Thirty platform system ids, such as sufami, pokemini, vsmile, and
Recalbox's comma-joined msx1,msx2, matched no system any profile
names, so no core file was attributed to them and --system missed them.
The scraper maps now carry those names, and a test holds every platform
system to a profile system apart from two named folds.
RetroDECK filed coco as tandy-coco and Dragon as dragon-32-64, MiSTer
filed COCO3 as tandy-coco and Recalbox kept its raw ids, so none of
them met xroar's coco, coco3 and dragon64 and its ROMs reached no
system. The scraper maps now agree and a test holds every shared
native id to one system.
BizHawk embeds ares as Ares64, its N64 core, whose 64DD IPL its own
FirmwareDatabase declares. Mapped to the whole ares profile, it pulled
thirty systems into the BizHawk pack and made slots accuse
FirmwareDatabase.cs of a wrong MSX.rom it never declared for ares.
The registry list added clk and gsplus, which RetroDECK does not ship
as components, current or archived, and overrode the list the scraper
reads from the component manifests.
RetroBat's platform file carried no core list, and a registry list
copied from Batocera stood in with ports RetroBat never runs and none
of its standalone emulators marked as such. The scraper now reads
es_systems.cfg at the release tag: libretro cores, and every other
emulator as standalone.
es_bios.xml names only the cores that need a BIOS, so a hand-kept
registry list stood in, with mame and mamemess that Recalbox does not
ship and without vice, ymir, vircon32 and others it does. The scraper
now reads each system.ini of recalbox-romfs2 at the scraped tag, and
the registry list is gone.
verify.py and generate_pack.py must reach the same verdict on the same
file, and CLAUDE.md calls any divergence critical, but each spelled out
mode == 'existence' in its own words. Both now ask nativemode whether
the frontend reads the file's bytes, which is the one fact the rest
follows from, and a test holds the two answers together.
The BaseScraper contract the wiki asks contributors to implement had no
caller anywhere, so nothing proved compare_with_config, has_changes or
test_connection still worked.
Abdessamad Derraz