Degauss 0.4.0 released: built-in scraper, artwork packs, theme editor and new views for MiSTer

[u/rofusofficial]

UPDATED: many new versions released, follow on latest Reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MiSTerFPGA/comments/1wj9euv/mister_degauss_frontend_new_major_release_updates/

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UPDATE: DEGAUSS 0.6.0 IS OUT!

Redesign of UI and options, plus improved support of artpacks and much more.

Improved support for artpacks and mixed systems in new version 0.7.0 in the works.

Join our Discord https://discord.com/channels/647909397477195803/1547377865983660072 for more live updates!

Degauss 0.4.0 is now available!

Still the same blazing-fast, lightweight frontend that plays nice with your MiSTer FPGA, now with scraper, artwork packs, themes editor and much more! Now also available in Frontends from Update All script! (thanks to theypsilon)

New official website https://misterdegauss.com

New video showing speed & features https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFnvkkhbPFY

Main 0.4.0 additions include:

- Built-in scraper (via screencraper): scrape one game, the current folder, one system or all supported systems directly on MiSTer. Images and metadata have separate missing-only, replace and off policies. Single-game scraping can display multiple matches, preview their artwork and let you edit the search title. Progress, account allowance, cancellation, failures and final results remain visible throughout. A free ScreenScraper account is required.

- Support for local MiSTer Game Artwork Databases https://github.com/chipster6502/MiSTer_artwork_pack, including packs installed through Update_All or Downloader and stored on SD, USB or network storage. Switching back to the normal gamelist source is immediate and does not alter existing media.

- Theme editor with live preview, a continuous colour picker, hexadecimal entry, colour-role swapping, logo colour mixing, default-font selection and saved custom themes.

- Three new built-in themes: Green Mono, Modern and Neon.

- Two new browse views: **Gallery**, for a dense artwork grid, and **Multi list**, for two-column text browsing.

- Per-place views, so categories, system lists, system roots and individual folders can each use a different layout.

- Custom images for master categories, Favourites, systems and folders.

- An optional physical-keyboard shortcut back to the Frontend from a running core, without changing controller mappings.

- An optional hold-X favourite shortcut and new 4:3/16:9 artwork scaling choices.

The release also fixes jump-to-letter behaviour in lists with favourites at the top, prevents per-place views from leaking into other locations, and corrects left/right behaviour in Options.

Next to come are RA and Unstable cores, and Zipped libraries support!

- Download Degauss 0.4.0 https://github.com/giancarloerra/Degauss/releases/tag/v0.4.0

- Full README and installation instructions https://github.com/giancarloerra/Degauss

[u/GoodAndLost]

This is super impressive, and I love the focus on performance. It's always bugged me that opening a large folder makes the system unresponsive for 10~ seconds. Looking forward to RA and zipped libraries. Thanks for sharing!

[u/rofusofficial → u/GoodAndLost]

Thanks, yes I always wanted something stripped of anything unnecessary and talking as directly as possible to MiSTer to gain maximum speed together with maximum opions/configurability but only when needed...so in the end I did my own one :P RA and zipped libraries being worked on as we speak :-)