Announcing Pegasus Frontend
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@fluffypillow Forgot to ask earlier, is the new config file format (collections and metadata txt files) implemented?
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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.
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@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.
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@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 :).
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@fluffypillow : dope!
Are you guys hanging somewhere on irc ? i'd like to join if you do. This project is really promising. -
The documentation and tutorials are AWESOME. Thanks a lot for your work.
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I installed thru retro pie experimental packages but can’t figure how to launch on raspberry pi. Please help!
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@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 :)
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@fluffypillow Will you make the default theme an ini to edit so we can change layout/columns, etc?
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@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!
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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.
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@tronkyfran I imagine it could replicate most of launchbox's functionality eg coverflow etc.
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@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.
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@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?
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@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" ?
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@darksavior Interesting, could you check the
es_systems.cfg
that the Daphne rom directory is indeed there, and thegamelist.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 yourimages
directory. Here's how:cd ROM_DIRECTORY ln -s images media
If you now open the
media
dir, you'll see the contents ofimages
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@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=0Pegasus doesn't even see daphne's
gamelist.xml
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@Darksavior Ah I see, Daphne is that emulator that stores games in directories, right? Pegasus probably didn't find any files with
.daphne
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@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.
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