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herbfargus
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The new one thats being discussed is attract mode:

SUGGESTION: attact-mode front-end as an alternative to emulationstation

though to me it looks a little more complex than emulationstation

Emulationstation theme documentation is here:

https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/blob/master/THEMES.md

You can look at this theme and the accompanying xmls to get an idea of layouts without metadata:

https://github.com/HerbFargus/es-theme-carbon-nometa

For example you could use something like this section (https://github.com/HerbFargus/es-theme-carbon-nometa/blob/master/gb/theme.xml#L92-L97) to play with where pictures are placed/ adding new images to the gamelist page for each system, etc. just takes a bunch of trial and error. It’s easiest to start with a theme that is finished and then just ammend it for your own needs.