Announcing Pegasus Frontend

fluffypillow

@sselph Thanks! At the moment Pegasus is still in alpha, so scraper/external program integration is still in the planning stage.

Ideally, I'd expect a scraper plugin to work and communicate with the frontend asynchronously, using a well defined API for reporting the current state and progress, or to allow cancelling the scraping. This would allow me to create a nice progress bar / scraping progress interface, or send the scraping it to the background while the user can continue playing, etc.

This would probably require significant changes in most scrapers, so I'd also add a regular "start this program and wait for it to end" kind of launching too.

shantigilbert

@fluffypillow THANK YOU! after a week of strugglin it FINALLY WORKS!!! it does not have video yet, but thats because I need gstreamer, but at least I can see the FE :D

there is one small problem, not sure if its related to gstreamer, or if I should update my gamelist.xml. but no images show, I can see all the logos for the systems and names and information of all the games, but no images :( (btw the svg for famicom is missing)

But I really love how fast it loaded!

Edit: I should REALLY start reading all of the posts in this thread before asking questions xD

lilbud

Does the alpha actually launch games?

shantigilbert

@lilbud it does for me, I am using the gamelist.xml from ES and other than what I said about the images, it works perfectly fine.

edit: but it crashes after a bit.

Executing command: /usr/bin/retroarch -L /tmp/cores/fbalpha_libretro.so /storage/roms/neogeo/aof.zip
Process 3145 started
QProcess: Destroyed while process ("/usr/bin/retroarch") is still running.
The external program /usr/bin/retroarch has crashed
The external program has crashed on exit, with exit code 9

sselph

@fluffypillow I like the idea of asynchronous operation and would be pretty easy to implement from my side, but synchronous may be helpful for manual scraping. When I get some time, I may write up what that API could potentially be.

fluffypillow

I've collected the weekly status reports and some info links in the first post.

shantigilbert

@fluffypillow I've compiled the latest version, but I can't seem to get the settings panel to open, I've tried every button on my gamepad and on my keyboard but no luck, how to I open it ??

fluffypillow

https://i.imgflip.com/1qkwhw.jpg

There's no settings menu yet, it's just a button :)

shantigilbert

@fluffypillow lol :P

CodeDrawer

When will this come out?

lilbud

@CodeDrawer To quote Robin Williams

Could be tomorrow, could be 10,000 years from now

CodeDrawer

@lilbud I like that quote.

A Former User

So do I.

CodeDrawer

@itsnitro so is this a theme, or a whole new front end?

lilbud

@CodeDrawer Completely new frontend that will finally nail the coffin on EmulationStation

CodeDrawer

Nice! @lilbud that probably will win!

A Former User

Emulation Station is dead.

CodeDrawer

@itsnitro Really? Why?

A Former User

well, not dead, but RetroPie is going to because 1. We've got Pegasus. 2. PEGASUS

CodeDrawer

So how do I put pony on my retropie?