Theme potentially crashing emulation station?

mr_no_love

IT WAS THE THEME! Thank you! I figured out what I was doing wrong. I’m on my phone and the “.cfg” was cutoff, I needed to scroll over. I do have one other question, if you wouldn’t mind? I’m playing on my 4K 65” tv, a lot of the games I’m playing are 2D arcade games. Alien v predator, TMNT, Street Fighter Alpha, I like playing on a bigger monitor but they look really pixelated. Is that something I can adjust/fix?

sleve_mcdichael

@mr_no_love said in Theme potentially crashing emulation station?:

I like playing on a bigger monitor but they look really pixelated. Is that something I can adjust/fix?

Shaders: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Shaders-and-Smoothing/#installation

I use zfast_crt_standard, and zfast_lcd_standard for handhelds. Looks okay on my 720p tv but should look even better in 1080p.

4k tv

You'll also want to force 1080p resolution, if you haven't yet:

raspi-config >> Display Options >> Resolution

mr_no_love

@sleve_mcdichael

Thank you very much for your help! I really appreciate it!

mr_no_love

Unfortunately forcing 1080 has prevented me from being able to play….again. I went through raspi-config and forced 1920x1080. Afterwards it asked if I wanted to reboot, which I did. After rebooting I was met with a rainbow screen and an error message..

“[ 166.138934] EXT4-fs error (device mmcblk0p2): ext4_lookup:1703: inode #2040: comm emulationstation: deleted inode referenced: 2393114

Seems as if I can’t catch a break lol. Wife and kids sleeping, there goes my night of gaming.

Also I don’t have a way to type in any commands. Appreciate any help

dankcushions

@mr_no_love file system corruption. see https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/17881/ext4-fs-error/9

if you can’t access a command line prompt, you’ll just have to re-image.

you’ve never pulled the power without first shutting down. i hope?

you never said what image you’ve used?

mr_no_love

@dankcushions never have pulled the plug without shutting down

This was my second time hopping on after correcting my issue from earlier. I’m using the official raspberry pi OS, I wrote it using the raspberry pi imager.

So am I pretty much starting from scratch?

Also does that mean next time I can’t force 1080p? Seems like every time I want to make a small tweak it causes another an issue

dankcushions

@mr_no_love if your sd card is corrupting with no obvious cause it is likely to be a hardware issue. either: damaged/fake SD card, unreliable/inadequate power supply, damaged SD slot, etc. performing such basic tasks should not cause corruption.

mitu

@mr_no_love said in Theme potentially crashing emulation station?:

So am I pretty much starting from scratch?

Try to change the theme to the default, as @sleve_mcdichael has indicated. If you have access to RetroPie via file shares, you can also edit the es_settings.cfg file from your PC - the location is \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation.

mr_no_love

@mitu thank you for helping! I’ve resolved the issue with the theme. I’m having an issue with a rainbow screen/error message after forcing 1080p from raspi-config.

No command lines available

mr_no_love

@dankcushions I may try another SD if I need to rewrite the image. I just purchased a new Sandisk extreme from a Best Buy last week. The one I’m using currently I bought from someone, so it’s possible it’s a fake, idk at this point.