Genre virtual systems gather games by the normalised genre stored in their metadata. That genre comes from scraping and can still be edited game by game from the metadata editor.
They only appear if you enable them in MAIN MENU > SYSTEM-LISTS & GAMELISTS SETTINGS > VIRTUAL SYSTEMS PER GENRE, genre by genre. Inside a theme they behave like any other system: a folder named as below, containing a theme.xml. They all match the virtual condition.
Genres are hierarchical: a "parent" genre (for instance auto-action) gathers games carrying only that broad genre, while each sub-genre (auto-actionplatformer…) is a separate system.
| Genre | Theme folder |
|---|---|
| Action (All) | auto-action |
| Platform | auto-actionplatformer |
| Platform Shooter | auto-actionplatformshooter |
| First Person Shooter | auto-actionfirstpersonshooter |
| Shoot'em Up | auto-actionshootemup |
| Shoot with Gun | auto-actionshootwithgun |
| Fighting | auto-actionfighting |
| Beat'em All | auto-actionbeatemup |
| Infiltration | auto-actionstealth |
| Battle Royale | auto-actionbattleroyale |
| Rythm & Music | auto-actionrythm |
| Adventure (All) | auto-adventure |
| Textual Adventure | auto-adventuretext |
| Graphical Adventure | auto-adventuregraphics |
| Visual Novel | auto-adventurevisualnovels |
| Interactive Movie | auto-adventureinteractivemovie |
| Real Time 3D Adventure | auto-adventurerealtime3d |
| Survival | auto-adventuresurvivalhorror |
| RPG (All) | auto-rpg |
| Action RPG | auto-rpgaction |
| MMORPG | auto-rpgmmo |
| Dungeon Crawler | auto-rpgdungeoncrawler |
| Tactical RPG | auto-rpgtactical |
| JRPG | auto-rpgjapanese |
| Party based RPG | auto-rpgfirstpersonpartybased |
| Simulation (All) | auto-simulation |
| Build & Management | auto-simulationbuildandmanagement |
| Life Simulation | auto-simulationlife |
| Fishing & Hunting | auto-simulationfishandhunt |
| Vehicle Simulation | auto-simulationvehicle |
| Science Fiction Simulation | auto-simulationscifi |
| Strategy (All) | auto-strategy |
| eXplore, eXpand, eXploit & eXterminate | auto-strategy4x |
| Artillery | auto-strategyartillery |
| Auto-battler | auto-strategyautobattler |
| Multiplayer Online Battle Arena | auto-strategymoba |
| Real Time Strategy | auto-strategyrts |
| Turn Based Strategy | auto-strategytbs |
| Tower Defense | auto-strategytowerdefense |
| Wargame | auto-strategywargame |
| Sports (All) | auto-sports |
| Racing | auto-sportracing |
| Sport Simulation | auto-sportsimulation |
| Competition Sport | auto-sportcompetitive |
| Fighting/Violent Sport | auto-sportfight |
| Pinball | auto-pinball |
| Board game | auto-board |
| Casual game | auto-casual |
| Digital Cards | auto-digitalcard |
| Puzzle & Logic | auto-puzzleandlogic |
| Multiplayer Party Game | auto-party |
| Trivia | auto-trivia |
| Casino | auto-casino |
| Multi Game Compilation | auto-compilation |
| Demo from Demo Screne | auto-demoscene |
| Educative | auto-educative |