Announcing Pegasus Frontend
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@Darksavior is that directory symlinked to
~/emulationstation/downloaded_images
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@fluffypillow said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:
s that directory symlinked to ~/emulationstation/downloaded_images
By default it is:
pi@retropie:~ $ pwd /home/pi pi@retropie:~ $ file .emulationstation .emulationstation: symbolic link to /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation pi@retropie:~ $
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@mitu thanks!
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@Darksavior I've made an experimental build that should fix the problem, could you check it? It's here.
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@fluffypillow That fixed the problem, thanks. Marquees and screenshot backgrounds are back.
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How's the progress on the custom config files?
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@halfmanhalfcake I've just finished the implementation - all that's left is to write some documentation and create a site for converting between the different file formats (eg. ES2 gamelist).
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Thanks for the update :)
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The structure of the site is mostly complete, and
gamelist.xml
->metadata.txt
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Sounds exciting. Does this mean the favorites button as well as the page up/down functionality is on the way also? :)
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@andershp Yeah, after this is done I can finally start working on all the smaller stuff I've promised to do way before.
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@fluffypillow said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:
- @shantigilbert this might help with static linking issues
Thanks! I will check it out!
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All right, the file format conversion page is done, next I'll update the docs and Pegasus itself.
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Just to let you know, the reason this got delayed so much is because I keep tweaking the file formats, like, fixing stuff that got annoying after lots of use or looked good before but ugly with real data. It's kind of an iterative process, but every time I do that, I update the implementation, the automatic tests, the converter site, the documentations, the default theme... but! I think it'll be finally done this week.
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@fluffypillow Yep, I think this happens with all projects.
Creating: 2 weeks
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All right, took some time but finally it's done; the metadata and collection config files are now implemented and working, and as such Pegasus no longer depends on ES2.
- The config file format was changed 25973 times and received a large overhaul. It's documented here, with all the supported fields and such.
- A site for converting between different frontend formats (where possible) is now available here (currently supporting Pegasus and ES2).
ES2 is still supported and will continue to work, so you aren't forced to use the new files if you don't wish. Steam will also continue to 'just work'.
There were also a few changes in the theme API:
- Collection
name
s are now the unique identifiers for a collection - The Collection
tag
field got renamed toshortName
and is now optional (ie. might be empty) - The
tag
field itself is now deprecated: you'll get a warning when it's used in a theme, and eventually it will be removed in future releases
The documentations, tutorials and the API reference have been updated to reflect these changes.
This patch should also fix themes appearing multiple times on Windows, and detecting scripts in
[program dir]/scripts
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@fluffypillow Been following this since it's inception installed once and just gave it a shot. It's amazing! Great work!
I apologize if I missed some conversation, and I already know you've fielded a lot of feature requests, but I'm curious about some things as a long time ES user. Should be fairly easy and quick to answer!
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How do I erase a button config in Pegasus? My trigger and shoulder buttons are the same and I can't seem to clear them.
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Hidden files in ES appear in Pegasus. Is this a current feature I'm not seeing and, if not, will this be added in the future?
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Also, I'm sure this has been answered, but status on custom collections? ducks
Anyway, I'll be migrating over as your work is wonderful!
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@fluffypillow Great work, thanks for doing this.
This might be a stupid question, but I don't see the tags/info for the images, boxart, fanart, etc. in the new config files?
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@hooperre Thanks! Yeah gamepad support would need some more love, currently you can reset the settings by deleting
pegasus_frontend.ini
from the config directory (~/.config/pegasus-frontend/
).Hidden files in ES appear in Pegasus
Hm, is there a flag in ES2 that hides games? I can't seem to find it documented in the official repo.
@halfmanhalfcake The assets are still loaded from the media dir currently. I haven't added them (yet) since that can be usually guessed from the file. (I 'm pretty sure someone mentioned this before, but I can't seem to find that comment, sorry)
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