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    black screen when pressing SELECT+START to exit.

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      naddel81
      last edited by

      Hi @ all,

      I can still blindly navigate through ES, but the HDMI signal is lost after exiting to ES from a game. how to fix that?

      Any help is highly appreciated.

      thanks in advance.

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      • BuZzB
        BuZz administrators
        last edited by

        https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

        eg - did you install this over an existing raspbian or ? You have provided no information regarding your setup.

        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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          naddel81
          last edited by

          thanks for your reply. I just installed the newest image on my new pi zero. I get a screen when booting and selecting, but when I exit to ES the screen is lost. It only starts in safe mode (and looks terrible then).

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          • BuZzB
            BuZz administrators
            last edited by BuZz

            have you got a keyboard connected ? Please connect one and press a key to make sure it's not the console blanker or something kicking in.

            This happens for all emulators? Have you adjusted any configs - eg the initial video mode via /boot/config.txt ?

            When you say newest image, you are referring to 3.8.1 ? Also does this happen with all emulators? Perhaps you can make a video of the problem - it might help.

            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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              naddel81
              last edited by naddel81

              yes I got a keyboard and 3.8.1. it happened to all emulators, but now I got it figured out by selecting HDMI_mode=4 and group=1.

              the last issue I still have is that there are some lines missing on top of the games:

              http://abload.de/img/screenshots-super-mar74jl0.jpg

              the rom loads fine on PC emulators showing the full size. but on retroarch the top lines are missing regardless of the emulators resolution I choose. do you have an idea? can I go to retroarch scaling settings ingame somehow`?

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                No Hands 55
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                did you by any chance change some stuff in retroarch? I changed the palette in Gameboy so it wasnt pea soup green, and after that anytime i did start+select to exit the emulator it switches to av2. black screen and I had to power down. I am using a handheld i built, wondering if this is a similar issue as what i was having?

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                  naddel81
                  last edited by

                  no, used the straight away defaults. now that I got that "fixed" using some config.txt lines I want to get my last issue by the balls:

                  pixel perfect emulation. at least I would like to get the missing lines back that render perfectly on nestopia and FCEUX on PC, but unfortunately retroarch does hide them somehow... (see picture above).

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                  • BuZzB
                    BuZz administrators
                    last edited by

                    change the aspect ratio (see configuration editor).

                    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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