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I agree with Pieter, it needs some sort of intro imo. The way it starts now seems a bit abrupt.

The Nox theme is missing the score and story which makes it look a bit empty. The developer info is just the publisher info mirrored probably because the xml didn't have it in there, it would be better if that was accurate so it doesn't look like the two fields are the same. Just some small details I noticed.

I think it may be a good idea to add text for nested collections and have the video show an example of that (can't remember if one does currently). It's one of the best features of RFE imo and it's one of the most popular requests for other frontends.

You need to set list.includeMissingItems = true.

Remove the .conf extension from the launcher name in the "Mega Man X3 (USA).conf" so it's just "bsnesbalanced".

I didn't see any information related to what I'm about to propose but if this functionality already exists feel free to point and laugh at me

One of the things I think would be a good addition is a collection/menu for the playlists. It would be similar to any other menu where you could see all the playlists listed (with images for each). Having multiple playlists is great but without a menu for them having a bunch of playlists is a bit messy to navigate by just using the next/previous buttons. Genre playlists or something similar isn't really feasible at this point because having to scroll through 1 by 1 defeats the main purpose of having them, to be able to find a group of games quickly.

Again, apologies if this has already been implemented or requested. Thanks!

Thanks guys

I made something similar when I started to move my entire HS setup and I had a few people use it who I brainwashed to convert from HS. It allowed you to set the main settings.conf (the root, not the Main collection), define a global/template system settings.conf, and would batch create collections from a text file/list or your HS main menu.xml and edit the settings.conf to match the template options. Also had it auto populate the extensions per system by scanning the rom dir and it would generate an include.txt if there were any subdirs in the rompath (since RFE didn't support games in folders for disc based systems for example).

I still have a bunch of things to that I wanted to add/fix. Like editing options for individual systems, right now it's more of a batch add/conversion tool. It also doesn't move any media, I thought about adding that but since some of the media locations vary across systems/themes (box/cart art) I didn't bother. Although I suppose functionality could be added for xmls, logos and videos since they have static locations. Code definitely needs cleaning as well, I only intended to use it myself so there was initially no GUI as I just ran it from the IDE. When people wanted to use it I just added a GUI quickly for ease of use.

You're certainly not in the minority for having a wide range of systems, that's quite common. However, I think you are definitely in the minority for how you have your images/systems arranged. Not to say you're wrong or anything of course as it's a matter of preference.

I think if that's implemented at all it should be an option since performance will take a hit for it and like I mentioned I don't think it's a very common configuration. My hardware is plenty powerful as well but that doesn't mean I want to sacrifice any performance for features when possible, especially ones that I don't see as widely popular or necessary personally.

Updated Subject. Updated post 1 with screenshots of all the layouts.

Looks like the forum is cutting off half of the screenshot. It would probably be a better idea to have them in an imgur album and post a link to that so the images aren't cutoff and the page takes forever to load trying to load all those images.