@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.

natinusala created this issue in libretro/RetroArch open Menu ignores video_rotation configuration #6770

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.

@amolloy said in Display rotation moving forward:

This looked promising initially, as the text console was rotated and oriented the way I wanted. Unfortunately, Emulation Station still comes up in the display's default portrait orientation.

Then it means the rotation parameters are not used by the DRM system and 'transparently' working rotation isn't implemented.

I did notice that Emulation Station has a ScreenRotate option, and I was able to get it to be rotated the way I want. Unfortunately, so far anyways, the same cannot be said of any of the emulators I've tried.

RetroArch supports screen rotation, so any lr- emulators should work, see https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/blob/b89663e213d97894879e2c51fc25b6426ca9ebf6/retroarch.cfg#L272-L284 for what needs to be changed in the retroarch.cfg to get it.

@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.

dankcushions created this issue in libretro/RetroArch open dispmanx video driver doesn't respect RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SET_ROTATION #4898

Any luck? Also, (I'm new to RetroPie) what are the steps you took to get the cocktail shader? I've been looking around, but have yet to figure out how to find it, let alone get it running. Help?

@Thorr69 - Just to add to that I think the folder change was to correct a Retroarch Netplay issue and not so much of a core or RetroPie issue/change. If you're using an older version prior to 4.5 like 4.3 or 4.4 it will probably still use the old path unless your update RA then the new path will apply.