Generating the model for every platform met the same two GameIndex.yaml declarations once per platform, and check_freshness opened on six identical warnings.
check_buildbot does not fail the run, yet the summary printed it FAILED right above Pipeline COMPLETE. It now prints WARN and a line saying the difference does not fail the run. The total is aligned under the step durations.
Offline, check_freshness labelled every scraped target list static and counted it OK although nothing was compared. Other sections say SKIPPED offline, and now this one does too.
A 2 GB part drew a 98-column line, and on an 80-column console every redraw wrapped and left a copy behind. The bar now shrinks to the width and goes below ten columns of room.
A copy refused by a read-only emulator folder raised the error count with no failures entry: the summary named no file, gave the BIOS folder as the location and no advice. The failure now carries its path, and the summary names the emulator folder and what to do.
--check counted the required files the list leaves out and named none, then said all files were up to date. A Recalbox user asking why Caesar III would not start learned nothing, though the list names c3.555. The count line no longer calls a file not found unsafe.
The live line divided every byte by the run's time, a partial copy left by an earlier run included, and showed a 3 GB resume as 2.5 GB/s with nothing left.
38 profiles published outside a forge now name the page that announces their releases, so profile_sync and check_freshness see a new version. EDuke32 and Fury take the synthesis build label as core_version, the name the project gives that build.
Scrapers resolve their tag or branch head in the constructor, which ran outside the try in scraper_cli: a refused GitHub call ended in a traceback. The error is now printed with the next step, setting GITHUB_TOKEN when the API refused an anonymous call.
The guides said files over 50 MB become release assets and that RPG Maker and ScummVM were the trees kept out of dedup. .gitignore decides the first, four committed files are over 50 MB, and NODEDUP_DIRS holds eleven trees.
generate_site --docs-dir sent the pages elsewhere but always rewrote the tracked mkdocs.yml, outside the lock taken on that folder, with the navigation of the work in progress. Two previews into two folders both wrote it. Another folder now gets <name>.mkdocs.yml beside it, docs_dir set and its paths rebased, which mkdocs builds with -f.
About forty profiles describe projects published outside any forge (Altirra, ePSXe, DraStic, mednafen, xroar). profile_sync skipped them as an unsupported host and check_freshness reported the same UNKNOWN line every run, so a new release adding a firmware went unseen. A profile can now name the page announcing its releases and a pattern for the version: --check-version reads it, and check_freshness --profiles calls the profile stale when the page announces another version than core_version.
SheepShaver opens ROM or Mac OS ROM, decodes a CHRP-BOOT image and requires a nanokernel ID it knows. By name its entry was served the 128 KB Apple IIGS ROM, which it rejects. Mac OS ROM 1.4 is taken byte for byte from the System Folder of Apple's iMac Software Restore CD 691-2313-A (archive.org, ISO sha1 as listed). Its LZSS payload decodes to 4 MB with the NewWorld nanokernel ID, and a size floor derived from the decoder keeps the IIGS ROM out.
The alias-free profile set was parsed separately from the full one, so a process asking for both read the 534 profiles twice, 1.6 s of a site build. It is now a filter over the full set.
A platform without hardware targets is now left out of a targeted --all run instead of being built unfiltered, and a run no platform can honour is refused.
With --all, an unknown --target skipped every platform that has targets and ran the others (BizHawk, MiSTer) unfiltered, so verify, slots and the pipeline exited 0 on a typo. A platform without targets is now left out like the rest, and a target no platform has is refused.
The pipeline rebuilds the database with --force, which discarded the previous digests and wrote whatever the CPU computed, on a host that has given an incorrect SHA-1 under load. The forced run still rehashes every file, but a digest that contradicts the cache for an unchanged mtime and size is computed again, and the two readings that agree win, with a warning naming the file.
Two test docstrings named the maintainer's private notes file, and nothing stopped it. They now state the rule itself, and test_prose_style fails on any tracked file that names the private notes or the assistant tooling.
scoop install retroarch puts retroarch.exe under ~\scoop\apps\retroarch\current, its system folder persisted through a junction. The Windows search covered the installers' folders, Program Files, Steam, ES-DE and the Store package only, so the run offered C:\RetroArch-Win64\system, a folder that RetroArch never opens. The user and global Scoop roots are searched now, %SCOOP% and %SCOOP_GLOBAL% included.
--list-systems, --list-cores and --list-targets read the manifest and write nothing, yet with --platform bizhawk they went through the portable-install refusal and stopped asking for --dest. Someone checking BizHawk's firmware before downloading BizHawk got an error. A listing now runs whether the platform is installed or not.
--standalone-copies named Linux and Windows folders for Azahar's aes_keys.txt and boot9.bin and Flycast's dc_boot.bin and dc_nvmem.bin, and nothing for macOS, where both emulators read a fixed folder: ~/Library/Application Support/Azahar/sysdata (common_paths.h:36,61) and ~/Library/Application Support/Flycast/data (osx-main.mm:83-101). A test now requires a macOS folder on every copy.
Basilisk II opens a file named ROM, checks its size, its version word and the code PatchROM rewrites, and no hash. By name the only candidate was the 128 KB Apple IIGS ROM, which the size gate rejects, so the pack shipped nothing. The collection's mac.rom (Performa/Quadra 630, version 0x067c) passes every gate, and the entry now names it as an alias. KEGS and GSplus keep the IIGS file.
DOSBox Pure builds every Sound Canvas companion name from the ROM1 file the user picks and reads the third wave ROM only for an SC-55 mk1 or CM-300 (midi_sc55.h:71-124). The profile put every model in the SC-55/ folder holding the mkII set, so WAVEROM3 could never be met. The mkII group stays there, and the v1.00 mk1 set the collection holds gets its own folder under the names the code builds from sc55_rom1.bin.
DSperate reads TWLFontTable.dat for DSiWare run without a NAND. The file sits in nand:/sys/ of the DSi NAND dumps the collection holds. Decrypted with the console ID and CID in each dump's nocash footer, as DSperate's own NAND reader does, the four western and Japanese consoles give one table, the Chinese and Korean ones their own: 863296, 581664 and 162688 bytes, the sizes and sha1 already known for them.
POM2 reads nine Virtual ][ sounds from roms/virtual_ii_sons/. All nine are inside VirtualII.dmg from virtualii.com (13.3). The five AIFF files are taken as they are. The four .raw files are signed 16-bit little-endian mono at 44100 Hz, as Virtual ]['s own playback code declares them, and are wrapped in a WAV header, the data chunk being the raw file byte for byte. pom2 verifies 78/78.
A platform named but not found fell back to a folder it never opens: ~/bios for RetroBat on Linux and for BizHawk picked from the menu, and on Windows the embedded systems' /userdata/bios, which resolves to the root of the current drive. Each run downloaded gigabytes and reported done. Where no folder on the OS is one the platform reads, a forced run now asks for --dest and the menu asks for a path with no default.
Lakka's image writes the board in /etc/os-release: LIBREELEC_DEVICE when built for a device, LIBREELEC_PROJECT otherwise, the very names of our Lakka targets. The installer read the board on Batocera, Recalbox and ROCKNIX only, so a Lakka RPi4 installed 5.7 GB of every board's files where its own needs 4.0.
The buildbot publishes .so cores for OpenDingux (mips32, its beta and RS-90 builds), RetroFW, MiyooCFW and webOS (armv7a, aarch64), 7 to 206 cores each. None was a target, so a handheld or TV user could not narrow a pack or an install to the board. They are scraped now, with opendingux, retrofw, miyoo and webos as aliases.
The buildbot now publishes gametank, a libretro port of GameTankEmulator by SundownerSport. The console has no boot ROM and the core opens no system file, only its flash save in the save directory. Every buildbot core name must reach a profile, or target filtering skips it.
The project bans a short list of marketing words in what it publishes, and no test read for them: the site's platform table described Recalbox's interface with one. The line now says what Recalbox does, and test_prose_style fails on any of those words in a tracked file.
The test skipped when slots stopped claiming pcem's ide_xt.bin. The profile declares it and the collection holds three copies, so that skip could only hide a claiming defect. It now skips only when the file is not collected and fails when it is not claimed.
CONTRIBUTING and the testing guide installed pyyaml and jsonschema only, while the CI test job also installs markdown. On a contributor's machine the wiki heading test skipped and the run read OK. Both name it now, and a test compares them to the packages the tests import.
profile_sync skipped a profile whose repository no longer answers, which carries no pin, or whose declared death the forge contradicts, with empty counts. --strict counted refs to review only, so the CI job meant to stop an unchecked new profile passed a mistyped repository. Such skips now fail a strict run. An unsupported host, a declared takedown and a profile without refs stay accepted.
auto_fetch caught every network error in its repository and archive.org steps and reported the file as needing a community contribution. Offline or rate-limited, --create-issues asked the public for files the tool never looked for, and the errors counter stayed at 0. A 404 is still an answer. Any other failure now marks the file as not fully searched and keeps it out of issues.
list_registered_platforms skipped a registered platform whose YAML was missing and returned an empty list without a registry. verify --all --strict, every --all build, the CI matrix and the site then ran over fewer platforms and exited 0, and install.py kept serving the stale manifest. Both now raise and name the file.
group_identical_platforms fingerprinted each file by destination, sha1 and md5. Two platforms whose lists differed only in required, zipped_file, size or crc32, or in how the frontend checks a file, would have shared the representative's pack and verify result. The fingerprint now carries every field of every entry and the platform's verification_mode and hash_rule. No current platform is regrouped.
load_profile_hashes and load_platform_hashes read hash fields by hand: crc32 was never indexed and a comma list of sha256 stayed one key. A contribution a profile names by crc32 alone (clk's Electron os.rom, among 626 entries) or by one of mesence's four sha256 was reported as referenced nowhere. Both indexes now read through parse_hash_list, and a crc32 counts where no stronger hash is declared, bounded by the declared size.
The integrity step compared a member's md5 by hand and ignored hash_rule, so under RomM's rule (size, then any of md5, sha1 and crc32) it would refuse a revision the builder rightly shipped on its sha1. The rule now lives in digest_verdict, which the path check and the pack member check both call. The member's archive digest is computed without the path cache, whose key a buffer's reused address made collide.
When the truth takes over an entry without a size of its own, the format writes it without the platform's size: System.dat's neocdz.zip lost size 953078 and no counter said so. Removed sizes are now counted and named, and the summary counts read 1 size, 2 sizes.
The attribute pattern took letters only, so md5 never entered the comparison and an element whose digest the truth corrects kept Recalbox's text. A test written before the change caught it. The RetroDECK fixture now names the core that reads its addition, as the placement rule requires.
Every <bios> element the model held was rendered again, so attribute order, alignment, a line break inside md5 and the case of a digest changed in 222 elements that stated the same thing. The diff deleted 451 lines for 136 corrections. An element whose attributes say what Recalbox wrote now keeps Recalbox's own text: 175 lines, the corrections.
Notes were keyed by file path, so a comment before one of the items reading an archive came back before every item reading it: bk's '# MAME' twelve times. A comment after the list's opening bracket matched neither rule and was dropped (enterprise's ep128emu-core). Notes are now keyed by file and archive member, written once, and a head-line comment goes with the first item.
Additions took the component their system's entries sit in, whatever core reads them. 104 armsx2 and yaps2 files went into PCSX2's manifest, beetle_psx and rustation dumps into DuckStation's, a directxbox image into xemu's, all counted as added. An addition now lands only where a core reading it is that component's emulator: 132 additions instead of 581.
Abdessamad Derraz