lexaloffle documented two programs, so every platform naming PICO-8
received Voxatron's files: ROCKNIX, RetroDECK and RetroBat run PICO-8
only. Voxatron is its own profile, named vox_official. A platform also
runs the emulators its standalone_cores list names: Batocera and KNULLI
list lexaloffle there and nowhere else.
ROM_5200_A, ROM_BASIC_A and six more are atari800.cfg keys, not names
atari800 opens: MatchByName knows only atariosa.rom and its kin
(sysrom.c:278-294), and the keys are config_key since 969907e29. The
twelve labels the scan identifies by CRC32 are found_by: content, and a
platform declaration of a file such an entry accepts by hash, in the
folder the core scans, now meets it: RetroDECK's ROM_BASIC_A answers
atari-basic-rev-a.rom without the alias.
A platform that binds part of a standalone layout leaves the entries no
binding covers in a folder outside the BIOS tree: they are no longer
packed at the BIOS root, and the manifest names them (root: emulator,
outside_bios_folder). A launcher that executes a profile's file binds
the program folder: in the BIOS tree, below the roms directory a registry
entry names (root: roms, installed into the folder holding the BIOS
folder), or nowhere a pack reaches. A moved entry resolves by its own
path as well as by its destination.
uae4all gains kick.rom and rom.key in its working directory and loses a
not_bundled_on that named Recalbox, which runs uae4all-rpi. lexaloffle
declares that its programs read beside their executable, lists the
Windows build RetroBat runs and the pico8_dyn ROCKNIX runs on x86_64.
ROCKNIX's start_pico8.sh runs pico8_64 or pico8_dyn from
/storage/roms/pico-8 and RetroBat's Pico8 generator runs pico8.exe from
its pico8 emulator folder. Both are recorded as exec records, read from
the scripts at the revisions the platform files pin.
The gap report never offers an entry the platform's list settles, so
AmberELEC's amiberry configs, which pass kick34005.A500.rom and
kick40068.A1200.rom beside a declared kick34005.A500, got nothing. The
launcher layer now reads the entries it was not offered, through the
setting or the extended name only: by its own name an entry left out of
the report was left out for a reason.
A record naming several files of one config lists their keys in the
same order (describe_keys). Each launcher place now carries its own
key, so AmberELEC's 5200a.rom receives the ROM_5200_A file.
MAME and libretro MAME pass /userdata/bios/<bootdisk>.img with -flop1
when the option is in the generator's list, else <bootdisk>.chd with
-hard. Each branch is a {bootdisk} template: the list the code tests
for the floppy, and for the hard disk the choices es_features.yml
offers that the list does not take. The menu offers macos3 while the
code tests macos30, so System 3.0 is passed as macos3.chd.
configureINI writes [Folders] Bios = ../../../bios/ps2 into
inis/PCSX2.ini, which PCSX2 and AetherSX2 resolve against the config
folder configgen hands it. relative_folders reads the call, the ini
path and the value, and records the resolved /userdata/bios/ps2 as a
passes_path for pcsx2 and aethersx2.
A copies record names its files under search_dir, the folder the code
copies from, and passes_to is the target, as the schema and RetroPie,
RetroDECK and AmberELEC already write it. KNULLI listed patches.zip
under the BIOS folder it is copied into, and KNULLI and RetroBat wrote
the target as prose with the condition. The condition of a copy now
goes in depends_on_option. Only launcher records change in knulli.yml
and retrobat.yml.
RetroDECK sets LRPS2's pcsx2_bios to scph10000.bin. The record names
the frontend, so the core is the one whose entry reads that setting.
Its entry is a placeholder, and the name spells a model: the held dump
the catalogues describe as SCPH-10000 goes in under that name in the
entry's directory, primaries first, then the earliest Redump revision
(ps2-0100j-20000117).
A launcher name that a reader's profile entry declares unsourceable is
no file left to find. Its row carries the reason and both reports
print it under its own count, never mixed with the names to acquire.
amberelec_launchers reads runemu.py with ast and, at the commit the
scraper pins, the scripts its standalone table runs and the configs
their packages install: RetroArch and retrorun directories, the MAME
-rp path, atari800.cfg, Hatari's default TOS, amiberry's kickstarts
link and defaults, yabasanshiro, PICO-8, piemu, scummvm, freej2me and
easyrpg. 17 records.
The freej2me-lr.jar and pico8_64 notes now name the file in a sentence
about the emulator, as test_launcher_aliases asks once a launcher
records it.
knulli_launchers reads KNULLI's configgen and the PICO-8 installer at
the tag the scraper pins: Batocera's extractors where the generator is
still Batocera's code, KNULLI's own for lexaloffle, libretroOptions and
knulli-install-pico8, and one AST reader for the BIOS paths the other
generators pass on a command line, in a config key or the environment,
copy or test for. 52 records.
ROCKNIX's Amiberry configs pass kick34005.A500.rom and
kick40068.A1200.rom, Amiberry's names for Kickstart 1.3 and 3.1 with
.rom appended. Amiberry opens the path as given and boots AROS without
it, so the pack now ships the held ROM under the launcher's name.
emuelec_launchers.py reads emuelecRunEmu.sh and the scripts and
configs it starts at the tag batocera-systems is read at (v4.8): 36
records for RetroArch, retrorun, freej2me, MAME, PICO-8, Flycast,
Amiberry, DuckStation, Yabasanshiro, jzIntv, Mupen64Plus, Hatari,
AdvanceMAME, ScummVM, Dolphin and the MIDI synths.
A search a launcher stops at the first held name of is filled, and a
copy from the platform's own package or script brings its own file:
neither is a name the collection lacks. A launcher that writes its
file into the setting a profile entry is read from (config_key) now
receives that entry's held file under its own name, in the report and
in the pack.
standalone_bindings maps each subfolder of a standalone layout to the
folder of the BIOS tree a platform's links and passed directories give
it, followed through a working directory. platform_layouts applies it,
so the pack, the manifest, verify and slots read one destination.
uae4all paths are now what the emulator reads, kickstarts/<name> below
its working directory, and RetroPie still receives them in amiga/.
A list naming retroarch now takes the libretro profiles whose built_by names the platform: ROCKNIX ships yabadabadoo with its RetroArch and named it nowhere, so its files never reached the ROCKNIX pack. Only change across the registry: rocknix + yabadabadoo. Also quotes the installer's current unproven-drive message.
Batocera's lexaloffleGenerator runs bios/pico-8/pico8 and
bios/voxatron/vox, raises when the binary is missing or not
executable, and puts each folder on LD_LIBRARY_PATH. The new
extractor records both per system from the AST, with the lines
of batocera-43.1 that say it.
- The installer speaks without "you": the first screen asks "Where
to install?", rows read "Copy the BIOS files from an old card or a
folder", a close match reads "Close matches: ...". The handheld
launchers and their port text follow, and the pronoun guard no
longer lists any installer message.
- A setup that runs as an app opens on its one-line command, the
folder table after it; a setup that runs on its own device keeps
the network folder first, which its ZIP route needs.
- The home steps say what to do: "Its page gives one line to copy",
"Paste it, press Enter".
A folder under the checkout is as long as the checkout's own path. From a deep clone the screen broke it after a separator, as it should, and eight tests looked for it on one line.
The game-data tap test waited on the bare RetroBIOS: title, which the
screen before Confirm already showed, then pressed Enter only if one
settle had drawn Confirm. The runner drew it later and the install
never started. It now waits for the Confirm title and presses Enter.
llms.txt now gives the package commands, the plan as JSON events from
--dry-run --events, the exit codes and the plan, consent, act pattern
with --yes. Tests hold each fact to install.py and to the exit code table
of the installer page.
Every archive has a recipe in recipes/archives.json, and no page a user
reads said so. A short reference page says what a recipe is, how to
rebuild one archive and what exact and canonical mean. Its counts and the
README line are counted from the recipe file at each build.
The README gains a row of four badges: PyPI version, Python versions,
the Validation workflow on main and the license. Tests hold the badges,
the counts and the page's command.
The events transcript on the installer page is a --check run that finds
files missing. Since November such a run ends on 3, as the Exit status
table says, and the sample still showed 1.
Dependabot moved uv in pyproject.toml alone, while validate.yml and
CONTRIBUTING kept 0.12.9. Both pins move together, and a test now
fails when a package pinned in both carries two versions.
--fetch also exported and stopped on the absent dist/truth before any
download, so CI skipped every exporter fidelity case and tolerated the
step. --refresh-cache only downloads: the step can no longer fail
unseen.
Each change records a fact the data no longer states:
- ROCKNIX 20261101 dropped the AetherSX2 package, so the install box
names KNULLI alone.
- RetroBat no longer pins an md5 on ar_bios.zip for the Arcadia, so no
file is held for emerson-arcadia-2001 and its UNLINKED entry is gone.
- sega-model1 holds only the model1io and model1io2 device sets, filed
under Arcade > Arcade and Arcade > MAME, with no section of its own.
- The Sega page gained Model 2 and new Chihiro and Hikaru files on the
same card layout: its word ceiling is measured again at 3545.
Abdessamad Derraz