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Any option to change to another category, platform, playlist with a single button press?


The Retro Carrot

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I'm currently setting up a cabinet with a rotating screen, I've made a vertical view for my theme and can just press a button to switch views. What I want is to have a vertical and horizontal category for my games, and with 1 button press it changes to the other category. These will be the only 2 categories on my system. 

Is there an existing function that could accomplish this task? Thank you.

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Under the impression there is not a way for a single press to do that. you can select browsing options through the Big Box menu and/or you can assign hotkeys to change to one of those browsing options. for ex, press some button to view by genre, or some other button to view by categories. but you will then still need to select which genre or category after that hotkey. so I would imagine you would want to make browsing by categories your default so Big Box boots into that. then users can select either vertical or horizontal and then play games. if they need to go from one category to the other they will need to hit a back button to go up one selection in the tree from games > categories to select whether vertical or horizontal. I suppose they could also use the hotkey to return to categories to select either category that way, but that is still two presses. I don't think it can be done with less than two.

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Thanks for the responses. I found a simple solution that works in my case. Just created a confirm orientation screen in the platform view that just shows some graphics and up down joystick symbols. Seems elegant enough and gave me a chance to color match graphics to my cabinet. 

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