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Excellent! Thanks.

This theme has a very specific goal in mind: to be functional and look good with no metadata. I've settled on this as my philosophy for frontends because to my perception, it is unfeasible to have the majority of our games with appropriate metadata within even the next 10 years (too many obscure games, lack of worldwide organization regarding standards, etc), and therefore including metadata as part of the design will invariably leave you with games were you will see no video, you'll have a low-quality scan of the cover, no logo, etc, which to me looks terribly awkward due to lots of blank gaps on screen and logo-no logo-logo-logo-no logo-no logo type of scenarios. Some other things addressed were trying to pass bad quality videos as presentable, the avoidance of repeated info, and the avoidance of unnecessary info.



I realize this is a very specific mindset, so here's a very specific theme for very specific people: https://mega.nz/#!OAlVhBTK!yeR-gzsH61lyMcYIbzvxNxaMsxCQUVLA8zy1Pssv2fs

People who download it may find themselves having to rename the layout folders, as I use somewhat unorthodox names (always the original name ie. 'Atari Video Computer System' instead of 'Atari 2600'). I'm not nearly satisfied with it, but it works at a basic level.

Don't know what's the proper way to do that code, but it works for Desmume since it just needs to be alt+tabbed. I tried your script but it didn't work for me, probably because of how citra opens a cmd without gui which is automatically closed.

I have this on the .conf file

executable = C:\Program Files (x86)\Citra\citra.exe
arguments = "%ITEM_FILEPATH%"

Ohhh yes I don't know why I didn't think of using AHK. I made one recently to fullscreen Desmume:

#NoTrayIcon
#SingleInstance force
Loop
{
WinWaitActive, DeSmuME 0.9.12 git#1e96e73 x64-JIT SSE2
Send !{Enter}
WinWaitNotActive, DeSmuME 0.9.12 git#1e96e73 x64-JIT SSE2
{}
}
I think I could repurpose this for Citra, but there's no key combo that would make Citra fullscreen sadly. Do you know how I can replace the "Send !{Enter}" line so that it does the "Max" thing?

Thank you very much for the fast response also.

Anybody knows a way to do this? I tried making a .lnk to citra.exe with "Start maximized" on the properties, but it won't open it as the launcher.

Yeah makes some sense that there is not one available, although EmuMovies does have a Windows gameplay videos section so I'm sure something could be done if enough people cared about it. Anyway, I'll just do it manually.

And also, on this vein, do you guys know of other methods to gather metadata? I just realized the <manufacturer> tag on hyperlists don't always address the developer... I'm getting "Conspiracy Entertainment" for Bangai-O on Dreamcast, when it's obviously a Treasure game. I hate this, I don't see why anyone would care at all about who published a game, at least not on the sense of it trumping the developer...

Does anybody know if such a thing exists? Or a similar file compatible with RetroFE. Looking for "year" and "developer" metadata.