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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 / Re: Elegante theme showcase [example video and screenshots] [WIP]

« on: January 26, 2022, 01:39:36 AM »

A lot of themes have the option for both, you need to just download something and try it, have a look at the layout options and then you can choose the options that you want.

Well there is nothing to download in this case, because the author hasn't yet shared the theme, so I'm just asking...

The majority of the times, you can try different themes without breaking your set up, you can set up more than one AM directory so you could have the following

That is definitely a good idea! The whole AM directory is ~300Mb so rather than messing up the current setup it's better to try something new on a different "installation".

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Themes / Re: Elegante theme showcase [example video and screenshots] [WIP]

« on: January 26, 2022, 12:47:37 AM »

Does/will this theme support video snaps, or only static screenshots?

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

« on: January 25, 2022, 11:57:26 PM »

I use all my emulators on a PC, not a cabinet, so usability is my real need...

For PC I prefer mediacenter like themes.
This kind of themes scales well from little to big game collection for any kind of emulated platform.

Hyperspin-wheel oriented themes are not ideal for search e large collection and require
a lot of assets 

I use the excellent ArcadeFlow theme
http://www.mixandmatch.it/AF/

Another theme could be Grid Game Station
http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=898.0

Thank you! The second one is actually pretty neat... I am more used to having a simple list of titles, but I am now also considering this other option of showing the covers.

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

« on: January 23, 2022, 05:01:51 AM »

See I make one suggestion, and you go for two different ones.

That's a good suggestion thanks! Those two I mentioned I had already found (and I was still typing my answer while you posted yours).

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

« on: January 23, 2022, 04:10:42 AM »

If you have not done already you should check this thread out http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=481.0

Yes, and I have found at least two that look very close to what I wish, and in fact I might just use one of these:

ioflat
http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=2481.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9sxjBnx_1k

RetroDiction
http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=3199.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IDcp_46agM

I like the generous lists lengths of both and their support for video snaps (which is quite essential for me, considering the time that I have spent to create hundreds of those for EmuMovies). The ioflat multiple preview videos feature is a bit too much for me but I think it can be disabled. I prefer the system menus of ioflat, but the layout with smaller video preview and more information of RetroDiction. Otherwise both look absolutely fantastic and I can definitely forget about the minutia

Anyway if you know of similar themes, I'll be happy to hear

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

« on: January 23, 2022, 03:45:05 AM »

it is best to try the ones that are already done, and in most cases, read the forum to make your own.  good luck

Yes I want to try an existing theme, but there are so many to search through! That's why I am asking for recommendations, in case someone is already using a theme similar to what I am looking for

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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!