bios/Bungie holds the Marathon scenarios Aleph One reads, entries its profile files as category game_data. Listed with the other publishers' trees, they leave the system files count and sit under Game engines and PC games on the site.
Five tabs from Start here to Contribute, a level on every page, a device picker on Get your files that lists every registered platform, and platform pages that open on where the files go, the command, the pack and how to check. FAQ and troubleshooting keep the questions asked before installing, the technical ones move to their own page, and getting started points to the pages that took its content.
device_group in the registry places each platform on the device picker, in the navigation and on the home page. scripts/siteguides.py holds the guide text per platform: what it is, its BIOS folder, where the install command runs.
A held archive whose name has a recipe fails when it carries three or more members outside every recipe of that name. Exempt: containers a platform pins by md5, members a platform pins by zipped_file, merged clones in their own folder, NAOMI device_ref ROMs, samples and artwork.
RetroDECK pins the container md5 of 170 of the archives 6ee162f8 imported, which carry the ROMs of every slot option reachable from the set. Those copies move verbatim to .variants/, where the md5 still resolves them, and the primary is rebuilt as TorrentZip from the recipe the profiles declare, each member checked by crc32 and sha1. Where a same-named copy in bios/Arcade/Arcade held the same pollution, it is rebuilt too.
Two members only these copies held stay in the older recipe that names them: pio_a72.bin in imds2ioc and presap2rb_123.rom in electron_romboxp (MAME 0.195 to 0.220), both under .variants/.
6ee162f8 imported MAME device and machine archives that each carried the ROMs of every slot option reachable from the set (H19 terminal ROMs in sys68k_cpu30.zip, 371 ISA card ROMs in slvrball.zip). MAME reads a slot card from the card's own archive, so those members were never read there.
Each archive is rebuilt as TorrentZip from the recipe its profiles declare (their union when profiles of several MAME versions differ), every member checked by crc32 and sha1. A copy whose recipe build already exists under the same name is removed, keeping the one filed under its manufacturer. 341-0057.bin, held only in these copies, stays in the MAME 0.220 a2pic recipe under .variants/. Every member removed is still held elsewhere in the collection.
251 sets that profiles or platforms now name were imported from MAME 0.289 only. Replaying the 22 cached listxml releases adds their older recipes (a2pic 0.220 carries 341-0057.bin) and loses none of the 2148 existing ones.
A release recorded without a platform's pack linked its button to that release, which serves no pack for AmberELEC, EmuELEC, KNULLI, MinUI, NextUI or MyMinUI. The cell now names the release and points to the installer, which reads the file lists on main. Core folder links resolve each core name to the profile page that describes it (mednafen_vb is beetle_vb).
Platform pages labelled base_destination, the root the platform's own list writes from, as the BIOS path, so EmuDeck read bios/ where the pack goes into ~/Emulation/bios/. The row now gives the registry's extract_to, the folder the README and the pack guide name. A platform that names no file (MinUI and its forks) showed 0/0 coverage and an empty systems table; its page now lists each core folder with the files the pack puts in it.
Both pairs from the Real3D SDK disc (_SETUP.1): Bayou 0x64130009 at
Assets/, Orlando 0x64130005 in .variants/. The .pmem size check against
the .cmem header keeps a pair from mixing models.
chex.deh and french.deh come from idgames (themes/chex/chexdeh.zip, utils/exe_edit/patches/french.zip), both released with no restriction by their author.
The archive held 33 members of other sets (H19, Mockingboard...) next to its five CPU-30 ROMs. Every extra member is held elsewhere in the collection. Rebuilt as TorrentZip from the five members MAME 0.289's listxml names, checked by crc32 and sha1.
The layout check skipped any archive it found no copy of, and it looked
copies up by name only, so 23 MAME device sets held through the clone map
were never checked and pro1000.zip was never reported absent.
p1_p4.bin and p2.bin come from Group13 of the InstallShield archive on
the PRO-1000 SDK CD (archive.org item real3d, real3d.iso sha1
042fbf36). Both match the crc32 Config/Games.xml declares. Built as
TorrentZip.
The bare name mupen64plus is the standalone program on every platform that lists it (Batocera, KNULLI, Recalbox, RetroPie, ROCKNIX). The libretro buildbot publishes no core by that name, so mupen64plus_next no longer claims it.
export_native counted MinUI, NextUI and MyMinUI as failures although the registry marks them native_list: none: their code names no BIOS file, so there is no list of theirs to correct.
EmuELEC pins bios/dc/naomi.zip at md5 e63d892c since its batocera-systems
of 2019-10-25 (8952db90), and AmberELEC inherits the entry. The archive is
an older MAME naomi set (20 members, dcnaodev.bios, epr-21578b) kept
verbatim from BatoceraPLUS/Batocera.PLUS-bios naomi.zip (602a91e9).
Abdessamad Derraz