[fjgonzalez]

Nevermind, I figured it out. :)

[fjgonzalez]

I’ve been doing it manually for the past two days on FBA. Here’s what I do.

– Launch the game and try it out using PiFBA. If it doesn’t work, I launch the game again using the libretro FBA emulator. If it works, I leave the libretro FBA as the default emulator for that game. If it doesn’t work…

– …on the game selection screen I press Select on my controller (CTRL key on keyboard, if I remember correctly) and look at the rom file name, then I delete that rom using my laptop which is connected through my network to my Pi. Then I move on to the next game.

– There are also some games that have a bunch of associated roms. For example, in PiFBA, you might see several entries on the game select menu for Final Fight. One of those is the main rom while the others are different language/region versions. What I do, then, is find the rom that plays the language/region I want and delete the rest, EXCEPT for the main rom. That way you end up with two roms of the same name on your game menu.

– You can keep your menu like that, but I go a step further: on the game select screen, go to the main rom for the game and press Select on your controller and change that game name. What I do is change it from Final Fight to zz– Final Fight –zz. That way that rom will show up last in your list. You still have the language/region you selected as the Final Fight rom.

Lots of work, I know, but I couldn’t come up with a better solution.

[fjgonzalez]

I found out how to do this a while ago with the keyboard. The thing is that in order to do it you need to disable any hotkey you have. I tried it out and it works, but sometimes freezes the game if I lower the volume.

[fjgonzalez]

Also, the Super Game Pi 2 name has got to go. I was thinking of Super Pi BAYX (pronounced “bakes”).

[fjgonzalez]

I thought about placing them there, but decided not to. This device is kinda big, and to pause a game you would have to move your hand from the action buttons to the middle of the console. I decided to put them there for easy access.

[fjgonzalez]

Ok, I was able to get rid of the purple line AND the afterimage by commenting hdmi_drive=2, which for some reason I had it uncommented in config.txt. Now the line is gone, the afterimage is gone, but the image looks washed out. No vibrant colors at all. Blacks look gray.

Any idea how to fix that one?

[fjgonzalez]

Forgot to mention that this is the Adafruit 5″ display with the backpack, so the fpc is already mounted to the pcb.

[fjgonzalez]

Thanks.I will try that. Here’s the issue I’m having with the purple line.

[IMG]http://i58.tinypic.com/vi2ulu.jpg[/IMG]

And here’s what’s happening with the afterimage.

[IMG]http://i59.tinypic.com/1zb3v9j.jpg[/IMG]

Anyone know what’s going on?

[fjgonzalez]

I was able to solve the emulator scaling issue but the purple line is stubborn and for the life of me I have no clue how to get rid of it. Also, one thing I’ve noticed is that once I go out of an emulator and back into the Emulationstation menu, I get an afterimage of the game burned into the Emulationstation menu. It fades, though, but it’s very noticeable once I get out of the emulator. The burned afterimage also appears on games. Any idea what might be causing that? Faulty display?

[fjgonzalez]

No, I’m not going to have and HDMI output for TV. I’d rather keep the whole thing as a simple handheld device.

Could you please explain how I lock the output to the resolution of my LCD? I’d love to do that if it would improve emulator performance.

[fjgonzalez]

That worked somewhat. Now I have audio through HDMI but it cuts off from time to time. Any clue how to fix that?

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