Read while walking the profile checklist on the grouped profiles.
- picodrive: find_bios tries each stem as .bin then as .zip
(platform/libretro/libretro.c:1316-1326), and pm_open reads the
first entry of at least 32 KB or with a ROM extension
(pico/cart.c:122-158). The twelve .zip names join their region's
set, ranked right after the .bin of the same stem.
- dxx-rebirth: the HOG entries cite the mount and the error that stops
the game without one (similar/main/inferno.cpp:472, 476, 500-512).
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.
muOS names its GBA folder gameboyadvance first, which resolved to ares's
game-boy-advance. mgba lists nintendo-gba, so the fallback set was empty
and an unrecognised GBA game got no file. ares, dgen, picodrive, fbneo,
fbalpha2019 and emux_sms now use the ids the other profiles use, with
their old spellings kept as SYSTEM_ALIASES (bios.sms and fbneo's
Spectrum sets had fallen to the other bucket of the RetroArch list).
A folder whose name spells a machine its core does not run now also
holds the core's machines: a PC Engine CD folder run by mednafen_pce_fast
got no System Card. Install lists and install/games regenerated.
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.
One run of profile_sync --all --rebase-refs --fresh. Every guard held:
no ref to review, no prose left under an older pin, no file name or hash
literal gained in a cited file since the pin, no built_by pin and no pin
keyed by build mode. The site's record of cited source paths is rebuilt
with them.
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.
Profiles, the wiki, comments, docstrings, command output and schema descriptions carried em-dashes, clause-joining semicolons, unicode arrows, box-drawing banners and check-mark glyphs. Each sentence was rewritten rather than having its character swapped. Hashes, paths, source_ref values and every cited file:line are unchanged, which a comparison of each parsed profile against the previous revision confirms.
validate_pr comments now say PASS and FAIL in words, and source_ref values in a profile's structured blocks render as code. test_prose_style fails if any of these comes back, in tracked files or in the generated site.
Region tags must name the territory the code selects a file for. Each
entry tagged europe alone was read at its pin: PAL branches Australian
media reach now include oceania, and tags that follow a video standard,
a user setting or a hardcoded value are removed.
Four refs pointed at blank lines or a closing brace: get_bios,
pif_bootrom_hle_execute, the key mapping block and the neocd system
subdirectory constant are one line off in each case.
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