ArkOS ran the GBA with gpsp_ezode_mod and dArkOS with mgba_rumble: no
profile named them, so an install for the card's games kept every GBA
core's files, FBNeo's 3,472 data files among them. Each rename proven
from the OS build (same code base, same BIOS loading) joins its
profile's cores. The resolver folds either separator, and falls back to
the emulator column when the core names a mode, a machine or a plugin
of that program, only where its profile declares the folder's system:
MAME documents no GameKing ROM. 109 unresolved names are 56, each one
recorded with why in tests/test_games_index.py.
Each standalone profile records where its version is read: the source
at its pin (clk 2026-07-23-136-g9020107, shadps4 0.20.1 WIP, eden
v0.2.0-401-g26a03d2), the APK, binary or archive read (kind package),
or, where no reading can be made, kind unverified with the reason: a
host the tools cannot read, a forge gone or not answering, no build
recorded as read, a pin on another branch. Those keep their value,
unconfirmed.
Basilisk II opens rom_path or ROM_FILE_NAME "ROM" (BasiliskII/src/Unix/main_unix.cpp:109, 685) and never mac.rom. RetroPie's basilisk.sh:56 passes $romdir/macintosh/mac.rom with --rom, recorded under launchers: in retropie.yml.
100 emulator names the two platforms run had no profile, so their packs carried nothing for them. Each was read from the platform's own launcher or scriptmodule: the same program as an existing profile takes the name in cores:, a different build gets its own profile read from that version, a launcher or self-contained game goes to remove_cores, and the rest are new profiles written from their source or shipped binary. The files they need that the collection lacked are collected from the upstream distributions. Bungie and splitwolf trees are read by path and stay out of dedup.
Basilisk II opens a file named ROM, checks its size, its version word and the code PatchROM rewrites, and no hash. By name the only candidate was the 128 KB Apple IIGS ROM, which the size gate rejects, so the pack shipped nothing. The collection's mac.rom (Performa/Quadra 630, version 0x067c) passes every gate, and the entry now names it as an alias. KEGS and GSplus keep the IIGS file.
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