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    • Drakaen391D
      Drakaen391
      last edited by

      Do you have black bars or is it cropping?

      RPi B & RPi 3B OC (Now Raspberry pi 4b 8gb)
      Retropie (Latest Stable)
      PiBox with Wind Tunnel Cooling System

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        Mischief
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        Both, Bootup and retropie splash image have black bars, emulationstation is cropped (outer edges off screen)

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        • BuZzB
          BuZz administrators
          last edited by

          try overscan_scale=1 (which should be set by default in the image and when installing ES)

          To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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            Mischief @BuZz
            last edited by

            @BuZz said:

            try overscan_scale=1 (which should be set by default in the image and when installing ES)

            Did that and no effect on emulationstation.

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            • FinheadF
              Finhead @Mischief
              last edited by

              @Mischief said:

              Raspberry Pi Model B+ with Retropie 3.6

              I have done a lot of google searching and clicked on many links and have not found an answer, The overscan option in settings and also modifying the config.txt in the boot directory only changes the raspberry pi bootup and retropie splash screen, as soon as you get the Emulationstation splash screen overscan is disabled and will not change no matter what setting I change.

              I have also tried changing overscan_left=0 overscan_right=0 overscan_top=0 overscan_bottom=0 and again it has no effect on emulationstation at all.

              Thanks.

              I thought you were to put in a negative value if your border is too large.

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              • BuZzB
                BuZz administrators
                last edited by

                on my system using overscan_scale=1 and positive over scan values, it affects both the framebuffer and the emulationstation output

                To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                  Mischief @Finhead
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                  @Finhead said:

                  @Mischief said:

                  Raspberry Pi Model B+ with Retropie 3.6

                  I have done a lot of google searching and clicked on many links and have not found an answer, The overscan option in settings and also modifying the config.txt in the boot directory only changes the raspberry pi bootup and retropie splash screen, as soon as you get the Emulationstation splash screen overscan is disabled and will not change no matter what setting I change.

                  I have also tried changing overscan_left=0 overscan_right=0 overscan_top=0 overscan_bottom=0 and again it has no effect on emulationstation at all.

                  Thanks.

                  I thought you were to put in a negative value if your border is too large.

                  That's not the value I used I simply pasted that so no one would suggest it, as I said no matter what value I put in emulationstation would remain unchanged and cropped.

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                    Mischief @BuZz
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                    @BuZz said:

                    on my system using overscan_scale=1 and positive over scan values, it affects both the framebuffer and the emulationstation output

                    For some reason not on mine and I have no idea why, I did a reinstall and ended up with the same issue.

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                    • BuZzB
                      BuZz administrators
                      last edited by

                      please paste (in a codeblock or via pastebin.com) your config.txt with this set, and also the output of uname -a and cat /etc/debian_version

                      To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                        Mischief @BuZz
                        last edited by

                        @BuZz said:

                        please paste (in a codeblock or via pastebin.com) your config.txt with this set, and also the output of uname -a and cat /etc/debian_version

                        Is there a guide for this, I am still new to all this and using guides for most of it. Ben using retroarch and emulationstation on my PC for a while and Retroarch for my PS3 just new to the Raspberry Pi.

                        I can make a video showing the issue if that helps?

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                        • BuZzB
                          BuZz administrators
                          last edited by BuZz

                          ssh into retropie

                          https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/ssh

                          and you can run those commands from the terminal. you can also get a copy of config.txt via cat /boot/config.txt

                          or use sftp to copy it off

                          I assumed as you were already editing this file you were using the terminal.

                          To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                            Mischief @BuZz
                            last edited by

                            @BuZz said:

                            ssh into retropie

                            https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/ssh

                            and you can run those commands from the terminal. you can also get a copy of config.txt via cat /boot/config.txt

                            or use sftp to copy it off

                            I assumed as you were already editing this file you were using the terminal.

                            Yes i'm using the terminal and learning as I go.

                            I have to apologise as I have solved it, for some reason I had overscan_scale=1 twice at the bottom of config.txt one had =1 the other had =0 strange as I never added this line myself I just adjusted the first one I saw. Suffice to say It is now solved and working as it should I have adjusted the overscan_(direction)= values and the screen has no black bars or cropped.

                            Thanks for the replies and help to all.

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                            • Drakaen391D
                              Drakaen391
                              last edited by

                              Check to see if there are '#' signs before the overscan setting...

                              If there is, remove them

                              RPi B & RPi 3B OC (Now Raspberry pi 4b 8gb)
                              Retropie (Latest Stable)
                              PiBox with Wind Tunnel Cooling System

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                                Mischief @Drakaen391
                                last edited by

                                @Drakaen391 said:

                                Check to see if there are '#' signs before the overscan setting...

                                If there is, remove them

                                There was none over the repeated lines at the bottom but as I said in my last post I have solved it now by removing one of the repeated overscan_scale lines, cheers.

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                                  jake74
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                                  fwiw, I've had exactly the same problem with a fresh apt-get updated retropie.

                                  In the config.txt, the overscan_scale=1 was commented out, and the config had repeated the last 4 commands again, looking like this—

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

                                  Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835)

                                  dtparam=audio=on
                                  gpu_mem_256=128
                                  gpu_mem_512=256
                                  gpu_mem_1024=256
                                  #overscan_scale=1
                                  gpu_mem_256=128
                                  gpu_mem_512=256
                                  gpu_mem_1024=256
                                  #overscan_scale=1

                                  And no matter how many times I edited the overscan settings in the Raspi-config in Retropie, it would not change the overscan.

                                  So, I deleted the last 4 lines, and the end of my config now looks like this—

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

                                  Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835)

                                  dtparam=audio=on
                                  gpu_mem_256=128
                                  gpu_mem_512=256
                                  gpu_mem_1024=256
                                  overscan_scale=1

                                  and it works without overscan just fine. Bit of a bug if you ask me, as unless I ssh'd in, I could not unset Overscan.

                                  regards

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                                  • Drakaen391D
                                    Drakaen391
                                    last edited by

                                    I do think there is a bug in the overscan setting... I had to manually fix mine because it wouldn't work

                                    RPi B & RPi 3B OC (Now Raspberry pi 4b 8gb)
                                    Retropie (Latest Stable)
                                    PiBox with Wind Tunnel Cooling System

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                                      Twitch0815
                                      last edited by

                                      Just going to note this. I am using the BerryBoot version. Just grabbed the Berryboot image from the main site, chose the os Retropie 3.6 from other category.
                                      I get much stabler overscan settings. And my screen is properly stretched to fit. Trying to determine which settings they are getting right will update you when I figure it out.

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