Retroarch not going horizontal

averagerat

After first editing the retroarch.cfg file to change the rotation it worked, but after a few minutes and I believe an update to retroarch none of my games load vertically. I have even edited every single retroarch.cfg file or back up to make sure the screen rotation will work but none of the edits seem to be working.

Folly

@averagerat

I think you mean :
Retroarch not going vertically

You didn't add some proper information on what you edited in some specific retroarch.cfg 's.
I assume you used :

video_rotation = "1"

or

video_rotation = "3"

For our project I also wanted to be able to rotate the games vertically.
I can't remember exactly why but for some reason I didn't use the video_rotation option.
Probably because the video_rotation option doesn't work well.

Instead I used :

screen_orientation = "3"

So try that for a change.

ps.
Not using double-quotes can also be an issue.

JLaury

I have a Pi 4 running the stock Retropie image (latest), and the video_rotation setting in retroarch.cfg works, but only when I'm in a game. From boot through retro pie splash screen, emulation station starting up, to the selection menu it's all not rotated, but when I actually select a game (any game, any system), it then rotates the display, and editing retroarch>video>scaling, I was able to set the aspect ratio to 3:4 (I have an older 17" dell vga monitor and I run HDMI out into an HDMI > vga adapter which works just fine), and it's going to go into an arcade1up cabinet I obtained for free. So, games actually display at the rotation I need, but I can't get the entire system to rotate (at which point I wouldn't need video_rotation set (or set to 0)". If anyone has instructions on how to rotate a pi 4 display under retro pie, I'd sure love to know. I did find an article that talked about the linux command xrandr, but that command doesn't appear to be on this particular distribution as it says command not found.

mitu

@JLaury See this post on how to rotate EmulationStation and the console boot screen. Note that the RetroArch's menu doesn't obey the video_rotation parameter.