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    • lilbudL
      lilbud @fluffypillow
      last edited by

      @fluffypillow Is there a limit on systems you can add?

      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 yes, 2147483647      ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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        • fluffypillowF
          fluffypillow
          last edited by

          As for the "system bar" on the top of the current theme, it loops like the carousel, and shows as many as it can while the name of the platforms remains visible.

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          • fluffypillowF
            fluffypillow
            last edited by

            This week Pegasus got open sourced, and is available here. There are no proper releases yet, since it's still in alpha, but you can already build it from source. Automatic build testing has been set up for desktop Linux, Pi1, Pi2 and Windows. It is also confirmed working on Windows 10.

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            • mattrixkM
              mattrixk @fluffypillow
              last edited by

              @fluffypillow You're doing some great work mate. I'd love to try this out for windows, but have no idea how to get it from your github to a usable program on my PC.

              My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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              • meleuM
                meleu @fluffypillow
                last edited by

                @fluffypillow can you be more specific about the dependencies on the README? I mean, which debian packages do I have to install to build the pegasus-frontend?

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                • meleuM
                  meleu @fluffypillow
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                  @fluffypillow Well, I kinda figured out the dependencies. I'm trying first on my Linux Mint x86. I installed qtdeclarative5-dev and qtbase5-dev and it brought a lot of other packages.

                  And then I've got this:

                  $ make
                  cd src/ && ( test -e Makefile || /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/qmake /home/meleu/src/pegasus-frontend/src/src.pro INSTALLDIR=/opt/retropie/supplementary/pegasus-frontend/ -o Makefile ) && make -f Makefile 
                  make[1]: Entrando no diretório `/home/meleu/src/pegasus-frontend/src'
                  cd backend/ && ( test -e Makefile || /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/qmake /home/meleu/src/pegasus-frontend/src/backend/backend.pro INSTALLDIR=/opt/retropie/supplementary/pegasus-frontend/ -o Makefile ) && make -f Makefile 
                  make[2]: Entrando no diretório `/home/meleu/src/pegasus-frontend/src/backend'
                  g++ -c -m64 -pipe -O2 -fPIC -fno-exceptions -Wall -W -std=c++0x -D_REENTRANT -DQT_DEPRECATED_WARNINGS -DQT_RESTRICTED_CAST_FROM_ASCII -DQT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCII -DQT_NO_EXCEPTIONS -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_QML_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/linux-g++-64 -I. -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5 -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtQml -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtNetwork -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtGui -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtCore -I. -o Api.o Api.cpp
                  Api.cpp: In member function ‘void ApiObject::onLoadingFinished()’:
                  Api.cpp:54:11: error: ‘qInfo’ was not declared in this scope
                       qInfo().noquote() << tr("Data files loaded in %1ms").arg(m_loading_time_ms);
                             ^
                  make[2]: ** [Api.o] Erro 1
                  make[2]: Saindo do diretório `/home/meleu/src/pegasus-frontend/src/backend'
                  make[1]: ** [sub-backend-make_first] Erro 2
                  make[1]: Saindo do diretório `/home/meleu/src/pegasus-frontend/src'
                  make: ** [sub-src-make_first] Erro 2
                  

                  It seems that we have some problem in Api.cpp file.

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                  • fluffypillowF
                    fluffypillow
                    last edited by

                    Yeah, the documentation is a bit lacking, I plan to add proper guides/wiki eventually.

                    The Qt version is important (and I've just added a version check to the project file for checking), especially on embedded systems due to the optimizations in the later releases. Unfortunately the Qt packages are outdated on all Debians (including experimental), which is what you've just experienced too (qInfo was added in Qt 5.5, two years ago). For desktop only (X11/Windows), you can download the official development kit from here, and I'm also providing my own Qt builds for and RPi 1/2 and X11, which I've uploaded to the GitHub releases tab (eg. qt58-x11.tgz). These are used for build testing too, but they don't include the debug libs or Qt Creator (making them way smaller than the official release). If you want to use them, you have to extract them to /opt, and use /opt/qt58-xxx_hosttools/bin/qmake.

                    Cross compilation to Pi is a somewhat more difficult topic, and I could (and probably will) write a whole post about it. In short, you can find the required tools on GitHub, extract them to /opt, add the toolchains' bin directory to your $PATHand use theqmake from rpi1/rpi2_hosttools. You can set up remote deployment in Qt Creator as well.

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                    • fluffypillowF
                      fluffypillow
                      last edited by

                      Also a few additional notes:

                      • Gamepad support improvements will be added in Qt 5.9; it's going to be released at the end of this month, and I'll increase the required Qt version then
                      • There's no main menu yet, that's what I'm going to work on this week
                      • Please note that Pegasus is less than 2 months old, and is still in alpha
                      • If you do manage to run it, bug reports and suggestions are welcome!
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                      • fluffypillowF
                        fluffypillow
                        last edited by fluffypillow

                        Had some errands to do this week, so I worked mostly on the main menu only (demo: http://webmshare.com/play/Prq5q).
                        Shutdown and reboot works too, and running custom scripts before them will be supported in the future.
                        You can also navigate using the mouse.

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                        • herb_fargusH
                          herb_fargus administrators @fluffypillow
                          last edited by

                          @fluffypillow glorious :) well done

                          If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                          Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                          • fabio78F
                            fabio78 @fluffypillow
                            last edited by

                            @fluffypillow Beautiful, clean, fantastic usability, all made even more impressive by the fact of it being a one man project. Well done, mate, I'll be watching this closely now.

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                            • HexH
                              Hex
                              last edited by Hex

                              Built and Installed nicely. Question: artwork missing? Game lists are all scrapped properly in ES

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                              • fluffypillowF
                                fluffypillow
                                last edited by

                                @Hex the documentation is still work in progress, sorry about that! Right now the XML is used for the metadata only; instead of reading the files from a gamelist, for a given asset type Pegasus tries to find an image file that matches certain name patterns. For example, if your rom file is Contra (U).nes, and you want a box front art, it will check (at the moment) the following directories:

                                • [directory of the rom]/media/
                                • $HOME/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/

                                for the following files:

                                • Contra (U)-boxFront.jpg
                                • Contra (U)-boxFront.png
                                • Contra (U)-box_front.jpg
                                • Contra (U)-box_front.png
                                • Contra (U)-boxart2D.jpg
                                • Contra (U)-boxart2D.png
                                • Contra (U).jpg
                                • Contra (U).png

                                and use the first one it finds as the box art. Similarly for the other assets too. If you can read the code, you can find the full list of the currently supported suffixes in src/backend/Assets.cpp, but of course this is something I intend to document properly.

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                                • HexH
                                  Hex
                                  last edited by

                                  @fluffypillow Need any help with Pegasus? I am currently working on some features for ES so I am in good shape to contribute here too.

                                  Also I would recommend putting the GitHub repo url in the first post. This prevents users from having to go fishing in the comments

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                                  Powersaver Emulation station : https://github.com/hex007/EmulationStation
                                  ES dev script : https://github.com/hex007/es-dev/blob/master/es-tests.sh

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                                  • fluffypillowF
                                    fluffypillow
                                    last edited by

                                    @Hex, thanks; it's still quite early in the development, I can't guarantee that even the project structure won't change while you work on a feature :) I'd like to complete the basic features first and release a beta, then there'll probably be enough feature requests to work on. If you've found some bugs or had any issues though, feel free to ping me!

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                                    • fluffypillowF
                                      fluffypillow
                                      last edited by

                                      As for the weekly changelog,

                                      • Gamepad layout editor is in the works; I've also spent the some time learning Inkscape to make it fancy (screenshots next week)
                                      • Added OSX build testing
                                      • Deployment improvements (this means I can make release packages with one command, and such a package will contain all the DLLs/SOs needed by the program)
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                                      • fluffypillowF
                                        fluffypillow
                                        last edited by

                                        Here's how the vector looks so far: https://snag.gy/53KQGi.jpg (sorry for the misalignments, this was a test/work file)

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                                        • A
                                          Allanbuzzy
                                          last edited by

                                          Considering the work of Pegasus is going well, I wonder if it's possible for us to switch from either ES or Pegasus via a setting on RetroPie. That'd make users not be mad when they can just switch frontends.

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                                          • cafarellidigitalC
                                            cafarellidigital @Allanbuzzy
                                            last edited by

                                            @Allanbuzzy I'm very excited about Pegasus, but I think it's too early to add it to the RetroPie script. Right now the only people who should be installing it are developers and testers, not the general public.

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