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    • fluffypillowF
      fluffypillow
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      March update, alpha14-133

      It's been a while! Lately I've been a bit busy with work, so there were a lots of small, irregular updates -- with time however these started piling up, so this might be a good time for a changelog:

      • Added support for accessing the battery information of the device: https://pegasus-frontend.org/docs/themes/api/#device
        • Note that this heavily depends on what the device support and reports -- some values may be simply not present on all platforms
      • Themes can now access all extra fields defined in metadata files
        • Theme devs: Games and collections now have an extra field, a regular JS object with the values under their their properties as a list of text
      • Added support for title screen assets
        • They can be added to games like the rest of the assets, with the name titlescreen
        • They are also imported automatically from Skraper and LaunchBox sources
      • Improved handling of symlinks and Windows shortcuts (.lnk files)
      • Steam: Added support for importing Steam game info from LaunchBox
      • LaunchBox: Added support for platform sort names
      • LaunchBox: Fixed support of certain asset file names
      • LaunchBox: Added support for more asset types
      • macOS: Fixed disappearing system menu bar in windowed mode
      • Fixed a possible crash caused by games with no files
      • Fixed nonexisting games still appearing in certain cases
      • Fixed favorites and play times not appearing correctly in certain cases
      • The default theme now tries to show the collection's default assets in case of missing game images
      • Minor optimizations
      • Documentation updates, especially the Getting started page
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      • DarksaviorD
        Darksavior @fluffypillow
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        @fluffypillow Do you happen to know the ideal way to get pegasus working on a mac mini m1 (arm64)? Maybe the emulationstation content might be readable if I can alter the folder pegasus is looking for, but then there's the actual games to load from retroarch which requires retropie to do it.

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        • fluffypillowF
          fluffypillow @Darksavior
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          @darksavior I'm afraid I'm not familiar with the Mac, sorry :( If it helps, ES system files are expected to be at $HOME/.emulationstation or /etc/emulationstation/, though if I remember correctly, Mac support for ES was implemented in just one of the forks.

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          • DarksaviorD
            Darksavior @fluffypillow
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            @fluffypillow No worries, just thought you might know a way. I'll use the standalone retroarch for now.

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            • jacklongfordJ
              jacklongford
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              @fluffypillow

              I'm new to Pegasus and have been looking at videos of it on YouTube. It looks fantastic and great work so far :)

              At the moment, it seems too difficult for me to set up. I know other front ends allow you to just simply select your roms folder (without having to create a metadata.pegasus.txt) and then there's options to use an in-app scraper to download artwork.

              Will these options eventually be available in Pegasus? And if so, is there a road map of features you want to incorporate?

              Thanks!

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                h2805270 @jacklongford
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                @jacklongford
                Are you using Windows, or Linux?

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                  jacklongford @h2805270
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                  @h2805270 Android (Nvidia Shield)

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                    h2805270 @jacklongford
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                    @jacklongford
                    That's a tricky one.
                    I've got no experience with TV Boxes. Ask someone on the Discord if you haven't yet:
                    https://discord.com/invite/KTtzP6y

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                    • fluffypillowF
                      fluffypillow @jacklongford
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                      @jacklongford Hi! Well, Pegasus tries to be just the frontend. It doesn't have a built-in scraper, but tries to be compatible with the output of others; you can try using Skyscraper, Skraper.net, LaunchBox as well as all the EmulationStation supporting scrapers. In the case of Android though, I do know the selection is a bit lacking, so eventually there might be a cross platform way for scraping, but there's no fixed roadmap for that at the moment.

                      For Android in particular, the guides written for the Retroid Pocket 2 might come handy, eg. https://basvroegop.nl/pegasus, as that also runs a version of Android.

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                      • jacklongfordJ
                        jacklongford @fluffypillow
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                        @fluffypillow Thanks for your reply, I think I will have to stay with my current frontend since it's got scraping built in.

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                          Stef17
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                          After the installation, you can either call pegasus-fe manually, or edit /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh to launch Pegasus on boot (instead of eg. ES2).

                          I installed it through Raspberry Pi 4 from experimental packages, then Pegasus FE. But it says could not install it. It is not available?

                          Yes, Retropie is updated etc, wifi is on.

                          Any solution?

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                          • mituM
                            mitu Global Moderator
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                            @stef17 said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

                            I installed it through Raspberry Pi 4 from experimental packages, then Pegasus FE. But it says could not install it. It is not available?

                            Installation from the setup script should work - what version of RetroPie are you using ?

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                              Stef17 @mitu
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                              @mitu said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

                              @stef17 said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

                              I installed it through Raspberry Pi 4 from experimental packages, then Pegasus FE. But it says could not install it. It is not available?

                              Installation from the setup script should work - what version of RetroPie are you using ?

                              version 4.7
                              System: rpi4 (armv71)
                              running on Rasbian GMU/Linux 10 (buster)

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                                mitu Global Moderator @Stef17
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                                @stef17 What error do you get when installing ? Please post the exact error - the setup script stores all operations under $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/logs, you can open the installation log and post it on pastebin.com. Make sure you're using an updated RetroPie-Setup script (version 4.7.11 at the moment).

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                                  Stef17 @mitu
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                                  @mitu said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

                                  @stef17 What error do you get when installing ? Please post the exact error - the setup script stores all operations under $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/logs, you can open the installation log and post it on pastebin.com. Make sure you're using an updated RetroPie-Setup script (version 4.7.11 at the moment).

                                  https://pastebin.com/PHaQVAZe

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                                  • mituM
                                    mitu Global Moderator @Stef17
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                                    @stef17 This looks like a problem with your package repositories:

                                    
                                    E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
                                    Could not install package(s): gstreamer1.0-alsa gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-good jq.
                                    

                                    Do you have any held/pinned packages ?

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                                      Stef17 @mitu
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                                      @mitu When I bought Raspberry Pi 4 I downloaded Retropie-image then to SD Card. After that wanted to install Pegasus FE. Failed. I don't know what packages.

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                                        mitu Global Moderator @Stef17
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                                        @stef17 I Which RetroPie image did you install ?
                                        I don't seem to reproduce the issue with the default RetroPie installation - installation works fine with the same version and Raspberry Pi OS release.
                                        Can you run the recommended command from the error message and see if you can install pegasus afterwards:

                                        apt --fix-broken install
                                        
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                                          Stef17 @mitu
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                                          @mitu said in Announcing Pegasus Frontend:

                                          @stef17 I Which RetroPie image did you install ?
                                          I don't seem to reproduce the issue with the default RetroPie installation - installation works fine with the same version and Raspberry Pi OS release.
                                          Can you run the recommended command from the error message and see if you can install pegasus afterwards:

                                          apt --fix-broken install
                                          

                                          It did work. But now where do I put the Frontend chooser?

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                                          • fluffypillowF
                                            fluffypillow @Stef17
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                                            @stef17 You can put it anywhere, it should be fairly portable.

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