Jump to content
LaunchBox Community Forums

Setup Genres in Platforms?


latin625

Recommended Posts

Hi,  I know that LB offers a sort by genre and such, but can you sort by trackball, shooter, fighter, and have that available as a platform on the wheel?  So, what I mean is...  Can the when that shows ARCADE, DREAMCAST,etc...  ALso have a TRACKBALL, PLATFORM, SHOOTER, SPORTS, CASINO, and when you click on it, have it show the respective games? 

My OLD HS setup had that on the wheel and would love to see that on LB. Maybe I can do it myself with what is available now?  I see CUSTOM FILTERS. But is that the only way?

TRACKBALL GAMES (Missle command, WOrld Bowing, etc.)

SPORTS (2020 BASEBALL, 10 Yard Fight, 2 on 2 HOCKEY, NBA JAMS, RUN AND GUN)

Thanks!

Edited by latin625
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Im looking to do something quite similair. With the press of a button in bigbog i want custom filters to show: So lets say i press Y on my xbox controller a list pops up with different categories:

Wiimote games

4-8 player games

Online fps games

Fan made games

Laser gun games

 

Any tips how this can be done?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 4 months later...

One problem with this is that the metadata for most games just doesn't have these details. For example, the Arcade game "Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara" only has these following details:

Genre: Fighting; Role-Playing
Play mode: Multiplayer

When in fact it should have tags such as Beat'em Up, 1-4 players, Couch Co-Op, etc.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 5 months later...

Yeah I split all my games into Genre Playlists, I posted a video about it a few posts back, it was a hell of a job, my library is massive so it took days because of missing Genre info. They really need to do some work on the Genre titles for the Data base. A while back I saw a guy had posted playlists split into Genres. I'm thinking of adding my xml.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...