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    Best way too go about a vertical cab build?

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    • chubstaC
      chubsta
      last edited by

      I wish to make a cabinet with a vertical screen for all my favourite old-school games such as Pacman, Donky Kong etc.

      I am aware that there is a significant performance hit if I just rotate the screen by adding the command to the config.txt, so what are my options?

      Raspberry Pi 400 - overclocked to 2.3GHz
      Theme - Comic book
      Emulators: All of them...
      Roms: Pretty much all of them...
      Favourite games: Circus Charlie, Gorf, Gauntlet Legends
      Controllers: Mayflash F101

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        Depending on your resolution, the performance hit might not be noticeable.

        Otherwise, if you don't rotate the display, then you'll have to use rotation in

        • Emulationstation (via the --screenrotate option)
        • Emulators - this is up to each emulator used, RetroArch will do this for all its supported cores, I think advmame also supports this (if arcade games are what you're after).
          Of course, everything else will not work - this includes the RetroPie-Setup dialogs and the Runcommand launch menus.
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        • chubstaC
          chubsta
          last edited by

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

          Raspberry Pi 400 - overclocked to 2.3GHz
          Theme - Comic book
          Emulators: All of them...
          Roms: Pretty much all of them...
          Favourite games: Circus Charlie, Gorf, Gauntlet Legends
          Controllers: Mayflash F101

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