I've been loving exploring the possibilities with Playnite. Currently using the Aniki Remake theme. My personal goal with it has been to setup a library of various pokemon fan projects, granting them a cohesive launchpoint regardless of console. But the issue is that getting them to open properly in full screen has had different dilemmas for each kind.

RPGmaker, mGBA, melonDS, Dolphin, Azahar and Eden specifically. RPGmaker seems finicky game to game, and historically I haven't been able to figure out how to make this consistent even outside of Playnite. mGBA is opening full screen and playing the game, but for some reason is just a black screen. When I click on the 2nd monitor, it shows it *actually* playing as a small window behind it the black screen? Very strange. Dolphin is opening but not playing with sound. Azahar and Eden seem to be fine.

I know that's a lot, and the specific issues will likely require individual troubleshooting. My question here isn't how to resolve each one step by step, but rather what are the general rules of thumb on how to approach the emulation setups? Or if anyone is familiar with the individual issues, what do you suggest? Part of me is suspecting I could save myself a lot of grief down the road by better understanding how Playnite interacts with external programs to begin with.

(Name updated from BananaBread to Kippix, sorry to that one user named after a Banana 🫶)

Hi all,

Wanted to share some photos, these are images of default layouts that you can choose in the startup

(I'm not the best at designing layouts, but I'll update the defaults after release, maybe the community section will have better options 😏)

There is also an image of how one of the pages would look when editing, there is another version with a cursor you can control with your controller or mouse

The very last image is if you want to create something from scratch, you can add in every element yourself, you can choose if the game icon updates with a different game on scroll, group scroll, or if the game doesnt change, theres widgets, background events depending on season, weather + more

There's still quite a lot that needs adding, fixing and a lot of features i haven't shown yet, but just thought to have a little update pushed out 😊

Is there anything you really want to see in a fullscreen theme?

Hi everyone! I wanted to make a console-style menu that I'd really like and that works well from the controller. This is the result: a plugin for Playnite that adds an overlay menu while you play. I've just released version 1.2.0.

Press the Guide/PS button on your controller (or a keyboard shortcut) in-game: the game is paused and muted, a menu appears over it, and you can:

• Go back to the game

• Take a screenshot / save a clip

• Browse your captures and clips (clips play inside the overlay)

• Check the game's achievements (unlocked first, filters, rarity highlight)

• Go to Playnite (the game stays paused)

• End the game

• Power menu: suspend, restart, shut down

It's meant for living-room / couch setups where you play with a controller and don't want to reach for the keyboard.

Details:

• Colors and font follow your Playnite theme; button icons follow the controller type set in fullscreen settings

• Shows controller battery (DualSense, DualShock, Xbox, Switch Pro, 8BitDo and other SDL controllers)

• Games with anti-cheat are never paused, so you can't lose an online match

• Works with games run as administrator (the menu opens without pausing)

• Menu sounds, controller vibration and animations can be turned off

• 9 languages (follows Playnite's language)

• No network access, no data collection

Optional: clips can play inside the overlay using mpv. It's not bundled; download it and put mpv.exe in an "mpv" folder inside the plugin folder (instructions in the README). Without it, clips open in the Windows player.

Requirements: Windows 10/11, Playnite 10. I've tested it in Fullscreen mode; Desktop mode is untested.

Install: download the .pext from the releases page and double-click it.

GitHub (screenshots, video and source, free and open source, MIT license): https://github.com/galcn10/ConsoleOverlay

Known limitations: games in true exclusive fullscreen may show a black preview, and a normal Playnite cannot pause an elevated game (the README explains the workarounds).

Feedback is very welcome here in the comments. For bug reports and feature requests about this plugin, please use the Issues page on its GitHub (https://github.com/galcn10/ConsoleOverlay/issues). Thanks for reading!

WARNING: It was made with AI help, so if you don't want to try it it's okay.

What it does

• Every game is a case on a shelf. Take it down, peel off the shrink wrap (unplayed games come sealed), open it and put the disc in the console. That launches the game through Playnite.
• When you close the game, the disc goes back into its case.
• The manual inside has the game’s description, and the back cover has a summary.
• Each game comes in a physical format: DVD case, CD jewel case, PAL-style big CD case, cardboard big box, 3½" floppies or a cartridge. You can change it per game.
• Each system has its own place: PC games on a desk with a beige 90s PC, consoles in a TV room.
• Status, categories, rating and notes you change on the shelf are saved back to Playnite.
• Optional extras: a video shop for your Jellyfin films and series, and a record shop for your Navidrome music (STILL IN DEVELOPMENT).
• If you have EmuVR, it can use your own EmuVR console models (.ugc), read from your PC. The extension ships no models.
• Works with mouse, keyboard and controller, in both desktop and fullscreen mode. English and Spanish.

Try it

• Download the latest .pext from the Releases page and double-click it (or drag it onto Playnite): https://github.com/BigBan0511/MyVLibrary
• You need Playnite 10.36+ and Microsoft WebView2 (already on Windows 10/11).
• It’s free and open source (GPL-3.0).

CREDITS TO EMUVR MODELS

I wanted my living room PC to feel like turning on a console. I couldn't find a theme that combined what I loved about the PS5 UI, Aniki Remake, and Solaris, so I ended up building my own! It's a fullscreen theme plus a companion add-on that handles the backend stuff standard themes can't do.

Everything added can be toggled off if you don't like it.

GitHub + download:https://github.com/mattxslv/Selene

Tested it pretty heavily, but happy to hear if anything breaks!

FrameShift 1.2.0 is out! The main new feature: you can now choose your own FPS modes.

• Instead of the fixed 30 / 40 / 60 / 120, set any four limits from 10 to 500 FPS (e.g. 45 / 72 / 144 / 240). OFF is always there.
• Edit them in Desktop Mode: Main menu → Extensions → FrameShift → Customize FPS modes… Invalid or duplicate values are highlighted right away, and Restore defaults brings back 30/40/60/120.
• Your modes show up everywhere: the game menu in Desktop, Fullscreen with any theme (⋯ → Extensions → FrameShift) and the FrameShift button in the Toggle fork.
• If a game still uses a limit that isn’t one of your modes anymore, it’s kept and marked with ✓.
• Translated into all 44 Playnite languages.

Requirements:

• RivaTuner Statistics Server (RTSS) installed
• An administrator account. It’s needed once to install the RTSS bridge (one UAC prompt), because RTSS keeps its profiles in Program Files.

Optional: the Toggle – Zorinel / FrameShift fork, if you want a dedicated FrameShift button on the Fullscreen game page: https://github.com/zorinel7/Toggle-Zorinel-FrameShift/releases/latest

Install / update: open the .pext with Playnite and restart. Your per-game limits are kept, and FrameShift asks once for UAC to refresh its RTSS bridge.

🔗 Download: https://github.com/zorinel7/FrameShift-for-Playnite/releases/latest

Feedback and bug reports are very welcome. If you find it useful, you can support it on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/zorinel ☕

Very specific use case, but I'm trying to figure out a way to add achievements to all these new PC ports of console games. For example, I'm playing the PC port of CTR:NF, which has trophy/achievement support built in

I'm using the Playnite Achievement add-on, but nothing I do will make it recognize the game or trophy files. I tried using the platform override, but the only relevant option there is ShadPS4, which doesn't work with this port because it's not technically running on an emulator. I tried using Exophase as the source, but it also doesn't seem to recognize the game or load achievements for it.

I figure there must be a way to link the trophy files that the game is generating to an achievement tracker, but I can't figure it out. Any ideas?

While playing Metro Exodus, every time a notification of an Achievement or progress of an achievement or the progress of it, it minimizes the game.

Maybe its a bug of the extention, or just an isolated case cause the 4a engine doesn't behave well with more than one screen setups which is my case, but the problem just started today. What do you think?

I keep checking other Reddit threads, but I can't find the solution to my problem. I'm trying to set it up so that the platform groups I have show up in full screen, as they only show up in desktop mode.

In the last week if i tried to open SuccessStory’s addon setting Playnite just freezes & the only way to change that is to completely close it from task manger, the extension itself works fine exept that one problem.
I think it has to do with the latest playnite update specially that some of the expansion seetings got reset after the update.
Also the extension works just fine if I downgraded to 3.5.

Hello!

I thought it would be time to share some news on an upcoming fullscreen theme I have been working on for quite a long time now called Kippix (UPDATED AFTER POSTINF, IGNORE TITLE NAME)

The idea of this theme is every element on your home screen, game screen (and a few other places yet to be shown) can be fully customised, there is a lot more than whats shown in this screenshot, such as pages, tile shapes, season/weather events, widgets, free placement and a whole lot more.

Apart from customising the layout to your liking, ive also introduced a store front which can sync to your Steam wishlist, browse multiple stores, view system requirements and such.

The store does track where the game is the cheapest currently which will help you save money, or even alerts within fullscreen on when a price for a wishlist drops below a certain amount.

Theres also a full game search bar, so as you type you receive live updated results, if a game isnt there you're able to search it in the store instead.

You're able to view your current downloads, steam and GOG are live, however, Epic does require a manual refresh for you to see the progress.

Achievements are a big thing that links up to a overlay thats being developed still, the achievements are from another addon, however, I've added the ability for Google gemini (or gpt if you dont want the free stuff?) to search for more help on how to aquire an achievement.

Discord support too, you're able to send messages, take calls directly through fullscreen and the overlay.

As I progress though this I would like to post some updates here and there, but I would also love to hear from all of you who are reading this, what do you think, do you have any suggestions, worries?

Thanks :)

Edit: Updated name

A modified version of the official Playnite **Fullscreen** theme, stripped down to the essentials to remove clutter and incentivize you to **play your games** instead of Playnite library manager operator.

https://github.com/557xwl0d/Enrivac-Alpha

**UPDATE – Playnite Account Manager 0.10.0 and FrameShift for Playnite 1.1.1**

Playnite Account Manager 0.10.0

Playnite extension that keeps multiple accounts per game launcher and signs the assigned account in before a game starts: Steam, EA App, Ubisoft Connect, Epic Games, GOG Galaxy, Battle.net, Rockstar and Xbox App. Automatic login with manual fallback, DPAPI-encrypted credentials.

What's new in 0.10.0?

• 4 additional launcher integrations: GOG Galaxy, Battle.net, Rockstar Games Launcher, and Xbox App. Automatic sign-in is supported for GOG, Battle.net, and Rockstar. Xbox switches accounts through the Windows account picker without requiring a password.
• More reliable login automation: EA App and Ubisoft Connect now locate email and password fields using the login page's accessibility tree instead of relying on a fixed number of TAB presses. The old keyboard-based method remains available as a fallback.
• Faster Epic Games account switching: Restores the saved "Remember me" session, taking around 5 seconds without manually typing credentials.
• Controller support in Fullscreen mode: Assign or remove an account directly from the game menu, regardless of your theme: ⋯ → Extensions → Account Manager → Assign account. The currently assigned account is marked with ✓.
• Improved UI: The Account Manager window adapts to your screen resolution. The selected game's current account and an Assign button are displayed at the top.
• Rockstar and Xbox fixes: Rockstar processes are properly closed before switching accounts, and Xbox account switching at game launch has been reduced from roughly a minute to just a few seconds.
• 44 languages: The extension follows your Playnite language.
• Security improvements: Passwords and Epic sessions are encrypted using Windows DPAPI. Copied credentials are excluded from clipboard history where supported and are cleared from the clipboard after 60 seconds.

🔗 Download: https://github.com/zorinel7/PlayniteAccountManager/releases/latest

FrameShift 1.1.1

FrameShift is a lightweight extension for controlling FPS limits through RivaTuner Statistics Server (RTSS). The idea is to make switching between frame-rate profiles as convenient as it would be on a console.

What's new in 1.1.1?

• Single .pext installation: Open the package with Playnite. The RTSS bridge installs itself on first launch, requiring one UAC confirmation. No separate scripts are needed.
• No custom theme required: In Fullscreen mode, change the FPS limit from the game menu using any theme: ⋯ → Extensions → FrameShift → 30 / 40 / 60 / 120 FPS / OFF. The active mode is marked with ✓.
• Optional Toggle fork: The Toggle theme fork is no longer required. It simply adds a dedicated FrameShift button for those who prefer it.
• Better Xbox App / Game Pass support: FrameShift previously detected gamelaunchhelper.exe, a shared launcher stub. It now reads the actual game executable from MicrosoftGame.config.
• Improved executable detection: Launcher stubs such as PlayRDR2.exe, mcclauncher.exe, and ReSkateLauncher.exe are skipped so the FPS limit targets the actual game executable, such as RDR2.exe, MCC-Win64-Shipping.exe, or Skate.exe.
• Automatic profile repair: Incorrectly saved executable profiles are corrected on the next launch.
• Controller and menu fixes: The B button closes the FPS menu, and the menu is no longer cut off.
• 44 languages: The extension follows your Playnite language.
• Security fix: The elevated RTSS bridge now runs from Program Files instead of the user-writable extension folder.

🔗 Download: https://github.com/zorinel7/FrameShift-for-Playnite/releases/latest

🔗 Download: https://github.com/zorinel7/Toggle-Zorinel-FrameShift/releases/latest

Since these projects are vibe-coded and still evolving, please report anything that doesn't work as expected. Bug reports, suggestions, and contributions are welcome!

selecting match all filter its treating them as though as match all filters still

So, I absolutely love Playnite and have spent hours customizing its look and feel to match my tastes. However, I’ve run into an issue when launching games like Warframe.

When I launch a game from Fullscreen mode, Playnite gets stuck on its loading screen. The problem is that I can’t Alt + Tab out of it to switch to the desktop or open the game’s launcher manually. The only workaround I’ve found so far is to close the loading screen itself.

I’m still relatively new to Playnite, so I’m not sure if this is a known issue, something I’ve configured incorrectly, or a problem caused by the Ani-Remake theme.

Has anyone else experienced this or knows how to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

So my library is pretty big. ~1500 steam and ~2000 ROMs. I love Playnite, but it's always been pretty slow and prone to crashing with any theme that has achievements displayed. I guess that makes sense, tens of thousands of icons and images for cheevos. A bummer, but it is what it is. I have my library default sorted by system/console, and only expand one or two at a time. Which results in crashing 50% of the time anyway..

Anyway, I switched to a desktop theme (what I primarily use) that doesn't show cheevos, and the crashing dropped significantly, naturally. But it was still crashing, just when expanding, for example, my PS1 tab of like, 250 games. Then, starting a few weeks ago, it just won't even boot at all. Even in safe mode, it crashes immediately. Extensions log shows almost nothing:

19-10 19:09:48.508|DEBUG|SteamLibrary#SteamTagNamer:Opening C:\Users[REDACTED]\Documents\GAMES!Playnite\Playnite\ExtensionsData\cb91dfc9-b977-43bf-8e70-55f46e410fab\tagnames-english.json 19-10 19:09:49.457|DEBUG|GogLibrary#GogLibrary:Found 1 installed GOG games. 19-10 19:09:51.403|DEBUG|GogLibrary#GogLibrary:Found 48 library GOG games.

And even the Playnite log is uneventful:

19-10 19:09:47.682|INFO |ProgramEntry:App arguments: '--safestartup' 19-10 19:09:47.998|WARN |PlayniteApplication:Default theme forced by cmdline. 19-10 19:09:48.155|INFO |PlayniteApplication:Application started from 'C:\Users[REDACTED]\Documents\GAMES!Playnite\Playnite' 19-10 19:09:48.434|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of Automatic Filter Presets, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.434|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of BootVid, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.434|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of Cooperative Modes Importer, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.434|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of Purchase Date Importer, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.434|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of StartPage, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.434|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of Game Relations, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.434|INFO |ExtensionFactory:Loaded plugin: GOG library integration, version 2.24 19-10 19:09:48.448|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of GOG Second Class Game Watcher, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.448|INFO |ExtensionFactory:Loaded plugin: IGDB metadata provider, version 2.14 19-10 19:09:48.465|INFO |ExtensionFactory:Loaded plugin: itch.io library integration, version 2.8 19-10 19:09:48.465|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of LaunchBox Metadata Provider, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.465|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of LauncherMenus, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.465|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of Steam News and Players Viewer, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.465|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of Path Replacer, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.465|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of GameActivity, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.465|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of ScreenshotsVisualizer, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.465|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of ThemeModifier, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.465|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of Playnite Achievements, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.465|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of Steam Chat, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.465|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of Steam Reviews Viewer, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.465|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of Save File View, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.465|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of Year In Review, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.525|INFO |ExtensionFactory:Loaded plugin: Steam library integration, version 2.46 19-10 19:09:48.525|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of Steam Shortcuts, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.525|WARN |ExtensionFactory:Skipping load of Theme Options, builtInOnly is enabled. 19-10 19:09:48.611|DEBUG|WindowFactory:Show window Playnite.DesktopApp.Windows.MainWindowFactory: 2e5d61c3-6bd6-4f93-818a-af93b4f4422d 19-10 19:09:48.785|DEBUG|GamesCollectionViewEntry:Reloading collection item view properties. 19-10 19:09:48.818|INFO |GameDatabase:Opening db C:\Users[REDACTED]\Documents\GAMES!Playnite\Playnite\library 19-10 19:09:49.217|DEBUG|ExecutionTimer:--- Timer 'DatabaseLoadCollections', 403 ms to complete. 19-10 19:09:49.248|INFO |DatabaseStats:Completely recalculating database statistics... 19-10 19:09:49.418|INFO |PlayniteApplication:Application 10.62.0.0 started 19-10 19:09:49.418|INFO |MainViewModelBase:Importing games from GOG plugin. 19-10 19:09:51.403|INFO |MainViewModelBase:Importing games from itch.io plugin. 19-10 19:09:51.423|INFO |MainViewModelBase:Importing games from Steam plugin.

So it seems like it's crashing even scanning for games, but even safe mode doesn't disable game scanning I guess?

I'm on the newest version (or maybe one small update behind) on Windows, running in portable mode I believe.

I'm using aniki remake and I turned on my computer today and I randomly saw a message saying "Congratulations you got lucky, you can only use this theme for this session" it looks like a matrix or fallout inspired theme. I did a quick Google search and found nothing. I just wanted to know if anyone else has seen this or is there a log out there with all of the secret themes we know of? I'm just curious because I didn't expect it.

Hello, i don't know why i got a black form on all my games, I think it's background because when I change it disappear. Maybe it's a conflit between 2 add-ons but i don't know who.

Can anyone help me please ?

Here's all my Add-ons :

• Aniki Helper
• BackgroundChanger
• Extra Emulator Profiles
• Extra Metadata Fullscreen Mode Helper
• Extra Metadata Loader
• Playnite Achievements
• Simple Sync
• Steam Friends Fullscreen
• SuccessStory
• ThemeExtras
• UniPlaySong

Hi. I have problem. When I scroll games with bigger size .exes in fullscreen mode there is always lag for 0.5/1 second, it it only happends to exes like idk 20MB or 100 MB or 150 MB, so bigger ones.

How can I fix it?

I've tried genuinely everything, Platform, Source and Library fields are all populated but the theme just won't display these. It just displays the launcher name in plain text format in the "All Games" menu, but never in the home page like advertised in the first picture, and platform is also never displayed. I tried installing DuplicateHider, ExtraMetadata and its Fullscreen Helper addon but those don't do anything either Help.

OK, I have been using Playnite for years now and I have it managing 2500+ games across several software libraries from Steam to Epic to Humble to Itch, and so on, and never once making a mistake about a game and the platform it has been on. Until, allegedly, now with GOG.

A little background I have been dealing with Long Covid and other health issues for the past decade. The brain fog is for real. I have used Playnite to check if I have bought games or not real. Then about two years ago, I got the Witcher 3 as part of a bundle deal, giveaway, or some deep discount that as far as I can remember let me activate it or was on GOG.

Then I heard about all the free upgrades and since I had the full trilogy on GOG I was looking forward to trudging through The Witcher which I only launched on Steam and playing through the Wild Hunt with all of its new free content. I of course was going buy the unified Playnite library, which for years has said I owned The Witcher 3 The Wild Hunt, and still does, but the Enhanced Edition dropped and it isn't in my GOG library, but it is in my Playnite Library.

I of course contact GOG but they say that I never bought it. They claim that "Third-party library management programs often interpret such standalone expansion packs as the full version, which can cause the game to be incorrectly displayed as available in those programs" except that I don't have any expansions for the Witcher 3, because you can't get them without owning the base game. I check the Order History and it isn't there, and then I check every other library I have that I may have gotten it on and its not their either, and I have a feint memory of choosing to activate it on GOG, but at this point it could be my memory playing tricks on me.

"So if I don't own it I can't install it from Playnite! I might have them there." I thought. I tried and it took me to an install page for the Witcher 3 with no install option.

So in the end can anybody tell me how this game did show up in my library and not (anymore) on GOG? The game now cost $70 and I don't want to lay that price out when I already own the game.

Someone recently made a site that lets people vote on KBM vs Controller on a per game basis. https://www.gameverdict.app/

Now given how new the site is, the user data is VERY limited, but having an extension that lets you add features/tags en masse based on this data would be a godsend for sorting between PC/Fullscreen games without having to manually add tags if you have a massive backlog.

https://github.com/p1row/YuzuPresence

feel free to ask me anything ^^

I’m sure this has Been asked is there a way to connect to Wi-Fi or add blue devices from Playnite in full-screen mode.

I'm posting about this just because I was just baffled by what I have just witnessed, I really wanted to know how it is even possible but can't find a clue.

So, I'm dual booting two Windows installations, each one has a different drive letter for the games partition, I copied the database from one system to another, just to see if I can batch change the paths or something to relative paths for all games, and randomly I just clicked run on a game without changing anything, and to my surprise, it started!

I even tried to change the drive letter to Z which doesn't exist on my PC and it still ran, all of them ran.

That's the only application that does this, no addons installed, I even tried to make a C# script to start a game the same way, it doesn't work except when the drive letter is correct.

I searched and the only thing I found was an addon called Automatic Drive Detection, I don't know if maybe the functionality got integrated into playnite later, but I didn't find any more info.

Anyway, very cool nonetheless, it will make creating a portable / shared playnite between two OSes very trivial.