Announcing Pegasus Frontend

meaning

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halfmanhalfcake

@fluffypillow Forgot to ask earlier, is the new config file format (collections and metadata txt files) implemented?

AndersHP

Just to update my little benchmarking from earlier:
When having artwork for 5000 games on USB2.0: Pegasus boots in 1 minut 27 secs.
When having artwork on microSD (class 10): Pegasus boots in 23 secs.

Quite a performance difference. Probably the quality of the USB stick to blame.

It would be cool to test a new USB3.1 drive, but haven't got any so will probably leave the artwork on the microSD from now on.

fluffypillow

@meaning I can't seem to find documentation about LaunchBox config files, but if it's in a usable format, then yeah, it shouldn't be impossible to add support.

@halfmanhalfcake Not yet, that's one of the things I plan to work on next (and also adding documentation for it).

@AndersHP Now that the docs are online, I can also start working on speed optimizations. I have some chinese sticks around, perfect for testing.

mitu

@fluffypillow said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

I have some chinese sticks around

For a moment there, I was trying to imagine how you could use some chopsticks to improve the speed of your program :).

meaning

@fluffypillow : dope!
Are you guys hanging somewhere on irc ? i'd like to join if you do. This project is really promising.

tronkyfran

The documentation and tutorials are AWESOME. Thanks a lot for your work.

Newellj79

I installed thru retro pie experimental packages but can’t figure how to launch on raspberry pi. Please help!

AndersHP

@newellj79 said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

I installed thru retro pie experimental packages but can’t figure how to launch on raspberry pi. Please help!

Hehe. @fluffypillow you need to write this in the first post of this thread. @Newellj79 Right here :)

Darksavior

@fluffypillow Will you make the default theme an ini to edit so we can change layout/columns, etc?

fluffypillow

@AndersHP @Newellj79 Yeah someone (me?) should really make a frontend chooser dialog. I've just updated the first post with the launching info, thanks.

@Darksavior still on my to do list, sorry -- I'd like to add it by implementing theme specific options, which could then be changed in a settings menu.

@meaning I tend to hang out in the #retropie channel on afternoons (GMT+2).

PS. We're over 500 posts now, wow!

tronkyfran

So, testing this I realized that we can make a system selection screen with video backgrounds, at least on Windows ( performance hit on Pi could be Big, suppose). OMG.

herb_fargus

@tronkyfran I imagine it could replicate most of launchbox's functionality eg coverflow etc.

tronkyfran

@herb_fargus As far as I know, the limit is the computer performance, really really excited about this, I'm testing this since fluffypillow released the tutorials and will probably make a tronkyfran's theme adaptation for this to train a bit myself on qml before going to my oldroom-like theme.

Darksavior

@fluffypillow I tried daphne today and the games won't show in pegasus. I don't even see the daphne gamelist xml being processed when pegasus is loading. Daphne is viewable in ES. Any ideas?

Alturis

@fluffypillow said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

[directory of the rom]/media/

Could it also check [directory of the rom]/images/ for those of us who have been using Steven Selphs scraper with the option to put media in the roms folder under "images" ?

fluffypillow

@darksavior Interesting, could you check the es_systems.cfg that the Daphne rom directory is indeed there, and the gamelist.xml is either in that folder, or under ~/.emulationstation/gamelists/daphne/gamelist.xml? If everything seems to be in place, please upload the systems and gamelist file somewhere and I'll check them. Did this work in earlier versions?

@Alturis You can create a symlink (an "alias" for the folder) with the name media, pointing to your images directory. Here's how:

cd ROM_DIRECTORY
ln -s images media

If you now open the media dir, you'll see the contents of images, and Pegasus should be able to access them too.

Darksavior

@fluffypillow
Everything's in~/.emulationstation/gamelists/ . ES has no issues with daphne. I never tried daphne before so I can't say if it worked in pegasus in the past. I'm using stretch if it matters. https://www.dropbox.com/s/f2yval4afi79rfp/gamelist.xml?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yajohaz7homa118/es_systems.cfg?dl=0

Pegasus doesn't even see daphne's gamelist.xml :

fluffypillow

@Darksavior Ah I see, Daphne is that emulator that stores games in directories, right? Pegasus probably didn't find any files with .daphne extension, so it skipped processing the gamelist XML. I can add directory search support, in case this caused the issue.

Alturis

@fluffypillow said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

You can create a symlink (an "alias" for the folder) with the name media, pointing to your images directory.

Ah. Good tip. Linux/Unix is not my first language. ;)

Will have to think in those terms moving forward.