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Hi All, I'm working on the finishing touches of my cabinet, and running into an issue with custom groups that is driving me insane. I want to display the following custom groups in the menu: ! Favorite! Kid FriendlyEra 1 - Pre 1970Era 2 - 1970'sEra 3 - 1980'sEra 4 - Post 1990Make - BallyMake - GottliebMake - OriginalMake - SternSystem - FPSystem - VP 91System - VP 99System - VP 99 PhyModType - Elec-MechType - Non-PinballType - SS (no DMD)Type - SS (with DMD)This divides up the tables well, and through earlier (also unsuccessful) experimentation, I know that this will fit nicely on the screen and gives all the options I would really want. As you could probably guess from the "system" menus, I have configured 4 systems (Future pinball and 3 version of Visual Pinball). I have 1115 tables total. So, I've copied the 4 system databases to create the "System - X" custom databases, all the rest are created with custom groups. Each custom group maps to databases for each system, for example "! Favorite.xml" contains : <group name="! Favorite"> <database>Future Pinball\! Favorite</database> <database>Visual Pinball\! Favorite</database> <database>VP99\! Favorite</database> <database>VPMOD\! Favorite</database></group> Therefore, there are 4 + (14 x 4) = 60 custom databases. The issue that I'm running into is that not everything is showing up. Initially, it appeared that the VP99 related content was missing, so I spent a hellova long time trying to troubleshoot that to see if I had any errors with my VP99 config. However, everything appeared to be configured properly. Then, I noticed that the log file was showing that not all the custom databases were being loaded. Check out these attachments: lognew.txt logold.txt logold.txt - From this log, you can see the 4 main system databases loading, then it starts loading all the custom databases. First it loads the 15 custom databases for FP, then the 15 for VP 91, then gets to 11 databases for VP 99 PhyMod and stops. So, you can see that 4 "VP 99 PhyMod" custom databases do not load, and ALL 15 "VP99" custom databases do not load. 41 custom databases load, then it stops. lognew.txt - As an experiment, i deleted and removed the "Make - Original" database from the VP 99 PhyMod custom group (it was empty anyway... unfortunately the remaining databases are not empty). Now when you look at the list of custom databases that are loaded, it loads one at the end that it was unable to load before (VP 99 PhyMod, "Type - Elec-Mech"). Again, 41 custom databases load, then it stops. If my conclusion here is correct, it appears then that either a) There is some sort of memory limit that I am hitting into that halts the loading process, or b ) there is a limit to the number of custom databases that can be loaded (41?) Does this make any sense? Is there some way around this apparent limitation? Sorry for the long-winded description, hope I've explained that well. If you've managed to read this far you have my gratitude! Any help or insight that can be offered to solve this problem would be GREATLY appreciated!!! Would be glad to share any other relevant config info that might help solve or workaround this issue... Regards,dinodino