I've been reading a littl emore and it seems it is possible to ignore the screens edid data. Instead I can use an edid.dat file with the values I want.

I think I have to add hdmi_ignore_edid and hmi_edid_file to config.txt

The only thing I don't know is how to create a an edid.dat file with the correct information.
If someone knows (or even better, give me a better edid file) how to do this I think this problem is solveable.

@mitu ok great! Glad I wasn’t messing something up

@herb_fargus the scraper only grabs metadata and box art, not wheel art or video snaps, correct? Thanks again for the quick replies you guys are the best.

@rrs run the command in the post directly above yours. It tells you how to do it.

Thanks BuZz! That made it. I hope it will now stay like that in the future.

@stingjay you clearly did not read the message that is on top of every single page of this forum:
Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

We have good docs here: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

I am really amazed with how easily we can set a retrogaming machine on a cheap board and completely with a free software.

Hey, sorry to keep this issue open for so long.
I was working on a cleaner re-implementation of this, but got bogged down in debugging.
I got very frustrated with it all for a while, and decided to let this lie for a while.

Currently, I am working on theming the system carousel on the main screen. Once that is in reasonable shape, I will start working on this again. I am now able to build (and debug!) on windows which has revitalized my development process a bit, so there's still hope!

Thanks for holding out for such a long time.