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You need to pass it the file path of the image file for Dreamcast, not just the name like you're currently doing.

Replace %ITEM_NAME% with "%ITEM_FILEPATH%"

Don't use the one from hyperlist. Some of the ones included in the retrofe install have extra info you'll lose. By default the meta line in the settings is commented out because it will automatically use the hyperlist one.

Unless something has changed recently those comments about the meta setting aren't in the default settings files. Are you using some sort of preconfigured install?

Yes, separate the extensions with commas

If the layout change is causing the crash you probably have the layout files in the wrong directory or have the wrong name set in the settings.conf file.

Looking at your original settings.conf you have the name as "GLaDOS", which isn't the default name of the layout when extracted ("GLaDOS-16x9"). So if you didn't manually rename the directory to "GLaDOS" it will crash RetroFE on startup.

It's all just guessing without a log to check against and the minimal info you provided though.

http://www.retrofe.nl/wiki/doku.php

The include file should be described in the Collections section, I think.

Yeah, I understand now. At first I thought you may have been trying to split out the actual rom files from the main set into individual directories.

So you'll need to generate and use include.txt files for each one of you want to keep all the roms in the same directory but only show the specific ones for each group.

He probably just didn't understand what you're asking for and wanted better clarification. I don't understand what you're asking either, tbh.

Cool, thanks. No rush of course, it was just something I threw together when I was bored the other day.

I figured this situation may have not been taken into account since it's a rather niche thing but wanted to ask in case it was user error on my part. Although it would also benefit those who want to have collections based upon "Top xxxx Games" lists across multiple platforms and have them sorted in ascending or descending order based upon ranking.

I'm assuming you'll use the _%collectionName%: %gameName% syntax in order to avoid naming conflicts across collections? That will be good for my use case since I need to know the collection name a game belongs to for when I need to delete a game from the .sub file after reaching the max game count I have set. That would save me from having to maintain that info in another file.