Seven hack notes had filenames whose UTF-8 bytes had been decoded as cp437 and
re-encoded, e.g. "Anil.md" stored as "A" + U+251C + U+2592 + "il.md". Only the
filenames were affected; each note's frontmatter title was already correct.
Repaired by reversing the corruption (name.encode('cp437').decode('utf-8')) and
cross-checking every result against that note's own title field. PokeRogue was
left alone - its U+00E9 cannot be cp437-encoded, proving it is genuine UTF-8 and
not mojibake.
This matters because build-wiki-data.py derives each catalog stem from the
filename and the site derives its URL slug from that. Four published URLs were
wrong and are now fixed:
/hack/a-il/ -> /hack/anil/
/hack/fused-adimensions/ -> /hack/fused-dimensions/
/hack/yu-gi-oh-pok-duel/ -> /hack/yu-gi-oh-pokeduel/
/hack/recharged-yellow-previously-known-as-pok-mon-yellow-cross/
-> ...-as-pokemon-yellow-cross/
The other three were already served correctly, because slugifyStem in the site
repo carries a replaceAll for the mojibake apostrophe. Those URLs are unchanged.
Fallout handled: of 19 vault references, 18 live in files build-vault-mocs.py
regenerates and were fixed by rerunning it. The one hand-written reference, in
Nuzlocke-Friendly (Vanilla+).md, was updated directly. annotate-engines.py also
keyed its ENGINE_MAP on the corrupted stem, so a future run would have silently
skipped Recharged Yellow; that key is corrected here.
Verified: zero mojibake sequences remain anywhere in the vault or this repo, all
seven notes resolve under their new names, catalog steady at 411, and the site
builds 486 pages with banners regenerated under the new slugs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Soulstones 1 ships `Game-z.exe` rather than `Game.exe`. Find-GameExe preferred
`Game.exe` and otherwise fell back to the shallowest non-ignored .exe, which for
that build resolved to `extendtext.exe` — a dev tool that was missing from the
ignore list — instead of the real launcher.
Add extendtext.exe to $ignore and replace the single-name preference with a
$launcherNames list (Game.exe, then Game-z.exe) before the shallowest-exe
fallback.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Comment out a broken here-string fragment in the PC hack setup instructions, and refresh wiki/catalog.json with Pokémon Omniversal Emerald plus updated facet counts.
Adds standardize-vault-pages pipeline, exports intentional empty generations, and refreshes the 396-hack catalog with full banner coverage, status classification, and Fakemon generation tags.
Catalog cleanup pass across gb/gbc/gba/nds/3ds:
- Standardize nonstandard hack filenames to `Pokemon - <Name> [Hack].<ext>`;
remove verified byte-identical duplicates (conform-rom-names.sh).
- Resolve 9 version-conflicts via side-by-side emulator comparison
(resolve-version-conflicts.sh): promote newer builds, keep genuine
distinct hacks, fix a mislabeled Dark Rising slot (was the Digimon
crossover "Worlds Collide"), and rebuild Mega Power 5.77 + HeartGold
Generations v2.0 fresh from their patches.
- Resync 286 vault notes' `library_path` to the real on-disk [Hack] files
and fix 15 stale platform fields (resync-vault-library-paths.py).
- Regenerate MOC tables + wiki/catalog.json (396 notes).
Also includes pending Playnite PC-hack setup/repair scripts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Switch the library naming convention from "Pokemon - <Name> (Hack)" to
"Pokemon - <Name> [Hack][version][tags]", and place hacks in the platform
root (roms/<plat>/) instead of a Hacks/ subfolder. Applied across the live
valhalla library (272 hack/fan-game files) via scripts/standardize-names.py.
- romhack-import.py / romhack-fetch.py: emit [Hack], write to roms/<plat>/
- romhack-pc-migrate.py: emit [Hack]
- build-romhack-vault.py (archived): update documented library_path
- standardize-names.py: new one-shot, self-fetching standardizer (idempotent;
pipes \n-only bytes over SSH to avoid Windows CRLF corrupting filenames)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds list-import tooling, expands romhack-import for PC variants and patch batches, and syncs catalog with 2026-06-23 valhalla placements (Vanguard, Xenoverse, GBA patches, Infinity 3.3.1).
Add engine annotation + MOC/wiki export support, a PC import staging helper, and refresh catalog.json after placing gated fan-games and new hack notes.
Enrich the Obsidian ROM-hack vault from the valhalla Discord scrape
(/storage1/labdata/romhacks/metadata) plus web research, growing the catalog
from 285 to 368 notes and preparing a data export for a wiki site.
Tooling (all dry-run by default, --apply to write; .scrape/ is gitignored):
- scrape_match.py reconcile scrape entries vs notes (43 overlap / 211 match / 83 new)
- enrich_vault.py backfill frontmatter, merge scrape into curated notes,
create 83 new notes, rebuild import bodies to one layout
- enrich_web.py apply hand/web-verified facts from .scrape/web_facts*.json
- build-wiki-data.py export wiki/catalog.json (the site data source)
Results: 368 notes, 327 with served banner art, 332 rich summaries, 200 with
feature lists; new frontmatter developer/release_date/banner/homepage/scrape_dir;
12 flagship hacks web-verified. wiki/SPEC.md describes the site build.
build-vault-mocs.py Index callout updated for the new counts.
Reads Pokémon ROM Hacks/Hacks/*.md as source of truth and rewrites the
static mirror tables + header counts in Index.md, Platforms/*.md, and
Bases/*.md. Dataview blocks, prose intros, and footers are preserved;
the notes themselves are never edited (curated type/rating/version safe).
Covers all 285 hacks; creates Platforms/{3DS,PC,Patch,Unknown}.md.
Supersedes the archived build-romhack-vault.py (a hardcoded 75-hack
bootstrap that would regress the live vault).
Per the standing rule that Obsidian notes belong in the self-hosted vault, not
in project folders:
- rm pokemon-romhack-vault/ (redundant generated snapshot; the canonical,
richer catalog lives in the vault under Pokémon ROM Hacks/)
- pokemon-romhacks-wanted.md -> moved into the vault as Pokémon ROM Hacks/Wanted.md
- .gitignore: ignore pokemon-romhack-vault/ (build script output) so a poorer
regenerated copy can never be committed back
- build-romhack-vault.py: marked ARCHIVED; vault is now hand-maintained via MCP
- README: rewritten to point at the vault for the catalog
Curated knowledge base + pipeline for the valhalla Pokémon ROM-hack
collection, moved out of the homelabstack infra repo on 2026-06-06 so that
repo stays focused on the homelab.
- pokemon-romhack-vault/ Obsidian vault: 75 hack notes + Index/Types/Platform MOCs (generated by build-romhack-vault.py)
- scripts/ build-romhack-vault, romhack-import/fetch/apply
- pokemon-romhacks-wanted.md manual-acquisition list (gated hacks)
- drop/ gitignored ~1.3GB binary staging area
The ROMs live on valhalla (/storage1/Emulation) served by the RomM stack,
which stays in homelabstack (stacks/roms).
