Rotate Screen on Pi4

mitu

@j_infamous Could be that RGUI (the menu driver) doesn't understand rotation. Try using xmb instead rgui (can be toggled from the Configuration Editor).

j_infamous

I tried those and they didnt work. I also did null and of course it meant what it said and now I dont have a retro arch menu.

j_infamous

I have the menu back but still 90 degree off.

mitu

It must be a limitation of RetroArch's menu drivers.

j_infamous

No one else has complained about it? Seems weird. Maybe they havent gone to the main menu from retroarch.

mitu

I guess is not a common configuration and using the RetroArch menu is not something you do each time you run a game, so maybe it's not a game breaker.

Rion

@j_infamous @mitu

Apparently it's a known problem. No solution so far.

Rotate Menu for Vertical Arcade Screens #537

Menu ignores video_rotation configuration #6770

j_infamous

Thank you! At least I know its not me now.

MISTERHOLLYW00D

Does the screen rotate for text in cmdline work on the pi3? If u don’t want to use display rotate and do it like the pi 4
Would command be the same with hdmi-a-1?

Gryphon

I have a pie4 and I love the way they have the new format setup for it except for 1 thing, no rotate screen fix for emulationstation. It really kills it for me, since I only have a vertical screen. So I am forced to run my rpie4 as a rpie3 to rotate the screen, and rpie3 is not as friendly to me. I have tried everything to rotate the screen as well to no avail. (Unless it has been fixed since the last post on here that I don't know about). Is there anyway the dev's can address this or why did they give up on it?

mitu

@Gryphon No sure what you're talking about - you can rotate the EmulationStation, as stated in the 2nd post of this topic.

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VictimRLSH

@mitu said in Rotate Screen on Pi4:

video_allow_rotate=yes

Uncommenting this in the config doesn't add the screen rotate option in Retroarch's User Interface or Settings>Video menus on the Pi 4 even when Advanced options are enabled.

mitu

@victimrlsh I don't think the configuration option in the GUI is dependent of the video_allow_rotate being present or not. If I enable the Advanced options for RGUI, the Video Rotation option is in Settings -> Video -> Output. I'm not sure what version of RetroArch you're using, the location might be different on your system, but check in the same menu location and see if you find it.

VictimRLSH

@mitu I'll try using RGUI, that might help too.

VictimRLSH

@mitu Found it, and it works. Now I just have to locate the option to save this config for each individual game instead of every game...