Files
libretro/schemas/platform.schema.json
T
Abdessamad Derraz 0b4504992b feat: read batocera md5 written as a list
batocera.linux 6b08b873 lets a biosFiles item declare its md5 as a
list of strings, and checkBios accepts a file matching any of them.
The scrapers join the values with commas, as for Recalbox, and record
md5_list so the export writes the list back as a list, byte for byte.
2026-10-23 07:39:25 +02:00

565 lines
18 KiB
JSON

{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"$id": "https://github.com/Abdess/retrobios/schemas/platform.schema.json",
"title": "Platform Configuration",
"description": "Schema for retrogaming platform BIOS configuration files",
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"required": [
"platform"
],
"properties": {
"inherits": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Parent platform config to inherit from (e.g., 'retroarch')"
},
"platform": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Platform display name"
},
"version": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Platform version"
},
"dat_version": {
"type": "string"
},
"cores": {
"oneOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"uniqueItems": true
}
]
},
"standalone_cores": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"uniqueItems": true
},
"dual_mode_cores": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"uniqueItems": true,
"description": "Emulators of standalone_cores the platform also launches as a libretro core: both layouts get their files"
},
"libretro_systems": {
"type": "object",
"description": "libretro core name -> the systems the platform's system list offers it for, as the launcher names them. A launcher handing each core <save directory>/<system> (save_directory.by_system in the registry) places a file the core reads below its save directory once in each of these folders",
"additionalProperties": {
"type": "array",
"minItems": 1,
"uniqueItems": true,
"items": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"pattern": "^[^/\\\\]+$"
}
}
},
"core_system_dirs": {
"type": "object",
"description": "The libretro system directory the platform hands each core, keyed by that directory relative to the pack root. A platform that declares it gives a core no other directory: the core's files are placed below each directory listed for it, and a core listed nowhere gets none (MinUI hands each launch tag its own Bios/<TAG>/)",
"additionalProperties": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"required": [
"cores",
"source_ref"
],
"properties": {
"cores": {
"type": "array",
"minItems": 1,
"uniqueItems": true,
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Libretro cores the platform starts with this directory, by the name of their .so"
},
"devices": {
"type": "array",
"uniqueItems": true,
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Devices whose build ships a launcher for this directory"
},
"source_ref": {
"type": "string",
"description": "file:line of the launcher that names the core, at the revision `source` pins"
}
}
}
},
"core_repositories": {
"type": "object",
"description": "Repositories each core of core_system_dirs is built from, read from the platform's build recipes",
"additionalProperties": {
"type": "array",
"uniqueItems": true,
"items": {
"type": "string"
}
}
},
"system_directory_ref": {
"type": "string",
"description": "file:line, at the revision `source` pins, of the code that sets the system directory core_system_dirs lists"
},
"homepage": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"description": "Platform homepage URL"
},
"source": {
"type": "string",
"description": "URL to source BIOS requirements list"
},
"base_destination": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Base directory for BIOS files on this platform"
},
"core_destination": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"description": "With an empty base_destination, the directory core files go under (AmberELEC and EmuELEC declare bios/, neogeo/ and ports/ from /storage/roms, and their cores read bios/)"
},
"hash_type": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"sha1",
"md5",
"crc32",
"sha256"
],
"description": "Primary hash algorithm used by this platform"
},
"hash_rule": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"size_and_any_hash"
],
"description": "How a digest-mode frontend accepts a file when it is not one digest: size_and_any_hash requires the declared size, then any one of md5, sha1 and crc32 (RomM)"
},
"verification_mode": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"existence",
"md5",
"sha1"
],
"default": "existence",
"description": "How the platform verifies BIOS at runtime: existence (file exists), md5 (checks MD5 hash), sha1 (checks SHA1 hash)"
},
"systems": {
"type": "object",
"description": "Systems/consoles supported by this platform",
"additionalProperties": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/system"
}
},
"launchers": {
"type": "array",
"description": "What the platform's own launch code looks for and hands to each emulator or core, read by its scraper at the revision `source` pins",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/launcher"
}
},
"overrides": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "Override inherited system configs",
"properties": {
"systems": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/system"
}
}
}
}
},
"$defs": {
"launcher": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"required": [
"emulator",
"build",
"kind",
"names",
"source_ref"
],
"properties": {
"emulator": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Emulator or core as the platform names it (comma-separated when one code path serves several)"
},
"build": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"standalone",
"libretro"
]
},
"kind": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"names_searched",
"fixed_name",
"core_option",
"passes_path",
"links",
"copies",
"moves",
"scans_dir",
"package"
],
"description": "names_searched: tries the names in order, first found wins. fixed_name: writes or opens one path per name. core_option: sets a core option whose value names the file. passes_path: hands over a directory. links, copies: links or copies a file to where the emulator reads it. moves: moves a file the user left in one folder to the folder the launcher links from. scans_dir: the emulator picks from a directory. package: names no file, records what a package builds (`repo`) and the systems it registers (`systems`)"
},
"package": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The platform package whose script this record comes from, when the platform installs emulators as packages"
},
"repo": {
"type": "string",
"description": "What the package fetches and builds, as its script declares it: method, URL, then branch or commit"
},
"systems": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Systems the package registers, under the platform's own names, in the order the script adds them"
},
"slot": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The key the launcher files this list under, such as a region or a machine"
},
"names": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Names relative to search_dir, in the order the code tries or writes them. A {X} placeholder is expanded from `expands`"
},
"expands": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"description": "Values a placeholder in `names` takes, in the order the code tries them for each name"
},
"case_insensitive": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Whether the launcher matches names regardless of case"
},
"search_dir": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Directory the launcher looks in, as the code resolves it"
},
"passes_to": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Where the found file is handed to the emulator: config key, command-line flag or core option"
},
"fails_when_missing": {
"oneOf": [
{
"type": "boolean"
},
{
"type": "string"
}
],
"description": "False when the launcher starts without the file, else the message it raises"
},
"fails_scope": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"emulator"
],
"description": "emulator: the failure is raised only when every record of this emulator with the same source_ref found nothing"
},
"depends_on_option": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Options or conditions in the launcher code that decide whether this record applies"
},
"device": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Devices whose shipped config this record reads, comma-separated, set only where the configs of a package differ between devices"
},
"source_ref": {
"type": "string",
"description": "path:lines in the platform's repository at the pinned revision"
}
}
},
"system": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"core": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Emulator core name"
},
"cores": {
"type": "array",
"items": {"type": "string"},
"uniqueItems": true,
"description": "The emulators and cores the platform's system list offers this system, as the platform writes them, in its order"
},
"manufacturer": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Hardware manufacturer"
},
"name": {
"type": "string"
},
"native_id": {
"type": "string"
},
"dat_version": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Version of the DAT file used as source for BIOS hashes"
},
"source": {
"type": "string",
"description": "URL or reference to the source of BIOS requirements"
},
"release_year": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1970,
"maximum": 2030,
"description": "Console release year"
},
"docs": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"description": "Documentation URL"
},
"includes": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Shared BIOS groups to include (from _shared.yml)"
},
"data_directories": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"required": [
"ref"
],
"properties": {
"ref": {
"type": "string"
},
"destination": {
"type": "string"
},
"required": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "false when the core runs without the tree; --required-only leaves it out"
}
}
}
},
"files": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/bios_file"
},
"description": "BIOS files required for this system"
},
"native_check": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "EmuDeck: the shape of the shell check written for this system",
"properties": {
"kind": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"md5",
"file-exists"
]
},
"function": {
"type": "string"
},
"var": {
"type": "string"
},
"array": {
"type": "string"
},
"firmware": {
"type": "string"
},
"keys": {
"type": "string"
}
}
}
}
},
"bios_file": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"required": [
"name",
"destination"
],
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "BIOS filename"
},
"sha1": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^[a-f0-9]{40}$",
"description": "SHA1 hash"
},
"md5": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^[a-fA-F0-9]{32}(,[a-fA-F0-9]{32})*$",
"description": "MD5 hash (comma-separated for multi-hash)"
},
"sha256": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^[a-f0-9]{64}$",
"description": "SHA256 hash"
},
"crc32": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^[a-f0-9A-F0-9]{8}$",
"description": "CRC32 hash"
},
"size": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 0,
"description": "File size in bytes"
},
"destination": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Destination path relative to base_destination"
},
"required": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": true,
"description": "Whether this BIOS is required for the core to function"
},
"extract": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false,
"description": "Extract ZIP contents instead of copying the ZIP"
},
"storage": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"embedded",
"external",
"user_provided",
"large_file",
"release"
],
"default": "embedded",
"description": "Storage tier: embedded (in repo), external (download at build), user_provided (manual)"
},
"source_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"description": "Download URL for external storage tier"
},
"instructions": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Human-readable instructions (for user_provided or context)"
},
"zipped_file": {
"type": "string",
"description": "If set, the MD5 hash refers to this file inside the ZIP, not the ZIP itself"
},
"native_system": {
"type": "string",
"description": "System id the platform itself uses for this file"
},
"mirror_of": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Native system whose entry this one repeats. The platform's own file does not carry the copy"
},
"curated": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Added by our scraper from the cores' source, not declared in the platform's own file"
},
"native_name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Display name the platform gives its own system"
},
"md5_list": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Batocera: the platform writes md5 as a list of strings, any of which matches. md5 holds the items comma-joined, in order"
},
"alt_md5": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^[a-fA-F0-9]{32}(,[a-fA-F0-9]{32})*$",
"description": "Second accepted MD5 (Batocera altmd5, ROCKNIX altmd5)"
},
"core": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Cores the platform names for this file (comma-separated)"
},
"note": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Free-text note the platform attaches to this file"
},
"description": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Description the platform attaches to this file"
},
"hash_match_mandatory": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Recalbox: a hash mismatch is an error, not a warning"
},
"mandatory_declared": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Recalbox: mandatory was stated explicitly, not defaulted"
},
"required_label": {
"type": "string",
"description": "RetroDECK: the requirement wording, which is free text"
},
"component": {
"type": "string",
"description": "RetroDECK: the component whose manifest declares this file"
},
"alt_paths": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Further paths the platform accepts for the same file"
},
"native_path": {
"type": "string",
"description": "How the platform itself writes this file reference"
}
}
}
}
}