@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.

@Thorr69 said in Cocktail cabinet woes RPi 4b 8gb:

Your link goes nowhere.

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Arcade/

@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.

Yes, we need to document the rotation/size options. The screenrotate parameter should be 1 through 3 (see this commit), for your usage values 1 or 3 would have to be used.

Does rotation work without the super-resolution (with or without xrandr controlled rotation) ? What other parameters are you using for starting emulationtation ?

Run emulationstation --debug <plus your other params> and post the output on pastebin.com. Run also xrandr --verbose and post the output.

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..

@mitu said in 35" curved RPI3b+ retropie bad quality:

@supebillen said in 35" curved RPI3b+ retropie bad quality:

The asus monitor er in 3440x1440p 21:9 resolution. What do you think would be the best option?

Depends on what video modes the monitor supports. Looking at the video modes in the docs, I don't see an out-of-the box mode with 21:9 aspect ration.
Try the settings from https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=203100

Also the config.txt are modified on the SD card connected to the pc, right?

Yes, add the options at the end of the file.

OK,
Will try this when i come home to see if it boots up

display_rotate=2

disable_overscan=1
dtparam=audio=on
dtoverlay=disable-bt
dmi_cvt=3440 1440 50 7 0 0 1
max_framebuffer_width=3440
max_framebuffer_height=1440
framebuffer_width=3440
framebuffer_height=1440
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=88
hdmi_aspect_21_9=7

#dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d
max_framebuffers=2
gpu_mem=64
disable_splash=1

Very nice! Thanks!

@barbudreadmon said in Auto aspect ratio for vertical games?:

@strells said in Auto aspect ratio for vertical games?:

I left integer scale turned off so that the image, whether vertical or landscape, reaches the edge of my Arcade1Up 17

Just be aware that not enabling integer scaling is not recommended because it will cause gfx issues due to bad nearest rounding, those gfx issues being more or less noticeable depending on the context.

Great. I did not know that. Thank you for the heads up!

Video of the overlays
Overlays

@romstar said in What's the correct aspect ratio I should be using as a config for a HAPP / VISION PRO 19" LCD arcade monitor for MAME Horizontal / Vertical games:

I changed the bottom line to mame2003_tate_mode = "enabled" which ultimately resolved my issue. now The vertical game is finally displaying the way it should on my HAPP Vision pro monitor mounted vertical !! At some point I'd like to build a vertical only list of games and have the menu / retropi running exclusively in vertical mode.

I knew it would change your life. I would not recommend trying to make the whole of retropie itself work in vertical mode yet, though. I stayed with my rotating monitor because rotating emulationstation causes performance issues. I believe it also became more difficult to rotate emulationstation on the Pi4 because the option was deprecated. I stayed with my Pi3b for my vertical MAME games for that reason and hope that a good solution for a fully vertical system presents itself later.

@papa-roux You might want to report this in the Pegasus topic.

@jgeibel My pleasure. Some years ago, I used AM on my Linux PC and laptop before I got my Pi 3b and discovered RetroPie, which seduced me with its all-in-one-package simplicity.

But I still have my MAME 0.185 setup with AM, and I'll never forget this my "first love" among emulation frontends with its unparalleled customisability. 😍

Thank You!

@dankcushions thanks mate - i did see the comment on the verbose logs.
In learning about how to trigger them and retrieve them, I went into the RetroPie configuration editor and then notice there was an Aspec ratio setting. I set this to 4:3 and everything is perfect now.

Glad Im solved it and thanks for your time.

Excellent forum by the way

So you were right I only need the rotation part and then needed to set the aspec ratio.
video_allow_rotate = true
video_rotation = 3

This was the magic line:-
aspect_ratio_index = "0"

@mitu good point. So one can use rotation of 90 or 270 degrees BUT the width and height is not exchanged on my proposed setup. Thus my hint only works flawless for 180 degree screen rotate installations.

@dankcushions - It looks like were unable to add comments to the issue. It shows a padlock and the message "You can't perform this action at this time."

@planktonnl you can get your hands dirty and create them yourself.