In a console folder an FBNeo set is looked up under its driver name
(msx_1942), the bare name being the arcade set's. A run given its list as
a file reads the games index from beside it or the cache only when
--for-games was not asked. The installer keeps to Python 3.8 syntax, and
the testing guide names test_install_games.
--for-games reads the card's rom folders through install/games/ and keeps
what the games need: per system what its default core reads, one region
where the content proves it (crc32 and size, a disc serial, a header the
core reads), an arcade set's BIOS parents. A game not recognised gets
every BIOS of its system and is named. --required-only keeps only what
starts. The plan and the line menu open on it when the card holds games,
everything one press away. A cache keeps what reading a card found.
mame2000, mame2003 and mame2003-plus carry a DAT their code moved past. Their parents and BIOS sets now come from src/driver.c and src/drivers/ at the pin, named by the src tree sha. The DAT is still read to report gaps. FBNeo DATs are read one namespace each, console sets keyed by driver. A BIOS with no dumped ROM is no longer listed.
The games index now names, per arcade core, the game sets that load no
BIOS set and every BIOS set, so a set on a card the DAT does not know is
told apart from one that needs nothing. Each board default core of a rom
folder gets its own fallback set, and index.json maps every folder name
a setup uses to its systems, for a games folder on a computer.
nintendo-sgb and nintendo-super-game-boy are one id now, so the flat
declared-set test uses two ids no alias joins. The search weighs "3" as
nothing: "playstation 3 bios" is held to the top three results.
MAME's first card part showed 1,931 words against the 1,693 ceiling once
888 entries named their system: each row gained a "for <system>" badge
while parts were cut by card count. Parts are now cut by the words each
row shows with its card closed, balanced, at most 1,350 a part and still
at most 180 entries. MAME goes from 9 parts to 10, no part disappears.
The rom folder survey joined 463 folders to their default core's whole
profile, no system of it matching. SYSTEM_ALIASES, the one table
_norm_system_id reads, now folds ten more spellings of one machine:
apple2gs, astrocade, astrocde, creativision, gamepocketcomputer,
nintendo-super-game-boy, cps1, cps2, cps3 and pgm. The profiles that
used them take the canonical id (mame, groovymame, mamemess, mame0258,
mame0278, bsnes, mesen-s, mesence, jollycv, fbalpha2012 and its three
CPS cores, fbneo_cps12), as test_system_ids requires.
With bsnes and bsnes-hd now filing SGB1.sfc under one system, their
claims fold onto one report entry. _names_content read only the first
claim, hashless, and nSide's SGB1.sfc/ tree took the path before the
file. A hash on any folded claim now counts: every pack keeps the
destinations it had.
The site drops the eight display names the canonical ids replace and
names tvgames. README counts 533 systems instead of 541.
934 of the 1,563 mame.yml entries named no system and so served every
system of the profile: each MAME-run system's set was the whole profile.
The 65 BIOS root sets written by hand take the system groovymame.yml
gives the same 0.289 archive (sega-systemsp, konami-gx, taito-gnet and
41 more ids, added to systems:). The 19 XaviX sets take tvgames, the
directory MAME keeps xavix.cpp in. They seed the device walk.
mame_hash_scraper --devices files a device set under arcade when a
machine no entry places loads it: MAME starts such a machine from its
set name, as an arcade folder passes it. 1,106 of the 1,254 device sets
now carry arcade, alone or beside the systems of their placed machines.
qsound, ym2413 and ym2608, written by hand, take the same answer.
Left without a system: 41 device sets no machine of the listxml
instantiates (a software list slot selects them), and the hash/,
plugins/ and floppy/ trees every machine reads.
libretro/FBNeo 32958a8 to da14132, upstream 697e385 to c110542, through
profile_sync --rebase-refs then --bump-commit. core_version v1.0.0.03
read again from src/burn/version.h: unchanged.
BIOS entries between the two pins: d_cps3.cpp adds the sfiii2a driver
(SF3 2nd Impact, Asia 970930) with its own SH-2 BIOS,
sfiii2_asia.29f400.u2 (crc32 4518d589), filed like the other CPS-3
chips. The 19 CPS-3 refs after it move by 15 lines. d_neogeo.cpp,
d_pgm.cpp, d_spectrum.cpp, d_nes.cpp, d_ngp.cpp and d_snes.cpp change
game sets only, no BIOS set.
locate_archive now tries system/fbneo/romdata/ first while a RomData
file starts. The notes list it, and drop rom_path.opt, which no file of
src/burner/libretro reads.
redump.info moved its BIOS DAT links from /static/bios/<name>.dat to one
route per system (/bios/PSX, /bios/PS2, /bios/GC, /bios/XBOX), served as
an attachment. The scraper matched only the old shape and found nothing.
Both shapes are read now.
Refreshed snapshot: the PS2 DAT moved from 2026-06-16 to 2026-10-10,
191 entries become 225 (34 mechacon, DVD and font ROMs added, the
ps2-dvd-302c.bin sha1 corrected, five descriptions completed). Only
the provenance fields of database.json change.
The pin moves past the merged Video CD card PR (libretro/beetle-saturn-libretro#99). The core now reads the Video CD player out of mpeg_card.bin with command 0xE2, so the entry and the notes no longer say the image is never read. Refs rebased, core_version still v1.32.1 at libretro.c:58. source-paths.json gains the new pin and the Kenji-NX pin that was missing.
Work in progress of code_audit_24 and tui_audit_17: the Cores screen
chooses among the cores the run accepts (set_aside event), one rule
for the three tick lists, the dest error said on the result, ArkOS
cards found by their games part.
The sentence fits the page's 400-word ceiling and its 20-word sentences.
A test reading the site generator skips under Python 3.8, as the others
do, and the core plan test names the cores --core gave.
Cores drew every box empty when no core narrows the run, read as nothing
chosen. Every core is now drawn ticked, an untick keeps the others, All
and None work as on Choose systems, and the plan, Options and line mode
say all cores or N of M cores. A run with failures counts once, the
failed files said as failed.
Closes every finding of code_audit_23 and tui_audit_16: AmberELEC and
EmuELEC cards found as theirs, ArkOS cards told by bgmusic or
launchimages, counts that agree and read a copy of the right size before
calling it in place, one terminal width, line mode in the screen's order
and words, a tap shown armed, and which-pack naming the first screen.
The dry run, the Batocera walkthrough and the narrowing line of
wiki/installer.md were typed by hand and went stale with each list.
generate_installer_doc.py now runs install.py against the committed
lists in a sandbox, dated by each list, and the pipeline runs it at
step 7.
Abdessamad Derraz