240p composite top portion is crooked.

edmaul69

none of these settings fixed my issue, but i really recommend this shader to square your pixels. in super mario bros. for the nes, the bushed would change as you ran across the screen. looked absolutely horrendous. this made it beautiful again.

Galaga

@edmaul69 Oh ok lol. It's weird that that same issue exists on both composite and HDMI (going to RGB).

Galaga

Ok so I tried a framebuffer of 480x272, and it was a weird widescreen aspect ratio. But once RetroPie starts to load, it went back to 320x240. I think RetroPie for some reason isn't using the overscan/framebuffer settings on config.txt (and yes I have overscan_scale=1).

cyperghost

frambuffer 420x272 is (was) just for SDTV 4,3" display

Galaga

@cyperghost Oops. Well I actually just found something strange. At the bottom of config.txt there is a second overscan_scale=1 that was commented. I'm going to uncomment it and see what happens.

EDIT: Nope didn't work :( I'm going to try removing the extra one.

Galaga

Yep that didn't work either. I have no clue what the hell is going on >:(

dankcushions

@galaga post your config.txt

Galaga

@dankcushions Ok, I'll figure out a way to do that after the Pi is done updating.

dankcushions

@galaga what did you update?

Galaga

@dankcushions Uh RetroPie and Raspbian through the RetroPie settings thingy.

Galaga

@dankcushions https://pastebin.com/5edLkeZh

dankcushions

@galaga if that's updated you to raspbian stretch, it's game over.

dankcushions

@galaga please use proper markup as per https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first - we can't read that properly

Galaga

@dankcushions Ok I'll reupload it.

Galaga

@dankcushions Edited it.

cyperghost

@Galaga Help! What a mess!
@dankcushions Sorry for getting into this thread :(

Disable all HDMI things at first!
A working config might be....

# For more options and information see
# http://rpf.io/configtxtreadme
# Some settings may impact device functionality. See link above for details

# uncomment if you get no picture on HDMI for a default "safe" mode
#hdmi_safe=1

# uncomment this if your display has a black border of unused pixels visible
# and your display can output without overscan
# disable_overscan=0

# uncomment the following to adjust overscan. Use positive numbers if console
# goes off screen, and negative if there is too much border
overscan_scale=1
overscan_left=10
overscan_right=10
overscan_top=-8
overscan_bottom=-4


# uncomment to force a console size. By default it will be display's size minus
# overscan.
#framebuffer_width=320
#framebuffer_height=240

# uncomment if hdmi display is not detected and composite is being output
#hdmi_force_hotplug=1

# uncomment to force a HDMI mode rather than DVI. this can make audio work in
# DMT (computer monitor) modes
#hdmi_drive=2

# uncomment to increase signal to HDMI, if you have interference, blanking, or
# no display
#config_hdmi_boost=4

# uncomment for composite PAL in 4:3
sdtv_mode=2
sdtv_aspect=1

#uncomment to overclock the arm. 700 MHz is the default.
#arm_freq=800

# Uncomment some or all of these to enable the optional hardware interfaces
#dtparam=i2c_arm=on
#dtparam=i2s=on
#dtparam=spi=on

# Uncomment this to enable the lirc-rpi module
#dtoverlay=lirc-rpi

# Additional overlays and parameters are documented /boot/overlays/README

# Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835)
dtparam=audio=on

# NOOBS Auto-generated Settings:
#hdmi_force_hotplug=1
gpu_mem_256=128
gpu_mem_512=256
gpu_mem_1024=256

disable_audio_dither=1

Galaga

@cyperghost I'm using a HDMI to VGA adapter though...

cyperghost

@galaga said in 240p composite top portion is crooked.:

@cyperghost I'm using a HDMI to VGA adapter though...

Well I would rather use Composite as using a HDMI --> VGA converter.

edmaul69

@cyperghost he isnt able to use composite on an arcade monitor. He has to be able to seperate the rgbs

Galaga

Ok I've tried a couple different things and I've run out of ideas. I know it's probably some stupid little thing I'm missing, but I have no clue why RetroPie is ignoring config.txt even with overscan_scale=1. Is it a glitch?