MAME 2000, 2003, 2003-Plus, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016 and UME 2015
search the folder of the loaded game for their sets and never the system
folder: osd_get_path gives FILETYPE_ROM the content path (mame2003 and
mame2003-plus src/fileio.c:217-220), -rompath is MgamePath (mame2009
retromain.c:432-434, mame2014 retromain.c:1851-1856, mame2015 and
ume2015 retromain.c:1980-2042, mame2016 retromain.cpp:1364-1402), ROMs
open with libretro_content_directory (mame2010 romload.c:667-685) or
IMAMEBASEPATH (mame2000 libretro.c:1044-1053, 1247). Their 421 sets are
load_from: content_dir. Samples, artwork, cheats and the data files read
from the system folder keep their paths.
A set read beside the game goes to the roms folder of each system the
platform launches the core for: libretro_systems, the default core of a
rom folder, the cores a system offers under its own name, the systems a
RetroPie package registers (the lr-mess packages build SUBTARGET=mess,
lr-mess2016.sh:31, and read none of these arcade sets). A roms root in
the install tree takes a plain dest, as a standalone entry placed there.
A platform with no folder per system, or none it can place (RetroArch,
Lakka, RetroBat, EmuDeck, MyMinUI), names the set as read outside the
BIOS folder. EmulatorJS writes the BIOS and the game to one folder
(emulator.js:845, 990, 1054): RomM keeps its firmware entries. Game data
read beside the content is left to the game.
Manifests: roms folders gain 408 files on RetroDECK, 182 on RetroPie,
179 on Recalbox, 140 on AmberELEC, 134 on KNULLI, 52 on Batocera and
ROCKNIX, 39 on EmuELEC. BIOS root copies no other core reads leave: 80
on RetroArch, Lakka and ROCKNIX, 61 on EmuELEC, 60 on Recalbox, 59 on
AmberELEC, 57 on RetroPie, 26 on MyMinUI, 20 on RetroDECK, 19 on
Batocera and EmuDeck, 16 on KNULLI, 13 on RetroBat. verify --all keeps
its severity and status counts.
mame2003 src/hiscore.c:14, np2pi np2ver.h:1 and osmose Version.h:3 are blank at their pins. db_filename, NP2VER_CORE and __OSMOSE_VERSION__ are at lines 15, 2 and 5.
core_version is read at each pin where version_basis says. MAME 2014,
2015, MESS 2015 and CDi 2015 state 0.159 in src/version.c (the libretro
wrapper reports 0.160), MAME/MESS sits on the 0.289 makefile of its pin,
FinalBurn Neo states 1.0.0.03 in src/burn/version.h, FB Alpha 2012 and
its CPS-3 build 0.2.97.30. mame_version of MAME 2014 and 2015 follows,
as MESS 2015 and UME 2015 already said.
Entries without a system in multi-system profiles were left unattributed by the truth model, and four System.dat additions left the export. Each system is read from the core's code at its pin. hiscore.dat, cheats and history serve every running machine (mame2000 cpuintrf.c:664-666, mame2003 cpuexec.c:280-282, mame2003_plus cpuexec.c:296-298, fbneo hiscore.cpp:154-161 gated on BDF_HISCORE_SUPPORTED), all arcade in those builds, so arcade. BIOS sets take the id their driver gives in the other MAME profiles, and bctvidbs is barcrest-mpu4 everywhere. Files serving several systems of one build (groovymame data files, raine) keep no system. Core resolution is unchanged on every platform.
Each platform's own packages were read at the revision our data pins, for every emulator and core it ships: Batocera, Recalbox, RetroPie, ROCKNIX, Lakka, RetroDECK, RetroBat and EmuDeck. Files a package installs where the emulator reads them are recorded with installed_on, and files a release bundles but a package leaves out with not_bundled_on, so each platform's pack brings what its users lack and nothing they already have. The standalone profiles never checked before were held against their releases the same way. Batocera's imame4all is the mame2000 core. The primary neogeo.zip was a 7.7 KB placeholder no platform pins and no pack served: removed, the real dumps stay in .variants.
The new-format hiscore.dat was served by name to cores whose parser reads
only legacy lines. Eight cores now pin the hiscore.dat their own
repository ships, four revisions newly collected.
Upstream moved under 145 profiles: 679 refs shifted and 452 followed a
renamed file, against 6,483 that still anchor where they were written.
The recale rewrites the located ranges only, keeping the annotations and
the sentences that carry them, and 106 pins advance in the same commit
because refs and source_commit name one revision or the profile
describes two at once.
Nothing here was guessed. The 183 refs that are CHANGED, GONE or
AMBIGUOUS are untouched, and the 57 profiles holding them keep their old
pin until someone reads the diff: profile_sync refuses to recale a
profile while any of its refs needs a re-read. trident kept its pin too,
its annotated ref being one the writer will not rewrite.
49 libretro cores had type: game/utility/test instead of type: libretro,
breaking the all_libretro filtering in resolve_platform_cores and
excluding them from platform packs (e.g. cannonball missing from
RetroArch). core_classification already carries the descriptive role.
9 profiles with subdirectory-loading cores (cannonball/, nxengine/,
Citra/sysdata/, mame2003/, mame2003-plus/, mame2010/) now have path:
fields so cross-reference places files at the correct destination.
resolve_local_file now tries basename when name contains a path
separator (e.g. res/tilemap.bin -> tilemap.bin), fixing resolution
of files with subdirectory names.
Abdessamad Derraz