N64 question...something overwriting my changes to mupen64plus.cfg. What is it?

[nyvram]

I am using Dell 5:4 monitor (1600x1200)

Retropie 4.7.1, Raspberry pi4 2GB

Super Mario 64 displays with a giant X & Y offset and actual screen is pushed to the right and bottom of the display. I can't seem to figure out what is causing the offset.

Details:

/config/n64/mupen64plus.cfg has these settings which I've tried to modify:

[Video-General]

Fullscreen = False
ScreenWidth = 1920
ScreenHeight = 1080
VerticalSync = False
AspectRatio = True

Every time I change them for 1600x1200 and reload the emulator they are changed back automatically upon launch.

• configs/all/retroarch is 1600x1200 and works correctly for my other consoles and arcade games but because the emulator being used for Super Mario 64 doesn't support retroarch I can't open the menu in there and see what is going on.

• The configs/n64/retroarch.cfg file only contains these lines:

input_remapping_directory = "/opt/retropie/configs/n64/"
video_smooth = "true"

savefile_directory = "~/RetroPie/saves/n64"
savestate_directory = "~/RetroPie/saves/n64/states"
input_player1_analog_dpad_mode = "0"
input_player2_analog_dpad_mode = "0"
input_player3_analog_dpad_mode = "0"
input_player4_analog_dpad_mode = "0"
#include "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg"

Ok so I am stuck. Clearly something is modifying the file each time this is launched but I don't understand enough about the relationship between the N64 emulators and retropie/retroarch even after reading the documentation to figure this out.

Thanks for any help!

[nyvram]

Well I finally figured it out. This drove me absolutely crazy.

The 'run command' for these contained under:

/configs/n64/emulators.cfg included hard-coded resolutions (1920x1080) for widesceen monitors and this was what kept overwriting the [video-general] section in the mupen64plus.cfg file.

I about pulled my hair out trying to figure out what was making the changes. I looked at about 774 different retroarch.cfg files and it wasn't actually in any of them. :/

Anyway, maybe this will help others in the same boat..

[mitu]

@nyvram said in N64 question...something overwriting my changes to mupen64plus.cfg. What is it?:

/configs/n64/emulators.cfg included hard-coded resolutions (1920x1080) for widesceen monitors and this was what kept overwriting the [video-general] section in the mupen64plus.cfg file.

That's strange, there shouldn't be any hardcoded values there with a default RetroPie install - unless the user has manually modified the launch scripts. How did you install RetroPie ?