Announcing Pegasus Frontend

fluffypillow

March update, alpha14-133

It's been a while! Lately I've been a bit busy with work, so there were a lots of small, irregular updates -- with time however these started piling up, so this might be a good time for a changelog:

Added support for accessing the battery information of the device: https://pegasus-frontend.org/docs/themes/api/#device
- Note that this heavily depends on what the device support and reports -- some values may be simply not present on all platforms
Themes can now access all extra fields defined in metadata files
- Theme devs: Games and collections now have an extra field, a regular JS object with the values under their their properties as a list of text
Added support for title screen assets
- They can be added to games like the rest of the assets, with the name titlescreen
- They are also imported automatically from Skraper and LaunchBox sources
Improved handling of symlinks and Windows shortcuts (.lnk files)
Steam: Added support for importing Steam game info from LaunchBox
LaunchBox: Added support for platform sort names
LaunchBox: Fixed support of certain asset file names
LaunchBox: Added support for more asset types
macOS: Fixed disappearing system menu bar in windowed mode
Fixed a possible crash caused by games with no files
Fixed nonexisting games still appearing in certain cases
Fixed favorites and play times not appearing correctly in certain cases
The default theme now tries to show the collection's default assets in case of missing game images
Minor optimizations
Documentation updates, especially the Getting started page

Darksavior

@fluffypillow Do you happen to know the ideal way to get pegasus working on a mac mini m1 (arm64)? Maybe the emulationstation content might be readable if I can alter the folder pegasus is looking for, but then there's the actual games to load from retroarch which requires retropie to do it.

fluffypillow

@darksavior I'm afraid I'm not familiar with the Mac, sorry :( If it helps, ES system files are expected to be at $HOME/.emulationstation or /etc/emulationstation/, though if I remember correctly, Mac support for ES was implemented in just one of the forks.

Darksavior

@fluffypillow No worries, just thought you might know a way. I'll use the standalone retroarch for now.

jacklongford

@fluffypillow

I'm new to Pegasus and have been looking at videos of it on YouTube. It looks fantastic and great work so far :)

At the moment, it seems too difficult for me to set up. I know other front ends allow you to just simply select your roms folder (without having to create a metadata.pegasus.txt) and then there's options to use an in-app scraper to download artwork.

Will these options eventually be available in Pegasus? And if so, is there a road map of features you want to incorporate?

Thanks!

h2805270

@jacklongford
Are you using Windows, or Linux?

jacklongford

@h2805270 Android (Nvidia Shield)

h2805270

@jacklongford
That's a tricky one.
I've got no experience with TV Boxes. Ask someone on the Discord if you haven't yet:
https://discord.com/invite/KTtzP6y

fluffypillow

@jacklongford Hi! Well, Pegasus tries to be just the frontend. It doesn't have a built-in scraper, but tries to be compatible with the output of others; you can try using Skyscraper, Skraper.net, LaunchBox as well as all the EmulationStation supporting scrapers. In the case of Android though, I do know the selection is a bit lacking, so eventually there might be a cross platform way for scraping, but there's no fixed roadmap for that at the moment.

For Android in particular, the guides written for the Retroid Pocket 2 might come handy, eg. https://basvroegop.nl/pegasus, as that also runs a version of Android.

jacklongford

@fluffypillow Thanks for your reply, I think I will have to stay with my current frontend since it's got scraping built in.

Stef17

After the installation, you can either call pegasus-fe manually, or edit /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh to launch Pegasus on boot (instead of eg. ES2).

I installed it through Raspberry Pi 4 from experimental packages, then Pegasus FE. But it says could not install it. It is not available?

Yes, Retropie is updated etc, wifi is on.

Any solution?

mitu

@stef17 said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

I installed it through Raspberry Pi 4 from experimental packages, then Pegasus FE. But it says could not install it. It is not available?

Installation from the setup script should work - what version of RetroPie are you using ?

Stef17

@mitu said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

@stef17 said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

I installed it through Raspberry Pi 4 from experimental packages, then Pegasus FE. But it says could not install it. It is not available?

Installation from the setup script should work - what version of RetroPie are you using ?

version 4.7
System: rpi4 (armv71)
running on Rasbian GMU/Linux 10 (buster)

mitu

@stef17 What error do you get when installing ? Please post the exact error - the setup script stores all operations under $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/logs, you can open the installation log and post it on pastebin.com. Make sure you're using an updated RetroPie-Setup script (version 4.7.11 at the moment).

Stef17

@mitu said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

@stef17 What error do you get when installing ? Please post the exact error - the setup script stores all operations under $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/logs, you can open the installation log and post it on pastebin.com. Make sure you're using an updated RetroPie-Setup script (version 4.7.11 at the moment).

https://pastebin.com/PHaQVAZe

mitu

@stef17 This looks like a problem with your package repositories:


E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
Could not install package(s): gstreamer1.0-alsa gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-good jq.

Do you have any held/pinned packages ?

Stef17

@mitu When I bought Raspberry Pi 4 I downloaded Retropie-image then to SD Card. After that wanted to install Pegasus FE. Failed. I don't know what packages.

mitu

@stef17 I Which RetroPie image did you install ?
I don't seem to reproduce the issue with the default RetroPie installation - installation works fine with the same version and Raspberry Pi OS release.
Can you run the recommended command from the error message and see if you can install pegasus afterwards:

apt --fix-broken install

Stef17

@mitu said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

@stef17 I Which RetroPie image did you install ?
I don't seem to reproduce the issue with the default RetroPie installation - installation works fine with the same version and Raspberry Pi OS release.
Can you run the recommended command from the error message and see if you can install pegasus afterwards:
apt --fix-broken install

It did work. But now where do I put the Frontend chooser?

fluffypillow

@stef17 You can put it anywhere, it should be fairly portable.