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drmechxico:
I set up retroFE on my father in laws laptop. He absolutely loves it. Thing is he only cares for some arcade games and some specific genres of games. This led to me having the idea of having a theme with multiple submenus.
Or I do not know if this could be achieved through custom lists maybe.

An example would be: Main Menu->Nintendo->NES->Shooter->1943

Pieter Hulshoff:
This setup could be achieved in two ways:
1. If each sub menu level can have a common look, you can create a single theme with multiple menu layers.
2. If not, you can give each sub menu a completely different look by creating a new layout for each submenu, matching the structure of your collections.

The collections themselves are merely a matter of creating collections for each sub menu, and add a menu.txt for each (except for the actual game list). You could create sub collections for the end game lists, and thus keep all your art and roms for each collection (e.g. NES) together.

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drmechxico:
How do I go about making multiple menu layers?

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

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Pieter Hulshoff:

--- Quote from: drmechxico on December 24, 2016, 11:57:05 PM ---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.

drmechxico:
Thanks for all your help Pieter. Here is what I got so far.
I've modified ryuuji's RAW theme.(just moving the reloadable images where I want them)
Ive created collections for SNES Fighters and Shooters.
Ive put .sub files in each. The main menu works. Each of the Console menus work.
But when I go into the Submenu for shooters or fighters, I get the list (no artwork), But I can hear the preview video.
When backing out into the SNES list, it works, but the previous list never leaves the screen.

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