The GoW es-de/retroarch images ship the RetroArch frontend but NO libretro
cores, and wolf.sh never mounted a BIOS directory. As a result every
libretro-based game (SNES/NES/Genesis/N64/PSX/GBA/...) failed to launch on a
fresh install, and BIOS-dependent systems had nowhere to read firmware from.
Changes (services/wolf.sh):
- Pre-download RetroArch cores at install into <game>/retroarch/cores and
bind-mount them into the ES-DE and RetroArch apps at
~/.config/retroarch/cores (where both ES-DE's bundled config and GoW's
rom_launcher.sh look). Defaults to the full libretro buildbot set.
- Add a <game>/bios dir mounted at ~/bioses (matches retroarch.cfg's
system_directory) so PSX/Saturn/Dreamcast/Neo-Geo/etc. find their BIOS.
- New './manage.sh cores [all|common] [force]' to download/refresh cores
later; wired into help text and bash tab-completion. Install reuses it.
- Also expose emulators/ at ~/Applications so ES-DE's app finder detects the
Azahar 3DS AppImage.
- Pre-create the new dirs; extend the install summary and README to document
BIOS placement, the cores command, that controllers auto-configure via SDL
(no manual input setup), and how to exit a game back to ES-DE.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XV8mwKLFwUKt94dAKh3k79
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