/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7250284

Too many options, I spend more time trying to decide which one looks best instead of playing l.

>>7250284
If it was on a TV before 2012 I use geom if it was a handheld I use a pallet to get the right look (specifically GBA needs this due to developers compensating for lack of a backlight by upping the saturation.)

I can about approximate my nice 2000s era Trinitron I had when I was a kid with them but I'm always chasing after the shitty 1980s wood panel RCA TV I remember playing my SNES on in the 90s and never really making it.

>>7250284
Reminder that CRT's look like a normal picture in person, if not a bit blurry, unlike in photographs.

A light shader looks nice and spiritual.

>>7250284
We're spoiled rotten.

>>7251492
This, eventually I said “fuck this shit” and started playing on pic related instead of being autistic looking for that perfect setting on pc, fuck accuracy it’s a waste of time

>>7250284
Even as someone who grew up with CRTs I don't think scanline filters look right, and I don't see scanlines as a benefit in general. Some CRT filters without scanlines can look okay but it still seems like they occasionally cause some kind of visual issue. I just played unfiltered.

>>7250284
They are a awesome. I don't even use it to make the game look like they were on my old crt tv since I didn't care about that as a kid.
>optional and free
>there are shitloads of them
>can completely change how a game looks
To me it is 100% personal preference and nothing else. I see it the same way people use ReShade for modern games.

>>7251921
You don’t think this looks amazing?

https://youtu.be/qBzB0YdHn64

>>7251993
lol disgusting

>>7250284
Other than using some light bilinear filtering to reduce shimmering or blending dithering, they're gay especially memeline and chroma bleeding filters.
>>7251707
>using a shader to make GBA games look more washed out
Retard
>>7251993
>emulating phosphor bloom and fucking screen curvature that distorts sprites
No, it looks like fucking shit.

I only ever use shaders for Game Boy games so that my eyes don't get raped playing a fuckin Game Boy game on my tv.

>>7250284
seibatsu!

>>7252753
>using a shader to make GBA games look more washed out
>Retard

Not that anon but you're the retard. GBA artists oversaturated the colors and lightened the blacks because they would look duller and darker on a GBA screen. With out the filters they look like a circus. You don't even know what washed out means. It means low contrast, which is exactly what you're getting if you don't correct the black level

>>7251921
scanlines on an average brightness screen are shit. But if you have a really bright monitor and crank it all the way up they don't darken the image and they aren't as distracting. My opinion on them changed last time I upgraded my monitor. When done right they make the image perceptually less aliased.

If you like a shader then it's fine to use it
Also it's really hard to share screenshots of what you think is a good shader because what the shader looks like depends greatly on the settings for your individual monitor

>>7250284
Smuberstep seems fairly uncontroversial as it just takes the image and makes it look integer scaled at any size with subtle blurring. Nice for any display. I personally prefer Royale's default, RGB look at 4K, and the 320 composite preset for Genesis games, but I get that it'll never be 100% like a CRT. I just find retro pixel art a tad soulless raw and integer scaled.

Bilinear filtering, 2xsai/eagle, wrong aspect ratio, and non-integer scaling are all lookingood.jpg tier, though.

crt filters are fun and make games look better than they do when completely unfiltered. I'm not super autistic about accuracy but I like making my games look more comfy.

Some games look a LOT better with a CRT filter. Pic related. I'm rediscovering the joys of giving Crono and Ayla MP use reduction items and just cheesing everything with Falcon Hit.