Emulators not respecting aspect ratio.

anothervenue

Just got a Retropie and it’s awesome, however it seems that no matter how I set my my config, it doesn’t respect the aspect ratio. Most retro games around 4:3 and I have all the cfg settings to 4:3 but when I fire up Street of Rage 2 it’s filling up my screen.

I’m plugged into a 1080p TV via HDMI, and if I go into RetroArch while the game is running (select and X) I can change the setting (which is at 16:9 every time)

Any suggestions? It doesn’t have to be 4:3, it can be the original aspect ratio scaled up to fit my screen. I just don’t want to have to set it manually every time I open a game.

Any suggestions are welcome.

dankcushions

@anothervenue by default almost all emulators will be the correct original aspect ratio. i feel your changing the settings has affected this somehow - you don't need to change anything.

Clyde

@anothervenue Please show us the output of this command in Retropie (quit Emulation Station to get to the command line).

cat /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg | grep aspect

@anothervenue said in Emulators not respecting aspect ratio.:

if I go into RetroArch while the game is running (select and X) I can change the setting (which is at 16:9 every time)

Did you save the settings after that? (Retroarch main menu, "Configurations", "Save Current Configuration")

anothervenue

@dankcushions No, it didn't. This is why I started messing around with the settings. I immediately went to Streets of Rage 2 on Genesis, since I know that game like the back of my hand. It was displaying in 16:9 and I know that game is 4:3

@Clyde

video_aspect_ratio = "-1.000000"
aspect_ratio_index="21"
video_aspect_ratio_auto="true"
video_force_aspect="false"

And I've tried to save the config 100 times in the RetroArch menu in the game.

anothervenue

Also, when I load a game, I'm seeing something say Configuration Override Loaded, which I am guessing is what is messing things up.

Where would configurations be overridden at?

mitu

Try looking into config/retroarch/config/, this is where core and game override configurations are stored.

Clyde

@anothervenue See https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Configuration/#config-hierarchy and https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10799/controller-not-working-on-psx-games-except-from-two/6 about overrides. You may have saved an override by accident.

@mitu said in Emulators not respecting aspect ratio.:

Try looking into config/retroarch/config/, this is where core and game override configurations are stored.

I think you forgot the leading dot: .config/retroarch/config/

anothervenue

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dankcushions

@anothervenue said in Emulators not respecting aspect ratio.:

@dankcushions No, it didn't. This is why I started messing around with the settings. I immediately went to Streets of Rage 2 on Genesis, since I know that game like the back of my hand. It was displaying in 16:9 and I know that game is 4:3

for the record, it definitely is the correct AR by default...

mediamogul

@anothervenue

How did you come by your RetroPie setup? Did you personally install and configure everything?