Recalbox builds seven board images with different emulators. The new
target scraper reads each board's defconfig against the package every
system.ini core names. The names that reached no profile are mapped to
the projects Recalbox builds or profiled from their source, and the
mupen64plus video plugins are set aside.
ROCKNIX builds a different emulator set per SoC, and without a target
list an H700 handheld received the PS2, PS3 and GameCube firmware of
emulators its image lacks. The new target scraper reads the emulators
metapackage per device; seven cores ROCKNIX ships get profiles and the
Super Famicom Box ROMs one of them needs are collected.
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.
The target scraper treated every select in Config.in as unconditional
and never set the symbols Buildroot sets, so nearly every board listed
the same 171 cores and xroar, which needs OpenGL, reached none. Selects
now fire from their own config, to a fixed point, from the flags each
board file sets, with Buildroot's arch and OpenGL provider rules read at
the commit Batocera pins. A board that builds no image is no target.
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.
Both run on Linux but inherited RetroArch's case folding, so a core
file differing from a platform name only by case left their packs:
MesenCE's bios.col and np2kai's lowercase 2608_*.wav, which those
cores open with that exact case. They are now case-sensitive, the
shared groups fold only where the platform does, and Lakka gets its
own pack instead of sharing RetroArch's.
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.
ROCKNIX was declared libretro-only although it packages duckstation,
dolphin, ppsspp and 33 other emulators standalone, and its BIOS list
was read on the next branch under the latest release's version. The
scraper now reads the release tag and lists RetroArch plus every
standalone package.
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.
Batocera's cores were read from configgen-defaults.yml, one per system,
and a hand-kept registry list overrode even that; DOSBox Staging,
melonDS DS and nine other cores a user can pick in ES were outside the
pack, while mamemess, which Batocera does not ship, was in. The
scraper now reads es_systems.yml, the registry list is gone, and the
target scraper names standalone emulators (amiberry, fsuae, vice)
instead of only the machines listed under them.
YAML 1.1 reads an unquoted 01 as the integer 1 and 81 as 81, so the
manager set stopped naming the file its driver opens and the API
published "cores": [2048] as a number where consumers match strings.
Ground truth from MAME 0.289 at the revision the profile cites:
src/mame/vtech/crvision.cpp:957 loads "01" and "23".
The root cause was the scraper: _hash_merge wrote these names through an
f-string, so quoting the profiles alone would be undone on the next
refresh. _yaml_scalar now quotes every name, archive and description it
writes.
Abdessamad Derraz