Forcing NTSC in EmulationStation

kruuth

EmulationStation runs off the screen despite having overscan turned off. I'm currently in 720x480. If I switch to 640 I just get a black screen. Is there another setting I need to look at?

akafox

Try adding the info in my config.txt to yours

# uncomment this if your display has a black border of unused pixels visible
#  and your display can output without overscan
# disable_overscan=1

# uncomment the following to adjust overscan. Use positive numbers if console
# goes off screen, and negative if there is too much border
overscan_left=10
overscan_right=10
overscan_top=-8
overscan_bottom=-4

# uncomment for composite PAL
sdtv_mode=0
sdtv_aspect=1
overscan_scale=1

Adding the overscan_scale=1 solved all my problems though..and the overscan numbers may differ for your setup.

jonnykesh

@akafox you can place text in code blocks so it appears like this

#hash tags
display properly
and markdown is
ignored

Just put three backticks ` above and below the text you want to use.

akafox

@jonnykesh THANK YOU VERY MUCH! :D

I knew there had to be a way to do that just didn't know how.
(is there a cheat sheet for those formatting tags anywhere?)

kruuth

This is great but emulation station still seems to overscan.

akafox

@kruuth Post a copy of your entire config.txt please.

jonnykesh

@akafox Here you go... http://commonmark.org/help/

akafox

@jonnykesh That is not a config.txt

jonnykesh

@akafox Hahaha, that is the formatting tutorial you asked for...

akafox

facepaws oh sorry xD

Thank you! :D

kruuth

Here's my config.txt:

disable_overscan=1
overscan_left=150
overscan_right=150
overscan_top=0
overscan_bottom=50
dtparam=audio=on
gpu_mem_256=128
gpu_mem_512=256
gpu_mem_1024=256
#overscan_scale=0

kruuth

Anything?

akafox

check these settings as well or add them
sdtv_mode=0
sdtv_aspect=1

and
#overscan_scale=0
should be overscan_scale=1

after that try
overscan_left=10
overscan_right=10
overscan_top=-8
overscan_bottom=-4