I’d like something to show, sort and tag my games as I want, not bloated by unneeded services. It exist? Essentially I just need a cool way to navigate my retroarch launching commands. At the moment I’m using Cartridges, not very customizable, and service oriented but the UI is decent (it also supports animated covers, cool).
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Pegasus frontend with fire os theme. Looks and feels like a premium launcher.
Can I have a link please?
Cool, thanks!
I use Pegasus at the moment as it’s extremely customizable, although it does have a bit of a learning curve since you do most things through media.txt files. You can configure launch commands, box art/media/videos through an external scraper (I use Skyscraper), and you can point to bash files which opens up use of the terminal for basically anything you want to do OS side. It also has many different themes, basic metadata, and sorts games by system.
Emulation station is also another popular choice and is more out-of the-box minded bit still requires a bit of know how.
I also really like Playnite because it’s video game sorting heaven, but sadly it’s windows only and is really janky in wine/lutris. I eagerly await the day a working linux port arrives.
I tried Pegasus once: it is more controller-oriented, right?
Playnite is working on a Linux version btw (source).
[edit] Ok I’m experimenting right now reading the docs, thanks for the Pegasus suggestion!
No problem! I think it depends on the theme. I use the Retro Mega Next theme which is optimized for handhelds, but it works great with mouse and keyboard.
I finally learned how to make metadata files. Is that theme on the official page? I’ll check it, thanks.
I admit this whole research of mine made me want to learn qml development :D
Yes, you can find it in the themes directory. It also has really good documentation on github in case you want to make custom collections or swap out game system cover art. I went down the qml rabbit hole because of pegasus, it was super fun
