@sugarfree Thanks for the technical clarification!

I noticed some PAL/Europe games have an SBI warning indeed. I am happy with the OOTB experience though.

It's working okay now all things considered. I'm surprised at how well the scaling works as on the raspbian + retropie the text is harder to see and the borders are a bit off even in the terminal. I should try to copy retropie's font to my other sd cards with raspbian + retropie on them to make the console more visible

Glad you got it sorted out, actually RetroPie is using Raspbian (RPI OS) Lite underneath, so there's no specific font that's included in RetroPie.

Maybe the borders' position have something to do with the Overscan settings for the display ? Or you may try to increase the font size from the Setup script, as explained here ?

@telmocamargo said in Error on resolution - Desktop Version:

16:9 wide NO

This option seems to be fine for the resolution - are you using it as the current option or did you toggle widescreen on ?
When using a desktop environment, like on a PC, you can use xrandr to adjust the overscan:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/508358/overscanning-picture-problem-using-hdmi-with-intel-graphics.

@busywait said in (SNES9x) Core options aspect ratio vs Video settings scale aspect ratio:

@dankcushions said in (SNES9x) Core options aspect ratio vs Video settings scale aspect ratio:

by default it looks like options > preferred aspect ratio = 4:3 by default - https://github.com/libretro/snes9x/blob/master/libretro/libretro_core_options.h#L81, so you must have changed it at some point, yeah.

Yup, I just set up a clean RetroPie 4.7.1 card, and the defaults give full 4:3 for Snes.

Not for Megadrive though: for the lr_genesis_plus_gx default configuration the game image is not quite 4:3 - skinny black bars at left and right. The default config probably wants aspect_ratio_index=0 (for 4:3). Or a little overscan?

i wouldn't want to make assumptions. it could be true to the real hardware. you'd have to drill into the core options and/or the code, but since we use 'core provided' as our default, and generally use default core options, the default aspect ratio is at the discretion of the core developer, so it's typically intentional.

@mitu ugh... got it. I see what you mean now.. "save core preset". That worked.

Thanks... and I also jumped on the bandwagon for the safe-shutdown script while I was at it. Works great as well... no more text when I shut down.

you're top dog for sure!

Thank you - very helpful (as always)!

@lilbud This is a great idea. I always use integer scale for my 1080p tv. I hate black borders, but i hate not square pixels even more :)
I find the my life in gaming youtube videos very interesting.

Okey I found the solution:

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/558756256090837817/

By holding the menu button I could disable the scaling mode, why samsung couldn't build a menu function for that....

Try integer scaling in the retroarch menu (select-x).

Slight bump :)

Any ideas for config files to edit?