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    • fluffypillow
      fluffypillow last edited by

      @itsnitro in practice, a Pi release should "just work". The only problem is that Debian/Raspbian currently uses an outdated, 3 years old version of Qt, from which a bunch of features and optimizations are missing. As such, I'll include the required Qt libs with the releases, and also host the build tools and libraries too if you want to build on the board or cross compile.

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      • fluffypillow
        fluffypillow last edited by

        This week's main features:

        • added bezel, marquee and flyer image asset support
        • added support for all ES2 game metadata tags
        • gamelist reading and asset finding speed optimizations: currently loading ~1000 games, all with videos, box front, screenshot and logo takes less than 2 seconds on a Pi 3, and less than 10 seconds on a first gen Pi 1; these numbers may improve later
        • improved asset loading speed, added loading screen and loading indicators
        • implemented basic custom theme loading support
        • confirmed video support working on Pi 3 and 1
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        • lilbud
          lilbud @fluffypillow last edited by

          @fluffypillow said

          less than 2 seconds on a pi 3

          alt text

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          • itskryode
            itskryode @fluffypillow last edited by

            @fluffypillow said

            these numbers may improve later

            0_1492985638575_upload-30c8f343-6db0-4f68-a261-153036b002db

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            • meleu
              meleu @fluffypillow last edited by

              @fluffypillow how can we test it?

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              • lilbud
                lilbud @itskryode last edited by

                @itsnitro I just spent the last few minutes laughing my ass off. Take an upvote

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                • lilbud
                  lilbud @itskryode last edited by lilbud

                  @fluffypillow said

                  currently loading ~1000 games

                  0_1492989341715_upload-c4f15882-31bd-41cb-9617-503cabbade0a

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                  • itskryode
                    itskryode last edited by

                    Not this again.

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                    • fluffypillow
                      fluffypillow last edited by

                      @meleu as soon as it's generally in a usable state, I'll open source it. There are some basic features I'd still like to work on before, like gamepad navigation, but I can make an alpha release this week or the next probably.

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                      • fluffypillow
                        fluffypillow last edited by fluffypillow

                        I've made a new video:

                        (I did cheat a bit, I've turned off displaying the videos, but that doesn't affect the loading speed anyway. Also it's "just" 750 games this time.)

                        For some reason starting right after boot, like ES2, takes 1 second longer... interesting. Anyway, according to the logs, game data loading took 1991ms even with this delay.

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                        • cafarellidigital
                          cafarellidigital @fluffypillow last edited by

                          @fluffypillow goddamn that's some smooth scrolling and loading.

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                          • itskryode
                            itskryode @fluffypillow last edited by

                            @fluffypillow said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

                            "just" 750 games this time

                            JUST?
                            ARE YOU CRAZY?
                            THIS WILL (and I mean will) EXCEED THE PERFORMANCE OF RETROPIE

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                            • TMNTturtlguy
                              TMNTturtlguy last edited by

                              @fluffypillow will we be able to use current themes from ES on this front end or will we need to rebuild them in a different format? Looks like some cool modifications could be done to my themes! Have you thought about a screensaver like @fieldofcows and @pjft have built for their ES fork? The screensaver is the coolest feature and would be a great addition to what you are working on. Looking forward to testing this one out soon......this might mean I need a 4th SD card so I can keep running all the different builds I am working on!

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                              • fluffypillow
                                fluffypillow last edited by

                                @TMNTturtlguy It uses a different format, but I think it would be possible to write a converter script. Haven't thought about the screensaver before, but yeah, that's a good idea!

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                                • InsecureSpike
                                  InsecureSpike last edited by

                                  wow, looking awesome!
                                  great work!

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                                  • teknomusik
                                    teknomusik last edited by

                                    Any chance this front end could have a menu for loading / previewing save states similar to the NES Classic menu?
                                    nes classic menu

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                                    • fluffypillow
                                      fluffypillow last edited by

                                      @teknomusik well that depends on the emulators; if the frontend can read the states, displaying them is not a problem. Most emulators use their own save state formats, so we'd either need some common file format, some information about the individual saves, or some kind of plugin system for the individual emulators/formats.

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                                      • fluffypillow
                                        fluffypillow last edited by

                                        This week's progress:

                                        • improved screen resolution / aspect ratio support
                                        • added different box size support
                                        • added basic gamepad support
                                        • improved game list loading speed by about 30%
                                        • some style changes
                                        • polished the source code, made the project structure cleaner, internal changes
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                                        • fluffypillow
                                          fluffypillow last edited by fluffypillow

                                          Screenshot:

                                          sreenshot

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                                          • lilbud
                                            lilbud @fluffypillow last edited by

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

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