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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Pegasus frontend with fire os theme. Looks and feels like a premium launcher.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

All themes, many of them can be outdated and unsupported tho. This one is the one I use but I also changed it a little.

I'll upload my edited version tomorrow, I made a few qol changes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Cool, thanks!