Seven CommonPaths.h refs were written in March against a 2025 layout (bfef65a9..8cbfee21, IPL.bin at 138), and SYSCONF was later set to 118 from the current file, so no revision held all eight. They now cite d8558142, the merge base of shiiion/dolphin@53f53e0f with dolphin-emu master, where each define sits on the cited line, and upstream_commit names it.
EightyOne/Source/ROMs/... answers 404 at charlierobson/EightyOne@4de3cdb8. Source/ROMs/{FDCs/interface1.edition1,spectrum48.arabic,tk90,tk95}.rom hash to the md5 each entry declares. The notes refs drop the clone-directory prefix too and name their repository.
These refs were labelled upstream but land in the port at source_commit: flycast sb_mem.cpp:55-59,196-231, reios.cpp:737 and naomi_roms.h:87-94 in libretro/flycast@bde196bf (filestream_open, get_rom_names), lrps2 BiosTools.cpp:189-229,339-340 and CDVD.cpp:196-245 in libretro/ps2@6eabf224 (RETRO_VFS reads absent from PCSX2), mesence bios.col at FirmwareTypeExtensions.cs:70 in MesenCE@20f497c9 (line 62 in Mesen2).
source_commit 953db38f is the tip of branch groovymame0289, its makefile:1513 writes BARE_BUILD_VERSION "0.289", and the compare with mamedev tag mame0289 is 83 ahead, 0 behind, with no file under src/mame or src/devices. The notes described the earlier pin e3fa1305 (branch groovymame0288).
detect_pinned_tag matched core_version against every view, so an upstream_commit set to the release tag a port was cut from (triforce on Dolphin 2407, dosbox_pure on 1.0-preview7, GroovyMAME on mame0289) froze the whole profile: the port was no longer compared with its HEAD and bump_commit refused. Only the documented build's repository freezes the profile now. An upstream on its tag is self-checked at that tag, is not reported orphaned, and a bump leaves upstream_commit on it.
The download page had no Android line and no Windows form with
options, and platform and system pages offered only ZIP parts. One
generator now writes the Linux, Windows and Android commands for the
download page and the platform, emulator and system pages. A system
section lists each platform's command under the system id its install
manifest records, the only names --system accepts.
dosbox_pure takes the upstream tag its core_version names (1.0-preview7), triforce the Dolphin release its tree reports (2407). The others take the upstream commit at profiled_date, the revision profile_sync already compared them against: the standalone build for standalone + libretro profiles, and for cannonball and jl-mod the cited lines land there and not at the fork's merge base. Every upstream-role ref lands on its declared value at the pin.
The which-pack page called RetroPie the largest community with the most
guides, Batocera an easy setup and Recalbox good for a first build,
claims nothing in the repository measures. Each row now says what the
setup is, with board names taken from the platform target lists.
The page opened on a slogan and four tiles that read Verified (100%)
for 5,437 of 5,438 files and Missing 0, above a table of red cells. It
now opens on what it covers and one sentence that says every count of
the platforms' own lists and points to the emulator files below.
An emulator page linked its YAML and api/v1 JSON, platform and system
pages nothing. Each platform page now links its YAML, its own
api/v1/platforms/<id>.json and its install manifest, and each system
page its api/v1/systems/<slug>.json, both validated by the envelope
schema.
An emulator card's anchor changed when a second entry with the same
path was added, so cited links landed at the page top. A card whose
entry declares a hash is now addressed by it, and the first card of a
path keeps the plain file-<path> id as an alias.
upstream_commit is the merge base the compare API gives between each port at its source_commit and the upstream default branch. holani and melonds_ds take the revision their build fetches (tag 0.9.9, and the melonDS branch whose merge base is 906e9ebb). The upstream-role refs land on their declared values there, except mesence bios.col, whose line 70 is in MesenCE's own FirmwareTypeExtensions.cs.
A core that loads no file no longer promises paths and hashes in its
snippet, a description is cut at a word and keeps the underscores of
its code spans, and the JSON-LD url is encoded as mkdocs encodes the
canonical link and the sitemap.
A row said the declared hash was contradicted by the local file and
named neither. The table now prints the hashes the platform declares
and the path and hashes of the copy the collection holds.
load_from, found_by, on_mismatch, built_by, pin_frozen and
version_source were in the profiles and on no page: Dolphin's
gba_bios.bin showed a path under system/ although the libretro core reads
it from its save directory, and mame0278 did not say only Recalbox ships
it.
164 entries wore the in repo badge with no copy named: they are held as
a ZIP member or in a data directory, which the database does not index.
held_copy() finds that copy and the card names it. storage: large_file
no longer counts as held by itself: kenji-nx's user-picked firmware
package read as held although nothing collects it.
Each upstream URL names a mamedev/mame tag; upstream_commit is the commit that tag points at. Every upstream-role ref lands on its declared set name or hash there.
The database keeps one path per content, so a system placed by the
copy deduplication kept linked to another maker: nintendo-nes and
nintendo-fds to Arcade > FBNeo, sega-mastersystem and
sinclair-zx-spectrum to Other > zesarux. Every folder holding a copy now
votes, an id that spells one console folder links to it, and a maker's
folder outranks the folders that file copies by emulator.
DecideNAND (MelonDS.cs:684-706) keeps, for a DSi title, only the NAND
slots whose bit is set in header byte 0x1B0. The six DSi_Nand entries
now carry that territory, so --region keeps one 240 MB image, not six.
AUS answers oceania, as every other Australian slot does.
Systems a core covers without a file were added while walking a set,
so the hash seed placed them and two runs wrote dist/truth/<platform>.yml
in two orders. The normalized system map was built from a set too.
The buildbot serves nicaiemu_libretro (frozen at 4c9b73f7, last built
2026-10-16 05:15) beside coolbaremu_libretro. They are two builds: each
reads its own orientation list from the system directory, so both
profiles stay, each with its own core name. Both read the same .cbe
archives from the same workspace, which builds a standalone binary at
both revisions: one system id and one build type for the two.
The slot and claim decisions above change which copy some paths take
(EmuDeck neocdz.zip, RetroBat DS firmware, hiscore.dat on six platforms)
and settle case variants on folding filesystems.
Ranking contested core claims sorted the whole gap report, which
reordered every manifest. Only the claims on one contested path move now,
grouped where the first of them stood, and two spellings of a path are
one group where the filesystem folds case (RetroBat's 64DD_IPL_DEV.bin).
An entry without a destination (EmuDeck's system:md5 whitelist) no
longer counts as a pack path in verify, and step 5 prints one status for
counts and paths together. A full offline run compared all 12 archives
and 930 emulator packs path by path, every one equal.
Thirty one-line labels in verify.py, generate_site.py and
generate_truth.py named the statement under them ("# Load registry",
"# Copy branding assets"). Comments that give a reason stay, as do the
module section headers. A test reads the three files for new ones.
The which-pack page announced itself ("This page picks the right pack
for a setup") before naming a pack. The sentence goes, the pointer to
Getting started stays.
Ymir reads sega_101.bin or saturn_bios.bin, so the sega_101.bin entry
carries saturn_bios.bin as an alias. kronos, yabause and yabasanshiro
open saturn_bios.bin and fall back to sega_101.bin: they were in that
entry's _cores but not its _required_by, while their saturn_bios.bin
entry had them requiring it. A reader that requires one of an entry's
aliases now requires the entry. No reader is added, and same-name
entries kept apart by path are left alone. No export changes.
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.
Pins move to libretro/hatari 5092994 and hatari/hatari 90949cf. The port now reads floppy.raw from the system directory (floppy_sound.c:146-186), documented as an optional user sample. Upstream decodes IPF without capsimage, the icon block moved by four lines, and the launcher file names leave the tos.img note for the platform layer.
A prose citation of the port's own lines was read only in the upstream file that a source_ref attributes the path to, and a range past that file's end came back GONE although the port carries it.
The Dolphin Sys, PPSSPP assets and blueMSX trees stay required, and the
profiles now cite why. blueMSX finds no machine without Machines/, the
C-BIOS ones included, and the load fails (Src/Board/Machine.c:637-656,
libretro.c:1447-1449). Its tree reference cited libretro.c:1119-1120,
which at the pinned revision is the Sunrise IDE option, and now cites
1196-1197. PPSSPP has no internal font without flash0/font, so
sceFontOpen fails for games using the system fonts
(Core/HLE/sceFont.cpp:805-864, 984-986). Dolphin loads no GameCube font
without Sys/GC/ or an IPL dump and warns that games may crash
(Source/Core/Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:328-340).
Recalbox hashes a .zip by its members. diff_truth set that composite
against the profile's container md5 and reported neocdz.zip and
neocd.zip as mismatches. _hash_mismatch now drops it through
comparable(), the rule pair_entries and the export already apply.
mkstemp creates its scratch 0600 and os.replace kept that mode, so
database.json, the manifests, the packs, the recipe snapshots and the
large-file cache were readable by their owner only. set_plain_mode
gives the scratch 0o666 less the umask, as open() would, before each
rename. A test walks every function that renames a mkstemp file.
The contributor install line left out mkdocs-material and
pymdown-extensions, so pipeline step 8b (render site) was skipped.
The ranges are the ones deploy-site.yml installs, and a test reads
them from the workflow.
profile_sync gains --changed (added or edited profiles, uncommitted
ones included) and --added, both against the merge base of --base
(origin/main by default). CONTRIBUTING runs --changed --strict instead
of one --emulator call per new profile, and the CI job runs --added
in place of its own diff loop.
eduke32 and fury declare https://voidpoint.io/terminx/eduke32 and were
skipped as an unsupported host. The instance serves the GitLab v4 API
(/api/v4/projects/terminx%2Feduke32 answers 200) and /-/raw/ paths.
GitHub, GitLab and Gitea redirect a renamed repository, and every call
follows the redirect: AloysHF/NicaiEmu answers as AloysHF/CoolbarEmu
and the profile read as current. profile_sync now reads the name the
forge answers under and counts a move as review work.
check_freshness ran profile_sync with --json and the detection flags,
which profile_sync refuses, so --profiles always reported an unreadable
report. The version check now lives on the report and travels in the
JSON and markdown outputs; check_freshness asks for --json
--check-version only.
FirmwareDatabase.cs:405-410 declares NDS+NAND_JPN, EUR, USA, AUS, CHN
and KOR, each with a placeholder hash and 251658240 + 64 bytes. In DSi
mode DecideNAND takes the first one set, limited to the regions a
DSi-enhanced header allows, and stops the load with none
(MelonDS.cs:114, 304, 484, 684-706). DSi mode is off by default, so the
entries are optional, like DSi_Firmware.bin and the DSi BIOS slots.
A missing extended ROM only raises a notice (memory.cpp:1833-1849), but
the machine then runs on the Kickstart alone. cdstrap, cd.device,
cdtv.device and cdfs.library are resident modules of the CD32 and CDTV
extended ROMs and absent from their Kickstarts, the CD32 and base CDTV
models have no floppy drive (cfgfile.cpp:9375-9379, 9405-9406), so no CD
is read or booted. Both entries stay required. The AROS replacement
stands in only for a missing Kickstart (memory.cpp:3055-3063), so the
CDTV entry loses hle_fallback.
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