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I considered moving this to its own thread, but I guess it fits within the spirit of this discussion:
RetroFE expects all collections within the collections subdirectory (unless specified otherwise in the settings,conf, but even then it expects all collections in the same directory). The hierarchy is defined simply by linking one menu to the next; you can create any menu structure you like.

So, in your case:
Main collection contains menu.txt with Console.
Console collection contains menu.txt with SNES.
SNES collection contains menu.txt with Mario.
Mario collection contains roms and art with all Mario games.

That Mario collection could also be set up as a sub collection of e.g. Super Nintendo Entertainment System so you can keep all art and roms in one location:
Super Nintendo Entertainment System collection contains all roms and art for the SNES games.
Mario collection contains Super Nintendo Entertainment System.sub with all Mario games.

There's an open feature request for me to implement more playlists (we currently only support Favorites) so you could enter a single collection (e.g. SNES), and simply step through the different playlists (driving games, fighting games, Mario games, or whatever you decide). That should be implemented in the not too distant future; it's a feature I'd rather enjoy as well.

I fear it's in one of the latest changes. My suspicion points towards the hierarchical rom directory support I added. I'm using some functions there of which I'm not 100% sure they work cross platform.

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Just got confirmation that the Windows build doesn't run. We're trying to sort it out.

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I'm so happy to use Linux at times. 😀 Joe has no issues with multiline expression based search/replace.

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I'm not entirely happy with the event handling either; I don't have your specific issues, but I too see some irregularities when it comes to handling (keyboard in my case) input. Currently, input handling for the menus is handled separately in two different locations: the main handler looks at the input, and changes some internal states, and the menu itself handles the scrolling based on the internal state. I've been thinking about combining that in one location, but it will require a bit of structure rethinking. It has my attention though.

With regards to your videos: I encountered that issue in the past as well. I was under the impression that it was caused by a lack of hardware support for the video playback in combination with a slow CPU. It disappeared when I switched my CPU to turbo mode. Considering your CPU however (way faster than mine) I may need to rethink the source of this problem. RetroFE currently uses the gstreamer video library, and I've considered switching to another library for quite some time now. I may need to give that another look.

As for your example, you could use year, and just use an 80s image for 1980-1989.

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Same here. Hope to see it finished soon. 😀

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It's fixed in bit bucket, but there's no official release yet. I plan to do a few more fixes, and I am waiting for the Windows compile to make sure everything works under all Operating Systems.