The xemu generator writes eeprom.bin and xbox_hdd.qcow2 into
saves/<system> from its own resources and passes both in xemu.toml,
copies chihiro_eeprom.bin between saves/chihiro and the emulator folder,
and points the Chihiro snapshot store at saves/chihiro. The Cxbx
generator runs each build from its emulator folder (chihiro, chihiro-ds,
cxbx-reloaded, else cxbx-r), where it writes settings.ini, writes
EEPROM.bin into cxbx-reloaded for an Xbox, and mounts an .iso with its
own xbox-iso-vfs.exe after checking the Dokan 2 runtime. Nine records,
read at emulatorLauncher ca486005.
A program the launcher runs from its own folder is no launcher read
left to collect. xemu-chihiro lists the two files it generates,
chihiro_eeprom.bin and chihiro_snapshots.qcow2, as unsourceable.
The amiberry and hatarib extractors give a search record and its copy
record one list object, and PyYAML wrote it as &id001 and *id001.
platforms/retrobat.yml, batocera.yml and knulli.yml carried such
anchors. The platform dumper now writes every list out, and the two
files the RetroBat scrape does not rewrite are dumped again through it:
their content is unchanged.
RetroPie lists KS 1.3 as kick34005.A500, and its fs-uae launcher
passes $biosdir/kick13.rom. The listed copy settles fs-uae's entry by
content, so the launcher layer never offered it, and kick13.rom
reached the pack only as a copy of UAE4All2's amiga/kick13.rom: the
x86 boards, without UAE4All2, lost it. An entry the list settles under
another name now answers the launcher's place by its own name.
The first profile reading a requirement hosts the others' claims,
and two ways of dropping the host dropped them too. DraStic brings its
own usrcheat.dat, and DSPerate, which reads the same file, lost it
wherever DraStic runs. A missing file was recorded for its first
reader alone: NAPALM.GRP named Raze, Data.rsdk Sonic Mania. A list
built for a board without that reader carried what the full list
left out, and install.py --target disagreed with the builder on
ROCKNIX, KNULLI, Batocera and RetroPie boards.
A board's core list names Batocera's standalone amiberry and the
buildbot's amiberry core alike, so install.py --target kept the
amiberry 8.5.0 libretro files on bcm2711, whose RetroArch downloads
nothing. resolve_platform_cores decides that reach, and the install
list now carries its answer as downloaded_cores, read by the
installer's narrowing for a target.
The builder tested only the first installable name of a profile:
Batocera lists higan_sfc_balanced and nside_sfc_balanced, the x86_64
downloader offers the second, and the core left the x86_64 pack with
its Super GameBoy files.
RetroPie builds amiberry 5.7.2 and 6.3.3, one per board, both in
$md_inst of its amiberry package. Each build recorded roms/kick.rom
and whdboot/AmiQuit in the emulator's folder apart, and
install/retropie.json listed both destinations twice. A file read
outside the BIOS tree is now keyed by the folder the platform installs
the listed name into, and one omission names every core reading it.
Since ddafc2ff4 a pack's manifest.json holds install_list and
targets, which install.py reads with the pack alone. The pack schema
refused both. It now names them, and validate_schemas.py checks each
against the install and target manifest schemas.
The ZIP replay in packextras.hidden_extras now skips roms, emulators and configs entries as the builder does, so verify and pack integrity stop counting files only the installer places. The consistency check treats the Android .nomedia marker as a pack note. MAME4droid's hiscore.dat leaves bios/: the app unpacks it from its own files.zip. VVVVVV's Make and Play data.zip is collected as a release asset, which EmuELEC declares as required.
No platform or profile files a system under neo-geo-pocket-color since profiles name it snk-ngpc: its SYSTEM_PARENTS entry pointed at an id without a name.
bundled_only.py --strict listed 14 copies in bios/Commodore/Amiga/
.variants that only the per-build amiberry profiles reach, each through
a bundled entry. Four are the AROS ROMs, and those entries say
not_bundled_on: ROCKNIX, AmberELEC and Recalbox package amiberry
without them, so their packs bring them from the collection. The tool
read bundled alone and listed them, and now keeps a copy a
not_bundled_on entry reaches. The ten others (WHDLoad, boot-data.zip,
whdload_db.xml of 5.6.5 to 8.0.0) no platform, profile or manifest
needs: removed. database.json is to be regenerated with the
collection's release assets.
Since the groups model, load_emulator_profiles marks every member of a
required set required, and the page counted each one: DuckStation,
which needs one BIOS of the game's region among the 105 images of its
ps-bios set, read "105 required, 0 optional". The site counts a
required set once and says one file fills it, and a set whose members
the code picks by region reads as one choice. The tests were not keyed
by a count but by the profile's name, through raw YAML that no longer
carries the derived requirement: they now read the profile as the site
does, take the count from the set, and keep their guard against a
get-all-of-them reading. Fourteen other profiles with required sets
(kronos, pom2, picodrive...) were overcounted the same way.
Phase 0 files snk-neogeo-pocket and neo-geo-pocket-color under snk-ngp and snk-ngpc. The No-Intro catalogs, their importer map and the campaign list now use those ids, the games index is regenerated, and the site's name table drops the eleven entries the new aliases leave unread.
2048 and gong (game), radio and video_processor (utility) and the test
cores (test) are libretro builds, but their role sat in type:, which
resolve_platform_cores filters on: all_libretro left them out, so no
platform resolved them and RetroArch's manifest named none, the
--installed-cores gap of issue 87. The role moves to role:, and type
stays libretro: type keeps saying how a profile is built and run, which
the resolver reads, while teaching the resolver that three role values
mean libretro would make type a classification again. The site and
coverage leave test cores out by role. fluidsynth, a library and no
libretro core, keeps type utility. A test keeps every buildbot core
named by RetroArch's resolution.
An installable core joined the platform's names, so the standalone
profile under the same name was designated too: Batocera, which can
download the linuxloader core and runs no standalone Linux Loader,
resolved both. A downloadable core now designates libretro profiles
only, as all_libretro reads them.
The 8.5.0 source builds a standalone Amiberry and the libretro core, so
the profile is standalone + libretro again. A standalone name a build the
platform compiles itself answers to keeps meaning that build: RetroBat's
standalone amiberry is 8.3.0, and 8.5.0 runs there as the core only.
Batocera's x86_64 RetroArch downloads the amiberry, cemu and xemu cores
although the image builds standalone emulators of those names. They now
stay in installable_cores, run both ways, and reach only the boards whose
downloader offers them.
installable_cores removed every buildbot name the image builds, so a
libretro core sharing its name with a standalone package was lost:
Batocera runs amiberry standalone and its x86_64 boards fetch
amiberry_libretro. A name now compares within its build mode, and the
resolver and the layouts treat such a core as the emulator's libretro
build, run both ways. Batocera gains amiberry, azahar, cannonball, cemu,
dosbox, ecwolf, eduke32, fsuae, openmsx, rpcs3, supermodel, vita3k, xemu
and ymir as installable, KNULLI cannonball.
RetroBat writes rom_path and whdboot_path below its amiberry emulator
folder and copies the kickstarts and rom.key it finds in bios into that
ROMs folder. The copies and both folders are launcher records, and the
8.3.0 standalone entries go to the emulators tree where the build reads
them.
A platform that builds Amiberry itself runs that revision under the name,
on every board it builds: RetroPie 5.7.2 and 6.3.3, Recalbox 8.2.2,
Batocera 7.1.1-332, KNULLI 7.1.1. The 8.5.0 profile is the buildbot
libretro core. It now names the ROM table's own file names and hashes
the keyboard MCU images.
KNULLI's RetroArch is Batocera's build with its core downloader on.
Its armv7 hard-float boards (atm7039, r16, rk3128) fetch from buildbot
linux/armhf: atm7039's shipped retroarch.cfg hides the menu entry but
leaves the URL, and Settings offers the entry back. Its aarch64 boards
get no buildbot URL. ecwolf, squirreljme, stella2014 and vemulator come
back as installable cores, and openmsx, which no buildbot list carries,
stays out.
Batocera builds RetroArch with its core downloader (configure defaults,
qb/config.params.sh:149-150), shown in the menu since it is no Lakka
build (config.def.h:743-745), and configgen sets no URL, so the compiled
one applies: buildbot linux/x86_64 or linux/armhf, none on aarch64
(config.def.h:1855-1861). The targets scraper names that list per board
(downloads, an armv7-A CPU read from arch/Config.in.arm), the builder
and the published target lists add it, and the platform names the union
as installable_cores. applewin, gong, squirreljme and vemulator come
back that way. A build option that compiles the downloader out, or a
shipped retroarch.cfg that blanks its URL, turns it off.
ROCKNIX listed retroarch, which stood for every libretro profile (351
resolved), while its devices build 124 libretro packages. The platform
list now names the cores those packages install on at least one device.
The targets scraper read a package's name as its core: vice-lr installs
vice_x128, vice_x64, vice_xpet, vice_xplus4 and vice_xvic, which reached
no device. It now reads each package's makeinstall_target, the file
copied to ${INSTALL}/usr/lib/libretro under its target name, through
TARGET_ARCH and ENABLE_32BIT (pcsx_rearmed-lr, desmume-lr). 155
profiles resolve, each built by a device, and no device loses one.
The 29 port engines depend on emuelec-ports, which no package of a
released image depends on, and flycast-dojo is in no device list: the
targets scraper already says so (UNBUILT). The platform list and the
launcher records now hold what at least one device image carries. Each
system keeps the list es_systems.json gives it, which says whose files
its entries ask for: VVVVVV's data.zip is still never served xrick's.
KNULLI's es_systems.yml is Batocera's model: it lists every emulator
its configgen knows, and its Config.in selects many of them only on
x86_64 boards, which KNULLI has none of. The platform list now holds
what at least one board selects, read by the targets scraper, plus a
program the launcher runs from the BIOS folder (lexaloffle). 59 cores
and 44 standalone emulators leave the list, with their launcher records.
The targets scraper follows Config.in and every file it sources, so a
select a package declares itself counts (Batocera's mesa3d-rpi4 gives
the Pi 4 OpenGL). A sourced file absent at the pin is named and read as
empty: KNULLI 20260511 sources package/utils/vtree/Config.in, added in
June.
ROCKNIX builds amiberry 5c54536 (target.h declares 5.6.5). Every file
it reads lies below its start path, the working directory: the ROM
database dumps, aros-ext.bin, aros-rom.bin and rom.key in kickstarts/,
the WHDLoad booter files in whdboot/. Profiled from that revision,
pin_frozen with pin_build on ROCKNIX's package.mk.
The ROCKNIX scraper records the folder its start script enters and the
kickstarts link it carries there by copying /usr/config/amiberry, so
<cwd>/kickstarts binds to the BIOS root. A standalone + libretro profile
under a name the platform's own build answers to no longer resolves
there: ROCKNIX's amiberry is 5.6.5, not 8.5.0.
The configs root place joins roms and emulator folders in the split
handed directories, and RetroBat's portable folder table keeps both
sides. Batocera, KNULLI and RetroBat records regenerated.
RetroBat passes XRoar -rompath bios/coco for the coco system, and its
es_features offers the CoCo 3 machines there. The per-system record now
carries those machines (machines:), and an entry whose name the
platform list does not declare is launched for the system offering
its own profile system as a machine, by _norm_system_id. coco3.rom and
coco3p.rom move from bios/dragon to bios/coco. RetroBat offers no
MC-10 machine, so the mc10 ROMs keep the default bios/dragon.
Sudachi.Generator.cs:28-30 creates user/ beside sudachi.exe, and
sudachi reads it as PORTABLE_DIR (path_util.cpp:92, fs_paths.h:9) in
place of %APPDATA%. Its keys now go below emulators/sudachi/user/.
Both binding sides kept: roms_place, named handles and environment
variable directories from integ run through the pool and per-system
binding of this branch. Batocera, KNULLI and RetroBat launcher records
regenerated from the merged extractors.
RetroBat's generators create user/ beside yuzu.exe and eden.exe and
portable/ beside Ryujinx.exe, which the emulators read in place of
%APPDATA% (PORTABLE_DIR, Ryujinx AppDataManager.cs:12, 60). Their keys
now go below emulators/<key>/.
Batocera and KNULLI start shadPS4 from CONFIGS/shadps4, so its user
folder sits below /userdata/system/configs. The scrapers read that root
from batoceraPaths and write configs_root with its source_ref. The
manifest names it configs_directory, and install.py honours it through
the same checks as roms_directory: character rules, at most two ups,
the ancestor match and the lexical bound.
The standalone Amiberry scans rom_path, ROMs below its content root by
default, for the ROMs of its database, without descending into
folders, and reads rom.key beside the Kickstart and the MT-32 ROMs
from mt32-roms. Those entries now carry standalone_path relative to
it, the four Kickstart labels holding slashes flattened. The kick*.rom
names stay the libretro build's.
Batocera's config_directories reads its rom_path save, KNULLI reuses
it. On Batocera, KNULLI and RetroPie the ROMs move from the BIOS root
to bios/amiga.
XRoar reads a ROM by name from the directories of rompath. The entries
take their file name as path, relative to ~/.xroar/roms or
${prefix}/share/xroar/roms, and rompath and -rompath are declared as
search lists.
Batocera records its rompath line, Recalbox -rompath bios/<system>
(the placeholder its extractor already writes), RetroBat its -rompath
as two records, bios/dragon and bios/coco for coco. An entry whose
name the platform list does not declare follows the launch its
profile system is listed under: Recalbox lists mc10.rom under
trs80coco, so alice.rom is read there.
Batocera ROMs move from the BIOS root to bios/xroar, Recalbox ROMs to
bios/dragon and bios/trs80coco, RetroBat ROMs to bios/dragon and
bios/coco. RetroDECK and RetroPie keep them at the BIOS root.
KNULLI's configgen-defaults.yml picks suyu for the Switch, which its
es_systems.yml does not offer and no package of its tree, its batocera
submodule or its buildroot builds: KNULLI does not ship suyu. A default
es_systems.yml does not offer now counts only when a package of the
build's trees has that name, or when its launcher runs a program from
the BIOS folder (Batocera's lexaloffle). Batocera's lists are unchanged
by the rule. suyu leaves KNULLI's cores, and the XDG_DATA_HOME record
that served it goes.
openMSX reads share/systemroms below OPENMSX_HOME or ~/.openMSX and
every filepool entry by SHA1. The profile paths drop RetroBat's
openmsx/ prefix and declare those directories and the filepool.
Batocera's config_directories reads the filepool lines its generator
writes, KNULLI reuses it. RetroBat records OPENMSX_HOME, RetroPie the
moveConfigDir of ~/.openMSX that its systemroms link lies in, and the
configure --prefix of xroar that its roms link lies in.
Batocera and KNULLI system ROMs move from openmsx/share/systemroms to
openmsx/, beside the files their own lists declare, RetroPie's to
BIOS/openmsx, the folder linked as share/systemroms.
A launcher record can name the systems it is written for, and then
replaces there what the records naming none hand: RetroBat passes XRoar
-rompath bios/coco for coco and bios/dragon otherwise. An entry is
launched for the systems it names and those the platform declares a
file of its name under. A {system} search_dir gives one directory per
platform system, a colon search path each of its directories.
standalone_pools names settings a program reads as a list of
directories, each searched like a layout subfolder (openMSX filepool,
XRoar rompath). Any entry serves: the one the platform list fills
comes first, then the first of the BIOS tree. A handle above a
declared directory lands it where its link points (configure
--prefix). Record order now survives the standalone set.
Batocera's 002-adjust-paths.patch rewrites Citron's KeysDir to
/userdata/bios/switch: patched_paths reads it from the patch, and KNULLI
from its batocera submodule at the pinned commit. Batocera and KNULLI
start shadPS4 from /userdata/system/configs/shadps4 (os.chdir), KNULLI
sets suyu's XDG_DATA_HOME to /userdata/saves/switch, and RetroBat creates
the portable user folder beside citron.exe and shadPS4.exe. Each platform
file differs from its scraper's full output by these records only.
A profile names a folder a handle rewrites as "<handle> = <subfolder>",
and a record setting a variable or a working directory a declared folder
is spelled from binds the whole layout below it.
Abdessamad Derraz