can't get a custom screen size working for this game

[racerx_]

ok i've been working on this for pretty much 2 days, been all over the forums and internet, and in more folders and config files in retropie than i can count and just can't get this solved.. i'll try to make this as clear as possible but would love some help.

i set up system-specific overlays that seem to work find for most systems, including arcade bezels. I also have some game-specific cfg files in the arcade folder for games with specific bezel art, as well as those games with vertical screens. tbh i can't even remember where all those files came from now. @Floob in general, but dunno which post i pulled them off of..

most arcade bezels were 4:3 and also sized to fit the thick bezel. I wanted to try some overlays that allowed the screen to go to 1080 vertically (or around there). So i changed the game-specific cfg file in the roms/arcade/ folder and that was fine.

but if i try to downsize the screen a bit below 1080 high it doesn't work. it's somehow stuck between 1200x900 (arcade emulator cfg setting) and 1440x1080 (basically the default size of the game). Any other screen size will result in a black screen with only sound EXCEPT (and this is weird) 750x1000. I happened to pop in the game cfg file values i was using for 1943 to see what would happen. anything skinnier, taller, whatever just goes black with only sound.

here's the game specific cfg located in roms/arcade and named romname.zip.cfg:

# code block
video_shader = "/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/shader/arcade-bezel-shader/crt-pi-vertical.glslp"
video_shader_enable = “false”

input_overlay = /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/overlays/arcade-bezel-overlays/sf2.cfg
input_overlay_enable = true
input_overlay_opacity = 0.850000
input_overlay_scale = 1.000000

custom_viewport_width = “1400”
custom_viewport_height = “900”
custom_viewport_x = “240”
custom_viewport_y = “40"

aspect_ratio_index = "22"

video_scale_integer = false

and here's the retroarch.cfg for the emulator located in configs/arcade/

# code block
# Settings made here will only override settings in the global retroarch.cfg if placed above the #include line

input_remapping_directory = "/opt/retropie/configs/arcade/"

#video_shader = "/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/shader/arcade-bezel-shader/crt-pi.glslp"
#video_shader_enable = “true”

#input_overlay = /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/overlays/arcade-bezel-overlays/#Final_Arcade_NeoGeo_Horizontal.cfg
#input_overlay_enable = true
#input_overlay_opacity = 0.850000
#input_overlay_scale = 1.000000

#custom_viewport_width = "1200"
#custom_viewport_height = "900"
#custom_viewport_x = "362"
#custom_viewport_y = "90"

#aspect_ratio_index = "22"

#video_scale_integer = false

game_specific_options = “true”
#include "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg"

(yes i know the whole thing is hashed out. i was trying a process of elimination to determine what is going on, but without the hashes this cfg is working fine for games with no game-specific cfg)

seems like it's stuck on some 4:3 setting but for some reason, specifically at a few resolutions and i'm not sure where to undo that. can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here? I'm about to lose it..

[dankcushions]

@racerx_ i think the issue is either caused by, or compounded by the multiple incorrect " signs you have in those files.

"this is good"
“this is bad”

only the vertical ones are normally accepted. have you been editing cfg files in word or something like that?

[racerx_]

@dankcushions ahhhhhhhhh... yeah i was using textedit on my mac. what do you recommend i use?

[dankcushions]

@racerx_ i use https://www.sublimetext.com/

[racerx_]

@dankcushions thanks for your help! totally fixed my problem!