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[Grayson]

VGA mode and overscan

First things first. If you have an HDTV and the Raspberry Pi is connected via HDMI to it, I highly recommend you switch to VGA Mode. This is for a better performance (1080p/720p vs. 480p) in emulationstation and the emulators run anyway in 480p. HDMI Group 1 stands for CEA and Mode 1 is VGA. More Infos here. You should also set the overscan scale to one. Otherwise emulationstation doesn’t start or the scaling is incorrect.

/boot/config.txt

hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=1
overscan_scale=1