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Genre based Big Box


coreymiller

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Hello everyone, so I have been revisiting my arcade cabinet front end after some time just enjoying it. I have always liked that in Big Box you could set the default view to be based on Genre's rather than Platform. In this the arcade cabinet becomes more what I prefer my arcade cabinet style to be like. Focused on the games and what type of game you want to play.
 

I mean the current mechanism works, but I wonder if over the time I have been using this feature if now we have the ability to enhance that view in the themes. I am even willing to customize it but I was hoping for some guidance before I try to do what might be not allowed. Right now the view is a list, with "recents" at the bottom and no image. In the look department its very basic. I would love to turn that view into a wheel with a video snap for each genre. When the feature was first introduced this was not possible. Has anything changed here?

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So, I've had a similar want with my setup, but for game series. My solution was to utilize the Platform Category menu and created Playlists/Categories for the game fields that are supported less than platforms and playlists, and it works pretty well! You can add the full range of media and videos to each playlist you make and customize the hierarchy on the page as much as you want. See below (my category isn't as fleshed out yet)example1.thumb.PNG.9469d0379cc9a9541a0b3cfbf9a5259d.PNG     example2.thumb.PNG.69444000d190cecbf4628fbcf9744b5a.PNG

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