Launchbox Platform Categories -> Platforms -> Playlists and how they appear in Bigbox

[DRS_4]

Hi,

Although i am a relatively experienced user of front ends for my arcade machines i recently decided to upgrade one of them to Bigbox.

The idea was to have an arcade machine that plays the full mame set and also a small selection of 8 bit consoles.

Within Launchbox  i have created two categories, Arcade and Consoles, and within them i have two platforms each as follows,

Arcade (Category)

• Classic Arcade
  • Playlists (The standard generated ones, 2-Player etc..etc..)
• Teknoparrot
  • Playlists

Consoles (Category)

• NES
  • Playlists
• Master System
  • Playlists

My question is can this hierarchy be represented in Bigbox?

By that i mean my start up wheel would have the two category choices (Arcade or Consoles). The next wheel would then have my platforms related to the previously chosen Category. Then a third wheel would have the related Playlists, and then finally the games.

What i am finding is (im using Unified Redux by the way)  there seems to be only 2 levels of wheels with playlists sometimes appearing with platforms or not appearing at all (depending on how i have been fiddling around in Launchbox).

Is it possible to achieve what i require in Bigbox or is this a limitation of the system?

To me this seems like it would be quite a common requirement so apologies if this has been asked before.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Darren 

 

 

[skizzosjt]

yea you set Big Box to default to "platform categories"

it will be in Big Box options menu

 

[DRS_4]

Hi,

I had tried this before and it didn't seem to work, however i give it another try just now and amazingly it worked! I have absolutely no idea what i have done in between then and now for it to make a difference. Thank you so much for your reply, if you hadn't sent it i don't think i would have ever tried it again.

Cheers