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libretro/scripts/packreadme.py
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Abdessamad Derraz 2d26385efe feat: place save-dir files in each system folder
Batocera, KNULLI, Recalbox, RetroBat and RetroDECK hand a libretro core <saves>/<system> at each launch. Each copy lands below every system that runs the core. EmuDeck keeps one unsorted saves/retroarch/saves. The unsupported platforms record why.
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"""The notes shipped inside a pack.
A pack has to explain itself offline: what it holds, where each file
goes, and which ones the user has to rename."""
from __future__ import annotations
from siteguides import INSTALL_BASE, pack_manual
INSTALL_SH = f"{INSTALL_BASE}/install.sh"
INSTALL_PS1 = f"{INSTALL_BASE}/install.ps1"
def _detect_systems(detect: list[dict]) -> list[str]:
"""The operating systems the registry's detection rules cover, in order."""
order = ("linux", "darwin", "windows")
seen = {str(rule.get("os", "")) for rule in detect}
if "any" in seen:
return list(order)
return [name for name in order if name in seen]
def _card_section(platform_name: str, display: str) -> str:
"""The one-line install for a frontend whose files live on its SD card.
The installer runs on the computer the card is mounted on, and the card
root is named: no folder on that computer is one the frontend reads.
"""
return (
" Option A: Automatic (recommended)\n"
" ---------------------------------\n"
" With the SD card mounted on a computer, name its root with --dest.\n"
" Linux and macOS: run this in a terminal:\n\n"
f" curl -fsSL {INSTALL_SH} | sh -s -- --platform {platform_name} --dest /path/to/card\n\n"
" Windows: run this in PowerShell (E: being the card):\n\n"
f" &([scriptblock]::Create((irm {INSTALL_PS1}))) --platform {platform_name} --dest E:\\\n\n"
f" The installer writes each file where {display} hands it to the core\n"
" and checks every file.\n\n"
)
def _card_manual(display: str) -> str:
"""Where the files of a per-tag Bios/ layout go, copied by hand."""
return (
" Option B: Manual\n"
" ----------------\n"
" 1. Put the SD card in your PC\n"
" 2. Extract all files from this archive directly into the root of the\n"
" card: the archive holds the Bios/ folder, with one subfolder per\n"
" launch tag (Bios/PS/, Bios/GBA/, ...)\n"
" 3. Overwrite if asked\n\n"
f" {display} hands each core the folder named after the tag in\n"
" parentheses of its Roms folder (\"Sony PlayStation (PS)\" reads\n"
" Bios/PS/). A Roms folder can be renamed as long as the tag stays.\n\n"
)
def _automatic_section(
display: str, detect: list[dict], standalone_copies: list[dict] | None,
) -> str:
"""The one-line install, for every system the registry detects the
platform on. Written per platform by hand, it left ROCKNIX and MiSTer
without it and told EmuDeck's Windows edition to open Konsole."""
systems = _detect_systems(detect)
if not systems:
return ""
# A platform detected on Linux only is a system of its own (Batocera,
# ROCKNIX, MiSTer) or runs on one machine (RetroDECK, a RomM server):
# the command runs there.
on_device = systems == ["linux"]
lines = [
" Option A: Automatic (recommended)",
" ---------------------------------",
]
posix = [name for name in systems if name != "windows"]
if posix:
if on_device:
where = f"On the machine running {display} (its terminal, or SSH), run:"
else:
labels = {"linux": "Linux", "darwin": "macOS"}
where = f"{' and '.join(labels[name] for name in posix)}: run this in a terminal:"
lines += [f" {where}", "", f" curl -fsSL {INSTALL_SH} | sh", ""]
if "windows" in systems:
lines += [" Windows: run this in PowerShell:", "", f" irm {INSTALL_PS1} | iex", ""]
lines += [
f" The installer finds the {display} BIOS folder on this machine and",
" installs there, checking every file. --dest names another folder.",
"",
]
# On a desktop: an emulator folder under the home of a console's own
# system is not one its frontend reads.
if standalone_copies and not on_device:
lines += [
" Standalone emulators read some files from folders of their own",
" (Switch and 3DS keys, PlayStation and GameCube BIOS). To copy them",
" into the emulator folders the installer finds, add --standalone-copies:",
"",
]
if posix:
lines.append(f" curl -fsSL {INSTALL_SH} | sh -s -- --standalone-copies")
if "windows" in systems:
lines.append(f" &([scriptblock]::Create((irm {INSTALL_PS1}))) --standalone-copies")
lines.append("")
return "\n".join(lines) + "\n"
def _generic_manual(bios_paths: list[str]) -> str:
"""Where the files go, from the registry's paths, for a platform with no
manual guide of its own."""
targets = [path for path in bios_paths if path]
where = " or ".join(f"{path}/" for path in dict.fromkeys(targets)) or "your BIOS directory"
return (
" Option B: Manual\n"
" ----------------\n"
f" 1. Extract all files from this archive directly into {where}\n"
" 2. Overwrite if asked\n\n"
)
def save_place(extract_to: str, folder: str, base_dest: str) -> str:
"""Where a platform keeps its save directory by default, as the README
names it: ``folder`` beside the BIOS folder the archive is extracted
into (``base_dest`` names it), or inside the folder the archive is
extracted into when the archive holds the BIOS folder itself
(RetroDECK's ~/retrodeck/). A relative BIOS folder (RetroArch's
system/) gives ``folder`` beside it."""
root = extract_to.rstrip("/")
if not base_dest:
return f"{root}/{folder}/" if root else f"{folder}/"
parent = root.rpartition("/")[0]
if parent:
return f"{parent}/{folder}/"
return f"{folder}/ beside {root or base_dest}/"
def _save_section(
display: str, folder: str, place: str = "", by_system: bool = False,
in_frontend_settings: bool = True, in_place: bool = False,
) -> str:
"""Where the files of the pack's save folder go.
Some cores read their system data below the save directory the frontend
hands them, not below the system directory the archive is extracted
into: Azahar keeps its user folder there. ``place`` is the save
directory's default place (save_place), saves/ beside system/ when not
given. ``by_system`` says the launcher hands each system a folder of
its own, which the archive's folder already holds.
``in_frontend_settings`` points at RetroArch's setting, for a frontend
whose own config names the directory. ``in_place`` says the archive is
extracted into the folder holding the save directory, which then
needs no move.
"""
where = place or f"{folder}/ beside system/"
kept = "the folder of each system" if by_system else "the folders it holds"
lines = [
" Files read from the save directory",
" ----------------------------------",
f" Some cores read files from {display}'s save directory, not its",
f" system directory. The {folder}/ folder of this archive holds them.",
]
if in_place:
lines.append(f" Extracted as above, it lands at {where}, where they are read.")
else:
lines += [
" Move its contents into the save directory, keeping",
f" {kept}. By default it is {where}"
+ ("," if in_frontend_settings else "."),
]
if in_frontend_settings:
lines.append(" see Settings > Directory > Save Files.")
lines.append(" The automatic install writes them there.")
return "\n".join(lines) + "\n\n"
def _build_readme(
platform_name: str,
platform_display: str,
base_dest: str,
total_files: int,
num_systems: int,
source: str = "full",
contributors: list[dict] | None = None,
regions: list[str] | None = None,
fallback_systems: list[str] | None = None,
one_per_slot: bool = False,
undecidable_slots: list[str] | None = None,
narrowings: list[tuple[str, str]] | None = None,
system_filter: list[str] | None = None,
detect: list[dict] | None = None,
standalone_copies: list[dict] | None = None,
launch_folders: int = 0,
save_folder: str = "",
save_where: str = "",
save_by_system: bool = False,
) -> str:
"""Build a personalized step-by-step README for each platform pack.
``launch_folders`` counts the folders a platform that hands each core
its own system directory gives them, where it names no system.
``save_folder`` is the pack folder holding files cores read below the
frontend's save directory, empty when the pack holds none, and
``save_where`` that directory's default place (save_place).
``save_by_system`` is set when the launcher hands each system a folder.
"""
narrowings = narrowings or []
sep = "=" * 50
scope = (
f"{launch_folders} launch folders" if launch_folders and not num_systems
else f"{num_systems} systems"
)
header = (
f"{sep}\n"
f" RETROBIOS - {platform_display} BIOS Pack\n"
f" {total_files} files for {scope}\n"
f"{sep}\n\n"
)
detect = list(detect or [])
bios_paths = [str(rule.get("bios_path", "")) for rule in detect]
if any(rule.get("method") == "card_marker" for rule in detect):
guide = (
"INSTALLATION GUIDE\n\n"
+ _card_section(platform_name, platform_display)
+ _card_manual(platform_display)
)
else:
guide = (
"INSTALLATION GUIDE\n\n"
+ _automatic_section(platform_display, detect, standalone_copies)
+ (pack_manual(platform_name) or _generic_manual(bios_paths))
)
if save_folder:
guide += _save_section(
platform_display, save_folder, save_where, save_by_system,
in_frontend_settings=not save_by_system, in_place=not base_dest,
)
if regions:
region_help = (
" - Wrong region? This pack was filtered. Only the\n"
" best-matching BIOS was kept per system. Use the\n"
" unfiltered pack to play imports.\n"
)
else:
region_help = (
" - Wrong region? Some systems have regional BIOS\n"
" variants (USA/EUR/JAP). All are included.\n"
)
footer = (
"TROUBLESHOOTING\n\n"
" - Core says BIOS missing? Check the exact filename\n"
" and make sure it's in the right subfolder.\n"
f"{region_help}"
" - Need help? https://github.com/Abdess/retrobios/issues\n\n"
f"{sep}\n"
f" https://github.com/Abdess/retrobios\n"
f"{sep}\n"
)
source_info = ""
if source == "platform":
source_info = (
"PACK TYPE: Platform Only\n\n"
f" This pack contains only files declared by {platform_display}.\n"
" Core extras from emulator profiles are not included.\n"
" Use the Full pack for maximum coverage.\n\n"
)
elif source == "truth":
source_info = (
"PACK TYPE: Ground Truth\n\n"
" This pack contains files that emulators actually load,\n"
" based on source code analysis of emulator profiles.\n"
" Independent of platform scraper accuracy.\n\n"
)
region_info = ""
if regions:
pretty = ", ".join(
" ".join(w.title() for w in slug.split("-")) for slug in regions
)
region_info = (
"PACK TYPE: Region Filtered\n\n"
f" Region priority: {pretty}\n\n"
" Only the best-matching BIOS was kept for each system.\n"
)
if fallback_systems:
listed = "\n".join(f" {_group_label(s)}" for s in fallback_systems)
region_info += (
"\n These systems have no BIOS in those regions, so all\n"
" of theirs were kept:\n"
f"{listed}\n"
)
region_info += (
"\n This shrinks the pack. It does not change how cores pick\n"
" a BIOS: most already select per region from fixed filename\n"
" lists driven by the game's region. Loading imports from\n"
" another region may need the unfiltered pack.\n\n"
)
slot_info = ""
if one_per_slot:
slot_info = (
" Where a core declares which BIOS it prefers, only that one was\n"
" kept for each system and region. Systems whose cores declare no\n"
" order keep all of theirs.\n"
)
if undecidable_slots:
slot_info += (
f" {len(undecidable_slots)} slot(s) had no declared order.\n"
)
slot_info += "\n"
narrowed = ""
labels = [label for _tag, label in narrowings]
if system_filter:
labels.append(f"systems {', '.join(system_filter)}")
if labels:
listed = "".join(f" {label}\n" for label in labels)
narrowed = (
"PACK TYPE: Narrowed\n\n"
" This pack holds fewer files than the full one:\n"
f"{listed}"
"\n The unfiltered pack is the one to use when in doubt.\n\n"
)
credits = ""
if contributors:
credits = "\nCONTRIBUTORS\n\n"
for cb in contributors:
username = cb.get("username", "")
credits += f" @{username}\n"
credits += "\n"
return (
header + narrowed + source_info + region_info + slot_info
+ guide + credits + footer
)
def _build_agnostic_rename_readme(
destination: str,
original: str,
alternatives: list[str],
) -> str:
"""Build a README explaining an agnostic file rename."""
lines = [
"This file was renamed for compatibility:",
f" {destination} <- {original}",
"",
]
if alternatives:
lines.append("All variants included in this pack:")
for alt in sorted(alternatives):
lines.append(f" {alt}")
lines.append("")
lines.append(f"To use a different variant, rename it to: {destination}")
return "\n".join(lines) + "\n"
def _group_label(group_id: str) -> str:
"""A region group as a reader names it: the system, or one core's slot."""
emulator, kind, rest = (group_id.split(":", 2) + ["", ""])[:3]
if kind == "variant" and rest:
return f"{rest} ({emulator})"
return group_id