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I see the issue: you're using an empty splash.xml, and instead display the splash video from the main layout. Have a look at the default RetroFE setup to see how it should be done. This will also allow you to interrupt the video in case you don't want to watch it till the end.

It does appear to go right from splash to layout. Can you upload your splash.xml file?

I've had this request before, and it's on the back burner. The RetroFE text code is optimized for speed, but that loses some flexibility. I'd have to rewrite the entire text code to make this possible. I may do that sometime still; I used to code for another front-end that had it, but I'm a tad short on spare time these days.

Is this what you're looking for?
http://www.retrofe.nl/wiki/doku.php?id=collections#sub_merged_collection

Menu tiers are automatic within RetroFE. If you have games in a list, they're directly accessible; if you put a collection in your menu.txt it automatically becomes the next tier. The only thing you do need to make sure of is that your theme actually has some entries for properly showing the next tier. Some themes do that automatically, and some were never meant for more than one or two tiers.

That's what some people have used in their themes, but it requires each game to be put in its own collection.

Reading this, I think the -batch option should be after the filepath: https://www.richwhitehouse.com/jaguar/index.php?content=userman#sect_19

I'm afraid not.  You could delete the XML file, (and the database file so it will regenerate without the XML file), and have it use the file name instead, but there's no option in the RetroFE program for doing this configurably at the moment.