With found_by content the openMSX entries read as labels, and two of
them, COLECO.ROM and fmpac.rom, are names other profiles give another
dump. openMSX's own machine XMLs name both (ColecoVision_SGM.xml:56,
Boosted_MSX2_EN.xml:83) and try them beside the XML, so they are code
names, not labels.
POM2 v1.1.0 ships no firmware dump in any package, so the 26 Apple II files dropped in ef8b37281 return byte for byte, with the DAN ][ slot EPROM from ThorstenBr/Apple2Card. The profile is re-read at de86e8e3: bundled false on the firmware, 8 entries for the new cards, refs re-anchored. (#86)
libretro/hatari rewrote main on 2026-11-04: it is now hatari/hatari
c453b85f with 23 port commits on top, and the old pin 50929946 survives
only as the tip of main-old. Every citation is read again at 25f488b1 and
c453b85f. The libretro build now reads files through
src/retro/file_retro.c, with no .gz or archive unpacking, and a missing
tos.img clears bUseTos in retro_init instead of a have_bios gate in
retro_run, so the core runs the built-in test stub.
A bulk advance moved fheroes2, supertux and supermariowar past the
revision EmuELEC compiles, and nothing stopped it: bump_commit refused
built_by only. It now leaves a profile a single registered platform ships
until it carries pin_frozen or the new pin_follows, which says that
platform builds the branch tip.
hode, bermuda, bennugd-monolithic and ccleste are held on the
PKG_VERSION of their EmuELEC v4.8 package.mk, equal to their pins.
rigelengine was one commit past it (README.md only) and goes back to
f05996f9.
bermuda.yml (the EmuELEC build) and bsyndrome.yml (RetroBat's bs.exe)
document the same cyxx/bermuda engine under two slugs, bermuda-syndrome
and bsyndrome, so the site gave the game two system pages. bsyndrome now
files its entries under bermuda-syndrome.
In a fork's clone origin/main is the fork: once pushed it is HEAD, and
profile_sync --changed --strict checked nothing and passed while the PR's
CI then failed. The default base is now the line validate_pr.py reads:
upstream/main or origin/main when that remote is the project, the
project's main fetched otherwise.
openMSX reaches a ROM in share/systemroms through its file pool by SHA1
alone. A filename is only looked up beside the machine's XML
(src/memory/Rom.cc:121-170, HardwareConfig.cc:279-280,
FileContext.cc:152-156 at a557de7b). The labels read as names the core
opens, and the export added 15 of them to KNULLI and 2 to Batocera.
DEV9 opens eeprom.dat and flash.dat by bare name (pcsx2/DEV9/DEV9.cpp:144
at f0523f8a, AetherSX2 DEV9/flash.cpp:89, PCSX2 1.6 dev9ghzdrk/flash.cpp:73),
so the process working directory answers, never the BIOS folder. Only
yaps2 said so: the other PCSX2 profiles had the file packed into the BIOS
folder and the RetroDECK export add it there.
PCSX2 and its forks keep the first 4 to 8 MB image with a romdir in
the BIOS folder (pcsx2/ps2/BiosTools.cpp:258-282, 317-332 at f0523f8a),
and PCSX2 1.6 lists the same test in its BIOS picker
(BiosSelectorPanel.cpp:151-177). The names are labels. Without found_by
the truth model read ps2-0230a-20080220.bin as a name the core opens, and
the RetroDECK export added it as a required file.
Notes compared a core with another profile of this directory (unlike
beetle_pce, unlike the other engines in this directory), which means
nothing once a profile is read alone, and shouted NOT, ALL and MUST. The
facts stay, the comparisons and capitals go. Comparisons with a core's
own upstream remain.
The profile declared libretro/redream, which answers 404, with no pin and
no source_ref: profile_sync skipped it and the boot.bin md5 came from the
libretro docs. It now reads inolen/redream at ffb73022, the last public
tree, whose libretro core opens dc/boot.bin and dc/flash.bin in the system
directory. boot.bin is checked against four md5 and the flash against its
size, and both fall back to the high level BIOS, so neither is required.
needs_review counts an orphaned pin and a moved repository, but the
triage line only added stale prose and unchecked refs, so pcem read
"1 to review" for an upstream_commit outside its branch history.
idtech4a++ cites xash3d-fwgs filesystem/filesystem.c, starship and
ghostship Torch src/Companion.cpp: files of submodules of the declared
repository. No blob of the declared tree answers, so the parts stayed
external and a bump moved the submodule commit with nothing checked.
A project word now also resolves to the one submodule named after it,
and a file under a submodule is read in the repository .gitmodules
names, at the commit the declared revision pins it to.
The integrity check let a platform file the frontend's hash refuses
hold its path, so the core file the builder ships there was never
compared (finding 3).
core_version went null although doc/CHANGES.html at the pin opens on
Version 0.16.0. ti99sim cites v0.16.0 and v0.0.11 parts side by side,
and with no documented version every part read as another program:
profile_sync reported 6 external, 0 to review, nothing checked. The v0.16.0
parts are anchored at the pin again, the v0.0.11 parts stay external.
XRoar reads the Dragon 200-E and Alice ROMs for those machine configs
(src/xroar.c:437-444, 552-558 at 1.12.1), and VICE the Japanese kernal
and chargen for the C64 JAP and VIC-1001 models: a (Japan) file name
selects the NTSC model (libretro-core.c:2018-2034). No code branches on a
territory for these files, so region: is removed, as profiling.md rules
for a model enum.
A keep line gave every emulator the file of the first profile claim:
Recalbox's neocdz.zip line said geolith reads the archive fbneo reads.
The JSON 'expected' lists each file with its emulators (finding 4).
install.py took --list-platforms, generate_pack.py --list and verify.py
nothing. Both tools now take --list-platforms and print the same list
from common.py. generate_pack.py keeps --list (finding 80).
A file was matched by its container sha1 or md5 alone. A zipped_file
member, a Recalbox member digest, a RetroDECK sha256 and a RomM size and
crc32 are now read the way verify reads them, and an identical copy's
folder is where its variants go.
CLK reads every export cartridge as Europe or USA and boots the western
BIOS for any region but Japan (StaticAnalyser.cpp:49-66,
MasterSystem.cpp:137-140). The tag named brazil without its parent, so
--region mx dropped the BIOS from the Batocera pack.
higan and nSide look program.rom up in the option's folder, SGB.sfc/,
then Super GameBoy.sfc/. Only the SGB1.sfc/ and SGB2.sfc/ folders were
entries, and both names are files bsnes, Mesen-S and ares read from the
same system directory, so no pack could give the higan cores a Super
Game Boy. SGB.sfc/ collides with SuperSnes9x's sgb.sfc on a
case-insensitive file system. Super GameBoy.sfc/ collides with nothing.
diff_truth read sha1, md5 and crc32 and let one shared value settle the
entry, while export_native corrected each of the four fields on its own.
contradicted_hashes is now the single decision both read.
--all --system built every pack asked for and exited 1 on a platform
that has no such system. The scope is now decided before the lock:
skipped under --all, refused under --platform (finding 15).
x1-box and hakuX both import the retail partition C tree. It sat in
hakuX's tree, so for x1-box the C/xbox.xtf tail was set aside as foreign
and the name step served Xenia's Xbox 360 dashboard font. xbox.xtf and
xboxdash.xbe now live in bios/Microsoft/Xbox/C/ and resolve by path for
both. msdash.xbe stays: its bytes are cxbx-reloaded's xboxdash.xbe, whose
path the RetroBat manifest names.
A system the target leaves no core for was verified 0/0 with exit 0,
and generate_pack blamed the platform for lacking it. Both read
platform_scope_systems and system_scope_error now (findings 13, 14).
A one-member archive whose member carries the zipped_file md5 under
another name has that md5 as its composite. The name step returned it as
md5_composite_exact, which slots and the site take as content proof, while
Batocera looks the member up by name and finds nothing.
A platform declaration that names only an md5 left the size check
undecided, and an undecided same-named match overrode a profile's
system:. The size the database holds for that md5 now refutes it: clk's
Oric basic10.rom no longer joins Batocera's BK list.
Only the first BIOS clause of a help string was read, so naomi2.zip and
segasp.zip went into flycast's Dreamcast sentence. A file now joins the
clause whose names the platform files under its system, or is not added.
reminiscence's Flashback module reunion resolved to skyline's
zoneinfo/Indian/Reunion through the case-insensitive name step, and the
emulator pack shipped the time-zone file. Another casing found only in
another emulator's tree says nothing about the entry.
A BiosDB entry is one record: md5, size and url describe one dump. The
first md5 the truth accepts replaced an accepted one with no change
reported. The exporter now writes record_hash, as RomM and System.dat do.
The first core to tag a file set its region. The pack's region index takes
the union of the tags and voids it on an untagged reader: the truth now
applies the same rule (psxonpsp660.bin, epr-17952a.ic8).
Abdessamad Derraz
VERHILLE Arnaud