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You can run all Wii and PS2 games on that? My reason for asking is I'm considering to grab an i3 7350K and pump it up to 5 GHz, and am hoping that's enough for PS2 and Wii using on-chip graphics.

I will have a closer look. I wouldn't be surprised if it's used to differentiate between files and directories as well. I need to do some fixes in that area anyway, so I'll give it a closer look.

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Ok, as an example, let's look at your video. The tag for that is reloadableVideo.
You currently have animations there for menuIndex="0" (Main Menu) and menuIndex="1". Your onMenuExit animation fades out your video, so when you enter the 3rd level (and exit the second level) the video fades out. Since you don't have an animation for menuIndex="2", the video remains faded out. You could of course add animations for menuIndex="2", menuIndex="3", etc., but since all the animations appear to be the same you could also consider removing the animations for menuIndex="1", and just remove the menuIndex="0" from the first set of animations. I also removed a number of animations that really don't do anything (like moving the video to the location it's already at).

<reloadableVideo imageType="screenshot" alpha="1" x="0" y="bottom" yOrigin="bottom" Width="1920" layer="2">
    <onMenuExit>
      <set duration=".01">
        <animate type="alpha" to="0" algorithm="easeinquadratic"/>
      </set>
    </onMenuExit>
    <onMenuEnter>
      <set duration=".01">
        <animate type="alpha" to="1" algorithm="easeinquadratic"/>
      </set>
    </onMenuEnter>
    <onHighlightExit>
      <set duration=".01">
        <animate type="alpha" to="0" algorithm="easeinquadratic"/>
      </set>
    </onHighlightExit>
    <onHighlightEnter>
      <set duration=".01">
        <animate type="alpha" to="1" algorithm="easeinquadratic"/>
      </set>
    </onHighlightEnter>
    <onExit>
      <set duration=".01">
        <animate type="alpha" to="0" algorithm="easeinquadratic"/>
      </set>
    </onExit>
  </reloadableVideo>

I also notice that the animation is rather short; I'd consider making it a bit longer for a smoother animation, but that's me.


Now for the menu: you need to create a menu set for each menu layer you want. Currently there's only 2 of them defined; you'll need to add menus for layer 3, etc. You can simply copy the one for menuIndex="1", and then replace all the menuIndex="1" with menuIndex="2". Continue as needed for the amount of menu levels you want.

Looks to me like your animations need some work. If you can hear but not see the video, the alpha didn't get animated properly.
How did you go about creating the third level in your theme, and can you post your layout.xml file (s)?

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How do I go about making multiple menu layers?

We can make layouts specific to a submenu? That's awesome.

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Just a matter of creating several collections, like for your example:
Main, containing a menu.txt with Nintendo.
Nintendo, containing a menu.txt with NES.
NES, containing a menu.txt with NES Shooters.
NES Shooters, containing a Nintendo Entertainment System.sub with 1941.
Nintendo Entertainment System, containing all your roms and art.

For now, each of these also must contain a settings.conf  (I plan to fix that), most of which can be empty.

Yes, each of these can have their own theme by creating a similar structure in the layout, e.g. layouts/TREE/collections/NES/layout/layout.xml

The main feature still missing is themes per game.

I'm planning to support it in the future, but a larger database (stories are generally larger than all the other info combined) will not improve the speed of RetroFE.

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Any useful information in the log.txt perhaps?

I recently switched to Mint, and tried to set up a RetroFE xsession today. The .desktop file was easily created, and RetroFE starts properly, but when I return from a game my RetroFE window refuses to take focus. This setup worked perfectly fine on my previous Kubuntu setup. Any ideas what might be causing this problem?

To be clear: this problem only exist if I run RetroFE without a window manager. Under KDE everything works without a hitch.