Without a BIOS, PCSX2 logs and shows 'PCSX2 requires a PlayStation 2 BIOS in order to run'. That line is now one of PCSX2's error patterns, for the next run's verdict: this record was judged without it.
Twelve runs on each of beetle_psx and beetle_saturn: each region's game with every regional BIOS, its own only, the others only and the region pack. One DuckStation check on the US disc with and without scph5501.bin.
Puzzle Bobble 2 (Japan) and Bust-A-Move 2 (Europe) on the PlayStation cores, and the three Saturn editions on Beetle Saturn, each frame reviewed on its PNG. Beetle Saturn's BIOS error lines, read from ss.c, are its error patterns.
Reference runs, then the full set, no BIOS and negative variants of Bust-A-Move 2 (USA) on Beetle PSX, Beetle PSX HW, SwanStation, PCSX-ReARMed and PCSX1, each judged by the boot oracle.
Ten core_probe runs of the beetle-saturn fix-mpeg-auth-cr2 branch, one
per commit: the Lunar opening movie (2400 frames) and the Big Buck Bunny
Video CD booting through the card's player. Issue 85.
First real pass of campaign.py: the libretro PlayStation profiles with an hle_fallback claim (beetle_psx through mednafen_psx and mednafen_psx_hw, pcsx_rearmed and swanstation nightlies, pcsx1 built from its pinned commit), each run on Bust-A-Move 2 - Arcade Edition (USA) with and without scph5501.bin, under bubblewrap. Every core reached the game without the BIOS.
With COMMAND_AUTH_DEVICE and COMMAND_GET_AUTH reading CR2, beetle_saturn 2ce77e2 authenticates the Video CD Card on Lunar - Silver Star Story MPEG: MPEG.AuthState is 02 with the HSS-0119 and the MK-80310 images, 00 with no file. The full machine state differs between two identical repetitions, the authentication state does not.
Each line of measurements/<emulator>.jsonl now holds the whole run:
every repetition, core logs, per-frame hashes and raw timings. The gzip
data files, the data schema and the split and join code are gone, and
core_probe --record appends one line. record_version moves to 3.
The seven records are rewritten once: each new line equals its old line
joined with its data file, and rebuilds the first-layout file its id
hashes.
The seven core probe records move from Abdess/retrobios-measurements at
75e878143687 into this repository, copied byte for byte: one .jsonl per
emulator and a gzip data file per record. merge=union lets two branches
that each add a line merge.
A record is now one line of records/<emulator>.jsonl in the measurements repository, under 20 KB, and a gzip sidecar holding every repetition, the core logs and the raw timings, its sha256 in the line. record_version 2, core-probe-data.schema.json for the sidecar. core_probe --record appends to a measurements clone and refuses a directory inside this repository's tracked tree.
The seven records of issue 85 moved to Abdess/retrobios-measurements: each line plus its sidecar rebuilds the first file, and keeps its first id.
Seven core_probe check records for issue 85: Beetle Saturn and Yabause on a Video CD and on Lunar - Silver Star Story MPEG, each run with the eight mpeg_card.bin images, no file, zeros and a 1-byte file.
Abdessamad Derraz