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Gamelist Views
There are six gamelist views available by default: All games and Favorites 1-5. These cannot be edited or removed.
It is possible to create custom gamelist views by pressing the “...” button to the left of the gamelist view dropdown box. A gamelist view has a name and two sets of filters for different game fields.
The first set includes filters that must match, the second set contains filters where at least one must match. This corresponds to AND and OR conditions for the db query that is generated for the view.
Example: To create a gamelist view that lists all C64 games where title starts with “a” or “b” you create a filter “System contains text 64” in the “must match” set and two filters “title begins with text a” and “title begins with text b” in the "any" filter set.
In the UI there is a special field named "View tag" which can be used for creating gamelist views for games where other fields doesn't match in a good way. The View tag value is only used by the game manager and is not exported or used in a carousel.
Example: GB64 contains more that 1100 Boulder Dash clones. Many of those uses custom graphics. If you want to create a gamelist view for Boulder Dash games that only uses original graphics you could add a custom value to the View Tag field and create a filter that uses that. Mark all games with the same tag to have it shown in the gamelist view.
There are five different favorite views where you can add any game you like. There are separate menu options in the "Edit" menu for tagging/un-tagging a game as a favorite (shortcuts are CTRL+F1, CTRL+F2 etc.). A game can only be tagged to one favorite gamelist view at a time. The favorite gamelist views are useful when you want to choose specific games manually for a carousel. Games marked as favorites will appear in other views also if the filters matches.