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fix(mister): correct shared Game Boy artwork matching - #1436

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Closes #1261

  • Resolve sibling ROM references within configured roots for the same system without relaxing artwork path boundaries. Where configured roots nest, the most specific one owns the ROM, so artwork names stay relative to the media/ directory beside it.
  • Accept <box2d> alongside <boxart2d> when decoding gamelist entries. boxart2d stays canonical and is the only form marshalled.
  • Stop a gamelist entry describing one system's ROM from claiming a same-named title of another system that shares its ROM folder. The guard is driven by the extensions each system's launchers index, so it covers every shared MiSTer folder — GAMEBOY (.gb, .gbc, MegaDuck .bin), SMS (.sms, .gg, .sg), WonderSwan (.ws, .wsc, .pc2), NES (.nes, .fds, .nsf), SNES, TGFX16, Coleco, ATARI7800 and Jaguar — instead of a Game Boy special case. A launcher accepting files through a Test function leaves the set unknown and the guard stays open.
  • Resolve alternate MiSTer core names to their mapped system. generateNameMap adds CORENAME values such as RA_GBC so the tracker can place a game running on an alternate core, but LookupCoreName validated the CORENAME itself against systemdefs, which only knows system IDs, so every one of them was discarded.
  • Ignore missing media during scraping so rename, reindex, and forced scrape recover artwork.
  • Add regular/Companion layout, shared-folder, nested-root, rename recovery, path safety, scrape-system resolution, and standard/RetroAchievements launcher-output regressions.

Verified on the MiSTer test device against a GAMEBOY folder holding Alpha.gb, Alpha.gbc and Beta.gbc, with a GBC gamelist referencing ../GAMEBOY/Beta.gbc. On v2.17.2 the Game Boy media took the Game Boy Color entry's description, no box2d artwork was written at all, and the sibling-root reference matched nothing. On this branch each media takes its own description and cover, and the sibling reference resolves to the GBC root's artwork. A full Gameboy and GameboyColor gamelist scrape over the real 4,200-title library matched the same rows as before. Launching a .gbc from the shared folder through RAGameboyColor loads the core and now logs found mapping: RA_GBC -> GameboyColor in place of error getting system: unknown system: RA_GBC.

FPGA behaviour beyond core load, HDMI output and physical readers remain unverified.

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The scraper now supports Game Boy and Game Boy Color gamelist entries across configured ROM roots. It accepts the box2d artwork alias, filters incompatible matches, preserves artwork mapping during renames, and adds coverage for scraping layouts and MiSTer launchers.

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Game Boy gamelist support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Gamelist artwork alias decoding
pkg/platforms/shared/esapi/gamelist.go, pkg/platforms/shared/esapi/gamelist_test.go, pkg/platforms/shared/esapi/gamelist_fuzz_test.go
Game decoding accepts box2d as a fallback for boxart2d. Marshaling emits only boxart2d. Tests and fuzz seeds cover alias ordering and incomplete entries.
Cross-root scraping and media selection
pkg/database/scraper/gamelistxml/scraper.go
Gamelist paths resolve across configured ROM roots. The matched root is stored for artwork fallback mapping. Missing media rows are excluded from indexes. Slug matching filters incompatible .gb and .gbc candidates.
Game Boy scraping and launcher validation
pkg/database/scraper/gamelistxml/gameboy_test.go, pkg/platforms/mister/launchers_test.go
Tests cover shared, separate, and sibling-root layouts, artwork boundaries, repeated and forced scrapes, renames, cross-system slug isolation, and Game Boy launcher MGL paths.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3d719

Scraping ROMs under nested configured roots can miss or select incorrect artwork. Root selection should be corrected before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant GamelistXML
  participant Scraper
  participant MediaIndex
  participant Database
  GamelistXML->>Scraper: provide game, folder, and companion paths
  Scraper->>Scraper: resolveGamelistROMPath across configured ROM roots
  Scraper->>MediaIndex: filter missing and incompatible media rows
  Scraper->>Database: map records and recompute artwork fallback paths
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In `@pkg/database/scraper/gamelistxml/scraper.go`:
- Around line 1430-1448: Update resolveGamelistROMPath to evaluate every
matching ROM root, including root, and retain the matching root with the longest
path rather than returning the first match. Preserve the resolved path and
empty-result behavior when no configured root contains it, so MapToDB receives
the most specific root for nested ROM directories.

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  • pkg/database/scraper/gamelistxml/gameboy_test.go
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  • pkg/platforms/shared/esapi/gamelist.go
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The cross-format guard only knew about .gb and .gbc, but nine MiSTer folders
are shared by systems that index different formats: GAMEBOY also holds
MegaDuck .bin, SMS holds .sms, .gg and .sg, WonderSwan holds .ws, .wsc and
.pc2, NES holds .nes, .fds and .nsf, and SNES, TGFX16, Coleco, ATARI7800 and
Jaguar are the same shape. In each case a sibling's gamelist entry fails the
exact path match, falls through to the name-based match, and writes the other
system's description and artwork onto this system's media row.

Drive the guard from the extensions each system's launchers actually index,
collected alongside the ROM paths that already come from the platform. An
entry naming a file this system would never index cannot be a rename this
system can recover, so it is skipped without consuming the title. A launcher
that accepts files through a Test function leaves the set unknown and the
guard stays open, so Atari2600 and Pico8 are unaffected.

This also drops a false rejection the hardcoded pair caused: Gameboy2P
indexes both .gb and .gbc, so neither is a foreign format there.
Configured ROM roots can nest. resolveGamelistROMPath returned the first
containing root, so a ROM under a nested root was attributed to the outer one
and MapToDB derived artwork names such as Subset/Game.png. Those names miss
the media directory beside the ROM and match a same-named cover held for a
different game in the outer root. Compare every candidate root, including the
gamelist's own, and keep the deepest match.
TestGameBox2DAlias was inserted above the doc comment belonging to
TestUnmarshalGameIDVariants, leaving both functions misdescribed. Restore the
comment to its function and describe the alias test. Add coverage for the
decode error UnmarshalXML wraps, which gamelist.xml being untrusted input
makes worth asserting rather than leaving to inspection.
Both are defensive branches in the new extension guard and root selection.
Exercising them keeps a malformed platform launcher table or a blank
configured root from silently changing which root or extension set applies.
generateNameMap adds CORENAME values for installed alternate cores (RA_GBC,
the LLAPI and DB9 variants) so the tracker can place a game running on one.
LookupCoreName then validated the entry by passing that CORENAME to
systemdefs.LookupSystem, which only knows system IDs, so every alternate core
failed and the mapping was discarded. Validate the system the entry maps to.

Reproduced on the MiSTer test device: launching a .gbc through RAGameboyColor
loads the core and logs 'error getting system: unknown system: RA_GBC'.
resolveSystemsFromPlatform had no coverage, so the extension sets it now
attaches to each ScrapeSystem were only asserted through hand-built fixtures.
Drive it through a mock platform and a real MediaDB to check the launcher
union, the ROM roots it pairs with, and that a Test function leaves a system's
set unknown rather than partial.
tracker.go is linux-only, so the test file needs the same constraint or
cross-lint fails to typecheck it for darwin and windows.
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