The libretro core is the frontend, and the headless tools are the test and
debugging hosts. The Windows, UWP, Android, iOS, macOS and SDL apps, the UI
framework and imgui go, along with what only they used: the Win32 debugger
hooks (g_frameMutex, the shutdown lock), JNI thread attachment, the Android
text drawer, RAIntegration, Discord, recent files, game installs, tilt input,
the audio resamplers, the control mapper, memstick moving and the remote ISO
and upload server modes. The web server keeps the debugger. The MSVC, Gradle
and ndk-build projects go too.
The core no longer sleeps to pace itself: the frontend runs retro_run at
its own rate, so the frame throttle, the idle-vblank delay and the real
clock sync event (and its core option) are gone, and a stepping CPU hands
straight back instead of waiting 2 ms. Waits that polled now park on a
lock-free eventcount through Common/Thread/ParkingLot and are woken by
whoever changes the state: a paused GL emu thread, which also queues a
marker behind its last frame so pausing runs the render queue up to it
instead of polling; async I/O results; the software renderer when its
queue is full; Vulkan pipeline compiles; and debugger requests once
stepping ends. Boot joins the loader thread, cache shutdown joins its
read-ahead thread, and the slow-I/O simulation is removed.
The path browser, the HTTP and WebSocket servers, the Windows console and
the game info cache are left out of the core build. libretro/test gains
lrgltest, which drives the GL backend on a surfaceless EGL context through
every path that pauses or stops the emu thread; run.sh and the image
checks CI job run it on llvmpipe.
Cashing in the io/stat and io/shortname recordings.
__IoGetStat began with memset(stat, 0xfe, sizeof(SceIoStat)), which destroyed 24 bytes of the
caller's buffer that a real PSP never touches - it writes only as far as the timestamps and
leaves all six st_private words exactly as it found them. It also wrote a made-up sector number
into st_private[0] on the memory stick. That word carries the LBN on a UMD, which games read to
build disc0:/sce_lbn paths, so it stays for non-FAT and is left alone otherwise.
FAT has no permissions of its own and everything reads back as 0777. We were passing the host's
idea of the file through instead. The existing "all files look executable on FAT" hack for Beats
(issue #14812) was right in substance but lived only in sceIoDread, so sceIoGetstat and
sceIoDread disagreed about the same file where hardware has them agree. Both now go through one
path, which also gets the read-only case right: no write bits means mode 0555 and attr 0x21.
sceIoGetstat on the root of a volume is refused, as on hardware.
sceIoChstat was a logging stub. It now applies the read-only flag, which is what st_mode's write
bits and st_attr's 0x01 both mean on FAT - setting either produces both, and it's reversible.
That needs a new IFileSystem::SetFileWritable, defaulting to "can't" so read-only filesystems and
hosts that can't express it (Android content URIs) are unaffected; the call still succeeds there,
since hardware would have.
GenerateFatShortNames now accounts for capitalisation. FAT keeps a lowercase flag for the base and
another for the extension, but the PSP only honours the base one, so "shrt" becomes SHRT while
"readme.txt" becomes README~1.TXT. We were only adding a counter on collision. The unit test
carries the whole recorded set, including the corrected README~1.MD.
io/shortname stays in tests_next: its d_name column can't match while SimulateVFATBug is
uppercasing lowercase 8.3 names, which is deliberate and load-bearing for homebrew.
RAIntegration keeps its cache and local achievement data next to the
executable. If PPSSPP is installed somewhere that needs elevation to write -
Program Files being the obvious case - that write fails and takes the emulator
down as soon as a set or code notes are loaded, with no log to show for it since
the log can't be written either.
Check whether the exe directory is writable before handing the DLL to rcheevos,
and if it isn't, say so and point at the portable .zip instead. Achievements
themselves still work, so carry on to the normal login.
Fixes#21260
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GgACRqkQNpfJQ4fjwyoEup
log.channel.set is meant for temporary, session-only diagnostic
tweaks (e.g. quieting a noisy channel while investigating something
over the WebSocket debugger). It was going through the same
SetLogLevel/SetEnabled calls the UI settings use, so a normal app
exit would persist whatever channels/levels the debugger last left
set, silently overwriting the user's real saved log preferences for
future runs - discovered when a later session's default logging
looked "off" for no apparent reason.
LogManager now tracks whether the debugger has touched channel
config this run and skips SaveConfig() entirely if so, leaving
whatever's already on disk untouched.
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