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I have been gone quite some time (Kids steal a lot of time FYI), but I'm honestly amazed by your talent, iGarikoitz!
Looking forward for the latest changed to be added to your Github as I would love to use your theme on my new build.

Is there an easy way to split a MAME collection into packs?

I'll share my own project when I get some more time. I've developed a separate application/helper that adds search to RetroFE and automatically downloads/generates all the required images for the theme.
My main focus now is to develop cache-support so games can be pulled from a NAS and cached locally in the background. I'm not a big fan of having all games stored on the device I play without redundancy.

I love the way RetroFE works. I've been using HyperSpin and Launchbox and I'm not particular fond of any of them.. for the reason klopjero mentions in his first post.
HyperSpin had a lot of issues when I last used it 3 years ago and I was never particular fond of all those animations... it's just too much in my opinion. Launchbox/Bigbox is even more terrible with the way you have to import the roms and I feel you completely loose control of your roms and media. While I love working in Visual Studio, I actually prefer the simple XML themes RetroFE uses.

There's not much I miss except search and a plugin system would also be awesome. However, I've made a small application myself that adds proper search, coins, rfid and retroboxCP (my fork of cpwizard) support to RetroFE and it works amazing. I've also made a scraper that is way more advanced and better then the one in emulationstation, but I haven't yet released it. One of the problems is that I don't want to write the information (like player count and such) to the meta.db file as I consider this just a cache. I could update the XML files, but I'm not particular interested in that either. I'll try to make a proof of concept video of it soon.

Just keep up the good work Pieter!

Awesome, I was about to make a post on this before I got the email from bitbucket.
I've been working hard on my RetroFE instance and thought I messed up something in my theme.

Of course, I just have to figure out how to compile the code on Windows/in Visual Studio. I'll give it another try to see if I can get it running.

Same issue here. RetroFE crashes if any of my 4 Xbox360 controllers are turned on after Windows has started up, but before RetroFE has initialized.

Edit: Another issue is that RetroFE doesn't favor one particular gamepad. My arcade control panel isn't necessary the first (joy0), but may sometimes be joy1, joy2 or even joy3 depending on what else is connected... is there a way to tell RetroFE to use a specific device or do I just have to list all of them in the controls config?

Thanks. I'll look into it, but I have unfortunately no knowledge of C++.
In C# I've used GetLastInputInfo in order to get the last input time. Not sure if that can be used or if there are other alternatives like it. It worked at least great with touchscreens and keyboards. I haven't tested it using a gamepad yet though.

Wow, that's impressive. If that would to become the default theme for RetroFE it would be without doubt the nicest front-end out there. I just love how clean it is and the icons!

I assume the "information"-page is timing based? Would be nice to be able to toggle it by pressing a button like in Kodi. There you can press "i" for information when you have a item highlighted.

Thanks for the feedback. While I'm quite happy with the game selection screen, the console view is a bit "confusing" when using it with a lot of systems. I currently have 175 systems on mine and I quickly struggle to find the right console. I think of adding another layer so the user first has to select the year (e.g. 1980-1985,1985-1990,...), but I'm not sure if that's the best solution either.

I've also thought about adding a graphical timeline on top of the console view so you can see "where you are" in relation to the other consoles... Another (awesome) solution would be a grid/wall layout, but that's something that unfortunately isn't supported yet *looks at Pieter Hulshoff with huge Bambi eyes*

I appreciate any ideas here.