Every <bios> element the model held was rendered again, so attribute order, alignment, a line break inside md5 and the case of a digest changed in 222 elements that stated the same thing. The diff deleted 451 lines for 136 corrections. An element whose attributes say what Recalbox wrote now keeps Recalbox's own text: 175 lines, the corrections.
Notes were keyed by file path, so a comment before one of the items reading an archive came back before every item reading it: bk's '# MAME' twelve times. A comment after the list's opening bracket matched neither rule and was dropped (enterprise's ep128emu-core). Notes are now keyed by file and archive member, written once, and a head-line comment goes with the first item.
Additions took the component their system's entries sit in, whatever core reads them. 104 armsx2 and yaps2 files went into PCSX2's manifest, beetle_psx and rustation dumps into DuckStation's, a directxbox image into xemu's, all counted as added. An addition now lands only where a core reading it is that component's emulator: 132 additions instead of 581.
ROCKNIX registers DuckStation twice, as the libretro core under retroarch and as duckstation-sa under its own emulator. The exporter looked a standalone runner up as a core name, so standalone DuckStation's 98 additions were written for users of the libretro core, PS2 images included, and standalone ARMSX2 was refused. A libretro runner now answers with the retroarch pair, a standalone with its emulator's own.
Profiles, the wiki, comments, docstrings, command output and schema descriptions carried em-dashes, clause-joining semicolons, unicode arrows, box-drawing banners and check-mark glyphs. Each sentence was rewritten rather than having its character swapped. Hashes, paths, source_ref values and every cited file:line are unchanged, which a comparison of each parsed profile against the previous revision confirms.
validate_pr comments now say PASS and FAIL in words, and source_ref values in a profile's structured blocks render as code. test_prose_style fails if any of these comes back, in tracked files or in the generated site.
An export wrote into its platform directory without removing what an
earlier run left there, so RetroPie scriptmodules and RetroDECK
manifests the current truth no longer corrects stayed beside a
report saying they were untouched. Files the run does not produce
are now removed first.
The RomM export fetched known_bios_files.json and never read it: the
fixture was rebuilt in our own order, so three corrections came out
as a diff of the whole file and a key we had not transcribed was
deleted. The export now starts from RomM's file, keeps its order and
fields, and only changes the values it corrects.
libretro indents 39 rom lines of System.dat with spaces. The export
read tab-indented lines only, so those left the base and came back
re-rendered at the end of their section, and one our transcription
lacked would have been deleted. Any indentation is read and kept.
The export only indexed firmware BizHawk leaves unhashed on purpose,
per-console dumps declared with SHA1Checksum.Dummy, and could only
apply that hash to a same-named call of another system. Every hash
the file states is BizHawk's own, so nothing is rewritten and no
correction is reported.
A truth that accepts several sizes left an export with no size even
where the platform states one of them for the same dump, and RomM's
fixture then received the string None, which RomM cannot parse. A
size list now admits the platform's own size, RomM keeps its value
when nothing settles one, and validation requires a number.
The export cache wrote an original's bytes, then recorded the URL
that produced them under a separate lock, so two runs wanting two
revisions of one file could pair one's bytes with the other's URL.
Both now change under the one index lock.
generate_pack kept a private .gitignore parser whose cache ignored the
root it was asked about, and generate_db a copy of the shared one. Both
now read largefiles.load_registered_paths, cached per root. Test modules
whose main block preceded their last class end with it again.
Batocera, ROCKNIX and Recalbox find a file through the core that wants
it. Additions now carry that core under the platform's own name: the
emulator/core pair checkBios reads (ROCKNIX's from its emulators
package), or Recalbox's core attribute. One with no nameable core, or
filed in a system gated on another core, is counted as not stated.
export_native turns the profile data back into each platform's own
file, for a maintainer there to pick up and use, and none of the ten
exporters had a test. Coverage goes from 0 to 83%.
Writing them found the EmuDeck exporter rejecting its own output: its
export skips placeholder entries, its validate looked for them anyway
and reported the omission as a missing hash. Both sides apply the same
filter now.
The placeholder assertion initially passed for the wrong reason twice
over -- the fixture entry had no hash, so it was dropped as incomplete
rather than as a placeholder, and the assertion then read the name
while the exporters write the path. It is pinned on an unmistakable
destination now, and removing the guard fails two tests.
Abdessamad Derraz