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Themes / Any theme which supports a view that aggregates ALL available games?

« on: January 26, 2022, 01:45:24 AM »

I am taking a look at lots of themes (but still only a fraction of them) and just realized that I haven't yet noticed any that show a view with every game from every system at once.

I can imagine this may not be a particularly wanted feature, when the majority of retrogamers probably have many thousands of games, which would make such aggregate view very uncomfortable to even browse. I only have a few hundreds games however, so it might be useful for me, even better if there were filters applicable to such view, to dynamically hide games not matching a certain tag (like genre, year, etc).

Do you know any theme with this feature?

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Themes / Please help me find the right Theme for my needs

« on: January 22, 2022, 09:03:43 AM »

Hello everyone, I am new to Attract Mode, and I am overwhelmed by the sheer amount of themes available... I am in need of suggestions before my analysis-paralysis makes me quit before I even start using Attract Mode!

I don't think I actually have a lot of requirements, but generally speaking I am looking for themes that don't have too much graphics going on in the background. I have been using GameEx for longer than a decade because I could not stand all the animations, transitions and "aggressive" graphics of more popular frontends such as Hyperspin. I use all my emulators on a PC, not a cabinet, so usability is my real need, I don't need the WOW factor

I already have a fair collection of emulators (about 30) so first of all I definitely needs a theme meant for multiple emulators, which means a two-level menus where the first menu level shows the list of emulated systems, and after choosing a system the second menu level shows the list of games available for that.

I like having only the following on the screen at any time:

- a long enough list of emulators/games (at least 15-20 titles shown at once)
- a small (for example 1/9 of the screen) video snap area
- a small area for the game cover or logo
- an area for the game description (scrollable if necessary)

Nice-to-have features (but not necessary) would be:

- games filters (genre, year, number of players) that can be activated inside each emulator's games list AND/OR globally (i.e. to show all games of a certain genre, year etc from all emulated systems)
- a search bar to quickly find a game by name

Note that I already have assets like cover scans and video snaps for all my games, so I don't need to scrape for them, and it would be best if the theme doesn't have a "scraping button" that might overwrite my assets.

Hope you can help me out!