Emulationstation not sticking to 4:3 ratio

shawnclifton

Hey guys and girls . Ive searched and asked reddit and facbook with no help .
I'm having a weird issue with Emulationstation where it will not for the life of me go into a 4:3 screen ratio . It's forever staying full screen .

I have so far changed to new themes set for 4:3 and nothing .
overscan has zero effect.
Change almost everysetting in boot/config file. and no change .
The only trhing that has made a slight diffrence was

emulationstation --resolution 640 480

But wasnt in the centre of the screen and wouldn't save .

Heres my boot config im using but like I said I have changed everything

# 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_left=-50
overscan_right=-50
#overscan_top=16
#overscan_bottom=16

# uncomment to force a console size. By default it will be display's size minus
# overscan.
#framebuffer_width=640
#framebuffer_height=480

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

# uncomment to force a specific HDMI mode (this will force VGA)
#hdmi_group=1
#hdmi_mode=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
#sdtv_mode=2

#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
enable_uart=1
# 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
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=2
hdmi_mode=87
hdmi_cvt 480 800  60 0 0 0 0
dtoverlay=ads7846,cs=1,penirq=25,penirq_pull=2,speed=50000,keep_vref_on=0,swapxy=0,pmax=255,xohms=150,xmin=200,xmax=3900,ymin=200,ymax=3900
display_rotate=3
hdmi_drive=1
hdmi_force_hotplug=1
#max_usb_current=1

Any help or suggestion would be great
Thanks

shawnclifton

Also add that the bootscreen and all the games are set in 4:3 , which makes me think theres some hard setting in emulationstation overriding boot config.

And I'm using a 4 inch Waveshare HDMI screen.

mitu

Try adding overscan_scale=1 to your config.txt file and then run emulationstation without any parameters.

shawnclifton

@mitu no luck :( .

It's a weird one because my boot screen and games are set correctly , it's just emulation station. So I did manage to get the screen to the correct aspect but it's not centred. I have no idea how I would centre the emustation image. I changed the code to auto boot like this

Emulationstation --resolution 640 480 windowed

mitu

@shawnclifton Emulationstation has also the ability to set a window display offset with the --screenoffset parameter

--screenoffset x y

Maybe this can help you position the ES window.

shawnclifton

@mitu ahhh ok , I'm at work right now but I'll give it a try when im home . That looks promising tho .

shawnclifton

@mitu That worked !!! 3 days that took and sleepless nights lol . Here's some code for people who may have the same problem

Edit Autostart.sh

emulationstation --resolution W H --windowed --screenoffset X Y

Thanks a lot !