libretro/hatari rewrote main on 2026-11-04: it is now hatari/hatari
c453b85f with 23 port commits on top, and the old pin 50929946 survives
only as the tip of main-old. Every citation is read again at 25f488b1 and
c453b85f. The libretro build now reads files through
src/retro/file_retro.c, with no .gz or archive unpacking, and a missing
tos.img clears bUseTos in retro_init instead of a have_bios gate in
retro_run, so the core runs the built-in test stub.
A bulk advance moved fheroes2, supertux and supermariowar past the
revision EmuELEC compiles, and nothing stopped it: bump_commit refused
built_by only. It now leaves a profile a single registered platform ships
until it carries pin_frozen or the new pin_follows, which says that
platform builds the branch tip.
hode, bermuda, bennugd-monolithic and ccleste are held on the
PKG_VERSION of their EmuELEC v4.8 package.mk, equal to their pins.
rigelengine was one commit past it (README.md only) and goes back to
f05996f9.
bermuda.yml (the EmuELEC build) and bsyndrome.yml (RetroBat's bs.exe)
document the same cyxx/bermuda engine under two slugs, bermuda-syndrome
and bsyndrome, so the site gave the game two system pages. bsyndrome now
files its entries under bermuda-syndrome.
openMSX reaches a ROM in share/systemroms through its file pool by SHA1
alone. A filename is only looked up beside the machine's XML
(src/memory/Rom.cc:121-170, HardwareConfig.cc:279-280,
FileContext.cc:152-156 at a557de7b). The labels read as names the core
opens, and the export added 15 of them to KNULLI and 2 to Batocera.
DEV9 opens eeprom.dat and flash.dat by bare name (pcsx2/DEV9/DEV9.cpp:144
at f0523f8a, AetherSX2 DEV9/flash.cpp:89, PCSX2 1.6 dev9ghzdrk/flash.cpp:73),
so the process working directory answers, never the BIOS folder. Only
yaps2 said so: the other PCSX2 profiles had the file packed into the BIOS
folder and the RetroDECK export add it there.
PCSX2 and its forks keep the first 4 to 8 MB image with a romdir in
the BIOS folder (pcsx2/ps2/BiosTools.cpp:258-282, 317-332 at f0523f8a),
and PCSX2 1.6 lists the same test in its BIOS picker
(BiosSelectorPanel.cpp:151-177). The names are labels. Without found_by
the truth model read ps2-0230a-20080220.bin as a name the core opens, and
the RetroDECK export added it as a required file.
Notes compared a core with another profile of this directory (unlike
beetle_pce, unlike the other engines in this directory), which means
nothing once a profile is read alone, and shouted NOT, ALL and MUST. The
facts stay, the comparisons and capitals go. Comparisons with a core's
own upstream remain.
The profile declared libretro/redream, which answers 404, with no pin and
no source_ref: profile_sync skipped it and the boot.bin md5 came from the
libretro docs. It now reads inolen/redream at ffb73022, the last public
tree, whose libretro core opens dc/boot.bin and dc/flash.bin in the system
directory. boot.bin is checked against four md5 and the flash against its
size, and both fall back to the high level BIOS, so neither is required.
core_version went null although doc/CHANGES.html at the pin opens on
Version 0.16.0. ti99sim cites v0.16.0 and v0.0.11 parts side by side,
and with no documented version every part read as another program:
profile_sync reported 6 external, 0 to review, nothing checked. The v0.16.0
parts are anchored at the pin again, the v0.0.11 parts stay external.
XRoar reads the Dragon 200-E and Alice ROMs for those machine configs
(src/xroar.c:437-444, 552-558 at 1.12.1), and VICE the Japanese kernal
and chargen for the C64 JAP and VIC-1001 models: a (Japan) file name
selects the NTSC model (libretro-core.c:2018-2034). No code branches on a
territory for these files, so region: is removed, as profiling.md rules
for a model enum.
CLK reads every export cartridge as Europe or USA and boots the western
BIOS for any region but Japan (StaticAnalyser.cpp:49-66,
MasterSystem.cpp:137-140). The tag named brazil without its parent, so
--region mx dropped the BIOS from the Batocera pack.
higan and nSide look program.rom up in the option's folder, SGB.sfc/,
then Super GameBoy.sfc/. Only the SGB1.sfc/ and SGB2.sfc/ folders were
entries, and both names are files bsnes, Mesen-S and ares read from the
same system directory, so no pack could give the higan cores a Super
Game Boy. SGB.sfc/ collides with SuperSnes9x's sgb.sfc on a
case-insensitive file system. Super GameBoy.sfc/ collides with nothing.
The rom folder survey joined 463 folders to their default core's whole
profile, no system of it matching. SYSTEM_ALIASES, the one table
_norm_system_id reads, now folds ten more spellings of one machine:
apple2gs, astrocade, astrocde, creativision, gamepocketcomputer,
nintendo-super-game-boy, cps1, cps2, cps3 and pgm. The profiles that
used them take the canonical id (mame, groovymame, mamemess, mame0258,
mame0278, bsnes, mesen-s, mesence, jollycv, fbalpha2012 and its three
CPS cores, fbneo_cps12), as test_system_ids requires.
With bsnes and bsnes-hd now filing SGB1.sfc under one system, their
claims fold onto one report entry. _names_content read only the first
claim, hashless, and nSide's SGB1.sfc/ tree took the path before the
file. A hash on any folded claim now counts: every pack keeps the
destinations it had.
The site drops the eight display names the canonical ids replace and
names tvgames. README counts 533 systems instead of 541.
934 of the 1,563 mame.yml entries named no system and so served every
system of the profile: each MAME-run system's set was the whole profile.
The 65 BIOS root sets written by hand take the system groovymame.yml
gives the same 0.289 archive (sega-systemsp, konami-gx, taito-gnet and
41 more ids, added to systems:). The 19 XaviX sets take tvgames, the
directory MAME keeps xavix.cpp in. They seed the device walk.
mame_hash_scraper --devices files a device set under arcade when a
machine no entry places loads it: MAME starts such a machine from its
set name, as an arcade folder passes it. 1,106 of the 1,254 device sets
now carry arcade, alone or beside the systems of their placed machines.
qsound, ym2413 and ym2608, written by hand, take the same answer.
Left without a system: 41 device sets no machine of the listxml
instantiates (a software list slot selects them), and the hash/,
plugins/ and floppy/ trees every machine reads.
libretro/FBNeo 32958a8 to da14132, upstream 697e385 to c110542, through
profile_sync --rebase-refs then --bump-commit. core_version v1.0.0.03
read again from src/burn/version.h: unchanged.
BIOS entries between the two pins: d_cps3.cpp adds the sfiii2a driver
(SF3 2nd Impact, Asia 970930) with its own SH-2 BIOS,
sfiii2_asia.29f400.u2 (crc32 4518d589), filed like the other CPS-3
chips. The 19 CPS-3 refs after it move by 15 lines. d_neogeo.cpp,
d_pgm.cpp, d_spectrum.cpp, d_nes.cpp, d_ngp.cpp and d_snes.cpp change
game sets only, no BIOS set.
locate_archive now tries system/fbneo/romdata/ first while a RomData
file starts. The notes list it, and drop rom_path.opt, which no file of
src/burner/libretro reads.
The pin moves past the merged Video CD card PR (libretro/beetle-saturn-libretro#99). The core now reads the Video CD player out of mpeg_card.bin with command 0xE2, so the entry and the notes no longer say the image is never read. Refs rebased, core_version still v1.32.1 at libretro.c:58. source-paths.json gains the new pin and the Kenji-NX pin that was missing.
The check each core runs on every listed file is cited in the profile notes instead of on each entry: the per-entry citations pushed the RomM platform pages past their byte budget (573900 against 572487).
Lunar - Silver Star Story Complete (Japan) needs the MPEG card and stops Yabause after its logos. Lunar - Silver Star Story (Japan) reaches its title on Beetle Saturn and Yabause with the RetroArch pack's BIOS (records 2026-10-28-6b5b55d3480f, 2026-10-28-9270d1928be7), judged against the reference frames added to the oracle.
Lunar - Silver Star Story Complete (Japan) stops after its logos with the pack's v1.00 Japan image and with v1.01 alike (record 2026-10-28-32cdefcdb231). The CD block passes the MPEG card check (cs2.c:3172-3212) and decodes nothing (2870-2884). The pack's saturn_bios.bin is not the cause.
try_use_bios skips a listed file that is not 512 KB (frontend/libretro.c:3632) and one without the kernel's first instruction or "PS compatible" at 0x12c (3646-3651). validation: [size, signature] on the seven listed names. Closes the four open pcsx_rearmed findings.
The region BIOS option names scph5500/5501/5502.bin by default and LoadImageFromFile checks only the size (host_interface.cpp:124-133, bios.cpp:82-105). The md5 table serves the directory scan and the Fast Boot patch. validation: [size], found_by: name. Closes the open swanstation finding.
firmware_is_present logs a SHA1 that differs and returns true (libretro.c:853-860), the override path does the same (744-756). on_mismatch: warn on every hashed entry. Closes the two open beetle_psx findings.
The required: false evidence of scph5500, scph5501 and scph5502 cites the records judged again, whose log says Firmware is missing, and the notes say the boot ran the built-in OpenBIOS with the other regions' files refused.
When the region's file is absent, libretro.c (7fea57a5) finds no name and no matching sha1, then maps its built-in OpenBIOS (libretro.c:3425-3511). The region runs show it: each region's disc reaches its game with only the other regions' BIOS staged, under the oracle's reference frames (records 2026-10-27-55dd1e4943c4, 13be0e68b799, 33780d47efdf). scph5500.bin, scph5501.bin and scph5502.bin are required: false, hle_fallback stays true. Written through campaign_profiles.
Each standalone profile records where its version is read: the source
at its pin (clk 2026-07-23-136-g9020107, shadps4 0.20.1 WIP, eden
v0.2.0-401-g26a03d2), the APK, binary or archive read (kind package),
or, where no reading can be made, kind unverified with the reason: a
host the tools cannot read, a forge gone or not answering, no build
recorded as read, a pin on another branch. Those keep their value,
unconfirmed.
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.
An alias carries the version of the profile it aliases (version_basis
kind alias): mednafen_saturn and mednafen_vb read v1.32.1 and v1.31.0,
the mupen64plus_next builds 2.6.0, flycast_gles2 the flycast tag form.
The libretro-samples test cores without a pin take the commit their
profiled_date names and read library_version there.
core_version is read at each pin where version_basis says. MAME 2014,
2015, MESS 2015 and CDi 2015 state 0.159 in src/version.c (the libretro
wrapper reports 0.160), MAME/MESS sits on the 0.289 makefile of its pin,
FinalBurn Neo states 1.0.0.03 in src/burn/version.h, FB Alpha 2012 and
its CPS-3 build 0.2.97.30. mame_version of MAME 2014 and 2015 follows,
as MESS 2015 and UME 2015 already said.
Written by campaign.py from its rule table: six upper-case .BIN names the core opened for scph5501.bin, and evidence for hle_fallback, with the record ids of measurements/beetle_psx.jsonl.
Read the cores in the Recalbox 10.1.1 x86_64 image (sha1 b3d80ff0). The
sugarbox2 core, built from the token-gated v1.5, holds the 59 blobs of the
public v0.9 RomData.cpp byte for byte and opens the same paths: only its
on-screen keyboard placement differs. eightyone and exel-hence hold every
compiled embedded array of their public tags.
AssetConverter dropped its table of known levels: an episode now owns
the levels its first level's exits reach, plus trainer (prince) and
psych3 (rescue), and a level is stored under its own name, so share1
becomes share/share1. Levels and tile sets convert on several threads.
Same Source/ and Content/ files, same lookup order.
Upstream now reads a Virtual ][ Contents/Resources folder as it is:
each take is also tried under its bare name and a .wav slot as the
headerless .raw (VirtualIISoundCatalog.h:47-66), macOS searches the
app bundle in /Applications and ~/Applications, a truncated AIFF is
rejected and AudioToolbox decodes .aiff on macOS
(VirtualIISoundLoader.h). Same nine takes, same paths.
Standalone pin d881a29 to 7180422, the latest release, now named in
core_version. Upstream identifies xbox.xex by its bounding path instead
of its PE name and answers the disc authentication IOCTL: the XeFu
files, paths and required flags are unchanged. Four lines added in
emulator.cc move the citations past IsXeFuDispatcher by four. The
libretro pin f23c14c is the head of its libretro branch.
Standalone pin d55da28 to cc30b45. The five commits touch the window
server and fbs bitmap code only: no file read, path or hash changes.
screen.cpp lost eight lines above the upscale shader call, so its
citation moves from 636-638 to 628-630. The libretro pin e39ccac is the
head of the libretro branch and 11f5b6c is still its merge base.
Pin 704f603 to 63770cd. The three new hashes in platforms/config.sh are
dependency revisions the build fetches: the bgfx patch, libaltsound and
libdof. libdof moved to 5c54ef7 with GetGlobalConfigPath unchanged at
src/DOF.cpp:36-45, and libaltsound still appends altsound/<rom> to the
base folder, so only the libdof revision in the notes changes.
prose_written_at records that the notes were read at the new pin.
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.
Abdessamad Derraz