Amiga Full Screen?

Retro Arcade Fan

Raspberry Pi 4 with my own custom image. Running my Amiga games with LR-PUAE, which has been more successful for me than Amiberry. Wondering if there's a hot key or a file I can edit to get it to run full screen? Video Mode is 1280x720@60 Hz (74.25 Mhz). Tried other modes and none run full screen.

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

mitu

RetroArch's fullscreen key is F - it's used to toggle fullscreen (on/off).

Retro Arcade Fan

@mitu Unfortunately that didn't work. Hitting F had no effect. Maybe it's a ratio thing? The Amiga emulator won't stretch out the screen width-wise because it would distort the image too much? We didn't have wide-screen monitors back then. (shrug)

mitu

Do you have Integer Scaling enabled in the video settings ? If you're using the default aspect ratio (Core Provided), then the image should fill up the vertical axis if Integer Scaling is off.

F toggles between a fullscreen/windowed RetroArch window, but on a PI there's no 'window' per-se, so unless you're starting RetroArch from a desktop session, the toggle will have no effect.

Retro Arcade Fan

@mitu Is that located in an .ini file somewhere? Because the config menu doesn't have that option (and selecting Fullscreen and turning Correct Aspect Ratio didn't change anything).

Retro Arcade Fan

Ignore this. For some reason, this particular rom is stuck in Amiberry. Need more time to play around with it.

mitu

@Retro-Arcade-Fan said in Amiga Full Screen?:

@mitu Is that located in an .ini file somewhere? Because the config menu doesn't have that option (and selecting Fullscreen and turning Correct Aspect Ratio didn't change anything).

Hm, you're showing the Amiberry configuration screen, but you started by mentioning you're using lr-puae - the configuration options I mentioned are in RetroArch's video menu.

Retro Arcade Fan

@mitu Yes. I realized that after I posted and it was too late to delete the post. For some reason, this particular rom is locked to Amiberry. I can't seem to change it.

sleve_mcdichael

@Retro-Arcade-Fan said in Amiga Full Screen?:

@mitu Yes. I realized that after I posted and it was too late to delete the post. For some reason, this particular rom is locked to Amiberry. I can't seem to change it.

You've tried the normal way? Press any key or button while the launch dialog (grey box that says "press a button to configure...") is onscreen?

Can we please see the contents of:

/opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand.cfg

/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulators.cfg

Retro Arcade Fan

@sleve_mcdichael Yes, and it wouldn't let me choose a different emulator for that particular rom. But thanks to your suggestion, I found the rom in the emulators.cfg file and removed the hard coding line. Now I can select the appropriate emulator.

Thank you very much @sleve_mcdichael

nemo93

@Retro-Arcade-Fan I'm a bit confused about your exact setup and configuration. On latest Amiberry (5.3) the game Sword of Sodan is perfectly working fullscreen without issue (on a stock Pi4 running default Retropie image). Also based on your screen grab of Amiberry GUI I can tell it's a quite outdated version.

Please try the following:

describe clearly your setup (device/os/emulator versions)
assuming you're running an up-to-date Retropie with latest Amiberry (5.3), try again running Sword of Sodan
to be sure provide Sword of Sodan version (is it an .lha? if so what version?)
Amiberry will use internal logic to automatically set optimal settings for the game

As with most Amiga games, fullscreen means 4:3 format where you may end up with vertical black bars on left/right. Some games will be filling the whole screen (eg. Monkey Island's and any other point & click games for instance). It's possible to stretch the whole screen but I'll advise you not to do that as this might distort image. Better to rely on the default provided by Amiberry.

Hope this helps.

Retro Arcade Fan

@nemo93 I haven't upgraded to the latest Amiberry because LR-PUAE has worked well for me. It's very quick to load games and game speed and sound are on par. So I haven't seen a reason/need to try it.