Three changes to the search-list model, one commit because the readers
and the profiles must move together for the schema to hold.
Set requirement in a groups map. pom2 falls back on apple2.rom for the
][ and the ][+, and on apple2e.rom for the //e it boots and for the
unenhanced //e: one required on the file could not say both. A profile
now declares groups: {name: {required}}, a member writes no required
of its own (schema and validate_schemas refuse one) and load_emulator_
profiles derives it, true when one of its sets is. group takes a name,
a list, or a map from set to rank where the rank differs per set. pom2
is grouped from SystemProfile.cpp and MainWindow.cpp:246-296 at its pin.
One member per required set under --required-only. The pick is the
first the code reads among the held members the region filter leaves,
by rank then declaration order; a set the platform declares a member
of is carried by that declaration. The emulator pack, verify
--emulator, the platform pack, its manifest and verify --platform read
alternatives.required_only_spares or core_file_spares.
variant_group is now selection_slot: files a core chooses between by
a rule other than first found (disc territory for PicoDrive and
Pizza Boy SC, the o2em_bios option, a WebAssembly probe in SWF
Player). Where the code takes any one, the field became a group:
ARMSX1 (ArmSxBackend.java:149-157, name order), ePSXe (load_bios
0x433540-0x433621 of the 2.0.5 Linux x64 binary, one configured path,
HLE when BiosHLE is set), FPse and FPse-NG, DXX-Rebirth's HOGs
(inferno.cpp:472-512). odin and zesarux carried it with no effect.
slot.py compares ranks only between candidates that share a set.
Each list read at the profile's pin, every member required: true where
the code needs one of the set, the order left in priority.
- yabause, yabasanshiro, kronos: libretro.c tries saturn_bios.bin,
sega_101.bin, mpr-17933.bin (yabause 1035-1049, yabasanshiro
1048-1071, kronos 1619-1638 after kronos/saturn_bios.bin). kronos
also reads saturn_bios.bin at the system root, now its own entry.
yabasanshiro refuses the game with no file even under forced HLE
(1064-1071), so its hle_fallback is gone.
- yabadabadoo: bios_for_region (libretro.c:262-284) takes any of the
three in an order the disc region picks. One group, no priority:
region keeps that order, no single rank would be true.
- ymir libretro: kBiosFilenames (libretro.cpp:305-309), region first,
else the first found, no game without one (1231-1236).
- duckstation: FindBIOSImageInDirectory (bios.cpp:397-450) keeps any
image of the right size, a region mismatch only warns: one set.
- picodrive: find_bios walks one list per disc region
(libretro.c:1272-1336), three groups.
- px68k: BIOSFILE then cgrom.dat or cgrom.tmp (libretro.c:984-1032).
- px68k-sdl: BIOSFILE and FONTFILE lists (winx68k.cpp:277-331).
- numero: ti83se, ti83plus, ti83 (libretronew.cpp:575-594), no ROM
leaves a blank screen.
- freechaf: sl90025 then sl31253, HLE without either
(libretro.c:186-199), optional set.
- pcsx1: scph1001, scph5501, scph7001 then any scph* (libretro.c:1229),
HLE without, optional set.
- odin: three boot ROMs inside hikaru.zip.
pcsx1, rustation and np2kai called a project abandoned, dead or never completed. Each now gives the date of the last commit or the project's own words, and a test refuses the verdicts yabause and gearboy carried too.
Each libretro profile records version_basis and core_version is read
there at its pin. snes9x states 1.63 in snes9x.h, nestopia 2.0.0, mgba
0.11.0, vice 3.10, atari800's libretro tree 7.0.0. Cores whose build
takes its version from git carry the nearest tag in describe form
(flycast v2.7-90-ge88b0ce, ppsspp, duckstation, gearcoleco), placeholders
copied from .info files (Git, SVN) are replaced by the code's statement,
and a code that states none is null with kind none.
Every cited block was read again at HEAD: no ref left to review, no
file name or hash literal added to a cited file since the pin
(--detect-new-files --watch-hashes), refs recaled with their pins.
Profiles built by a platform at a fixed commit, or whose bump would
leave prose under an older pin, stay where they were.
Profiles that read two repositories, a libretro port and its upstream,
now prefix each citation with source or upstream, decided by which tree
carries the cited value at its pin. The emulator pages use the word to
tell libretro glue, emulator code as the port carries it, and the
upstream emulator apart.
batch re-profiled nekop2 through pokemini. mupen64plus renamed to
mupen64plus_next. new profiles: nes, mupen64plus_next.
validation functions (_build_validation_index, check_file_validation)
consolidated in common.py — single source of truth for verify.py
and generate_pack.py. pipeline 100% consistent on all 6 platforms.
Every profile now has:
- profiled_date: date of source code analysis
- core_version: version from libretro-core-info .info files
- display_name: human-readable name from .info files
260/260 profiles complete. 294/294 libretro cores covered.
Standalone emulators (cemu, rpcs3, xemu, vita3k) versioned manually.
- Added profiled_date field to all 204 existing profiles for update tracking
- Created 56 alias profiles for cores that share BIOS with a parent
(e.g., mednafen_psx -> beetle_psx, fbalpha2012 -> fbneo)
260 total profiles covering all 294 libretro cores (204 unique + 56 alias).
Abdessamad Derraz