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Abdessamad Derraz
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Online pipeline at 169776790, generated twice with identical output: database, recipes, install manifests and games index, native exports, README, installer and report excerpts.
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---
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level: reference
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order: 45
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group: Checking files
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terms: recipe, rebuild, archive, zip, romset, exact, canonical
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---
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# Rebuilding an archive
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Arcade emulators read their BIOS files from a ZIP archive.
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The collection keeps a **recipe** for each archive. It lists the files
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inside, in order, with their fingerprints. The recipe and those files make
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the archive again. No copy from elsewhere is needed.
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## Rebuild one archive
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In a copy of the project:
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```bash
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python scripts/romset_recipes.py --build neogeo.zip --output-dir rebuilt
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```
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Each archive of that name is made under `rebuilt/`, in the folders it has in
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the collection. It is checked against its recipe before it is kept.
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## Exact or canonical
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<!-- generated: archive-recipes -->
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- **Exact**: the same bytes as the archive in the collection. 1,794 of 2,229 archives.
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- **Canonical**: the same files inside, packed another way. 435 of 2,229 archives.
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<!-- /generated: archive-recipes -->
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An emulator reads the files inside, so both work the same. A setup that
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checks the whole archive by its fingerprint needs the exact one.
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Every option of the command: [tools](tools.md#archive-recipes).
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