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    • fluffypillowF
      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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      • cafarellidigitalC
        cafarellidigital @fluffypillow
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        @fluffypillow goddamn that's some smooth scrolling and loading.

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          A Former User @fluffypillow
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          @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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          • TMNTturtlguyT
            TMNTturtlguy
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            @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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            • fluffypillowF
              fluffypillow
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              @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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              • InsecureSpikeI
                InsecureSpike
                last edited by

                wow, looking awesome!
                great work!

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                  teknomusik
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                  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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                  • fluffypillowF
                    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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                    • fluffypillowF
                      fluffypillow
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                      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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                      • fluffypillowF
                        fluffypillow
                        last edited by fluffypillow

                        Screenshot:

                        sreenshot

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

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                          • fluffypillowF
                            fluffypillow
                            last edited by

                            @lilbud yes, 2147483647      ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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                            • fluffypillowF
                              fluffypillow
                              last edited by

                              As for the "system bar" on the top of the current theme, it loops like the carousel, and shows as many as it can while the name of the platforms remains visible.

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                              • fluffypillowF
                                fluffypillow
                                last edited by

                                This week Pegasus got open sourced, and is available here. There are no proper releases yet, since it's still in alpha, but you can already build it from source. Automatic build testing has been set up for desktop Linux, Pi1, Pi2 and Windows. It is also confirmed working on Windows 10.

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                                • mattrixkM
                                  mattrixk @fluffypillow
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                                  @fluffypillow You're doing some great work mate. I'd love to try this out for windows, but have no idea how to get it from your github to a usable program on my PC.

                                  My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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                                  • meleuM
                                    meleu @fluffypillow
                                    last edited by

                                    @fluffypillow can you be more specific about the dependencies on the README? I mean, which debian packages do I have to install to build the pegasus-frontend?

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                                    • meleuM
                                      meleu @fluffypillow
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                                      @fluffypillow Well, I kinda figured out the dependencies. I'm trying first on my Linux Mint x86. I installed qtdeclarative5-dev and qtbase5-dev and it brought a lot of other packages.

                                      And then I've got this:

                                      $ make
                                      cd src/ && ( test -e Makefile || /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/qmake /home/meleu/src/pegasus-frontend/src/src.pro INSTALLDIR=/opt/retropie/supplementary/pegasus-frontend/ -o Makefile ) && make -f Makefile 
                                      make[1]: Entrando no diretório `/home/meleu/src/pegasus-frontend/src'
                                      cd backend/ && ( test -e Makefile || /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/qmake /home/meleu/src/pegasus-frontend/src/backend/backend.pro INSTALLDIR=/opt/retropie/supplementary/pegasus-frontend/ -o Makefile ) && make -f Makefile 
                                      make[2]: Entrando no diretório `/home/meleu/src/pegasus-frontend/src/backend'
                                      g++ -c -m64 -pipe -O2 -fPIC -fno-exceptions -Wall -W -std=c++0x -D_REENTRANT -DQT_DEPRECATED_WARNINGS -DQT_RESTRICTED_CAST_FROM_ASCII -DQT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCII -DQT_NO_EXCEPTIONS -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_QML_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/linux-g++-64 -I. -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5 -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtQml -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtNetwork -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtGui -isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtCore -I. -o Api.o Api.cpp
                                      Api.cpp: In member function ‘void ApiObject::onLoadingFinished()’:
                                      Api.cpp:54:11: error: ‘qInfo’ was not declared in this scope
                                           qInfo().noquote() << tr("Data files loaded in %1ms").arg(m_loading_time_ms);
                                                 ^
                                      make[2]: ** [Api.o] Erro 1
                                      make[2]: Saindo do diretório `/home/meleu/src/pegasus-frontend/src/backend'
                                      make[1]: ** [sub-backend-make_first] Erro 2
                                      make[1]: Saindo do diretório `/home/meleu/src/pegasus-frontend/src'
                                      make: ** [sub-src-make_first] Erro 2
                                      

                                      It seems that we have some problem in Api.cpp file.

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                                      • fluffypillowF
                                        fluffypillow
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                                        Yeah, the documentation is a bit lacking, I plan to add proper guides/wiki eventually.

                                        The Qt version is important (and I've just added a version check to the project file for checking), especially on embedded systems due to the optimizations in the later releases. Unfortunately the Qt packages are outdated on all Debians (including experimental), which is what you've just experienced too (qInfo was added in Qt 5.5, two years ago). For desktop only (X11/Windows), you can download the official development kit from here, and I'm also providing my own Qt builds for and RPi 1/2 and X11, which I've uploaded to the GitHub releases tab (eg. qt58-x11.tgz). These are used for build testing too, but they don't include the debug libs or Qt Creator (making them way smaller than the official release). If you want to use them, you have to extract them to /opt, and use /opt/qt58-xxx_hosttools/bin/qmake.

                                        Cross compilation to Pi is a somewhat more difficult topic, and I could (and probably will) write a whole post about it. In short, you can find the required tools on GitHub, extract them to /opt, add the toolchains' bin directory to your $PATHand use theqmake from rpi1/rpi2_hosttools. You can set up remote deployment in Qt Creator as well.

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                                        • fluffypillowF
                                          fluffypillow
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                                          Also a few additional notes:

                                          • Gamepad support improvements will be added in Qt 5.9; it's going to be released at the end of this month, and I'll increase the required Qt version then
                                          • There's no main menu yet, that's what I'm going to work on this week
                                          • Please note that Pegasus is less than 2 months old, and is still in alpha
                                          • If you do manage to run it, bug reports and suggestions are welcome!
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                                          • fluffypillowF
                                            fluffypillow
                                            last edited by fluffypillow

                                            Had some errands to do this week, so I worked mostly on the main menu only (demo: http://webmshare.com/play/Prq5q).
                                            Shutdown and reboot works too, and running custom scripts before them will be supported in the future.
                                            You can also navigate using the mouse.

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