@alphabetapie Have you made (or found) some good overlays? Which ones? :)

Open the runcommand launch menu when launching an arcade game and check if there isn't a video mode specified for all the games running with the arcade emulator.

@busywait said in (SNES9x) Core options aspect ratio vs Video settings scale aspect ratio:

@dankcushions said in (SNES9x) Core options aspect ratio vs Video settings scale aspect ratio:

by default it looks like options > preferred aspect ratio = 4:3 by default - https://github.com/libretro/snes9x/blob/master/libretro/libretro_core_options.h#L81, so you must have changed it at some point, yeah.

Yup, I just set up a clean RetroPie 4.7.1 card, and the defaults give full 4:3 for Snes.

Not for Megadrive though: for the lr_genesis_plus_gx default configuration the game image is not quite 4:3 - skinny black bars at left and right. The default config probably wants aspect_ratio_index=0 (for 4:3). Or a little overscan?

i wouldn't want to make assumptions. it could be true to the real hardware. you'd have to drill into the core options and/or the code, but since we use 'core provided' as our default, and generally use default core options, the default aspect ratio is at the discretion of the core developer, so it's typically intentional.

@dankcushions well thanks you for assisting me with this one. I eventually got it working by using the USA Rom and, as you suggested, stretching the image to 5:4. it fills the whole screen and looks good. I'll be happy with that solution for now. Happy Holidays.

@scoularis please provide a verbose log of the issue, and the override .cfgs involved.

@superfella still, that's the information I would need to diagnose. take it or leave it...

I have a Pi 3b and SI95 runs absolutely horribly in lr-mame2003 and lr-mame2003plus, which is why I was running it in AdvMAME in the first place.

Not sure what you mean - RetroPie doesn't configure a specific video aspect, it uses what is available on the system.

Big update, reinstalled daphne and problem solved !

Playing with the sourcecode, I usurped the 8:7 PAR to be just 8:7 like 4:3. The switch that controls this is a boolean and I haven't the time to change it right now (and then I would need to make a github account to request a pull for the changes).

@mitu said in N64 emulator doesn't save any settings:

you need to save a game or core override after you've changed the parameters

Can you please tell me where I can find the Overrides-menu? Or which solution would be the best?
When I switch the "Use Global Core Options File" to OFF, then I still the the same problem.

@pojr said in RetroPie stuck in 4:3 (the interface, NOT the games):

@dankcushions
I don't think it would be 81, but you are correct that it's wrong. Shouldn't be 16 because my TV only displays up to 720p, not 1080p. Although it is a 16:9 TV (not 64:27 like it shows under #81). Also, my TV frequency isn't 30Hz, unless I'm missing something.

you've fixed it now so i guess this is irrelevant but yes, you'd need to use hdmi_group=2 for 81 - it doesn't seem to be supported under 1. but yes, @mitu 's suggestion would get show you the complete list of supported modes. given that it's less than 4k, i would always want to be running in the native panel resolution so you don't get scaling artefacts.

i assume now you've taken out hdmi_safe you can safely take out any hard coded modes and it should hopefully choose 1366x768 by default.

@inolen thanks - your post made me realise that I could just put the TV into 4:3 mode, rather than try and make ReDream correct the aspect ratio somehow. Doh! Will try that.

@paulo75 you'd be better asking questions at a specialist Retroarch forum. This forum is for Retropie and the varients of it for Pi and Linux installs really.