Odd Megadrive/Genesis Video

[mitu]

@dankcushions said in Odd Megadrive/Genesis Video:

i wonder if this issue is still there in RA 1.8.6? (currently we lock version to 1.8.5) @mitu are you able to test?

I could test, but I can't reliably reproduce it, otherwise I would have probably reported it already (or at least would have tried to find out where it broke).

[GreenHawk84]

@mitu said in Odd Megadrive/Genesis Video:

I could test, but I can't reliably reproduce it, otherwise I would have probably reported it already (or at least would have tried to find out where it broke).

I have also been trying to reproduce it under specific conditions. It does happen every single session I troubleshoot, yet still intermittently. Sometimes the game loads it every time, a few times, or none for that game but a different game does it. Very strange, and I did notice all this happening when Retroarch was updated.

[mitu]

@GreenHawk84 You can try and update RetroArch, maybe the newer version (1.8.6) has a fix for this.

[GreenHawk84]

@mitu can that be done through standard update packages?

[mitu]

@GreenHawk84 Yes, that's why I mentioned it.

[GreenHawk84]

I went ahead and updated Retroarch to 1.8.6, but the issue still occurs. A part of me thinks something "trips" because I loaded Alienstorm on first boot without the issue and then I went to Streets of Rage 2 and the issue happened. Then back to Alienstorm and the issue happened.

[GreenHawk84]

Just for kicks, I deleted all Overrides within Genesis-GX, set my Generic Sega Overlay, set Core scaling, and saved as a Core Override. Last night, every game that I loaded was normal. I thought maybe I cleared out any weird setting saved by the previous Retroarch version 1.8.5. Well today I came home from work, loaded TMNT Hyperstone, and the issue occurred. Changed to Streets of Rage 2 and the issue did not happen. Went back to TMNT and it loaded fine. I cannot nail it down.

[GreenHawk84]

Hello, small detail I noticed that might be related to this. When I saved my settings as Core Aspect Ratio, it saved it looking like this in the menu:

When I load a Sega game, I check the settings, and I notice it looks like this instead:

If I load a game and I go to Video->Scaling, it loads with all the Custom Aspect Ratio settings, yet it is set to Core Aspect Ratio. I highlight Aspect Ratio and I press Right on the joystick, it stays Core but looks like the first screenshot. Then if I press Right again, then it actually changes to the word Custom. There must be some conflict happening in Scaling.

[dankcushions]

looks like this has been logged over at retroarch: https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/10541 (doesn't mention overlays so they might be a red herring)

[GreenHawk84]

Here is a video of the Scaling menu setting I found acting weird anyway:

[GreenHawk84]

Hello, when I go to disable widgets/notifications in Retroarch, it doesn't seem to hold the setting and still has the messages upon loading a ROM. I am trying to see if that eliminates the issue, plus I think it is better without them.

[roslof]

@GreenHawk84 not sure if you'd want to do this, but I noticed your overlay is not 1080p. If you rescale to 1920x1080 and update your overlay window settings, I wager you won't have the same trouble. Issue may be related to some bug with scaling the overlay. All my overlays are 1920x1080 and I absolutely cannot reproduce the issue.

[GreenHawk84]

@roslof I am showing my Genesis overlay files to be 1920x1080: