, or lies under one, failed at mkdir with EEXIST or ENOTDIR, and the run blamed permissions and offered sudo. It is now refused before anything is checked, with an error event whose reason is not_a_folder.
A hashless profile entry adopted the only exact holder of its name as the file its aliases designate. dosbox's SC-55 ROM2.BIN found Galaksija's ROM2.BIN, and ROM2_ST.BIN was indexed against a 4 KiB BASIC ROM while SC-55's rom2.bin sat under the same folded name. The name now has to designate one file once case is folded, a primary and its own variants counted as one.
Without jsonschema the documented command stopped on an ImportError
traceback. Run as a command it now prints the install pipeline.py names
for the same step, with the format-nongpl extra, and exits 1. An import
from the tests still raises ImportError, which they skip on.
The --destinations branch of _main rebound held, the ExitStack that
holds the data directory locks, to the dict it writes. It is now
named destinations, and a test refuses a rebinding of the stack.
Native RetroArch on Linux keeps retroarch.cfg under $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/retroarch when the variable is set, and falls back to ~/.retroarch.cfg (file_path_special.c fill_pathname_application_data, configuration.c open_default_config_file at e98e1da0). Detection read ~/.config/retroarch only.
--platform bizhawk --target switch printed skipped, then Done., and
exited 0 with no model written. generate_truth now resolves targets
through build_target_cores_cache, as verify and generate_pack do: a
named platform without the target is refused with exit 1, --all
leaves such platforms out and says so.
verify judged a found_by: content entry by its label alone and called ROCKNIX's scph1001.bin (v2.0) a rustation sha256 mismatch, though rustation declares and boots that dump. A label now accepts the dumps its core takes for the same system and declared region.
_load_sources read a truncated .sources.json as empty: fetch served
the cached original of an older pin as current, the next download
rewrote the index with one entry, and check_freshness said no URL was
recorded. It now raises SourcesIndexUnreadable naming the remedy, and
check_freshness reports one ERROR row for the index.
modified_for_git read the stdout of git status without its exit code:
a corrupt index printed nothing, the working change read as unmodified,
and --apply wrote HEAD's blob over it. Every git call now raises on a
non-zero status, and the command exits 2 naming the git error.
game_dat_importer and arcade_parent_importer each kept an exact-text
copy of write_if_changed, so a redump refresh rewrote every catalog for
its fetched date alone. Both now use artifacts.write_if_changed, which
treats fetched as a timestamp. A No-Intro rebuild still rewrites its
catalogs, since asset_updated_at moves with it, so check_freshness keeps
reading a fetched date no older than the pack.
A core with found_by: content reads no file by the destination's name. Any dump its profile accepts for the system settles the slot: Batocera, KNULLI and ROCKNIX ship scph1001.bin v2.0, which DuckStation and rustation accept under scph1001_v20.bin.
The target scraper kept its own copy of the EmuScripts table and took
.ps1 files the platform scraper never read, so emudeck-we's template
skeleton was published as a core and removed afterwards by an override.
Both scrapers now read emulator_of_script, and the platform scraper
lists the installers at the pinned revision, as launchers: and the
SteamOS target already did. Targets rescraped, override dropped.
Abdessamad Derraz