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.
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.
The previous commit counted a name with no resolved copy as not held, which also dropped release assets the builder holds while no copy is on disk (test_install_selection AHeldFileTheInstallerCannotFetch). Only the case-insensitive name match now leaves out copies in another emulator's tree, as resolve_local_file does.
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.
dosbox-x's et4000.bin matched only pcem's et4000.BIN. resolve_local_file, asked as dosbox-x, refuses another emulator's tree in its case-insensitive step, so the pack and installer leave it out, while the gap report and verify's core files resolved without the asker and counted it held. Both now resolve as the profile, and the manifests of Batocera and KNULLI no longer flag it held.
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.
fetch_large_file verified a cached copy and returned its name, which another run replaces when the release serves a re-upload: the caller then packed bytes it never verified. The returned path is now a hard link under .cache/large/.by-sha1/<sha1>/, kept only if it holds the inode that was hashed. Revisions no name holds are dropped a day later. restore_large_files hashes each copy before moving it into place.
Step 5 compared every narrowed pack with verify and never the --split parts with the full pack, so a part writing a path the full pack settles passed every check. check_split_packs builds each platform's parts in memory and compares their union with the full pack, path for path and byte for byte.
pipeline.py --offline --with-export, listed as a standard command, passes
no --fetch to step 2e: on a fresh clone the database, verify and truth
were built before the export failed on every platform whose own file it
patches. The run is refused before step 0 when .cache/upstream-native/
holds nothing for such a platform, and tools.md says how to fill it.
The v2026.10.10 notes said a pack holds every file its emulators open, so
a game never stops on a missing file, and that hashes never come from a
forum list: the gap analysis lists files no pack carries, and in md5
mode a pack keeps the platform's own md5 (verification-modes.md). The
generated text and the README now point to the gap analysis, and
release_notes.py refuses a whats-new text holding a judging or
contradicted phrase.
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.
Each part was built alone: the Other_Cores part never saw the platform's destinations and each part had its own case fold. RetroDECK's parts wrote bios/SGB1.sfc/ members beside the file bios/SGB1.sfc, RetroBat's wrote 21 openmsx/ twins of openMSX/ files, and a path two systems declare got each system's file. The full pack is now built in memory first and a part writes a declared file or core extra only where the full pack writes the same bytes.
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.
pin_build, in 36 profiles, names the platform repository, revision, file
and variable that hold a pin_frozen revision, and the site read none of
it: the Revision held row printed the file as plain text. A Build file
row links each one at the revision it was read at.
A .variants/ copy downloads as advision.zip.1c086064, its storage name:
raw.githubusercontent.com sends no Content-Disposition and the download
attribute is ignored across origins. A card whose download name differs
from the file name now says what to save it as, at a glance.
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.
files/?hash= read the collection, platforms, emulators and retired files,
never the Wanted list: the SHA1 of Redump's ps2-dvd-212k.bin answered
that nothing the site knows has it. The lookup now carries a wanted
layer from the rows of provenance-wanted.csv, computed once for both,
and the page names the catalog that lists the dump.
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.
Every card read "Not collectable" and the gaps page listed 259 entries as
acknowledged gaps verified from source code. unsourceable: only keeps a
same-named file from being served in the entry's place, and each entry
stays an acquisition target (wiki/profiling.md). The section now names
the catalog or romset that lists each file, from the provenance report
built with the profiles' needs: XM7's KANJI2.ROM is in No-Intro and in
MAME's fm7740sx.zip. The old anchor still leads to the section.
--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.
Three guards named generate_site.py or a fixed list of four modules, while
page text now lives in twelve site modules and packreadme.py. The list
is a glob. Read that way, the pack README said "all of theirs" twice.
Five generate_site helpers read ./emulators or ./platforms, and
has_release_pack read platforms relative to the working directory: run
from scripts/, a released setup's get page showed the No ZIP line.
siterender's fallbacks and sitediagrams read the repository too. All of
them now read siteinputs. platforms/_guides.yml stays the repository's:
siteguides loads it at import, before any flag is parsed.
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.
The page-finishing pass reloaded the repository's database.json whatever
--db said, so a card held only by the given collection raised KeyError.
siteinputs holds the inputs generate_site was given.
A platform entry that resolves only through a data directory tree read as missing with no cause on a checkout where data/ was never refreshed, while an online pack build refreshes the trees and packs it. verify_platform now reports the uncached trees and prints them when files are missing.
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.
A path declared twice, once unpinned and once with a pin the copy misses: the builder wrote excluded over the file it shipped, in either order of the two systems. It now counts the path untested, as verify does, and lists no exclusion.
generate_emulator_pack resolves with offline=offline and fetches a release asset the cache lacks, while verify_emulator resolved offline and called it missing. verify --emulator now applies pending_release_asset as verify --platform does, accepts --offline, and the pipeline compares emulator packs offline on both sides.
Setup names on 530 emulator pages lowered their weight in the index and
ranked the data page first for batocera folder and retroarch system
folder. The row is left out of the search, as the card's setup lists are.
A Packed line on each file card put the MAME parts, BizHawk, blueMSX,
FBNeo and GroovyMAME over the 10,000 element budget. The Run by row of
the page already names the setups that pack the emulator's files.
Abdessamad Derraz