Yay! @mitu you are awesome. Thank you!

It turns out that the GPi uses the "windowed" version of the settings, so I needed to add the following to /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

menu_widget_scale_auto = "false" menu_widget_scale_factor_windowed = "2.75"

For what it's worth I had actually stumbled on this setting when messing around but I set the non-windowed value (because it's full screen... I assumed that meant it wasn't windowed) and when that didn't fix it I moved on.

I was afraid so... Thanks anyways!

@meleu I dont want to change this message to one of mine. I just want to show a on screen message and I saw this yellow message an thought this would do nicely since it is already implemented. But any other easy way to show a on screen message would do also

Thanks guys! I'll give it a try!