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-The **‘All Games’**tab shows all the games you have in your database. Here you can also edit game information or add several other options.+The **‘All Games’** tab shows all the games you have in your database. Here you can also edit game information or add several other options.
  
 The main portion of this tab is for storing metadata related to the game or table in question, such as Screen Name, year and number of players (All information that can be displayed in the Popper frontend). The main portion of this tab is for storing metadata related to the game or table in question, such as Screen Name, year and number of players (All information that can be displayed in the Popper frontend).
  
-Pay attention to the **‘****Media Search****’**field, here you can type in a string for media to match for this table, appended by an asterix (*).+Pay attention to the **‘Media Search’** field, here you can type in a string for media to match for this table, appended by an asterisk (*).
  
-Let's say you have two tables called ‘foo’ and ‘foobar**** and the media for ‘foo’ is fully populated. You want to use the same media for ‘foobar’, without the hassle to drag and drop all the same media to that table as well.+Let's say you have two tables with filenames ‘foo.vpx’ and ‘foobar.vpx’ and the media for ‘foo’ is fully populated. You want to use the same media for ‘foobar’, without the hassle to drag and drop all the same media to that table as well.
  
-Then you only need to put ‘fo*’ in the media search field for ‘foobar’ for it to display all the same front end media as 'foo’. Just make the minimum string long enough, not to match more media than is wanted.+Then you only need to put ‘fo*’ in the media search field for ‘foobar’ for it to display all the same front end media as 'foo’. Just make the minimum string long enough, as not to match more media than is wanted / required.
  
 ** <font inherit/inherit;;#e74c3c;;inherit>Note</font>  ‘Keep Displays ON’ **  = You can enter what displays you want a game to use. **0** =Topper,** 1** =DMD,** 2** =BG (BackGlass), Leave Blank for default of EMU.\\ ** <font inherit/inherit;;#e74c3c;;inherit>Note</font>  ‘Keep Displays ON’ **  = You can enter what displays you want a game to use. **0** =Topper,** 1** =DMD,** 2** =BG (BackGlass), Leave Blank for default of EMU.\\
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