Announcing Pegasus Frontend

why44

Beautiful frontend. Building up a new low end gaming rig & wondered whether Pegasus supports platform categories in the main menu opposed to having all systems.

eg.
[MainMenu]
Arcade (containing Capcom I, Capcom II etc)
Consoles (containing Snes, Mega Drive etc)
Computers (containing Amiga, MSDos II etc)
Handhelds (containing Game Boy, Game Gear etc)

Have only seen this in AttractMode & Launchbox.

muldjord

Hi guys, I've added metadata preservation to Skyscraper's Pegasus frontend module. Read more about it here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11826/versatile-c-game-scraper-skyscraper/1498

ScarAce1989

Thanks for this Frontend. I really like it. I just started to setup. The main theme is okay, but I added my PS2 roms and I see it's not included in the main theme.

I see there are about four other themes for Pegasus. Are there other themes for Pegasus? Are these easy to edit for someone who never code?

Also is this project still ongoing, as I don't see any updates for a while on github?

fluffypillow

@why Hi, you mean collections that contain other collections? That's not yet supported out of the box, but it would be possible to make a theme like that.

@muldjord Nice!

@ScarAce1989

I added my PS2 roms and I see it's not included in the main theme.

Yes, there's no PS2 logo yet in the default theme, but I'd like to add one in the near future.

I see there are about four other themes for Pegasus. Are there other themes for Pegasus? Are these easy to edit for someone who never code?

Indeed a common site to browse them would be nice eventually. There aren't that many themes yet, but other than the ones I made, gameOS and gpiOS seem to be popular choices., and there's also an EmulationStation theme converter in the works. Unlike ES however, you can write (JavaScript) code to do some logic; see and example repo here.

Also is this project still ongoing, as I don't see any updates for a while on github?

Yup! Sometimes real life slows things down, but development is still going on.

ScarAce1989

Pegasus Metadata Editor.png

The default launch command should be okay right? It's not working.

fluffypillow

@ScarAce1989 You might want to put the path of pcsx2.exe in quotes too.

fluffypillow

"Weekly" update!

Development slowed down a bit due to real life and lack of time, so I'm trying to catch up now. There have been some smaller command line improvements:

Added support for disabling the Settings menu in the main menu with --disable-menu-settings . Might be useful for Kiosk setups, and --kiosk also turn this option on too.
Added support for disabling gamepad layout autodetection with --disable-gamepad-autoconfig. This is mainly for troubleshooting issues with custom controller hardware and such, especially on Raspberries. If you're having gamepad input detection issues, try running Pegasus with this flag and set up the layout manually.

I've been also experimenting with updating to Qt 5.15 to fix an issue on certain Linux distros, but there have been some incompatible changes on their side so this might take some time.

fluffypillow

Weekly update!

I'm still experimenting with Qt 5.15 (an update that might fix various long-time issues), and looks like next week there might be a release ready for testing. Other than that, another old issue was the lack of logos in the main theme, so I added a few more:

Added logos for Nintendo DS, 3DS, GameCube, Switch, Wii, Wii U, PlayStation 2, 3, Xbox, Xbox 360, DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows and Linux to the main theme. They are used when a collection's short name is set to nds, 3ds, ngc, switch, wii, wiiu, ps2, ps3, xbox, x360, dos, win31, windows and linux, respectively
Fixed some incorrect logo colors in the main theme

Darksavior

@fluffypillow Btw, retropie has preliminary 64bit support now, if you want to update pegasus for that.

fluffypillow

Nice! I wonder how it affects performance in general.

fluffypillow

Weekly update!

Fixed a crash when loading Lutris games
Fixed networking errors with Steam and GOG videos
Fixed a very rare possibility of game play times not saving accurate information
Improved the program icon on Windows to support large icon size views
Updated to Qt 5.15 on all platforms except macOS, which should fix the networking errors on Windows with WiFi connections, and bring general staility and performance improvements. It also may (or may not) fix the TV-related issues on the Pi 4, but I couldn't confirm that yet. Feedback is welcome!

System requirements changes

Due to the Qt update, the minimal required Android release is now 5.0 (Lollipop, released in 2015).

Tricko

In case this helps anyone else, I had a problem with a RPi4 on a 4K TV when trying out Pegasus.

My Pi was already setup to force a 1080p screen mode in the /boot/config.txt by setting -

hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=16

But when I launched Pegasus, it was rendering as if it was a 4K resolution while still outputting as a 1080p screen, so I only saw the top left quarter of the Pegasus screen output on the TV.

I tried using setting QT_QPA_EGLFS_WIDTH and QT_QPA_EGLFS_HEIGHT as mentioned above, but no joy still.

I was able to fix it though by adding the config option -

hdmi_ignore_edid=0xa5000080

Then Pegasus uses the right 1080p resolution so all looks good.

PS - Really liking Pegasus with the gameOS theme!

fluffypillow

Interesting! Does hdmi_ignore_edid=0xa5000080 fix your 4K issues too, @Darksavior?

Darksavior

@fluffypillow It's a dirty fix. I've discussed it with you before. Since Pegasus ignores all resolutions set in config.txt, hdmi ignore is the only way for Pegasus to use 1080p60. If I don't use the hdmi ignore setting, Pegasus defaults to the maximum res a monitor/tv can use. In my case, 4k30. I'm not sure if Pegasus is fast enough for 4k60 but I bet it ignores that setting in config.txt too.

I never did figure out how to set a resolution from within Pegasus. This also doesn't fix the black screen with the new kms driver.

fluffypillow

@Darksavior ah sorry, I'm having some troubles trying to keep track things. Would you mind creating a GitHub issue for this? For the black screen issue, I may be able to check it next week, and for the screen size, I just found an env var called QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS which might help with scaling Pegasus (eg. =0.5 to scale it down).

Darksavior

@fluffypillow Ok. Though, I do not get @Tricko 's problem. Not using the hdmi ignore setting, Pegasus has no issues being displayed in 4k30.

fluffypillow

@Darksavior I've just tried a freshly flashed RetroPie with the 5.4 kernel and dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d, and both ES and Pegasus appear fine -- however every graphical application, including ES or RetroArch, makes the left half of my (1080p) TV screen glitchy and flicker constantly. I didn't feel safe to use this driver at all.

Darksavior

@fluffypillow Is raspbian fully updated? My brief usage of the kms driver only gave me artifacts in 4k, but 1080p was fine in ES. Black screen in Pegasus. I know the driver is a wip but I'd like for Pegasus to at least give me an image.

fluffypillow

@Darksavior Yes, I've updated both the kernel and the packages, and I get the display glitches with that driver. Pegasus displays correctly for me, as before, it's just the TV itself that flickers.

Darksavior

@fluffypillow Well, I am stumped. I get a black screen with Pegasus on both my 4k tv and 1440p monitor when using the kms driver.