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overscan_left / right etc for sure affect ES – I also had overscan issues in ES (the menu button icons ran over the edge of the screen) and used these settings to sort out my overscan – I had to be right up to the screen to get the pixel-perfect settings 
here’s my config.txt:
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Yeh sorry, I should have said, they don’t affect emulationstation unless overscan_scale is set – or at least that’s what I remember reading.