Monitor Issue – any ideas?

[Anonymous]

I have a 15 in vga monitor hooked up via hdmi adapter to my rpi. It works just fine in every application, except for playing roms.

I can use the desktop and open applications and everything. However, when I open a rom, I get “cannot display this video mode.”

Example of it working before opening rom: http://i.imgur.com/mk5pXVF.jpg
Error when opening rom: http://i.imgur.com/JwTVyFr.jpg

It’s obviously a monitor issue, as I can connect via hdmi to my tv and it works flawlessly. Any ideas?

p.s. I’ve already made a million tweaks to the config file.

[Floob]

You could set the config.txt to VGA, and also the runcommand to VGA mode in this file
/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

(Easier in 2.4.1 as you can press x to configure this when you play the rom)

This may help:

[Anonymous]

Turns out the answer was in this blog:

Issues on new 4:3 Display

[Floob]

[quote=85267]Turns out the answer was in this blog:

https://www.petrockblock.com/forums/topic/issues-on-new-43-display/

[/quote]

Yes, as above you can tweak the video mode for each system here (in RetroPie 2.4 you can do this as you run the game by pressing x): I should probably rename the video as overscan isnt very accurate.
“this file
/etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg”

The list of 8 options in 2.3 is here:
https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/5ce5f337199dd8fff16450d127b9c94855b55485/supplementary/runcommand.sh

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