Announcing Pegasus Frontend

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.

fastpop72

@fluffypillow Thanks for your frontend!

I have a question: I always used Pegasus on my bartop environment running Debian and i have any flaws.

Recently i began to install a new environment under Windows 10 and i noticed the performance of Pegasus are very poor.
It takes a lot to check the roms at start, when i scroll down the games i have a lot of lags (compared to Debian setup, same roms). The machine running Windows it's a new Ryzen 5 + Vega 11 and a NvME SSD.

Could be the theme i use? (GameOS)

Thanks...

fluffypillow

@fastpop72 Hi, well file operations are in general slower on Windows, as far as I know (se eg. here) it's mainly related to the file system (NTFS). It might be possible to improve the speed with some smart caching in the future; for now you could try disabling the third party sources you don't use, or use smaller images (so they load faster).