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      tekn0
      last edited by tekn0

      Great frontend! Thank you for creating this. :) Is there a way to change the "Pegasus 0 Games found" screen that comes up when a game is exited or closed? Or just make it black?

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        fluffypillow @tekn0
        last edited by

        @tekn0 You mean the loading screen? I think that's fine, it might take some time on certain systems so with it you still see something happening on the screen.

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        • fluffypillowF
          fluffypillow
          last edited by

          Also no updates this week due to lack of time :( I'm planning some theme updates for the next days though.

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            tekn0 @fluffypillow
            last edited by tekn0

            @fluffypillow It seems there are two different screens or values? When I first start the frontend I get the Pegasus loading screen and it finds 900 games and loads the theme.

            Then when I start and play a game. After I exit that game (in retropie it's select+start) I get the pegasus logo screen again that stays there for about 6 seconds and says "0 games found" then goes back to the theme.

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            • fluffypillowF
              fluffypillow @tekn0
              last edited by

              @tekn0 Ah I see, yes, the numbers there might be incorrect; that screen is merely waiting for the UI to be ready.

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                tekn0 @fluffypillow
                last edited by tekn0

                @fluffypillow Yeps that's the one. Is there a way to change that screen or make it black by chance? Or, change the text to read "returning to pegasus launcher" or just black it out completely?

                I have some custom autostart.sh code I use to remove all of the term text. This keeps the game launching very clean with no rom launch or yellow error text. I was hoping there might be a quick way to null that return screen as well when it shows 0 roms.

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                • fluffypillowF
                  fluffypillow
                  last edited by

                  Weekly update!

                  • Fixed games provided by EmulationStation not having launch commands in some cases
                  • Fixed the loading progress bar's width behaving incorrectly
                  • Fixed the loading bar showing "0 games found" when returning from a game (< @tekn0). The loading consists of loading the game list and loading the UI; there is now no text displayed while only the UI is loading, eg. when returning from a game. Ideally the UI loads faster than the game list, but on some systems this can take surprisingly long time (eg. Windows). Will see if this needs more improvements.
                  • Main theme improvements
                    • The release year and number of players (for multiplayer games) is now displayed
                    • There is now a placeholder text for collections that have no logo
                    • There is now a little heart next to favorite games
                    • Added fade in animations for background and videos
                    • Fixed game images overlapping each other
                    • Improved layout calculations, ie. mixed portrait/landscape images should now look better together
                    • Fixed a bug where the selection got stuck on the very first item, on certain systems with certain gamepads. This will probaly need some additional work in Pegasus itself too, but the situation is now highly improved
                  • Updated the Flixnet heme
                    • Fixed collections with not too many games getting unaligned
                    • Fixed missing release years
                    • Fixed screenshots not getting scaled up on larger resolutions
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                    NeoBi
                    last edited by

                    Hi fluffy ! I wanted to know if is it possible to use ahk scripts to launch games on their emulators ?

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                      fluffypillow @NeoBi
                      last edited by

                      @NeoBi I think it should be possible, yes; according to its docs you might be able to run the script directly, or as a parameter to AutoHotkey.exe, or by converting the script to a standalone exe too.

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                        NeoBi @fluffypillow
                        last edited by

                        @fluffypillow Yes it works with standalone exe ! Thank you for your fast awswer. And I love your work, keep it up !

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                          spartan
                          last edited by spartan

                          @fluffypillow is there a way to configure/map controls inside pegasus-frontend (Android) and tell retroarch to use that configuration from pegasus-frontend?

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                            fluffypillow @spartan
                            last edited by

                            @spartan This cannot be done automatically on Android because apps are not allowed to change other apps' settings. It may be possible with a custom script however, if RA is set up to load the settings from eg. the SD card then that can be modified with a script, and Pegasus can be set up to call this script on config change.

                            At least, in theory; haven't tried it yet but I plan to make a similar script for RetroPie in the future, which might also work on Android too.

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                            • lilbudL
                              lilbud
                              last edited by

                              I ran into some trouble with Pegasus.

                              So I'm trying to import a game, Popful Mail, it has multiple wav files. An ISO and a cue sheet.

                              I keep all of the Popful Mail files in their own folder for organization purposes. And when I try and edit the metadata file to read the other directory, it won't show any metadata (the media folder is in the root of the rom folder.) It will all show if I move the metadata file and media folder to the popful mail folder, but that wouldn't work if I want to add more games.

                              Sega CD -> ROMs -> Popful Mail folder, metadata.txt, media folder.

                              (Sidenote: I wrote this at 1am, and am tired. So if anything needs clarification, lemmie know)

                              Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                              Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                Darksavior @lilbud
                                last edited by Darksavior

                                @lilbud Not the answer you're looking for, but why not convert them to .chd? It'll be a single file and be smaller in size. You don't mention what pi you're using, but chd only works with genesis plus gx.

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                                  lilbud @Darksavior
                                  last edited by lilbud

                                  @Darksavior I'm actually on PC, and Genesis plus Gx didn't play audio the last time I tried.

                                  It will either play static or no sound at all

                                  Update: My save doesn't work with a CHD file and Genesis Plus GX

                                  Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                  Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                  • lilbudL
                                    lilbud
                                    last edited by

                                    Figured it out, I have to have a metadata txt file and a media folder in every subfolder for every sega cd game I want to add.

                                    There probably is a better way, but this works for now

                                    Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                    Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                    • PlayingKarrdeP
                                      PlayingKarrde
                                      last edited by PlayingKarrde

                                      @lilbud Have you tried referencing the rom file (in this case the .cue) including the subfolder name in the path? The metadata.txt does support folder paths.

                                      So instead of

                                      file: Popful Mail.cue
                                      

                                      it would be:

                                      file: ./<folder name>/Popful Mail.cue
                                      

                                      I can't remember if it's forward slash or backslash so try both.

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                                      • lilbudL
                                        lilbud @PlayingKarrde
                                        last edited by

                                        @PlayingKarrde I've tried that, but that causes the art and metadata to disappear. The only way to show the art and metadata is the move the both into the "Popful Mail" subfolder. Then add each folder as a rom path within pegasus.

                                        Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                        Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                        • fluffypillowF
                                          fluffypillow
                                          last edited by

                                          @lilbud so you have the following structure, right?

                                          roms
                                          +-- metadata.pegasus.txt
                                          +-- popful
                                              +-- game.cue
                                              +-- game.iso
                                              +-- track01.wav
                                              +-- track02.wav
                                              ...
                                          

                                          In this case, the metadata file would look something like this:

                                          collection: Sega CD
                                          files:
                                            popful/game.cue
                                            ...
                                          
                                          game: Popful Mail
                                          file: popful/game.cue
                                          description: Some details here
                                          

                                          And, because popful/game.cue is under the sudirectory popful, the media files would be looked under media/popful/Popful Mail/, eg. like this:

                                          roms
                                          +-- metadata.pegasus.txt
                                          +-- media
                                          |   +-- popful
                                          |       +-- Popful Mail
                                          |           +-- box_front.png
                                          |           +-- logo.png
                                          |           +-- video.mp4
                                          +-- popful
                                              +-- game.cue
                                              +-- game.iso
                                              +-- track01.wav
                                              +-- track02.wav
                                          

                                          This setup should work fine, but feel free to report it if you run into any troubles.

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                                          • lilbudL
                                            lilbud
                                            last edited by lilbud

                                            I may have brought it up before (can't really remember), but would it be possible to add support for the how long to beat website as a metadata tag? The site shows how long each game takes to beat, normally and completing everything.

                                            I found this searching around, it is an api wrapper for the site, not sure if it'd be of any help though.

                                            https://github.com/ckatzorke/howlongtobeat

                                            The Python one is a little more up to date: https://github.com/ScrappyCocco/HowLongToBeat-PythonAPI

                                            Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                            Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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