[maestroni]

Thanks for the reply but I don’t understand how to do either of those.

I went to /usr/bin/emulationstation and added a parameter after the line “fi”
–resolution 640 480
with no luck

then I added the following code as mentioned in the forum linked below where the user seemed to have success.
https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/issues/55

pushd “$rootdir/supplementary/EmulationStation” > /dev/null
./emulationstation -w 640 -h 480
popd > /dev/null

still no luck

Also, emulationstation does rotate and overscan per the config.txt file and seems to be running at normal speed, so at least I have that going for me.

[maestroni]

Thanks for the response but I’m not quite sure how to pass the resolution parameters to emulationstation.

Do you mean do what the post on 9/02 said:

“settings in the retroarch.conf file like this:
video_fullscreen_x = 0
video_fullscreen_y = 0”

Or the post on 9/03 which had the link and the entry below at the link.

“https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/issues/416
I believe what is happening here is that part of the scraping UI is trying to resize to a negative width because there simply isn’t enough horizontal space for it. You could probably just comment out that line in ComponentGrid.cpp to make it not abort, but it will definitely look funny.”

[maestroni]

Hello,

I tried the above and my emulationstation still does not fit the screen. My setup is a little different in that I have a 16:9 HDTV screen rotated to fit in an arcade cabinet. I attached a picture on 9/3.
I originally thought ES was not recognizing the default overscan settings, but I think it is not recognizing my frame_buffer_width/height settings. The rest of the system fits on a 4:3 screen and with the overscan settings. My retropie files seemed to be the latest but I updated them just in case.

Any ideas?

Here is my /boot/config.txt

# uncomment if you get no picture on HDMI for a default “safe” mode
#hdmi_safe=1
display_rotate=3
# uncomment this if your display has a black border of unused pixels visible
# and your display can output without overscan
#disable_overscan=0

# uncomment the following to adjust overscan. Use positive numbers if console
# goes off screen, and negative if there is too much border
#overscan_left=24
#overscan_right=24
overscan_top=50
overscan_bottom=-50
overscan_scale=1
# uncomment to force a console size. By default it will be display’s size minus
# overscan.
framebuffer_width=640
framebuffer_height=480

# uncomment if hdmi display is not detected and composite is being output
#hdmi_force_hotplug=1

# uncomment to force a specific HDMI mode (this will force VGA)
#hdmi_group=1
#hdmi_mode=1

# uncomment to force a HDMI mode rather than DVI. This can make audio work in
# DMT (computer monitor) modes
#hdmi_drive=2

# uncomment to increase signal to HDMI, if you have interference, blanking, or
# no display
#config_hdmi_boost=4

# uncomment for composite PAL
#sdtv_mode=2

# for more options see http://elinux.org/RPi_config.txt
gpu_mem_256=128
gpu_mem_512=256
gpu_mem_1024=256

[maestroni]

Thanks for the tip

I tried to modify the file under /opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/emulationstation like the link above mentions but the file is a bunch of illegible symbols.

I was using the sudo nano command and a message appears at the bottom of the screen that reads “converted from DOS and MAC format.

[maestroni]

I’ve been searching the internet for a solution for this issue. I’m running a HDTV in portrait mode and the command line all the roms show up with the overscan settings from my config.txt file but emulation station does not recognize these settings.
Is it possible (if these files exist) to add overscan settings to /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg or~/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

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