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    • PlayingKarrdeP
      PlayingKarrde
      last edited by

      Correct (although I'm using collections.pegasus.txt).

      The test I did was on a directory that already worked (in this case Dreamcast). I deleted my media folder and scraped it again with Skraper and didn't change anything else.

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      • fluffypillowF
        fluffypillow @PlayingKarrde
        last edited by

        @PlayingKarrde Ok, here's a more chatty build. This should log in detail the Skraper asset searching.

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        • PlayingKarrdeP
          PlayingKarrde @fluffypillow
          last edited by PlayingKarrde

          @fluffypillow said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

          @PlayingKarrde Ok, here's a more chatty build. This should log in detail the Skraper asset searching.

          Thanks. It looks like it's truncating a couple of words in my path:

          2018-11-21T11:25:35 [i] Skraper: asset file found: "D:/Dropbox/Emulation/PegasusLauncher/roms/dreamcast/media/box2dfront/ChuChu Rocket! (USA) (En,Ja,Fr,De,Es).png"
          2018-11-21T11:25:35 [i] Skraper: expected game (wo. ext): "D:/Dropbox/Emuncher/roms/dreamcast/media/box2dfront/ChuChu Rocket! (USA) (En,Ja,Fr,De,Es)"
          2018-11-21T11:25:35 [i] Skraper: game "D:/Dropbox/Emuncher/roms/dreamcast/media/box2dfront/ChuChu Rocket! (USA) (En,Ja,Fr,De,Es)" not registered
          

          But it should be:

          D:/Dropbox/Emulation/PegasusLauncher/roms/dreamcast/media/box2dfront/ChuChu Rocket! (USA) (En,Ja,Fr,De,Es)
          
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          • fluffypillowF
            fluffypillow @PlayingKarrde
            last edited by

            @PlayingKarrde Heh, didn't expect to see that. This build should fix it.

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            • PlayingKarrdeP
              PlayingKarrde @fluffypillow
              last edited by

              @fluffypillow said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

              @PlayingKarrde Heh, didn't expect to see that. This build should fix it.

              That did it. Thanks!

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              • Purg.DerrenP
                Purg.Derren @PlayingKarrde
                last edited by Purg.Derren

                nvm

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                • fluffypillowF
                  fluffypillow
                  last edited by

                  No major updates this week, as I was busy with some internal restructuring. There was a bug in the path handling of the Skraper support, as discussed above, this is now fixed.

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                  • PlayingKarrdeP
                    PlayingKarrde
                    last edited by PlayingKarrde

                    I realise this is likely not a Pegasus issue but I'm curious if anyone else has had this problem? I'm trying to run at 4k hdr but I get crazy flickering when running the frontend. I noticed it also with EmulationStation as well as the retroarch overlays if I use gl as the renderer (it's fine in vulcan). Could this be related to the renderer Pegasus (and ES) uses? I've managed to rule out bandwidth issues with my cable which is what I originally suspected it was.

                    -edit-
                    Nevermind it WAS a bandwidth issue haha. For anyone else wanting to display in 4k hdr, make sure you go into your Nvidia control panel and set the color mode to yCbCr422 and the color depth of 10 bpc. If you have an HDMI 2.0a card you won't need to worry though.

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                    • hooperreH
                      hooperre
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                      @PlayingKarrde - Great job on the theme! From what I've read on here, it seems like maybe this will change soon, but I'm having trouble getting all the functionality out of your theme. I'm still a noobie when it comes to Linux and QML both, so if you wouldn't mind pointing me in the right direction, I would appreciate it!

                      Am I able to run your theme effectively from a gameslist.xml file?

                      Here is what I've tried:

                      	<game>
                      		<path>./Dragon Force (USA).cue</path>
                      		<name>Dragon Force</name>
                      		<image>./media/images/Dragon Force (USA).png</image>
                      		<boxart>./media/boxart/Dragon Force (USA).png</boxart>
                      		<wheel>./media/wheel/Dragon Force (USA).png</wheel>
                      		<logo>./media/wheel/Dragon Force (USA).png</logo>
                      		<video>./media/videos/Dragon Force (USA).mp4</video>
                      	</game>
                      

                      Vidoes and mix files (as image) both work where I would like them to. The logo/wheel art, however, does not. Any help would be much appreciated! Maybe I should just wait until the update, but I'm trying to figure it out! :) Thanks!

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                      • PlayingKarrdeP
                        PlayingKarrde @hooperre
                        last edited by

                        @hooperre I'm not too sure about gamelist files as I convert mine to metadata.txt files. I'm not 100% sure how Pegasus converts the information into it's own data. If you're using skraper and have the latest update though, you shouldn't need to include the media urls in your gamelist.

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                        • hooperreH
                          hooperre @PlayingKarrde
                          last edited by hooperre

                          @PlayingKarrde said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

                          @hooperre I'm not too sure about gamelist files as I convert mine to metadata.txt files. I'm not 100% sure how Pegasus converts the information into it's own data. If you're using skraper and have the latest update though, you shouldn't need to include the media urls in your gamelist.

                          Thanks. I was getting a gamelist.srm file, but I'm not getting one generated anymore after messing with settings. I think it probably has something to do with why my pictures aren't popping up. I "re-installed" the latest Skraper and am still having that issue.

                          Do you have a gameslist.srm file in your folder contents?

                          4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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                          • PlayingKarrdeP
                            PlayingKarrde @hooperre
                            last edited by PlayingKarrde

                            @hooperre No I don't. Are you telling it to scrape for emulationstation gamelist.xml? The xml that mine creates that i convert looks like this:

                            <game source="ScreenScraper.fr" id="13677">
                            <path>./Bomberman Online (USA).chd</path>
                            <name>Bomberman Online</name>
                            <desc>snip</desc>
                            <rating>0.7</rating>
                            <releasedate>20011030T000000</releasedate>
                            <developer>Sega</developer>
                            <publisher>Hudson</publisher>
                            <genre>Action</genre>
                            <players>4+</players>
                            <hash>00000000</hash>
                            </game>
                            

                            The resulting metadata.txt would be:

                            file: Bomberman Online (USA).chd
                            title: Bomberman Online
                            developer: Sega
                            genre: Action
                            release: 2001-10-30
                            players: 4
                            description: snip
                            rating: 70%
                            x-id: 13677
                            x-source: ScreenScraper.fr
                            
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                            • hooperreH
                              hooperre @PlayingKarrde
                              last edited by hooperre

                              @PlayingKarrde Thanks for the response.

                              Well, shoot. My gameslist.xml file and location of my image files looks like this:

                                  <image>./media/images/Dragon Force (USA).png</image>
                                  <boxFront>./media/boxFront/Dragon Force (USA).png</boxFront>
                                  <logo>./media/logo/Dragon Force (USA).png</logo>
                                  <video>./media/videos/Dragon Force (USA).mp4</video>
                              

                              And my metadata.xml file is:

                              file: Dragon Force (USA).cue
                              title: Dragon Force
                              developer: SOJ
                              genre: Strategy
                              release: 1996-11-30
                              players: 1
                              description: Stuff
                              x-id: 13088
                              x-source: ScreenScraper.fr
                              

                              No luck on getting a wheel/logo image, though. :( I see that with the 11/25 commit the file organizer.exe file was removed. Is this still necessary?

                              4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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                              • PlayingKarrdeP
                                PlayingKarrde @hooperre
                                last edited by

                                @hooperre If you have the latest Pegasus (like from a couple of days ago) then it isn't necessary, that's why I removed it. Have you gone into data sources and made sure Use Skraper Assets has been checked? Your metadata.txt looks fine.

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                                • hooperreH
                                  hooperre @PlayingKarrde
                                  last edited by hooperre

                                  @PlayingKarrde Solved now :) It was checked, but because I only had 1 game in there, I didn't have a collections.txt file, which is why it didn't work. Oops... Thanks for helping me figure it out!

                                  So that's kind of interesting that only the logo/wheel/marquee doesn't work with given Emulationstation default images. When I have both Skraper Assets AND Emulationstation checked, it results in using my mix images (located in media/images folder) instead of box art, video works, and logos work. If only Skraper Assets is checked, it works exactly how yours is presented in the video. Kinda neat. Just so you are aware :).

                                  Anyway, love the theme and love Pegasus. Thanks to both @PlayingKarrde and @fluffypillow for your work! You're taking my Pi from looking like a hacky machine to a big company released retro-gaming console! :)

                                  4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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                                  • herb_fargusH
                                    herb_fargus administrators
                                    last edited by

                                    Post 1000. Just cause I can.

                                    Keep up the good work.

                                    If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                                    Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                    • PlayingKarrdeP
                                      PlayingKarrde @hooperre
                                      last edited by

                                      @hooperre Oh very interesting. I wonder why that is. I guess the emulationstation data is given higher priority but somehow also the same tag. It should only be looking for boxart images there. Weird. How does it look?

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                                      • hooperreH
                                        hooperre @PlayingKarrde
                                        last edited by

                                        @PlayingKarrde The whole thing all around looks amazing. Sorry I don't have a better method of getting a picture for you.0_1543292087760_Ds-0kHKWwAAqpJ2.jpg

                                        4B ~ RPi PSU 5.1V / 3.0A ~ 32GB SanDisk microSD ~ 128GB USB

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                                        • PlayingKarrdeP
                                          PlayingKarrde @hooperre
                                          last edited by

                                          @hooperre thanks. Well at least it doesn't break. Would still like to know why it's doing this so I could include the option for people to choose at some point though.

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                                          • fluffypillowF
                                            fluffypillow
                                            last edited by

                                            Over 1000 post, yay!

                                            @hooperre @PlayingKarrde for gamelist.xml Pegasus supports the tags that are officially available and documented in EmulationStation (including the RetroPie master branch). At the moment, these are image, marquee and video, where image is assumed to be the box front art (boxFront in themes), but in practice you can set it to anything.

                                            During loading, ES2 support happens to have a higher priority than Skraper, so if a game already has a box front art set (eg. by image), it won't get overwritten. As a workaround, I guess you could rename the image tags to something else while you're using Pegasus, then name them back when using ES2 (either manually or by a script). With this you can get the metadata from the gamelists, and the assets from Skraper.

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