Smaller RetroArch Screen for Nintendo DS

RetroArch General
#1

I’m using this guide to have smaller screens for handheld systems https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Smaller-RetroArch-Screen

Everything’s working fine. I want to do the same for Nintendo DS. I know that resolution is 256 × 192 per screen. But as there are two screens, I don’t find the right settings to apply the previous method. Does anybody succeeded ?

Thanks.

#2

So, I’ve never done this but I decided to play around with it. It’s actually pretty easy, which I wasn’t expecting.

  • So go into video settings
  • Set aspect ratio to “core provided”
  • Then turn on Integer Scale
  • Then change custom aspect width and height down to 1x.

This gives you 512x768. Which is technically 2x the native resolution of 256x384 for both screens on top of each other.

If you want EXACTLY 256x384 do the following:

  • Change aspect Ratio to custom.
  • Turn integer scale OFF
  • Set the custom width to 256
  • Set the height to 384

Then to center the image, just do the same as it says in the link you provided.

Then, obviously, if you like these settings save it to your config file.

EDIT: Didn’t think about this, but in Core Options you will want to set “Screen Layout” to “top/bottom”

#3

That works really great ! Thanks for the help.

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