Hello @mezzb

I have used your awesome overlays in a pack I've been building. I hope it's alright with you ? https://github.com/cosmo0/retropie-overlays

Please let me know if you have issues with your overlays inclusion.

Thank you very much :)

@KashinMauki I don't have one, but I'd try zfast with no curves. crt-pi might be slower, but you can test them out.

@obsidianspider I got distracted with other projects, should really get back on it

@CrazyPharaoh Sorry, I have the same problem whit my Waveshare 5 inch

Hi all, sorry for dragging up an old thread. Has anyone got this to work on the latest Retropie image (4.7.1)? I had it installed on an old 4.4 image working absolutely fine, thought I would update to latest image 4.7.1 followed all the same steps (actually copied what was written in the old image that worked) in relation to detecting hdmi. But I can’t get it to work in 4.7.1, it always defaults into hdmi and cannot get itself back into lcd when you don’t have an hdmi cable installed. I often see ‘Unk-Comp-Dev’ in the text when booting rather than ‘[E] No Device Present]. Wondering if the updated Retropie version somehow recognizes the LCD screen differently which is preventing this script from working? It seems to always boot into hdmi like it always thinks something is plugged in when it’s not.

Any help to get it working would be much appreciated!

Thanks!

Ok found a solution in another thread no longer need a script to do what I need just a simple addition to the config.txt file, all sorted! Thanks!

@cyperghost What i did was i cut everywire out. And only used Usb wire reason is it's a little more handle current up to 3 amps and a little thicker wire i was using 26 awg wire Now I'm using 24 awg wire. Also shorting the wires a little more to clear up some of the static which i think that is what it is. Plus i went to https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4269/popeye-pi-foldable-rpi-zero-in-a-car-monitor/2 your link cyperghost and i use that code on mine just change a few things around to match my screen. And the result is i got about 99.5" clean signal from it. There is a little static left on the screen but it is not as bad or worse then before.

On that note How can i make the text font and images a little bigger i can not read the text not even in settings area?

@hooperre Sean riddle is the man. The svg approach is an interesting one.

@Hyell Thanks for your effort, but it doesn't work.

The same happens:
The LCD works and shows everything, until the Retropie logo appears. After that and when emulationstation is loaded, the LCD keep working but now has a blinking cursor and ONLY shows messages from emulationstation (the game is on HDMI), like errors, various settings from emulationstation, legal info for MAME, etc.

If there is a setting to "tell" emulationstation to do the opposite, to start outputting the games on LCD this time and keep HDMI for messages only, it would be nice.

Did you ever figure out how to do this? I'm interested in the same thing - controlling screen brightness via retropie or some raspian command. Thanks!

+1 for the overscan issue. I have one television that I need to adjust the overscan manually in the /boot/config.txt file, but another television that I don't need to adjust the overscan at all. In the same config.txt file you can adjust the amount of overscan.