MAME splits rompath, samplepath, hashpath and pluginspath on semicolons
and tries each directory in turn (src/emu/fileio.cpp:53-58, 330-392,
src/emu/emuopts.cpp:44-46, 53). The launcher records spell those lists
with the game's own folder in them, which handed_directories skipped:
- RetroBat passes -rp bios;<rom directory> (Mame64.Generator.cs:93-96)
and -rompath bios/psxmame/bios;<rom directory> to pSxMAME
(PSXMame.Generator.cs:38-48).
- KNULLI passes -rompath <romDirname>;/userdata/bios/mame;/userdata/bios
(mameGenerator.py:116-122).
- RetroPie writes rompath $romdir/mame;$romdir/arcade;$biosdir/mame
(mame.sh:133).
A semicolon list now gives each directory but the game's folder. A pool
that already lists the folder the files take keeps them there, and a
pool standing for the whole layout holds its files, never its folders.
The MAME profile names its sets at the top of the rompath and its
search settings as pools, pSxMAME its sets and rompath.
RetroBat's -sp and -hash records split on `bool hbmame = emulator ==
"hbmame"` (Mame64.Generator.cs:30): bios/mame/samples for mame64,
bios/hbmame/samples for hbmame.
Manifests: RetroBat gains the 12 pSxMAME sets in psxmame/bios and drops
samples/bbc.zip, read by nobody, which mame/samples/bbc.zip already
serves. KNULLI drops the same copy. RetroPie gains the 1427 MAME sets
in BIOS/mame, the root copies staying for the libretro cores. EmuDeck
names samples/bbc.zip as read outside the BIOS folder. RetroDECK's
samplepath is $bios_path/mame-sa/samples (mame/component_prepare.sh:94,
117): bbc.zip moves there from bios/samples/. Its MAME runs with the
-rompath ES-DE passes, %GAMEDIR%;%ROMPATH%/<system>, so the standalone
sets are named as read outside the BIOS folder and the root copies stay
for the libretro core. The 1427 sets
of RetroBat, KNULLI and EmuDeck stay at the BIOS root, listed in their
rompath. No file of any manifest is lost.
AHashScanLabelNamesNoOtherDump read openmsx-libretro's rs232.rom as
fmsx's name for another dump: share/extensions/rs232.xml:18-22 names
it, so it joins CODE_NAMED. test_standalone_links called unittest.main()
before the amiberry classes, which a direct run skipped.
The 8.5.0 source builds a standalone Amiberry and the libretro core, so
the profile is standalone + libretro again. A standalone name a build the
platform compiles itself answers to keeps meaning that build: RetroBat's
standalone amiberry is 8.3.0, and 8.5.0 runs there as the core only.
Batocera's x86_64 RetroArch downloads the amiberry, cemu and xemu cores
although the image builds standalone emulators of those names. They now
stay in installable_cores, run both ways, and reach only the boards whose
downloader offers them.
installable_cores removed every buildbot name the image builds, so a
libretro core sharing its name with a standalone package was lost:
Batocera runs amiberry standalone and its x86_64 boards fetch
amiberry_libretro. A name now compares within its build mode, and the
resolver and the layouts treat such a core as the emulator's libretro
build, run both ways. Batocera gains amiberry, azahar, cannonball, cemu,
dosbox, ecwolf, eduke32, fsuae, openmsx, rpcs3, supermodel, vita3k, xemu
and ymir as installable, KNULLI cannonball.
RetroBat writes rom_path and whdboot_path below its amiberry emulator
folder and copies the kickstarts and rom.key it finds in bios into that
ROMs folder. The copies and both folders are launcher records, and the
8.3.0 standalone entries go to the emulators tree where the build reads
them.
A platform that builds Amiberry itself runs that revision under the name,
on every board it builds: RetroPie 5.7.2 and 6.3.3, Recalbox 8.2.2,
Batocera 7.1.1-332, KNULLI 7.1.1. The 8.5.0 profile is the buildbot
libretro core. It now names the ROM table's own file names and hashes
the keyboard MCU images.
KNULLI's es_systems.yml is Batocera's model: it lists every emulator
its configgen knows, and its Config.in selects many of them only on
x86_64 boards, which KNULLI has none of. The platform list now holds
what at least one board selects, read by the targets scraper, plus a
program the launcher runs from the BIOS folder (lexaloffle). 59 cores
and 44 standalone emulators leave the list, with their launcher records.
The targets scraper follows Config.in and every file it sources, so a
select a package declares itself counts (Batocera's mesa3d-rpi4 gives
the Pi 4 OpenGL). A sourced file absent at the pin is named and read as
empty: KNULLI 20260511 sources package/utils/vtree/Config.in, added in
June.
EmuELEC 4.8 builds amiberry 452783a (CMakeLists.txt declares 8.0.0).
Same paths as 7.1.1, a ROM database with the PPC flash images, which
the scan hashes with their config bytes cleared, so no file hash is
declared for them. Tests check that ROCKNIX, AmberELEC and EmuELEC
resolve their own build, the other platforms the 8.5.0 profile, and
that ROCKNIX places its kickstarts at the BIOS root.
RetroBat passes XRoar -rompath bios/coco for the coco system, and its
es_features offers the CoCo 3 machines there. The per-system record now
carries those machines (machines:), and an entry whose name the
platform list does not declare is launched for the system offering
its own profile system as a machine, by _norm_system_id. coco3.rom and
coco3p.rom move from bios/dragon to bios/coco. RetroBat offers no
MC-10 machine, so the mc10 ROMs keep the default bios/dragon.
The standalone Amiberry scans rom_path, ROMs below its content root by
default, for the ROMs of its database, without descending into
folders, and reads rom.key beside the Kickstart and the MT-32 ROMs
from mt32-roms. Those entries now carry standalone_path relative to
it, the four Kickstart labels holding slashes flattened. The kick*.rom
names stay the libretro build's.
Batocera's config_directories reads its rom_path save, KNULLI reuses
it. On Batocera, KNULLI and RetroPie the ROMs move from the BIOS root
to bios/amiga.
XRoar reads a ROM by name from the directories of rompath. The entries
take their file name as path, relative to ~/.xroar/roms or
${prefix}/share/xroar/roms, and rompath and -rompath are declared as
search lists.
Batocera records its rompath line, Recalbox -rompath bios/<system>
(the placeholder its extractor already writes), RetroBat its -rompath
as two records, bios/dragon and bios/coco for coco. An entry whose
name the platform list does not declare follows the launch its
profile system is listed under: Recalbox lists mc10.rom under
trs80coco, so alice.rom is read there.
Batocera ROMs move from the BIOS root to bios/xroar, Recalbox ROMs to
bios/dragon and bios/trs80coco, RetroBat ROMs to bios/dragon and
bios/coco. RetroDECK and RetroPie keep them at the BIOS root.
openMSX reads share/systemroms below OPENMSX_HOME or ~/.openMSX and
every filepool entry by SHA1. The profile paths drop RetroBat's
openmsx/ prefix and declare those directories and the filepool.
Batocera's config_directories reads the filepool lines its generator
writes, KNULLI reuses it. RetroBat records OPENMSX_HOME, RetroPie the
moveConfigDir of ~/.openMSX that its systemroms link lies in, and the
configure --prefix of xroar that its roms link lies in.
Batocera and KNULLI system ROMs move from openmsx/share/systemroms to
openmsx/, beside the files their own lists declare, RetroPie's to
BIOS/openmsx, the folder linked as share/systemroms.
A launcher record can name the systems it is written for, and then
replaces there what the records naming none hand: RetroBat passes XRoar
-rompath bios/coco for coco and bios/dragon otherwise. An entry is
launched for the systems it names and those the platform declares a
file of its name under. A {system} search_dir gives one directory per
platform system, a colon search path each of its directories.
standalone_pools names settings a program reads as a list of
directories, each searched like a layout subfolder (openMSX filepool,
XRoar rompath). Any entry serves: the one the platform list fills
comes first, then the first of the BIOS tree. A handle above a
declared directory lands it where its link points (configure
--prefix). Record order now survives the standalone set.
A platform that binds part of a standalone layout leaves the entries no
binding covers in a folder outside the BIOS tree: they are no longer
packed at the BIOS root, and the manifest names them (root: emulator,
outside_bios_folder). A launcher that executes a profile's file binds
the program folder: in the BIOS tree, below the roms directory a registry
entry names (root: roms, installed into the folder holding the BIOS
folder), or nowhere a pack reaches. A moved entry resolves by its own
path as well as by its destination.
uae4all gains kick.rom and rom.key in its working directory and loses a
not_bundled_on that named Recalbox, which runs uae4all-rpi. lexaloffle
declares that its programs read beside their executable, lists the
Windows build RetroBat runs and the pico8_dyn ROCKNIX runs on x86_64.
standalone_bindings maps each subfolder of a standalone layout to the
folder of the BIOS tree a platform's links and passed directories give
it, followed through a working directory. platform_layouts applies it,
so the pack, the manifest, verify and slots read one destination.
uae4all paths are now what the emulator reads, kickstarts/<name> below
its working directory, and RetroPie still receives them in amiga/.
tests/__init__.py keeps a run offline, its scratch under tmp/ and its
installer cache its own, but only discover -s tests -t . imported it.
discover tests ran with RETROBIOS_OFFLINE unset, scratch on the /tmp
tmpfs and the user's real installer cache, the setting in which e2e
fixtures had written into the shared .cache/large. Every test module now
imports the package first, and a test fails on a module that does not.
test_verify_listing.py took its line with the previous commit.
Both branches extracted RetroBat's Flycast BiosPath: value_folders
already produces the record, so the dedicated extractor is dropped and
its test reads the generic one.
RetroArch_installCores (emuDeckRetroArch.sh) downloads flycast, mame,
melonds, mgba, mupen64plus_next, ppsspp and scummvm as libretro cores
next to their standalone apps. Listed as standalone only, they got one
layout: once Flycast's standalone files moved to flycast/bios/, the
libretro core lost dc/airlbios.zip, dc/naomi2.zip and dc/segasp.zip.
The scraper now writes them as dual_mode_cores.
standalone_path is relative to the directories a standalone build
resolves it against, now declared per profile (standalone_directories).
A launcher record that links or passes a whole folder of the BIOS tree
under one of them gives that folder, and platform_layouts rebases the
standalone view once for the builder, the manifest, verify and slots
(launchers.standalone_root, common.standalone_destination).
Flycast on RetroPie and ROCKNIX reads bios/dc, on EmuDeck
bios/flycast/bios, on Batocera (FLYCAST_BIOS_PATH) and RetroBat
(Dreamcast.BiosPath) bios/dc. The ROCKNIX, Batocera and RetroBat
scrapers now record the patched data directory, the environment
variable and the setting that say so.
Abdessamad Derraz