@Beretta9 Yeah that's how it usually looks but now I just have a full screen video playing and a big list of roms in giant white text

Sure, sorry. What I meant was the display that's not working, you want to make sure you are using a resolution that the display accepts.

Obviously it wasn't dmesg either, as my memory failed me. Here's a good tutorial, see the second section. If the monitor accepts that resolution it would show in the list.

http://www.opentechguides.com/how-to/article/raspberry-pi/28/raspi-display-setting.html

@SpudsMcToole Thanks for sharing and closing this one off!

@Rascas i have the same problem...

i run this :

sudo sed -i 's/fbi -T 2/fbi -T 1/g' /opt/retropie/supplementary/splashscreen/asplashscreen.sh

And works 100%..

but ...What does that line of code do?

ty.

@Lagauffre
I️ have been struggling for weeks yuh this. I️ also bought a different HDMI adapter: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/ya?ac=bia&ref=yo_pop_mb_bia&reorder_params=B01F1SZB2W%2C112-0615068-3893811
Once I️ read your post I️ tried hooking up the pi to my tv. Shutdown, reboot. Shutdown reboot. No issues. Thank you posting this, I’ll bet this is why a lot of people are having the same issue!

So, I purchased a mini HDMI to a standard HDMI cable, and replaced the cable and adapter I had (the amazon basics mini HDMI to female full size HDMI adapter). Everything works perfect now. Thanks everyone!!

Ahh ok thats what that was for! I've been experimenting with options on cmdline and I thought that did something else. Sorry, this image is based upon the official RP image though so I took that as an accurate answer. I have been using the official RP image for some time however I've recently been testing a 3rd party image which has attract mode and its virtually identical to the official one. This issue was unrelated to it being 3rd party or not but I can understand your reluctance to help. Thanks anyway, knew it was something simple.

@cybermrc you probably figured this out by now, but the cocktail switch only serves to flip player 2 upside-down. It won't induce the initial rotation.

Tried adjusting the overscan settings. Didn't work. Any help?

@Eater_Of_Cheese Do you know the resolution of the TVs you've tested with? I have a 1080p TV that I had to mess with the overscan on and my 720p TV is fine out of the box.

Howdy Friend,
Nope sorry there is no way...at least with my setup. All my dreamcast games have a cue file followed by track1 track2 track3 etc.
All the other games have the exact same files so the only way to keep it from messing up is to keep everything in a separate folder.
Unless you are using...I think they are called CDI files which compress and combine the audio files....but you take a major hit on audio quality when you use them.
Just my thoughts.

@mohawk97 you didn't provide details as printed in bold at the top of the screen.

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before entering a game,everything works just fine...

Can I use a Led display like this one https://dynamo-led-displays.co.uk/product/curved-led-cabinet/ connected to my console?

thank you so much, that seems to have completely fixed it! is there any other way i can force screen settings without getting this error?

this might be relevent: https://github.com/tasanakorn/rpi-fbcp/issues/5

(rpi 0 is rpi 1 to all intents and purposes)

I had a look in /boot/config.txt, but there was nothing of use there. I did come across something else though;

https://github.com/tasanakorn/rpi-fbcp

This utility will copy all the data from my primary framebuffer (fb0 / HDMI) to my secondary framebuffer (fb1/ USB). I've set it up to auto-run on start-up and it kind of works now. My next problem is that the refresh rate is only around 1 fps!