Install native games as Ports, not ROMs
The store could only offer what an emulator boots, which meant cartridges and nothing else — a little under half the catalog. Batocera runs Linux and its Ports system takes .sh launchers, so a native build can be installed too; it just is not a ROM. `install: "port"` unpacks the zip, finds the executable and writes a launcher that cd's into its directory first, because a game loads assets relative to the working directory. Python's extraction drops the executable bit, so it is restored from the mode the archive records. The payload lives under ports/.data/<subfolder>/, whose leading dot is what hides it from EmulationStation, while the launchers sit in a normal subfolder that gets scanned like any other system's. Both carry the store subfolder, so an uninstall or prune cannot reach another store's files — verified by pointing a state entry at a foreign namespace and watching it be refused. Verified end to end on aarch64 against the live catalog: bevydemo installs as a port with an executable launcher and binary, re-syncs without re-downloading 29 MB, and uninstalls taking its 106 MB payload with it. `install` defaults to rom, so existing configs are unaffected. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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"download": "/api/download"
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}
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},
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"paths": {
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"roms_root": "/userdata/roms",
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"subfolder": "example"
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},
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"emulationstation": {
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"folder_name": "Example Store",
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"restart": true
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},
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"catalog": {
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"statuses": ["released", "archived"],
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"statuses": [
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"released",
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"archived"
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],
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"owner_id": null,
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"only": [],
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"exclude": []
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},
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"platforms": {
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"c64": { "system": "c64", "kind": "cartridge", "ext": ".prg", "enabled": true },
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"tic80": { "system": "tic80", "kind": "cartridge", "ext": ".tic", "enabled": true }
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"c64": {
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"system": "c64",
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"kind": "cartridge",
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"ext": ".prg",
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"enabled": true
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},
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"tic80": {
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"system": "tic80",
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"kind": "cartridge",
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"ext": ".tic",
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"enabled": true
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},
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"bevy": {
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"system": "ports",
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"install": "port",
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"kind": {
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"x86_64": "linux_x64",
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"aarch64": "linux_arm64"
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},
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"ext": ".zip",
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"enabled": false
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}
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},
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"behavior": {
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"prune": true,
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"timeout": 30,
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