@TMNTturtlguy yea i dont know much about ES...i did do my own theme though..i will share later during the day...but i heard that you can remove that annoying white menu bar now....with a carousel update ...
I don't think the played counter is located in a file of atract mode itself.
The gamelist.xml files used to display art/video/metadata contains a tag for that:
<playcount>
if there is no tag in a <game> section, this means you never played it -> play count = 0
so to reset it loop over the gamelist.xml file for each system and remove the <playcount> tag
@tonberryhunter I've not used AM and know little about it technically. However if it is installed as an ES theme would be then I imagine you would need to have a copy of it in /home/pi/.emulationstation as this is where RetroPie looks for themes first. I learned the hard way that themes in /etc/emulationstation/themes are overwritten freshly when RetroPie is updated. I lost my custom theme which I had foolishly failed to backup. I don't know if AM is the same, just a thought.