@bluecoffee said in Pi4 with vertical screen orientation - newest advice?:

Suggests that I should be modifying the file autostart.sh.
Is this correct?

Yes.

Could someone outline the steps that need to be taken in 2022 using a Raspberry Pi 4.
There also seem to be lots of conflicting questions about

Does this only affect Emulation Station, but not the actual games themselves?

Yes.

Does this cause a performance hit like the old method did?

For EmulationStation, not so much.

Do I need to modify each emulator to run vertically as well?

Yes, though for RetroArch you can change the main configuration and it will be applied to each core.

See this topic for a similar question and some recommendations on how to rotate the screen.

I wound up imaging a new memory card and just moving my roms, bios & collections over.

What it seems like the prob was, is that when you rotate it back to 0 in the sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt the screen default resolution wasn't doing the trick. When you go to the settings of raspi-config for screen resolution and set that to default it shifts everything to the left but doesnt stretch it all from left to right. it basically stops at the center of my computer screen.

Anyway I would be nice to figure this out for others..

@dankcushions Yeah, that's what I thought, but I couldn't find the options anywhere. I forgot how well-hidden the "Show Advanced Options" menu is...

Hey @A12C4 yes to behave like the carousel in wheel mode, a bit like the game wheel in hyperspin I guess. A vertical single grid that is rotated slightly.

I understand no problem, just thought I'd bring this up for a future update :)

There are a few things that I would love to see before this anyhow, such as sound scroll for the gridview, that would be awesome!

@chuck_pierce said in screen_orientation in retroarch.cfg doesn't seem to work:

The video_rotation works like a champ (so my games play in the correct orientation), but the retroarch menu doesn't seem to be able to rotate. I've got a cocktail style machine and have the screen rotated 90 deg. I've tried values 1, 2, 3, and 4 with no changes to the retroarch menu.

that's right. this function is intended to rotate the GAME, not the whole session. it is working as intended. it looks like there's an outstanding issue to rotate the whole lot outside of X, that you could follow here: https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/6770

unfortunately the ability to rotate the entire session outside of X does not exist for pi4, as far as i know.

drastic is not a libretro core, so the file you added doesn't have any effect on the emulator. I see that drastic has a 'Screen orientation' option, but it doesn't seem to add any rotation - maybe works only on Android (?).

@MISTERHOLLYW00D said in Text Rotate:

Is it possible to rotate retroarch menu? When I bring retroarch up it’s still sideways

No, that's a RetroArch's limitation - even if it can rotate the emulator video, the menu's orientation can be rotated only when using the desktop display driver and it will not work on RetroPie.

You're using a PI3, so you can use the rotation offered by the firmware.

@mitu thank you.

At least it wasn’t a silly checkbox that I Missed.

@SeraphisCain Thanks - there is a gamelist there, but the titles on it are not the ones affected by the issue. There are only a handful of titles and there's no metadata defined. A red herring, I'm afraid.

I appreciate your help, but I'm ready to give up. I don't think it's going to get worked out.

Thanks anyway.

@gomisensei That worked perfectly, thanks!

I solved my own problem! I modified the EmulationStation startup script to toggle back and forth between horizontal and vertical mode on a restart. So, now I can rotate my monitor, restart EmulationStation, and my menus match the orientation. Here is the updated file:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation.sh

#!/bin/sh esdir="$(dirname $0)" while true; do rm -f /tmp/es-restart /tmp/es-sysrestart /tmp/es-shutdown "$esdir/emulationstation" "$@" $rotate ret=$? if [ -f /tmp/es-restart ]; then if [ -z "$rotate" ] then rotate=”--screenrotate 1” else rotate=”” fi continue fi if [ -f /tmp/es-sysrestart ]; then rm -f /tmp/es-sysrestart sudo reboot break fi if [ -f /tmp/es-shutdown ]; then rm -f /tmp/es-shutdown sudo poweroff break fi break done exit $ret

@JRX88 @mitu Thank you both! Been looking this for a while.

@duckmefast That only rotates the display 180 deg. - 90 or 270 deg. rotations are still not supported by the Pi4 via config.txt.

@Gadgetguy said in Best way to do 90degree screen rotate?:

Thank you Mitu. So using --screenrotate would affect both emulation station and all the emulators as well?

No, the --screenrotate is only for Emulationstation, for the emulators you'll have to configure the rotation on each emulator.

im not sure what your issue is here the tate mode does rotate right this is what arcades do

@edwardthehuman said in lr-mame2003 TATE mode rotation direction?:

ddonpchj

doesn't run on mame2003, so you're not using mame2003.

@pkg04011979 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

@langest said in Possible to rotate screen per rom file?:

Now I am only wondering, where should I put the rom specific file?

As the posts above said - and it's also mentioned in the Docs - , next to the ROM file.

Ahhh yes, I've been hoping for rotation and have been doing it manually. Maybe now ill just use some svgs and throw the rotation at them XD.

@dankcushions said in Cannot rotate MAME vertical games:

@sTo0z
luckily the issue was in the first few lines :)

video_driver = "dispmanx"

this is the problem - dispmanx doesn't support rotation. please change to "gl"

see: https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/4898

Yup, that did it.. I'm a fool! Totally forgot I changed that.

THANK YOU.