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    • DougA

      Squashed vertical screen
      Help and Support • vertical screen mame2003 • • DougA

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      @iandaemon The Pi4 does let you rotate in 90 degree increments, though it is nowhere near as simple to do so as on previous generations of Pi. After a couple of days of fiddling, I have Emulation station and Retroarch rotated 90 degrees and (finally) filling the screen. I don’t have the setup menus rotated yet, though. At least on the MAME games I have checked so far, there are no obvious performance issues in doing it.

    • RedMarsBlueMoon

      Turning Cave shooters Vertical on Mame2016 | lr-mame ?
      Help and Support • shmups vertical screen • • RedMarsBlueMoon

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      RedMarsBlueMoon

      I found that I have to press 'Tab' to enter the the settings on the arace board itself which has a 'rotate' option! Great!
      Now I just need to know how to do a 'Tab' with my Playstation DS4 controller!

    • j_infamous

      Vertical Games in a cocktail mode not going vertical
      Help and Support • vertical games vertical screen • • j_infamous

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      dankcushions

      https://retropie.github.io/RetroPie-Docs/lr-mame2003/#tate-mode may be of use

    • cnoto

      4:3 Themes
      Help and Support • themes vertical screen 43ratio • • cnoto

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      mitu

      Most of the themes are not designed for a portrait mode - but you can try some of the 4:3 and CRT designed themes. I remember one them ( crt-centered ) had a simpler layout, with video on top of the gamelist, which would maybe fit the bill.

      link text

      EDIT: you can run the theme-gallery from the Configuration/Tools->Emulationstation to get previews for different themes, just to see how they fit on your screen.

    • JRX88

      Rotating Emulationstation GUI for Vertical Screen
      Help and Support • vertical screen emulationstatio gui rotation • • JRX88

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      retropiecorcoran

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

    • chubsta

      Best way too go about a vertical cab build?
      Help and Support • vertical screen • • chubsta

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      chubsta

      Thanks very much, I wasn't aware that ES could be rotated so that should solve all my issues.

    • chubsta

      What themes are people using it on vertically orientated monitors?
      Projects and Themes • vertical screen • • chubsta

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    • ChBl

      Overlays for vertical arcade games on 1680 x 1050 monitors (16:10)
      Projects and Themes • retroarch overlay arcade cabinet arcade config vertical screen • • ChBl

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      normanmsu96

      I would like to know how to create this. I'm pretty savy but just got interested in overlays because I thought it would be too much trouble for my rotated cocktail arcade.

    • thepatchwerkboy

      Carbon-Vertical
      Projects and Themes • themes carbon vertical screen customize themes • • thepatchwerkboy

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      Thorr69

      @mktaia You should probably take this to their forum - http://orangepi.club/index.php
      I have both a raspberry pi and an orange pi, myself. Orange Pi is still on Jessie, whereas Raspi is now on Stretch. There are going to be differences.

    • panhead_jim

      Configuring vertical screen in Retroarch
      Help and Support • retroarch vertical screen • • panhead_jim

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      thepatchwerkboy

      @andrewh - That is quite acceptable, as I'm always using a wireless keyboard when dropping to command shell.

    • AndrewH

      Any good ES Vertical themes?
      Help and Support • emulationstatio es themes vertical system vertical screen • • AndrewH

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      caver01

      @andrewh I know it is not what you asked for, but I saw a thread some time ago where someone used Attract Mode, as there is apparently a decent vertical theme.

    • morpie

      Best way to run a vertical monitor?
      Help and Support • vertical screen configuration crt speed • • morpie

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      caver01

      @morpie For what it's worth, I have a cocktail style cabinet and play most vertical games rotated by Retroarch (my setup has a three-sided control panel) and performance is great on those games. Actually, vertical orientation works great in other emulators as well. For example, Tempest in AdvanceMAME runs fine rotated to fill a vertical.

      I still use Emulation Station as a front-end since this can be managed from the horizontal position on my system. However, I am using an LCD display upside-down (this is typically the best viewing angle for a table top cocktail design) and I need to rotate everything 180 degrees using config.txt. I don't believe my system pays much of a penalty for that, if any. But I did try running with 90 degree rotation at the system level and I can confirm that games definitely slow down.

      So, from personal experience, if you can keep the operating system horizontal and let the emulators do the rotation for vertical games, you get the best performance. And if Attract Mode has the ability to rotate itself, well, that's the best vertical solution I have heard of on the Pi so far.

    • RaoulAngel

      Standalone Stella, on Vertical screen arrangement
      Help and Support • stella vertical screen standalone • • RaoulAngel

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    • RaoulAngel

      Best themes for Vertical screens?
      Projects and Themes • themes vertical screen narrow • • RaoulAngel

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    • ChristianG

      Best Theme for 4:3 Vertical Arcade Layout
      Help and Support • vertical screen • • ChristianG

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    • morpie

      16:9 Vertical Monitor - Marquee and Bezel Overlay?
      Projects and Themes • vertical screen overlay marquee artwork • • morpie

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      morpie

      @UDb23 said in 16:9 Vertical Monitor - Marquee and Bezel Overlay?:

      Repo for custom overlays

      Many thanks for the suggested link. I will comb over it today as it just started to pour rain and need something to keep busy. Much appreciated.

    • jakob

      How to change fontsize and width of menu?
      Help and Support • arcade cabinet vertical screen main menu fontsize • • jakob

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      Nismo

      @jakob I think not.

    • caver01

      Roadcase (somewhat) Portable Arcade
      Projects and Themes • arcade vertical screen portable • • caver01

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      Clyde

      @caver01 I'm dying of awe right now … what a great idea and execution. 😄