The record's page text took first-install.md 31 words over its 400. It now says only that one setup opens on Install. RETROBIOS_TUI_RECORDED is an internal marker of the full screen's own runs, like RETROBIOS_TUI_LIST.
The rule's strategies moved from resolve_platform_cores to
_platform_profiles, and the test read the old function. It now reads
both. The page named ROCKNIX among the lists naming retroarch, which
it no longer does since its list names the libretro cores it
installs, and said nothing of installable_cores: a downloadable core
designates libretro builds and counts under --target only on the
boards whose downloader offers it.
The plan, Confirm and the result say what happens, its size, where and
the next step. Their counts, free space, backup and save notes, kinds,
reasons a file is left out, per-file failures and commands move to a
Details screen: d on the plan, Confirm and the result, the Details row
on the plan, Y, o or Tab on the result. Opened on the result, they are
also said in the terminal after Exit. Installing lists the files that
went well only with --verbose, and --verbose draws every line in place.
The log line reads Log: so that Details names one thing.
--check prints its count, the folder and the remedy in both modes, so
that --verbose prints every default line. Each golden screen gets a word
budget per size, and a test proves the screen and its Details together
equal the --verbose screen.
By default a run prints what it installs, the BIOS folder, the progress
at a terminal, the result and the next step. The steps, the per-file log
lines, the counts and the reasons a file is left out come back with
--verbose. --check gives the count and the folder, and lists each file
with --verbose. The installer page shows the default run and walks
through the --verbose one.
- The installer says "Every file on the list is in place." where it
said "Everything is in place.": a check covers the files the
collection holds, and the required ones it lacks follow.
- The FAQ, first install, legal and home pages state only what the
code shows (PlayStation 1 and Saturn run without a BIOS on some
emulators, save files are never touched, records are added).
- MinUI and MyMinUI show their own boot logos, and the Android,
Linux handheld and iPhone tiles show the Android robot, Tux and a
plain device icon, each credited in sources.json.
- Each Markdown copy, llms.txt and llms-full.txt name the commit
they were built from, version.json the current one, and the
answering rules tell assistants to fetch a stale copy again.
- The deploy lists the pages whose words changed (digests.json) and
posts them to IndexNow once the site is live.
The README ran 211 lines and 2,000 words: five commands with options,
an 18-row download table, coverage figures and the build commands, all
before the help. It now says what the project does, gives the line that
installs for Windows and for the rest, shows it, lists the six ZIPs and
the setups that install by command, and leads to the site, where the
figures and every option live. The build commands sit in a closed block.
No personal pronoun is left in its text.
check_platform_folder.py, the script the site publishes, still accepted
a cut md5 by prefix. It now compares whole digests as Batocera does
(batocera-systems:1088), like verify since cut_md5_owner.
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.
RetroPie was the only platform with status: archived, which kept it out
of verify --all, slots, the pipeline and list_platforms unless
--include-archived was typed. release_pack already decides which packs a
release publishes and the installer serves every platform, so the status
set nothing apart. The field, its schema entry and the flag are gone, and
RetroPie is covered by every full run like any other platform.
The catalog table called redump.org's DATs stale and said Dat-o-Matic
blocks automation. redump.org serves BIOS DATs dated 2010 to 2022
(Content-Disposition of /datfile/{psx,ps2,gc,xbox}-bios/, read
2026-11-06), and the Redump row named /static/bios links the scraper
replaced with one /bios/<CODE> route per system.
tools.md listed what keeps a platform entry out of removal_candidates
without the platform's launchers: records, which candidates.py checks
right after a path (_PROOF_ORDER).
testing-guide listed the generated artifacts without derivable.json and
the run samples of wiki/installer.md, and tools.md gave the manifest
command alone. The nightly's commit rules also had no place for the two
files its offline pipeline rewrites, so autorun stopped on them.
The README, the setup pages and adding-a-platform tied archived to a
scraping schedule and a CI matrix that do not exist. Archived keeps a
platform out of the runs that cover every platform unless
--include-archived is passed.
architecture.md said the pack and verify decide through slots.arbitrate(),
while a test forbids them to call it: they read slot_choices() through
pack_overrides(). build_claim_index, the name-keyed index the module
docstring described, had no caller outside its own tests.
The excerpt quotes verify over the whole collection. The PR workflow
restores none of the release assets, so the run there printed other
counts and failed on every push since the engine batch. The test now
names how many assets are absent and skips.
A platform pack carried only the trees its own systems declared, so for_platforms reached RetroArch, Lakka and RetroPie alone and every other platform running blueMSX, FBNeo or Dolphin got no tree. The pack, the install list and the pipeline's tree members now add the trees of the libretro cores the platform runs, below the system directory and build folder the core reads, unless the platform installs or never opens them. A platform entry the manifest resolved into a carried tree becomes that tree's member, which the installer can fetch: AmberELEC and EmuELEC no longer hold 192 blueMSX machine configs back. stonesoup reads its tree beside the content and pcee2 compiles its resources in, so neither tree reaches a BIOS pack.
release-process.md listed tbblue.mmc, removed from bios/ on 2026-10-20, and left out uqm-remix-disc1.uqm. A test now reads the list against git ls-files.
reading-reports.md said the cross-reference checks whether a profile's files appear in the platform config, a rule by name. Since 2026-10-10 declaration_settles counts a declaration only at the core's slot or at a size the core accepts, and an alias only where the core reads it.
architecture.md said a file found by its name claims nothing. Since 2b535525e slots.py counts such a copy (size_exact) when it has the exact size the profile declares and the platform's file another size, as RetroDECK's sgb2.boot.rom shows.
pin_frozen was prose, and no tool read the build file it cites, so a platform building another revision left the profile holding one nobody ships. pin_build records the platform, its repository, the revision read, the file, the variable and its value. check_freshness reads the file again where the platform's YAML now stands and reports STALE when the value moved. 36 of the 46 held profiles carry it, each value read from the build file at the platform's scraped revision. The other ten name no build file and are counted on one row: six RetroBat binary packages and four holds not tied to a platform build.
--skip-packs said --skip-docs would stop after verify while 4d and 4e still run, and the tools.md flag table left 8b out of --skip-docs. The help, the usage and the flag table now name the steps the step table marks.
Comments, docstrings and test texts ended on tags that name private review notes no clone holds. The tags go, the facts stay. Test methods named after a finding number are named after what they hold. test_prose_style refuses a tag that comes back. install.py changes in comments only: its pin and the launcher index follow.
Abdessamad Derraz