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.
Font caches synthesised from host fonts, battery images and backup RAM the emulator creates when absent, user symbol maps, the BAM presets list and the BOOT -bios image slot have no canonical copy.
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.
armsx2, clk, dosbox-x, imageviewer, openjkdf2, parallel_n64, px68k, rpcs3,
rust_dos and squirreljme. Refs recaled where they shifted; no file name or
hash gained since each pin.
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.
emulator: carried the file stem on 67 profiles, so site links read like ids. Each now takes the project's own name (libretro .info corename, README title, window title or site title). tests/test_profile_names.py allows the stem only on a commented list: lowercase project names, test cores, aliases and the template.
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.
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.
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.
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