diff --git a/services/wolf.sh b/services/wolf.sh
index e40dd28..ce21bac 100644
--- a/services/wolf.sh
+++ b/services/wolf.sh
@@ -1753,7 +1753,17 @@ fuse scummvm"
                         "autoconfig:$RA_CFG_DIR/autoconfig" \
                         "info:$CORES_DIR"; do
                 pack="${pair%%:*}"; dest="${pair#*:}"
-                [ -d "$dest" ] && [ "$(ls -A "$dest" 2>/dev/null)" ] && [ "$FORCE" != "force" ] && continue
+                # "info" shares $CORES_DIR with the core .so files downloaded
+                # above, so "is the destination non-empty" is always true
+                # there and would skip this pack every time (confirmed
+                # live: exactly this made every .info file silently never
+                # install, breaking content-database extension matching for
+                # every core). Check for its own actual content instead.
+                if [ "$pack" = "info" ]; then
+                    [ -n "$(ls "$dest"/*.info 2>/dev/null)" ] && [ "$FORCE" != "force" ] && continue
+                else
+                    [ -d "$dest" ] && [ "$(ls -A "$dest" 2>/dev/null)" ] && [ "$FORCE" != "force" ] && continue
+                fi
                 echo "Fetching $pack.zip..."
                 tmp=$(mktemp)
                 if curl -fsSL -o "$tmp" "$ASSETS_BASE/$pack.zip"; then