Default Resolution Error - All Emulators Affected

k-shaps

@BuZz So I tried renaming and got an error message. I'm guessing this means it's corrupted?

BuZz

Your permissions have got messed up again. I can only think you are somehow running RetroPie / RetroPie-Setup under the root user or something as this keeps happening. Do you log in under root on the system?

k-shaps

@BuZz I'm not sure I know what you mean. Where can I check to see what I login under? I haven't changed any default settings after I installed the image if that helps.

k-shaps

So I don't know how but the issue is fixed:

The entire time I have been working through this resolution issue I have had my pi3 hooked into a computer monitor. The issues only started arising after I had plugged my pi3 back into this monitor after having it run into a 720p TV while on a trip. Last night I decided to actually play the pi3 instead of continuing to work on it so I plugged it into my entertainment center - routed the video out of the pi3 through and out my receiver into my 4K display...and viola...the issue was fixed. I had to adjust the screen settings as some of it was cut off but the resolutions are now changing and saving across all emulators.

Not sure how this could ever make sense but it is working now.

I guess the only question I have left is since I was having permissions issues in editing file names within configs/all do you think this issue goes deeper and something could still be wrong on the backend permissions wise?

k-shaps

Any thoughts on this Buzz? Still would like to work any kinks out in case this comes up again. I'm all for a bug free system. Quite OCD with the whole thing to be honest.

BuZz

@k-shaps I don't know, but if it's working, don't worry :-)

k-shaps

Alright - this mess popped up again tonight. I had updated my retropie script, updated all packages, and scraped all my roms for art.

That's all I had done in terms of doing anything with the pi tonight. Now the resolution bug is here again. Now it is affecting the default resolution as well as the default resolution + rom.

Any thoughts why it would pop backup after what I had done?

Should I just go through with resetting the permissions again?

Here is the contents of my videomodes.cfg

mupen64plus-GLideN64 = "CEA-16"
r78732d4a92a2fdc2cb6c1e162157bb6d = "CEA-4"
mupen64plus-GLideN64-highres = "CEA-3"
lr-snes9x2010 = "CEA-16"
r338dc24d43ffc5b449178874b8ef41d8 = "CEA-16"
r3957a229cb43bae2776448483c9a1265 = "CEA-4"
lr-snes9x2010_SuperMarioAll-StarsWorld = "CEA-16"
lr-pcsx-rearmed = "CEA-16"
lr-fceumm_IkariWarriorsUSA = "CEA-31"
lr-mgba = "CEA-1"
lr-fceumm = "CEA-16"
lr-picodrive = "CEA-16"
lr-picodrive_SonicSpinballUSA = "CEA-16"
mupen64plus-GLideN64-highres_fb = "1920x1080"
lr-pcsx-rearmed_FightingForce = "CEA-16"
mame4all = "CEA-16"
lr-fbalpha = "CEA-16"
lr-gambatte = "CEA-16"
lr-beetle-pce-fast = "CEA-16"
lr-nestopia = "CEA-16"
lr-snes9x2010_StreetFighter2Turbo = "CEA-16"
lr-snes9x2010_SuperAlesteEurope = "CEA-5"
lr-snes9x2010_BatmanReturnsUSA = "CEA-16"
lr-snes9x2010_BioMetalUSA = "CEA-16"
lr-snes9x2010_DemonsCrest = "CEA-16"
lr-picodrive_Keio_Flying_SquadronUS-Genesis = "CEA-16"
lr-snes9x2010_Contra3 = "CEA-16"
lr-picodrive_dw-sylpheedu = "CEA-16"
lr-snes9x2010_Hagane-TheFinalConflictUSA = "CEA-16"
lr-snes9x2010_ActRaiser = "CEA-16"
lr-snes9x2010_KirbySuperStar = "CEA-16"
lr-imame4all = "CEA-16"
mupen64plus-gles2rice = "CEA-4"
mupen64plus-gles2rice_SuperSmashBros = "CEA-3"
lr-mgba_F-Zero-MaximumVelocity = "CEA-16"
lr-mgba_MarioTennis-PowerTour = "CEA-16"
lr-mgba_Castlevania-CircleoftheMoon = "CEA-16"
lr-mgba_TheLegendofZelda-TheMinishCap = "CEA-16"
lr-snes9x2010_DonkeyKongCountry2-DiddysKongQuest = "CEA-16"

k-shaps

Alright...never mind. Fixed it again. You are definitely right Buzz. Seems that my permissions keep changing or something.

I was able to fix the resolution not switching by inputting the sudo chown command followed by the ls command in putty. Without restarting my pi I went into each system runcommand menu and adjust the resolution settings.