Announcing Pegasus Frontend

cosmo0 · 2 May 2018, 21:54

I tried to launch the app on my Mac tonight. I did the qmake make dance (not make install), and I got an app that tells me I have no game.
So I opened the docs (great docs by the way, you must have put a LOT of work into it), and in "game collections and metadata files" it tells me to put collection files in the config directory... which is... ?
The directory is no specified in the log, and I don't know enough C++ to find out where it searches.
Can you help me ? :)

I'm not sure whether you prefer that I open an issue on Github or ask my questions here, as long as it's not really a bug or something?

honorio96 · 3 May 2018, 17:10

What are the video formats supported by Pegasus? Because the videos in mp4 do not work, there is only one black screen. I'm using the default theme and the latest build for windows.

fluffypillow · 3 May 2018, 21:14

@cosmo0 Yeah, that part is temporary until there's a way to set it in the GUI; on Mac, it's supposed to be ~/Library/Preferences/pegasus-frontend or ~/Library/Application Support/pegasus-frontend. I've just added a list for the other platforms too.

Issues make it easier for me to keep track of individual topics, but generally both are fine. I usually create an issue too when someone mentions a problem/idea here.

@honorio96 on Windows you have to install video codecs (yes, I know, it's horrible). If you can play the file with Windows Media Player, it should work in Pegasus too. To see what codec a file uses, you can use eg. VLC, like this. I guess you could also just use some codec packs to play everything.

Also in case someone has troubles with Steam videos, installing this and this made it work for me (the first one for video playback, the second for audio).

cosmo0 · 5 Apr 2018, 17:57

Thanks, I'll try these folders.

Just a question: why haven't you stuck with the gamelist.xml files generated by all the scrapers?
Edit : ok so it uses the gamelist.xml, but not for the list of collections...

honorio96 · 4 May 2018, 17:53

@honorio96 on Windows you have to install video codecs (yes, I know, it's horrible). If you can play the file with Windows Media Player, it should work in Pegasus too. To see what codec a file uses, you can use eg. VLC, like this. I guess you could also just use some codec packs to play everything.

Also in case someone has troubles with Steam videos, installing this and this made it work for me (the first one for video playback, the second for audio).

I installed some codec and it worked perfectly.

Thank's!

fluffypillow · 4 May 2018, 18:38

@cosmo0 it's just that I personally don't like XML for user-editable files, so I added an alternative. But that's completely optional, and ES files are still supported. The two implementations are separate though, so game_dirs.txt defines only in which directories Pegasus should look for collections/metadata.txt, similarly to how es_systems.cfg contains the path to the ROM dirs and possibly gamelist.xmls.

fluffypillow · 8 May 2018, 07:53

This week's progress:

French translation by @cosmo0
Minor fixes and optimizations

(not too much due to other issues). I've also started working on the favorites support.

AndersHP · 9 May 2018, 12:54

@fluffypillow said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

I've also started working on the favorites support.

Neat!

fluffypillow · 13 May 2018, 18:48

No changes this week due to being sick :/

EctoOne · 13 May 2018, 23:47

So after 5 hours I finally managed to build a windows version that runs. Looking forward to try it out tomorrow. BUt I also have some questions, is it possible to hide my steam games or to deactivate the search for it? And is it possible to change the config path to the path of the exe? So that I can have a portable version running? I like to have all files in it's own folder, that makes editing files so much easier.

Edit: Welp, i guess i should've read the thread a little more. I just found the pre build binaries and how to make a portable version.

Clyde · 14 May 2018, 05:23

@fluffypillow Get well soon!

fluffypillow · 14 May 2018, 18:51

@ectoone Steam and ES2 can't be turned off right now, but it will be in the future.

Darksavior · 15 May 2018, 14:47

@fluffypillow New bug. The names of games without art tend to disappear after playing a few games throughout the day today. Not all disappear. Not an issue with games with art. Loading a game after this happens doesn't bring the text back. A reboot fixes it. Not sure how to reproduce this other than loading games and exiting them throughout the day.

DeadStretch · 15 May 2018, 16:53

Reading through this whole thread I don't think the question I have was asked.

I am running a vertical CRT build and as far as it looking nice there are no real options.

I guess my question is would this frontend work with a vertical crt setup? Thanks

fluffypillow · 16 May 2018, 15:58

@darksavior hm that's interesting... might be some kind of memory usage issue? I wonder if it can be reproduced by continuously starting/stopping games, or reloading the theme with F5.

@DeadStretch sure, it should look something like this:

Might need to customize or create a theme if things are too small, but otherwise the program itself should work fine.

DeadStretch · 16 May 2018, 16:49

Awesome! Will mess with it tomorrow when I get some free time. Thanks.

[Edit] Did a quick install (and boy do I mean quick) and mine kinda looks like that screen, except if it was zoomed wayyyyy out. lol Looks like the real fun will start after work tomorrow. :D

Also wow at the load times! *refer back to posted jaw drops pics

fluffypillow · 19 May 2018, 11:24

While working on the favorites, I did some redesign on the game details page: https://webmshare.com/NRomm. What do you think?

tronkyfran · 20 May 2018, 07:44

@fluffypillow thats awesome!!!!!

DeadStretch · 20 May 2018, 22:05

@fluffypillow Hey just a few inquires.

To start since I am running a CRT I have a run command script when launching a game is switched to 240p though while "outside" of a game it sets it to 480p (makes reading text much easier). I can launch games fine from the Pegasus FE it's when I exit the games is when I get this error: EGL Error: Could not create the egl surface: error = 0x300b What's even more weird after that error the command line says "Aborted" in which none of my controls work. I have to SSH in to reboot the system. Image

My Google searches return stuff I don't know about though it's all for a Linux PC.

Second I am having trouble following the links to find the information I am looking for. I am just trying to learn how to resize things. As you guessed everything is too small to read with my setup in Vertical. I followed all the links but I still can't find the documentation on how to customize everything.

Thanks

fluffypillow · 21 May 2018, 14:39

@deadstretch Hm that's an error in the low-level graphics code, happens when the driver couldn't create the program's window for some reason. Is this on a Pi right? How exactly do you change the resolution?

For the vertical setup, I think you'll likely need to create a new theme (or modify the default one), as it's been designed mostly for larger resolutions. You can find the theme development documentation here, with two examples. If you want to hack the default theme (this will get ugly), it's code is here (look for pixelSize values).