Recalbox 10.1.1 builds the wxWidgets-era libretro PCSX2 for x86_64 at
408e3b2 with 0003-bios-path.patch, which moves the BIOS scan from
pcsx2/bios to ps2, and lists it as the libretro core pcsx2 of the ps2
system. Since lrps2-9485a53 took the ps2 name no profile described it.
pcsx2-libretro-408e3b2 is built_by recalbox under the name pcsx2, beside
standalone PCSX2 and LRPS2. It reads <bios>.rom1, rom2, erom, nvm and
mec beside the selected image. GameIndex.yaml and the patch archives are
compiled in.
Batocera 43.1 builds libretro/ps2 at 416291a with 001.bios-dir.patch and
Recalbox 10.1.1 builds it at 9485a53 with 0001-recalbox-paths.patch. Both
patches move the BIOS scan from pcsx2/bios to ps2, and Recalbox also moves
the data root to system/ps2. Each build gets its own built_by profile:
lrps2-416291a under Batocera's pcsx2 name, lrps2-9485a53 under Recalbox's
ps2 name.
A platform's own build now answers for its own build mode only on a
dual_mode_cores name, so Batocera keeps standalone PCSX2 beside its
libretro build.
tests/__init__.py keeps a run offline, its scratch under tmp/ and its
installer cache its own, but only discover -s tests -t . imported it.
discover tests ran with RETROBIOS_OFFLINE unset, scratch on the /tmp
tmpfs and the user's real installer cache, the setting in which e2e
fixtures had written into the shared .cache/large. Every test module now
imports the package first, and a test fails on a module that does not.
test_verify_listing.py took its line with the previous commit.
Recalbox compiles uae4all from Chips-fr/uae4all-rpi, a libretro core, while RetroPie's uae4all package is the standalone uae4all2. A profile whose built_by names the platform now wins the name there, and a bare key match still decides everywhere else.
Batocera, Recalbox and RetroBat launch pcsx2 standalone and as LRPS2.
The name matched the standalone profile's key, so lrps2, which lists
pcsx2 among its cores, was left out and its files never reached those
packs. A name in dual_mode_cores now also resolves to the libretro
profiles that claim it.
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.
Batocera, RetroBat, Recalbox and ROCKNIX offer some emulators both as a
libretro core and standalone. Filed as standalone only, the libretro
layout was dropped: libretro Dolphin had no dolphin-emu/Sys/GC files.
Platforms now name dual-mode emulators and each gets both layouts.
Batocera's cores were read from configgen-defaults.yml, one per system,
and a hand-kept registry list overrode even that; DOSBox Staging,
melonDS DS and nine other cores a user can pick in ES were outside the
pack, while mamemess, which Batocera does not ship, was in. The
scraper now reads es_systems.yml, the registry list is gone, and the
target scraper names standalone emulators (amiberry, fsuae, vice)
instead of only the machines listed under them.
Abdessamad Derraz