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ginnoir ab7c746df3 refactor: notes live in the Obsidian vault, repo is tooling-only

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

2026-06-06 15:44:23 -05:00

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Pokémon ROM Hacks — tooling

Acquisition + patching pipeline for the Pokémon ROM-hack collection in the valhalla homelab library. Spun off from the homelabstack repo on 2026-06-06.

The catalog (the notes) lives in the self-hosted Obsidian vault, not in this repo — under Pokémon ROM Hacks/: one note per hack, plus Index, Types, Play Queue, Bases/, Platforms/, a Wanted acquisition list, and a _Claude.md ops reference. Access it via the Obsidian MCP (mcp__obsidian__*) or the vault skill. New hacks are added there manually (see the vault's _Claude.md checklist). This repo is just the tooling.

The ROMs live on valhalla under /storage1/Emulation/roms/<platform>/Hacks/, served by the RomM stack (roms.ginnoir.com) — deployed from homelabstack (stacks/roms/).

Layout

Path	What
`scripts/romhack-import.py`	Import a drop folder of mixed ROMs/patches/docs into the valhalla library (validate, clean-name, apply patches, archive). Runs on valhalla.
`scripts/romhack-fetch.py`	Acquire + patch + place worthwhile hacks from direct (non-gated) sources. Manifest-driven. Runs on valhalla.
`scripts/romhack-apply.py`	Apply a single IPS/BPS/UPS patch to a base ROM with checksum verification.
`scripts/build-romhack-vault.py`	Archived. Original generator that bootstrapped the vault notes from an in-script dataset. The vault has since been enriched and is now hand-maintained via the Obsidian MCP — do not re-run it against the live vault (its output is poorer: no `play_status`/`rating`/`Bases`/`Play Queue`). Kept only for the structured `HACKS` dataset; its output dir is gitignored.
`drop/`	gitignored staging area (~1.3 GB) of ROM/patch binaries pending import.

Acquisition policy

Pre-3DS handhelds (gb/gbc/gba/nds) + pre-Wii consoles. Direct, non-anti-bot sources only for auto-fetch; gated hacks are tracked in the vault's Pokémon ROM Hacks/Wanted.md for manual hand-off. No offensive/"shitpost" content (e.g. Clover excluded).

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