Jfarro

Thankyou so much! I'll start digging into the plugins. I have actually done quite a bit of WFP/UWP with c#. I just wanted to know before I dug in if there was a better way.

Hi, I'm Joe, the guy behind Geektoolkit on youtube. I recently made this video about attract mode (This shows what I'm trying to do on launchbox) About 1:26 in I do a demo where I use a facial recognition camera to switch the game list and theme from a DC Comics theme to a Marvel based one. I did this in attract mode using a 'displays' plugin mod. I've decided to switch to Bigbox...I'd purchased it, and in the end it's really what I want. But now I want to find out how to do the same thing I did in attract mode in Big box. 1) I'd like to switch the theme without shutting it down and restarting it from either a keypress, a message, an API call...whatever I can. is there an extensability that would let me control it on that level? 2) I'd like to switch the game list as well...ideally without shutting it down, renaming xml files, and restarting it. I think I can do this one possibly with dynamic filters and keyboard presses which I can automate from my arduino or python (or c# even). 3) I'm wondering if I can also switch directly to a Platform. Say I want a keypress/event to go directly to NES, but another signal to take me directly to a Genesis/Megadrive platform. I'm wondering if someone's done this, if so please let me know. If not, but someone has an idea of where to start please let me know...I can do the research I'm just trying to save myself the initial stumbling around of the 'how'. My goal is to port the facial recognition system over, but also to have an NFC based arcade switcher where I can have my daughter scan an amiibo and have it show her game list, and then I scan a different one and it shows mine. Or I scan say a Ryu character and have it show fighting games. Thanks in advance. I'm hoping this is doable, as I'd love to contribute to this community.