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      Maddocks
      last edited by

      Hi All,
      I have build a cabinet. I have a couple of questions somebody may be able to help me out with?

      1. When I exit a game, is it possible to go back to the main carousel instead of the current game list.
      2. Is it possible to have the carousel only to list the games. ie, I have 2 SNES games and 7 Genesis games. It would be nice just to be able to toggle left & right to select only the small selection of games rather than the consoles.

      I hope this makes sense and sorry if these questions have already been asked

      Regards
      maddocks

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      • ClydeC
        Clyde
        last edited by

        Greetings and welcome to the forum. :)

        Frankly, I don't quite understand your endeavour. You can simply switch between game lists with right and left without using the main carousel at all. And why do you want to return to the carousel if you were happy to move from game list to game list directly?

        I guess I may just misunderstand you … :)

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        • mituM
          mitu Global Moderator @Maddocks
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          @maddocks You can configure ES to start directly in one of the 2 systems, so when ES starts you'll be presented with the list of games in that system. Then you can switch to the neighbouring systems with left/right (as @Clyde said).

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          • mattrixkM
            mattrixk
            last edited by

            Following on from what @mitu said, if you put all 9 games into a single custom collection, you could then configure ES to start in that custom collection.

            NB: I have no idea how to do either of those things, it's just an idea for you to look in to.

            My ES themes: MetaPixel | Spare | Io | Indent

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            • ClydeC
              Clyde @mattrixk
              last edited by

              @mattrixk said in Beginner Carousel and Games question..:

              put all 9 games into a single custom collection

              That's the easy part: Either create the collection manually as it is described in the Docs or create an automatic collection with all games in it via Main Menu > Game Collection Settings > Automatic Game Collections > All Games.

              you could then configure ES to start in that custom collection.

              I don't know if that's possible. In Main Menu > UI Settings > Start On System, I can only choose the Collections category itself, not a particular collection in it. But I may miss something.

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator @Clyde
                last edited by

                @clyde said in Beginner Carousel and Games question..:

                But I may miss something.

                When you have the 'Sort Custom Collections and Systems' set, it's possible to choose to start on a custom collection. Here's some screenshots - I have a Megaman custom collection set (obviously) and I can choose to start with it.

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                • ClydeC
                  Clyde @mitu
                  last edited by Clyde

                  @mitu Thanks, I didn't know that (and frankly, it's not intuitive to me that a sorting option does enable certain startup entries).

                  Alas, it doesn't work on my Pi 3b with Retropie 4.4. I did like you said, but my four custom collections don't show up in Start On System. Their names are varied, from single short words to multiple words with whitespaces and special characters (namely '), so it shouldn't be a naming issue.

                  I'm updating all packages at the moment to see if that changes anything. But my last update wasn't long ago, not more than 1-2 months.

                  That said, I noticed one thing that may help @Maddocks. The automatic collection "All Games" shows up in the main carousel (didn't know that either) and thus, can be chosen in Start On System regardless of the sorting option.

                  edit: Just some typos.

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                  • mituM
                    mitu Global Moderator @Clyde
                    last edited by

                    @clyde said in Beginner Carousel and Games question..:

                    I'm updating all packages at the moment to see if that changes anything. But my last update wasn't long ago, not more than 1-2 months.

                    Eh, it might be because I'm running the -dev branch of ES, I forgot about that.

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                    • ClydeC
                      Clyde @mitu
                      last edited by

                      @mitu :)

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                      • ClydeC
                        Clyde @mitu
                        last edited by

                        @mitu By the way, how do you display your VRAM on screen? Is it a feature of ES (dev) or what other tool do you use? It may be handy sometimes, e.g. in case of problems with graphics-heavy themes like recently.

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                        • mituM
                          mitu Global Moderator @Clyde
                          last edited by

                          @clyde said in Beginner Carousel and Games question..:

                          By the way, how do you display your VRAM on screen?

                          Toggle the Show FPS setting in ES.

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                          • ClydeC
                            Clyde @mitu
                            last edited by

                            @mitu Thanks, I couldn't look for it at the time of my post because ES was updating from source. Apropos and FYI, even the source version doesn't have the feature to start in a collection, yet. But its existence in the dev version is a hopeful sign that it will come to the stable version eventually. :)

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                            • mituM
                              mitu Global Moderator @Clyde
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                              @clyde You can install the -dev version from the Experimental packages section, it compiles much quickly than the stable version. You can also switch back if you like.

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                              • ClydeC
                                Clyde @mitu
                                last edited by

                                @mitu Thanks for the tip. I don't need the missing function to start into a custom collection myself, but maybe its helpful for @Maddocks.

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