CRT shaders

[Anonymous No.8507185]

Last thread was fun >>8462024 post some more

[Anonymous No.8507197]

1080p battlebrothers!

[Anonymous No.8507202]

>>8507185

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>>8507202
Metal Slug
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ECKS

[Anonymous No.8507293]

>>8507185
For me, it's crt deluxe geom. It's the phosphor decay. It's a subtle detail not many shaders go for, and most definitely happens on real CRTs.

[Anonymous No.8507347]

customvpreset anon from the previous thread.
here are the fruits of my labor.

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>>8507347

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>>8507358

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>>8507396

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>>8507347
>>8507358
>>8507396
The non filtered versions are better.
Ah, fuck it. There is no way to judge properly from a still image. Can you post videos?

[Anonymous No.8507427]

>>8507417

>>8507418
not right now.

[Anonymous No.8508193]

>>8507347
>>8507358
>>8507396
>>8507417
>>8507427
Too blurry.

[Anonymous No.8508463]

>>8508193
there is no other way to naturally blend dithering.
i'm even applying a layer of sharpening to mitigate it a bit.

>>8507418
videos are here.
>monster world 4
https://streamable.com/si1qp1
>sonic 2
https://streamable.com/8taveb
>super mario world title screen
https://streamable.com/euy6c4
>super mario world in-game
https://streamable.com/sjq9u0
>earthworm jim 2 (ps1)
https://streamable.com/q6suvi
>super metroid
https://streamable.com/j61wpv

[Anonymous No.8508495]

>>8508463
>streamable doesn't support 1080p now
well shit, here i go again.
>monster world 4
https://litter.catbox.moe/jlvj1r.mp4
>sonic 2
https://litter.catbox.moe/jgnmma.mp4
>super mario world title screen
https://litter.catbox.moe/s3ozr0.mp4
>super mario world in-game
https://litter.catbox.moe/whk7sw.mp4
>earthworm jim 2 (ps1)
https://litter.catbox.moe/1dutce.mp4
>super metroid
https://litter.catbox.moe/fz4y0u.mp4

[Anonymous No.8508534]

>>8508463

[Anonymous No.8508545]

this thread is most definitely lookin good

[Anonymous No.8508591]

>>8508534
>even more blurry
>wrong aspect ratio
>wrong colors
>curvature shit
you sure showed me

[Anonymous No.8508731]

>>8508534
Why the fuck are you playing this in 8:7?

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>>8508783
Anon, give me the two pictures you used for the gifs in their original quality.

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>>8508786
1

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>>8508786
2

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>>8508806
There.

[Anonymous No.8508819]

>>8508813
what do you use for gifs, anon?

[Anonymous No.8508913]

>>8508819
gifski

[Anonymous No.8508948]

I feel CRT curvature effects are misguided. Not hating on the people who want to use them, but I think the deal with them is when I did play on an actual curved CRT, my brain filtered it out and learned to see the picture as a square whole, eliminating the perception of curvature. When it's done in software, the visual distortion is unavoidable.

Similarly, I've been using a large concave curved monitor for several years now. I got used to it in about a week. I don't see the curvature at all anymore, everything looks perfectly straight, and I don't even notice it's curved unless I stand up and look at it from an odd angle. I was a little worried buying one of these things at first wondering if it was just a "meme" but I actually prefer it now.

[Anonymous No.8508954]

>>8507358
>>8507396
Why's it always gotta be A *or* B? If the filtered version is too blurry or obnoxious looking, start tweaking it. A little bit of scanline/grid/phosphor effect can go a long way, it doesn't need to look like a digicam photo of a print magazine.

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[Anonymous No.8509149]

>makes screen darker
nothing personal kid

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[Anonymous No.8509196]

Can any shader simulate this?

[Anonymous No.8509204]

>>8509196
That's probably down to the NES's composite signal than it being played on a CRT. Probably Blargg's NTSC filter or one of the many NTSC shaders can replicate this.

[Anonymous No.8509223]

>>8509142

[Anonymous No.8509225]

>>8509196
that's from dot crawl

[Anonymous No.8509226]

>>8509149
Raise the gamma.

[Anonymous No.8509236]

>>8509204
>>8509225
Cheers.

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>>8508534
Looks like a magazine screenshot kinda

[Anonymous No.8509257]

>>8509247
That's pretty good. What's your config?

[Anonymous No.8509272]

>>8509196
Can they? Sure. Do they? Probably not.
Shader developers all seem obsessed with scanlines and making the screen as dim as possible with aperture grilles, few seem interested in simulating the actual effects of the phosphors.

[Anonymous No.8509280]

>>8509247
damn rikimaru has a fat ass

[Anonymous No.8509295]

>>8509257
>What's your config?
None really. Internal resolution is native, integer scaling is turned on, shader is XM-29+ and the screen is 1080p.

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>>8509272
I think the same
Some shaders or settings could come close but I think possibly even a ROM hack would be a better approach in a case like this

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>>8508545
retard

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>>8509352
I like this. What settings?

[Anonymous No.8509395]

>>8509386
see
>>8509295

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>>8509352
I hate asking but which games are these? This one only if you can't be bothered listing them all.

[Anonymous No.8509425]

>>8509191
whatever you prefer but it doesn't really make sense that you'd force applying the shader to the overlay

[Anonymous No.8509442]

>>8509416
I don't mind. Pic related is Tomba 2.

>>8509247
Tenchu 1

>>8509298
Brightis

>>8509319
Ace Combat 3 (JPN)

>>8509330
>>8509335
>>8509339
Gamera 2000

>>8509348
>>8509352
>>8509354
Side by Side Special 2000

>>8509357
>>8509359
>>8509362
Wipeout 3

>>8509364
Taroumaru: Shinrei Juusatsushi

>>8509371
Treasures of the Deep

>>8509378
>>8509382
>>8509395
>>8509401
>>8509408
Xena: Warrior Princess

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>>8509442
Thanks!

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>>8508981
What game

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>>8509459
Blade Master, arcade.

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>>8509425
Not him but it kinda does if you're mimicking Super Gameboy or Gameboy Player.

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>>8507185
When will shaderlets learn that no emulater can compare to the warm glow of a box tv

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>>8507418
>jaggies and flat lighting are better!
Indiegamer detected.

[Anonymous No.8509610]

>>8508948
Well you can make the curvature as subtle as you want. I find it has a similar effect to vignettes, it removes the sense of sudden hard edges around the image. In some games it even adds a sense of depth to the scene that's lacking (Rolling Thunder springs to mind).

[Anonymous No.8509629]

>>8509558
Is this actually 4:3?

[Anonymous No.8509634]

>>8508948
the curvature was never desired, it was a detrimental defect of crt manufactory (and was later greatly reduced and ultimately eliminated) and only giga autists prefer to use it on crt shaders.

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>>8509767
Is this a CRT or a shader?

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>>8510872
I got reason to believe most of this stuff is xm29 preset

[Anonymous No.8511895]

there's some guest dr venom and lottes in this thread too

[Anonymous No.8512189]

XM29's LUT is a bit too reddish. Anyone got a better 32bit one?

[Anonymous No.8512217]

>>8512189
Somebody on here once made the according adjustments to the shader and posted a link when I asked for it but I can't find it now neither on my PC nor in the archive.

[Anonymous No.8512234]

>>8512189
>>8512217
Nevermind. I did find it.
https://www.xup.in/dl,12575392/crt-royale-xm29plus_fixed_no_orange.slangp/

Post some screenshots will you because I actually never tried it.

[Anonymous No.8512240]

>>8512189
I just replaced #0 LUT.slang with stock.slang
Have no clue if it introduces any negative points but I never noticed any

[Anonymous No.8512242]

>>8512234
Sorry, I can't really use that. I'm using Reshade, which needs a .png file for an LUT. XM29 looks great on dark colors, but is otherwise too potent sadly.

[Anonymous No.8512257]

>>8512242
Tried a transparent png?

[Anonymous No.8512280]

>>8512257
Yeah I can disable it, though the shader will completely change the palette to a 64 bit one.

[Anonymous No.8512305]

>>8507185
Are there any CRT shaders that are brighter? I have tried several of them and they all soften the picture like a CRT but the colors become so dark. I remember CRTs being a lot more luminous.

[Anonymous No.8512308]

>>8512305
im convinced most people making these have never used a crt and are going by memory or what others say, none of them get the look right

[Anonymous No.8512326]

>>8512305
>>8512308
CRTs are brighter than the majority of LCDs to begin with. Adding scanlines and masks will, of course, darken the picture further, and lord help you if you want to add black frame insertion into the mix to match a CRT's motion clarity. Only way to counteract this is with brighter HDR screens, and those are quite a bit more expensive at this point.

[Anonymous No.8512347]

>>8512308
>>8512305
Shaders darken the picture unless you compensate with higher gamma/brightness/contrast. Still, there is a certain nuance to the glow of a CRT in which is can both output a bright image but also keep the contrast between colors low so that they neither bloom like a motherfucker or become so dark that you can't see shit.
This >>8507197 is the closest I could get to my own CRT's brightness with Royale so far, and even then it's "flattening" the bright colors and making them a bit hard to tell apart. This can be fixed if I raise the bloom underestimation but it'll also, well, add too much bloom.

[Anonymous No.8512719]

I've been playing around with newpixie lately.
I know it's not very CRT-accurate, but I like the look.
It adds some kinda "depth" that I can't quite understand.
https://files.catbox.moe/1as2vr.jpg

[Anonymous No.8513339]

>>8512719
why is it so green

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>>8513467
>>8513470
>>8513478
>>8513485
>>8513486
>>8513490
>>8513494
I'm curious, what does it look like if you turn on downsampling, PGXP, and texture filtering?

[Anonymous No.8513534]

>>8513510
Like ass probably? But not the good kind. I'm not gonna try that. All the screenshots are old.

[Anonymous No.8513535]

>showing off shaders on static images

[Anonymous No.8513540]

>>8513510
Like ass probably? I'm not gonna try that. All those screenshots are old anyway.

[Anonymous No.8513549]

>>8513535
Ikr? 3MB bit starved video clips with crazy compression are way better suited for that sort of stuff.

[Anonymous No.8513581]

>>8513549
gif in particular really is an awful image format for this sort of thing. png comparisons via something like Imgsli is probably the best way.

[Anonymous No.8513702]

Anyone bothered by the pink hue of xm29 preset: set mask sample mode to 0 instead of fucking with the LUT. That pink hue is just a scaling artifact on lower res screens due to that faster but less precise sampling mode

[Anonymous No.8513785]

>>8513702
That's some nice advice, thanks.
https://files.catbox.moe/ththv4.jpg

[Anonymous No.8514674]

>>8513702
I'm not sure that does it all. The LUT changing it warmer seems to be on people's higher res screenshots too.

[Anonymous No.8514705]

>>8514674
Yes it's warmer but if there's a downright red tinge then it's a side effect of the mask sampling mode producing scaling artifacts.

[Anonymous No.8515294]

>>8513702
Yeah I set mine to grille already. It really is the LUT itself though.

[Anonymous No.8515452]

>>8513785
>slot mask
based.
this is what most tv's had but few crt shader attempts to recreate. everyone falls for the aperture grille meme.

[Anonymous No.8515465]

>>8515452
Just pretend you had a Sony TV who cares

[Anonymous No.8515468]

>>8515452
as an anon who loves crt looks, would you mind explaining the difference between an aperture grill vs a slot mask?

[Anonymous No.8515491]

>>8515294
I'm talking about this one, mask_sample_mode_desired in the shader file. It controls how the selected mask is scaled to the whole screen. 0 is the highest setting, 1 is faster but less accurate and somehow overemphasizes the red phosphors at <4k resolutions and 2 blows the mask texture up like >>8515452

[Anonymous No.8515502]

I'm really enjoying XM29 now.
https://files.catbox.moe/jy837m.png

[Anonymous No.8515507]

>>8515452
Aperture grilles are much easier to emulate well.

[Anonymous No.8515518]

>>8515468
this is aperture grille. no gaps between phosphors.
dunno about the technical mumbo jumbo, but slot mask gives a texture to the image that i like.

[Anonymous No.8515594]

>>8515491
Yeah, mate. That makes almost no difference over here. This is the default value set to 1.

[Anonymous No.8515596]

>>8515594
I have to say I tried it and didn't notice much difference either. Maybe it can differ from game to game.

[Anonymous No.8515598]

>>8515491
And this is with sample mode set to 0.

[Anonymous No.8515602]

>>8515594
>>8515598
Sample mode 0 (grille) works better for 1080p screens.

[Anonymous No.8515620]

>>8515602
Eh, I would call that a miniscule difference if anything. Evidently it did not impact the overall color hue of the image to fix any potential red or orange tint as was advertised. The shader absolutely does shift things into a warmer color spectrum though. I actually like it.

[Anonymous No.8515643]

>>8515594
>>8515598
And with no shader for comparison.

[Anonymous No.8515657]

>>8515643
Ah what the hell. Let's do this properly.

Mode 1 (Default)

Also, RetroArch is a piece of shit these days on my hardware. Pain in the ass. Which is the reason I was too lazy to crop the images before but then again, that wasn't usually necessary until now. Not until the OpenGl renderer put nearly 100% load on the system and screenshot functionality is broken with D3D11. Which is the reason I am using Afterburner for screenshots now but that captures the entire screen including the black borders and I have to batch crop all that shit in Photoshop. Framerate and V-Sync options are also busted.\rant

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>>8515643
>>8515657
Mode 0 again.

[Anonymous No.8515690]

>>8515468
left aperture grille
right slot mask

[Anonymous No.8515694]

>>8515660
Slot adds more shimmer to the phosphors which in turn adds more bloom. It makes them a lot more visible and less uniform than grille, which makes it look like the image has a bunch of shiny grains all over it rather than a smooth texture like >>8515690.

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>>8515958

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>>8515963
god almighty

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>>8515452
what did old monitors have? I distinctly remember lemmings you could see a 'separation' between the one pixel high steps from the builder but no vertical separation anywhere. Would that be Aperture Grille?

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>>8516010
Shadow mask.

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>>8516010

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>>8515994
Do you think something might be wrong with my RF cable?

[Anonymous No.8516106]

can anyone recommend a good shader that has the crt effect of scanlines + slot mask but also NTSC composite blur + dot crawl? seems like there's only either or

[Anonymous No.8516203]

so I watched a video on youtube on how to get this effect and they went through all these hoops of taking an image and separating each color channel and running it through a mask of its respective phosphor dot channel and then adding the images back up. I did all that and what came out was basically the same thing as simply just multiplying a phosphor texture over the original image.

[Anonymous No.8516320]

>>8516106
>can anyone recommend a good shader that has the crt effect of scanlines + slot mask but also NTSC composite blur
crt-guest-advanced with some tweaking.
> + dot crawl?
dunno.

[Anonymous No.8516342]

So there's a nightly build of retroarch with Vulcan HDR support. Using the guest advance shader with HDR on my oled with BFI turned on...this really does straight up replace CRT's for me. Id show a picture but I dont know if the HDRness would carry over/be apparent. But HDR basically negats any brightness loss from using masks/scanlines. Its perfect

[Anonymous No.8516364]

>>8516342
you can try to record a video with hdr and upload it to youtube or something.

[Anonymous No.8516707]

>>8516342
Apparently windows gamebar can take hdr screenshots that can be viewed in the windows photo viewer. HDR on windows is such a mess it might or might not work.

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>>8516342
>>8516707
And your results could be dependent on your monitor or TVs calibration.

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>>8507197
first post and still the best in the thread

[Anonymous No.8516751]

man the ps1's dithering looks especially good with the crt shaders

[Anonymous No.8517106]

>>8516713
This is quite important especially if you have it on low brightness

[Anonymous No.8517252]

>>8508591
ngl, I like some slight curvature

[Anonymous No.8517253]

>>8507427
I feel like these need the level crunched on them afterwords to brighten them up. They all make the image too dark.

[Anonymous No.8517383]

tried most shader itt but they all look like crap on my 1080p display. the only one that looks somewhat good and ''right'' is this one >>8512719 but I can't seem to remove the green tint it adds nor the ghosting, and it darkens the picture too much. i'm out of ideas (other than upgrading or getting a real crt)

[Anonymous No.8517386]

>>8517383
What GPU are you running?

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>>8517386
1660 TI
by upgrading I meant getting a 4k screen

[Anonymous No.8517443]

>>8517398
Why not just run it at 4k?

[Anonymous No.8518327]

>>8517383
I honestly think Silent Hill can only look good on a CRT. The intense dithering in that particular game makes it the case.

[Anonymous No.8518912]

>>8517383
You gotta tweak it.

[Anonymous No.8518975]

>>8515502
This one looks most correct to me, but it still looks a little dark.

[Anonymous No.8518982]

protip: different panel types have different subpixel layouts. Most shaders are made for specific rgb subpixel structures found on LCD's. If you're running shaders on an OLED you probably have a different subpixel layout which is going to cause artifacts (though small ones) if you're not using a mask that takes your subpixel layout into account

[Anonymous No.8519001]

>>8518982
the only oled i have is my phone and at such size i doubt it makes a difference.
well, i do have a vita too, but i think retroarch doesn't support shaders there.

[Anonymous No.8519016]

>>8518982
This. That's another thing that gets lost in screenshots. Hell, even some LCD panels on PC monitors are not standard RGB, hence shaders incorporating masks taking advantage of subpixel layouts will look off on those.

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>>8516028
>>8516031
thanks anon

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>>8519081
>that gradient blending

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>>8519109
Yeah boy
We Darius now

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>>8519278
It gets me real mad I can't get these to work.

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>>8519278
that actually looks bretty gud

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>>8519294
what do you mean?

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>>8519341
I pick one like any other shader and it says it failed to load.

[Anonymous No.8519532]

Yeah, you're going to have to give just a little bit more info buddy. Like what emulator is it? What video driver is the renderer set to? Have turned off integer scaling because that's usually what you do with border shaders (even though that won't cause it to outright fail). Anyway, you're probably using the wrong type of shader for the renderer you are using would be my guess.

OpenGL = glsp
D3D11 / Vulkan = slang

[Anonymous No.8519539]

>>8519492
Yeah, you're going to have to give just a little bit more info buddy. Like what emulator is it? What video driver is the renderer set to? Have turned off integer scaling because that's usually what you do with border shaders (even though that won't cause it to outright fail). Anyway, you're probably using the wrong type of shader for the renderer you are using would be my guess.

OpenGL = glsp
D3D11 / Vulkan = slang

[Anonymous No.8519540]

>>8519492
does it load for 5-10 secs and then gives you the message, or does it say failed to load right as you pick it? when it freezes and fails that usually happens when your gpu is not beefy enough for the shader you're trying to run, if it instantly gives you an error message then the preset is not in the correct folder
are you running your games at upscaled internal res? switch back to native if that's the case

[Anonymous No.8519545]

>>8519539
>>8519540
I'm no dumbass. I use and tweak shaders regularly.

[Anonymous No.8519546]

>>8519540
>>8519539
oh yeah and for that specific shader you need to set your video driver to vulkan like he said, full aspect ratio, integer scaling off. the shader scales itself automatically

[Anonymous No.8519629]

>>8519545
I get it. You're the greatest at shaders. A God if you will. Yet you somehow just can't get borders to load. Inconventiently you're also too proud to talk to us mere mortal humans and provide really just any info on what exactly it is you're trying to do over there. You'd rather continue posting pictures of your furry waifu being sad for attention. Man, fuck off.

[Anonymous No.8519656]

>>8519545
>guise I can't get this shit to work
>here let us help you, have you tried all these steps already?
>fuck you I know what I'm doing

Learn some fucking humility, furfag.

[Anonymous No.8519669]

>>8519545
well idk then, Works On My Machine

[Anonymous No.8519680]

>>8519656
>>8519629
You guys take this stuff too seriously.
I really don't care that much if I'm too stupid to get it to work. I obviously troubleshooted and went through the obvious steps like putting them in different directories, changing my video and render settings, in every single combination. It just never loaded. It's no biggie.

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>>8519680
>I'm not mad you're mad

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>>8519687
Okay? You win.

[Anonymous No.8519696]

POST
SHADERS

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>>8519691
Stop posting that. She's cute, okay? There I said it. Just... stop. Please. My penis can only get so erect.

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>>8519696
Careful what you wish for.

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>>8519734
EEEAAAUAAAEGH

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>>8519765
Looks like shit.
Gross.

[Anonymous No.8519782]

>>8519073
>>8519081
>>8519116
>>8519128
which vidya? it reminds me of Wing Commander Prophecy

[Anonymous No.8519814]

>>8519782
>CWV1.gif
I think it might be Colon Wars Vengeance.

[Anonymous No.8519826]

>>8519697
Rivet is made for big human cock

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>>8519782
>>8519814
Colony Wars Vengeance.
It's ass. You'll be amazed at how poorly someone can teach you how to play your stupid game.

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>>8519829
>You'll be amazed at how poorly someone can teach you how to play your stupid game.
Like I get what you're trying to say but that is a poorly worded sentence my guy.

[Anonymous No.8520346]

>>8519386
Why don't you stop the cock tease and post the shader?

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>>8520346
looks like a tweaked crt royale xm29 plus

[Anonymous No.8520481]

What were they thinking? lmao

[Anonymous No.8520516]

>>8520481
what were you thinking that didn't blended all that dither?

[Anonymous No.8520548]

>>8520516
I played genesis over a 1084s commodore RGB monitor. The signal was so strong, there was always visible dithering. Automated dither blending is also a destructive filter that changes the graphics. An absolute No-Go.

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[Anonymous No.8520616]

I'm new to shaders. I'm trying to use the CRT Royale shader I hear so much about but it's this blurry fucking mess, what do I do?

[Anonymous No.8520621]

>>8520616
Depends, what do you want it to look like?

[Anonymous No.8520650]

>>8520621
Not blurry

[Anonymous No.8520657]

>>8520346
I said it before. It's just XM29+. No adjustments whatsoever. I run the core with default everything. Native res, OpenGl rederer. Integer scaling is enabled. That's is all. Same as all the other images I posted earlier.

>>8509442
>>8509465
>>8509473
>>8509482
>>8509731
>>8509732
>>8509737
>>8509741
>>8509743
>>8509748
>>8513467 pp.

It's not the best choice for just any system though. I don't like how NES games look with it for example.

[Anonymous No.8520739]

neat
https://github.com/TreyM/classic-crt-collection

[Anonymous No.8520741]

>>8520739

[Anonymous No.8520745]

>>8520741

[Anonymous No.8520826]

>>8520739
>>8520741
>>8520745
Hmm, during NES/SNES we had a TV like pic related.

[Anonymous No.8521802]

>>8520826
Certainly doable but likely wouldn't make for a good border because the game would have to be off-centre for it to look decent. Otherwise either the right side would likely be cropped off (ruining the point of it) or it'll look weirdly framed.

[Anonymous No.8521820]

>>8507185
To everyone that is really into CRT shaders itt
trust me
just find a real CRT, you won't be sorry

[Anonymous No.8521834]

>>8521820
Wow, we never thought of that!

[Anonymous No.8521839]

>>8521834
well to be honest I was happy with them
and then I found one that I recapped and then went and bought real hardware for pretty much all consoles, usually I'd regret purchases like that
but I'm actually happy buying it
I'm looking for a real candy cab now

[Anonymous No.8521854]

>>8521820
pass
it's not just about the visuals

[Anonymous No.8522235]

>>8521820
I already have one, thanks. I'll keep using shaders because it's fun.

[Anonymous No.8522271]

>>8520616
What the fuck is going on there, what are your specs?

[Anonymous No.8522275]

thoughts?

[Anonymous No.8522278]

>>8520548
>Automated dither blending is also a destructive filter that changes the graphics.
>Proceed with changing the graphics.
What were you thinking again?

[Anonymous No.8522279]

>>8522275
too low res

[Anonymous No.8522280]

>>8522275
What is this trying to simulate?

[Anonymous No.8522284]

>>8520548
>Automated dither blending is also a destructive filter that changes the graphics.
>Proceed with changing the graphics nonetheless.
What were you thinking again?

[Anonymous No.8522286]

>>8520548
>Automated dither blending is also a destructive filter that changes the graphics.
>Proceed with changing the graphics.
What were you thinking again?

[Anonymous No.8522289]

>>8520548
>Automated dither blending is also a destructive filter that changes the graphics.
>Proceed with changing the graphics nonetheless.
What were you thinking again?

[Anonymous No.8522297]

>>8520516
I played genesis over a 1084s commodore RGB monitor. The signal was so strong, there was always visible dithering. Automated dither blending is also a destructive filter that changes the graphics. An absolute No-Go.

[Anonymous No.8522303]

I don't see the point in adding crt shaders to 3d games, they benefit vastly from increased resolution instead.

[Anonymous No.8522314]

>>8522303
Making a game look prettier at its native resolution is more fun than just cheating with high resolutions.

[Anonymous No.8522315]

>>8522303
I'd like to see the same pic native with royale s video on a 4k monitor.

[Anonymous No.8522338]

>>8522303
It depends on how many 3D assets the game uses and even then a combination of supersampling and a shader will look alright.
Games that use pre rendered assets will look decent too.

[Anonymous No.8522351]

>>8522286
>>8522289
Adding a filter to mimic the look of a CRT is not the same as erasing pixels drawn by the game's artist.

[Anonymous No.8522364]

>>8522351
This anon is right

[Anonymous No.8522395]

>>8522303
You only think it looks better upping the internal resolution
When all it does is make everything look dated and non cohesive

[Anonymous No.8522401]

>>8522395
And when I say dated I mean like those Chinese CG reenactments

[Anonymous No.8522407]

>>8522303
Yuck. All that does is expose technical limitations and abysmal texture quality.

[Anonymous No.8522409]

>>8508534
ignore the haters, looks amazing. also give me the shader, if it's reall

[Anonymous No.8522425]

>>8522351
Adding a filter to mimic composite doesn't change pixels drawn by the game's artist as less as the one who just mimics the phospor grid or whatever.
Game's artist did it with and for the composite.

[Anonymous No.8522435]

>>8522395
>dated
I don't look at things in that way, they're either effective at getting across a mood or idea or they're not.

[Anonymous No.8522448]

>>8522435
They look dated because you are doing essentially what the recent GTA remakes did

[Anonymous No.8522454]

How do you guys take RA screenshots? ShareX doesnt work with it, I use Greenshot, but it captures the black borders as well

[Anonymous No.8522458]

>>8522454
Something's going on with your mask width. Set it to 2 or 3. Just use print screen.

[Anonymous No.8522461]

>>8522454
RA can take screenshots.

[Anonymous No.8522469]

>>8522280
playing on a high quality crt at night while high

[Anonymous No.8522503]

>>8522454
Settings > Input > Hotkeys > Take Screenshot (f8 is default).
It save to ~\RetroArch\Screenshots by default but you can change that as well.
Also make sure to enable Settings > Video > Scaling > Integer Scaling as well as Settings > Video > GPU Screenshot.

You can record videos with RA as well but GPU recording after upscaling and shading is hardware intensive while doing it before has no real performance impact. That setting is under Settings > Recording > Use GPU Recording

If you want to take PS1 screenshots with Beetle PSX and have crop overscan enabled, you might have to set a horizontal pixel offset in that specific core's options lest you might end up with a column of one or two black pixels on the side of the image.

[Anonymous No.8522507]

>>8520616
just use crt-guest-advanced or crt-guest-dr-venom-fast if on mobile.
some tweaking is needed to make it look the best, but fiddle around a little and see for yourself.

[Anonymous No.8522509]

>>8522503
Oh, and that last one, pixel offset is on a per-game basis. Always gotta take a test screenshot first to see if the image is aligned correctly.

[Anonymous No.8522528]

>>8522351
you are noy erasing anything, retard.
you are creating new pixels blending two together, that's what dithering is for.

[Anonymous No.8522541]

>>8520739
>>8520741
>>8520745
enjoy image retention with those borders.

[Anonymous No.8522640]

>>8522541
>image retention on an lcd screen
retard

[Anonymous No.8522647]

>>8521820
>playing games instead of coding shaders
Where's the fun in that?

[Anonymous No.8522665]

>>8522640
>lcd screens don't have burn-i...

[Anonymous No.8522683]

>>8522665
You were staring at a google search results page long enough for it to leave an afterimage? Really? Anyway, leave this running overnight and it might be fixed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN-KIlsxxOw

[Anonymous No.8522689]

>>8522665
Also I think you're full of shit because not even my taskbar has left an afterimage and that shit is there 10 hours a day.

[Anonymous No.8522694]

>>8521820
>have real crt
>need to find an adapter to convert signal to composite
>adapter doesn't convert down to 240p just 480i
>if you happen to find one that it does it will not switch between 240p and 480i automatically for games that do that
it's a bigger can of worms than fiddling with shaders.

[Anonymous No.8523049]

>>8522665
LOL

[Anonymous No.8523134]

>>8522694
What practical effects would this have if I wanted to play some Snes or PSX? 240p is a valid resolution but the TV always runs in 4:3 480i/576i, it doesn't have a 240p display mode.

[Anonymous No.8523148]

>>8523134
Games output 240p during gameplay, and only output 480i to make small text readable in menus. Otherwise they don't output interlaced video, do you know why? Cuz it FUCKING SUCKSSS

[Anonymous No.8523168]

[Anonymous No.8523182]

>>8523134
>TV always runs in 4:3 480i/576i, it doesn't have a 240p display mode.
that's mostly correct.
but what is referred as 240p in crt is a non-interlaced signal that all retro consoles use. typically with a vertical resolution of 224 but padded to 240 for technical reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwDPx6hP_4Y

[Anonymous No.8523393]

>>8523134
?

[Anonymous No.8524256]

[Anonymous No.8524464]

>>8524256
GOOD

[Anonymous No.8524558]

>>8524256
Honestly, looks like fucking trash.

[Anonymous No.8524592]

How the fuck do I set up an NTSC filter after a CRT one? Anytime I try to add more shader passes and apply the changes it reverts to the default configuration.

[Anonymous No.8524826]

>>8523134
> TV always runs in 4:3 480i/576i
No. TVs know nothing of interlacing, they are dumb devices, interlacing is created entirely by careful timing from the signal source. Consoles generate a progressive signal and the TV obeys and shows progressive scan.

[Anonymous No.8524889]

>>8524826
is this board just full of pseudo intellectuals now?

[Anonymous No.8524897]

>>8524256
guest?

[Anonymous No.8524898]

>>8524889
Millennial trannies.

[Anonymous No.8524924]

You know I like the attempt of these shaders, BUT they miss a single crucial feature of CRTs that literally cannot be emulated, and it's what gives the CRT its magic.
The GLOW. Fukken GARBAGE is what modern displays are because they need to be lightweight and "energy efficient".

[Anonymous No.8524931]

>>8524924
A OLED with a nit count of 1000 or higher is on par with a consumer CRT.

[Anonymous No.8524960]

>>8524931
In theory. But I've seen that stuff and it just can't output as high. Technically it could but the organic medium in the OLEDs would break down too fast, so there's limits. Remember, tube TVs come from an age when no one gave a shit about carbon footprints. BLAST LIGHT OUT! They're so bright people erroneously believe they destroy the eyes with radiation.
OLED has issues that make it no better than LCD sadly. Namely cost and lifespan. My next monitors will be OLEDs though.

Still got my 2003 Trinitron though, sitting right behind me. It's still so good. PS3 games look awesome on it, despite not being HD. And it weighs a ton even at 20". I've busted 2 40" Samsung LCDs in the last decade from accidentally yanking wires. A hard fart knocks a modern flat screen off a stand. That fucking trinitron will break a wire or connection(easily repaired) before being yanked off the stand. I miss heavy, well-built goods.

[Anonymous No.8524975]

>>8508463
Can't say that I like the level of blur and grain on that, though I know part of it is that you put it in .gif format.

[Anonymous No.8524987]

>>8524897
yep. it's great, I prefer it over royale now, gives you lots of options to customize it

[Anonymous No.8524994]

[Anonymous No.8524996]

[Anonymous No.8525002]

>>8524987
Doesn't look anything like a CRT.

[Anonymous No.8525017]

Also, anyone else play games on a CRT, then when going back to your PC monitors, they look really dim? My eyes adjust for my tube, and I go back to my IPS screens and even at full-brightness they look half as bright as normal.
I have to wonder how good a projector might be these days. These shader mods on a projected bright screen might look pretty good and bright.

[Anonymous No.8525025]

>>8525017
no, get a better monitor

[Anonymous No.8525229]

>>8520657
I tried the shader you're using and I agree, it looks awesome on some games but on others it's pure eye rape. Slot mask makes big difference though, I wish there were more shaders that used it.

[Anonymous No.8525324]

[Anonymous No.8525326]

[Anonymous No.8525329]

>>8525326

[Anonymous No.8525346]

>>8525326
the "real GBA" colour palette is so off it's not funny

[Anonymous No.8525357]

>>8525346
better*

[Anonymous No.8525372]

>>8525357
Have you actually ever seen a GBA
Not one of the four screens looks like that

[Anonymous No.8525378]

>>8525372
Only on youtube videos and I'm glad I don't have to use that crap. I don't give a fuck about accuracy pussy.

[Anonymous No.8525401]

>>8525378
So why would you use real colours

[Anonymous No.8525405]

>>8525401
It's whatever I feel like it.

[Anonymous No.8525406]

[Anonymous No.8525408]

>>8525406

[Anonymous No.8525415]

>>8525405
You’re the one who said better, not me

[Anonymous No.8525420]

>>8525415
You pretending to be stupid or something?

[Anonymous No.8525435]

>>8525420
Clearly, I’m replying to you aren’t I

[Anonymous No.8525437]

>>8525435
Don't worry, I accept your concession.

[Anonymous No.8525442]

>>8525437
Concession to what now?
You are clearly having a non existent conversation going on while I’m talking at you

[Anonymous No.8525448]

>>8525442
cope

[Anonymous No.8525452]

>>8507293
>For me, it's crt deluxe geom. It's the phosphor decay. It's a subtle detail not many shaders go for, and most definitely happens on real CRTs.
Looks amazing against dark backgrounds, like in R-Type. I can't remember if this effect was so pronounced on real hardware though?

[Anonymous No.8525526]

[Anonymous No.8525594]

[Anonymous No.8525617]

>>8520481
WHY isnt this Genesis MD game using Composite signal?

[Anonymous No.8525715]

I think I need a larger screen for this.

[Anonymous No.8525739]

>>8525715
try using guest or lottes

[Anonymous No.8525742]

[Anonymous No.8525745]

>>8525715
yeah, it's the ideal for that preset
how is this on your display?

[Anonymous No.8525746]

>>8525742

[Anonymous No.8525757]

>>8525745
That looks a lot better on my end, what is that?

[Anonymous No.8525772]

[Anonymous No.8525778]

>>8525772

[Anonymous No.8525779]

>>8525326
there you go.
a proper gba shader with proper gba colors and even BGR subpixels.

[Anonymous No.8525783]

>>8525779
i like this look for handhelds, how do i get this?

[Anonymous No.8525784]

>>8525757
xm29 with changed parameters
idk if this is going to works but here you go: https://a.uguu.se/nLvgfYOE.slangp
right is default xm29plus preset and left is the changed parameters in case just copy pasting the file does not work

[Anonymous No.8525787]

>>8524975
here's the original screenshot.
the "blur" comes from imitating svideo.

[Anonymous No.8525789]

>>8525779
Looks good

[Anonymous No.8525792]

>>8525779
No need, I'm aware
Also, check op

[Anonymous No.8525797]

>>8525783
i wiped out a quick preset since no gba shader adjusts colors to look like a gb micro screen which has the better colors.
https://pastebin.com/2VWJ0ZvK

[Anonymous No.8525804]

>>8525797
will this work if i just save it as a .slang? also thx

[Anonymous No.8525807]

>>8525804
it should, but you may need to edit the path of the shaders.
or put it in the config/mGBA folder and name it mGBA.slangp so it applies automatically with mGBA.

[Anonymous No.8525826]

>>8525784
Works great, thank you.

[Anonymous No.8525830]

>>8525804
you need to save it as .slangp

[Anonymous No.8525860]

[Anonymous No.8525862]

[Anonymous No.8525868]

>>8525862
which crt preset?

[Anonymous No.8525869]

>>8525862
crazy how much """perceived detail""" the crt shader adds to lyn's face

[Anonymous No.8525871]

>>8525868
It's the one posted here >>8525784

[Anonymous No.8525876]

>>8525869
Also the tent

[Anonymous No.8525882]

[Anonymous No.8525884]

>>8525862
That looks surprisingly good.

[Anonymous No.8525892]

>>8525862
going for the gameboy player look, anon?
looks pretty good.

[Anonymous No.8525953]

>>8525830
based anon, thanks

[Anonymous No.8525970]

>>8525882
Is this a mega bezel variation?
Source pls.

[Anonymous No.8525984]

Nowadays I just use CRT Guest Advanced
Interlace mode toggle to 5 (from 1)
Scanline type to -1.00 (from 0)
CRT mask to 3 (from 0)

[Anonymous No.8526027]

If this becomes a recurring thread we should link to previous archived threads to find these pics again.

[Anonymous No.8526045]

>spend hours setting up crt shaders
>don't end up playing any games

[Anonymous No.8526072]

[Anonymous No.8526115]

>>8526045
just ask for a preset
>>8525784

[Anonymous No.8526120]

>>8526072
>applying it to the overlay
some of the troll shader screenshots are funny but this one is too far
it looks like complete shit and also makes zero sense

[Anonymous No.8526126]

>>8526120
the overlay is based on the WideBoy 64 AGB, and is achievied with the imgborder shader, so, it would be affected by the NTSC and CRT shaders.

[Anonymous No.8526208]

>>8525746
Outrun 2 looks like an HD game.

[Anonymous No.8526247]

>>8525715
You can get a slightly better result by overscaling. It's not much, but the jump to 5x scale helps make it a tad more convincing.

[Anonymous No.8526257]

>>8510924
>>8510937
>>8510945

DAMN this looks incredible, what's the shader?

[Anonymous No.8526268]

>>8526257
The shader is just the same XM29+ preset that a lot of shots in this thread have been using. However, the other component is downsampling at 4x scale or above, as well as PGXP.

[Anonymous No.8526280]

>>8526120

[Anonymous No.8526567]

>>8526268
I don't have XM29...where do I get it? I only see an update option for the GL shaders, not the slang ones...

[Anonymous No.8526602]

>>8526567
it's in the shaders_slang/presets/ folder

[Anonymous No.8526615]

>>8526567
shaders > shaders_glsl / shaders_slang > presets > crt-royale-xm29plus.glslp or .slangp

If it's not there, your RA might just be outdated. In that case we can just upload it for you.

[Anonymous No.8526695]

>>8526602
>>8526615
thank you

[Anonymous No.8527341]

https://files.catbox.moe/lhue9b.png

[Anonymous No.8527362]

ah yes, just how i remember oot looking
https://files.catbox.moe/gnsc7f.png

[Anonymous No.8527364]

>>8527341
Seems cool. What is it?

[Anonymous No.8527379]

>>8527364
xm29plus with some tweaks

[Anonymous No.8527502]

>4k
>OLED
>Vulkan
>HDR on
>Integer Scale
>4:3
>60hz
>Run ahead set to 1
>Automatic frame delay
>CRT-guest-dr-venom-kurozumi preset
>turn bloom off
>set scanlight bright to 0.90
>set scanlight dark to 1.10
>turn off interlacing for 480p content

The optimal setup. Thank me later

[Anonymous No.8527506]

>>8527379
>>8525784
this?

[Anonymous No.8527587]

When I try to take screenshots with retroarch I just get a black image. Any idea what's up with that?

[Anonymous No.8527624]

>>8527587
Screenshot functionality is broken with certain renderers I believe. OpenGl should work though. If you want screenshots to be taken after scaling and shading has taken place, make sure GPU Screenshots are enabled under Video Settings. See >>8522503

[Anonymous No.8527635]

>>8527587
I have a lot of trouble taking RA screenshots as well. External programs don't work, the hotkey also doesn't work for some reason. When I take a screenshot from the quick menu (there's an option to take screenshot) then it works. Only way it works for me

[Anonymous No.8527661]

>>8527506
Nope. See >>8513702
https://files.catbox.moe/9e40o5.png

[Anonymous No.8527740]

>>8527635
Have you tried Reshade?
https://files.catbox.moe/qsdd30.png

[Anonymous No.8527768]

R-Type (1987)
Shader-Off v.s. CRT-Royale-Stereoscopic

[Anonymous No.8527771]

how do you make these 2 image gifs?

[Anonymous No.8527776]

>>8527771
Try asking that question in a search engine.

[Anonymous No.8527790]

>>8527768
lmao, these are not the same versions of the game, the tiles are completely different

[Anonymous No.8527798]

Not sure how I feel about this one, its definitely better than the horrid red of CRT Royale

[Anonymous No.8527819]

whats the best 1080p shader?

[Anonymous No.8527840]

>>8527819
I always come back to CRT-Lottes

[Anonymous No.8527846]

>>8527819
I dedicated myself to getting Royale to work on 1080p for the past year.

[Anonymous No.8527850]

>>8527846
That's really not how it's supposed to look...

[Anonymous No.8527854]

>>8527790
That difference is the 3D stereoscopic shader effect.

[Anonymous No.8527858]

>>8527846
Royale is a meme with extreme reds

[Anonymous No.8527860]

>>8527854
No, the difference is that those are literally different tiles. Look at what's actually contained in the tubes between the two images. It's not even the same shape or type.

[Anonymous No.8527865]

>>8527850
It's not perfect but it's better than alternatives in my opinion. No shader on an LED looks like the real thing on a CRT yet.
>>8527858
That shot has XM29 enabled which is reddish by default.

[Anonymous No.8527874]

>>8527865
Hey, I'm not biting your head off or anything. If you like it, then that's good enough for me.

[Anonymous No.8527902]

>>8527874
?

[Anonymous No.8527914]

>>8527860
>t. never used a stereoscopic shader effect.

[Anonymous No.8527930]

>>8527768
>>8527914
rtx off vs rtx on

[Anonymous No.8527979]

>>8527661
i feel like still fucks with the reds somehow

[Anonymous No.8527991]

>>8527768
kkkkkkk

[Anonymous No.8528217]

[Anonymous No.8528258]

>>8528217
It's just too dark

[Anonymous No.8528282]

>>8528217
>>8528258
That shader is nice but it needs tweaking. Like disabling vignette, increasing brightness etc. Thankfully it uses guest as a base shader so it lets you go crazy with settings

[Anonymous No.8528290]

>>8528282
this actually looks like a decent consumer crt

[Anonymous No.8528331]

>>8528217
whatever that shader is, it's running on the wrong resolution

[Anonymous No.8528351]

>>8528282
I dont understand how to tweak shader settings all I see are its scale and filter settings

[Anonymous No.8528361]

>>8528351
Click on "Shader parameters"

[Anonymous No.8528401]

>>8507185
When are the reshade shaders going to stop being trash?

[Anonymous No.8528405]

>>8507293
Looks nice, is there a way to remove the warping effect?

[Anonymous No.8528409]

>>8528401
There's more going on behind the scenes with retroarch shaders so translating them over to reshade isn't super simple, or so I'm told

[Anonymous No.8528412]

>>8528401
When someone ports mdapt/gdapt over to it. GTU needs borderline vaseline settings to blend shit.

[Anonymous No.8528427]

>>8528412
Uneven pixels lmao.

Trying to get genesis games to scale right with filters feels impossible sometimes. Here's my own best attempt from years ago and I still don't think it's right *and* I don't remember what the settings were.

[Anonymous No.8528440]

>>8522303
I'm with you there, I prefer just cranking up the resolution for 3D games unless the emulator just doesn't play nice with upresing.
For example Saturn games I will play at native resolution with shaders because upscaling them looks hideous and results in a lot of graphical bugs.

I'd also argue that fifth generation games can look better at native resolution and shaders than when upscaled. I still tend to upscale them though.
However, sixth generation games just objectively look better upscaled. Same for 3D arcade games, especially Sega Model 2 and 3 games.

[Anonymous No.8528448]

>>8528440
My problem with upscaling 6th gen games is it tends to to cause artificating with 2D elements like huds (super monkey ball for example is terrible about this), or if they don't get awful seams then they're still blurry as heck and clash against the uprezzed visuals

Parallel has a nifty option for rendering hud elements at native rez even when upscaling. I wish dolphin has a similar feature

[Anonymous No.8528453]

>>8528448
not only that but textures look like shit too

[Anonymous No.8528469]

>>8528427
A CRT would have the middle of the waterfall nearly shimmer with a rainbow effect

[Anonymous No.8528479]

just slap a NTSC shader before it lmao
>>8528469
only with composite video

[Anonymous No.8528480]

>>8528448
I agree with you that the worst part about upscaling sixth gen games is that the UI can often look rather distracting when there's seams and artifacts (this is a problem I most commonly run into with PCSX2), but Super Monkey Ball is an example where I actually never felt bothered by the UI.
Sure, it looks low rest compared to the rest of the game, but not enough to be terribly distracting to me.

Either way it's a trade-off and I almost always will pick higher resolution over the UI looking a bit shite.

[Anonymous No.8528490]

>>8528427
CRTs don't display pixels anyhow. I wonder if composite blending is worth all this blur.

[Anonymous No.8528551]

>>8528282
>>8528217
which one is this with the border, i like the reflections

[Anonymous No.8528624]

>>8528551
Looks up Cyberlab megabezel
Its kind of dark and I don't know how to fix it there are way too many options

[Anonymous No.8528995]

Think I'll run with this for a while

[Anonymous No.8529175]

>>8522303
Upping resolution doesn't help how flat the lighting looks and how plain the textures, both of which a CRT shader can mitigate.

I still up the resolution unless I can downsample, and CRT shader also helps to make higher res stuff less jarring against the less improved aspects of the image (like the HUD examples).

Ultimately shaders are for people who like new games, and old games when they were new. If you are senile and prefer outdated shit completely, then you may as well go raw and native for the ultimate retrograde aesthetic.

[Anonymous No.8529473]

>>8528412
>>8528490
What is this?

[Anonymous No.8529474]

>>8528479
What's that?
It looks like royale, can you specify if your using vilkan or gl, what ntsc phase, did you set on s video?

[Anonymous No.8529702]

>>8529473
Royale + GTU + NTSC S-Video through Reshade. GTU's doing all of the blurring in those shots.

[Anonymous No.8530039]

>>8529474
It's royale with ntsc-adaptive prepended to the xm29 preset with its own settings commented out and the LUT replaced by the ntsc color shader. I'm too lazy to tweak it and I don't know if those ntsc shaders are at the right position either. Have a go at it if you want:
https://files.catbox.moe/mjari9.glslp
It goes into the first shader folder of the RA directory. If you need the slangp just search & replace all instances of glsl with slang. Using the slang version adds another video mode to the NTSC shader and changes the default svideo mode set in this preset since the numbering is different. I don't remember exactly since I can' get the damn Vulkan mode to work anymore with the AppImage of RA.

[Anonymous No.8530670]

[Anonymous No.8530675]

>>8530670
That's pretty good.

[Anonymous No.8530678]

>>8530670
kino

[Anonymous No.8530689]

>>8530670
A bit too pink, but I can dig it.

[Anonymous No.8530704]

Why do GBA games look so good with a CRT shader

[Anonymous No.8530715]

>>8530704
they were developed on crts

[Anonymous No.8530765]

>>8530670
Mine looks better, QUEER!!!!
https://files.catbox.moe/t6l2bg.png

[Anonymous No.8530784]

>>8530765
I need to buy a 4k monitor.

[Anonymous No.8530813]

>>8530765
this looks awful in comparison

[Anonymous No.8530845]

>>8527502
Wouldn't the ideal setup also involve BFI for CRT-like motion?

[Anonymous No.8530847]

>>8530813
H-how about now?
https://files.catbox.moe/t8qiuo.png

[Anonymous No.8530853]

>>8530847
much better. but i hate mask sample type 0 for royale, 1 is so much smoother and better

[Anonymous No.8530857]

>>8527768
kek

[Anonymous No.8530874]

[Anonymous No.8530878]

>>8530853
btw what do you think of this?
https://files.catbox.moe/fmyoki.png

[Anonymous No.8530881]

>>8530878
aperture grille way too sharp...too pvm-like for my taste

[Anonymous No.8530884]

>>8530881
Hmm, okay. Thanks, you little bitch!

[Anonymous No.8530891]

>>8530884
rude

[Anonymous No.8530901]

>>8530891
Gomen, gomen.

[Anonymous No.8531217]

>>8530845
Ideally, but the brightness loss and perceived flickering just isn't worth it yet. When there's a set that can still manage 600+ nits with BFI on while also flickering fast enough to not be super noticeable then I just can't do BFI

[Anonymous No.8531268]

>>8527502
>>8530845
All this over just getting a CRT is mental illness.

[Anonymous No.8531275]

>>8531268
What? Why? It's easy to setup, uses the TV you already have in your living room, you get a decent screen size, don't have to dedicate space to a massive CRT or play on a 13" screen and you get a variety of other advantages that emulation brings if you're into those kinds of things, like mods. Seems like the normalfag approach over getting a whole CRT setup with original hardware

[Anonymous No.8531290]

>>8531268
>All of this over just playing a board game is a mental illness

[Anonymous No.8531309]

>>8531217
I've heard QLED TVs are bright enough to manage both BFI and a CRT shader together, but I wouldn't know.

[Anonymous No.8531325]

>>8531309
OLED is super important - its hard to describe how good older games with black backgrounds look on an OLED TV until you see it

Hopefully mled gets here soon

[Anonymous No.8531330]

>>8531268
I'm a CRTfag myself, but unfortunately CRTs aren't going to be around forever. Alternative solutions must be arrived at.

[Anonymous No.8531337]

>>8531330
Same, i really really want some sort of lcd or led technology to finally be just as good, im not trying to hang on to these things because i want to, but they really are the best shit to use for retro but i know they wont last forever

[Anonymous No.8531357]

>>8531325
Yeah, I suppose it's a trade-off for the moment: god-tier image quality versus good motion.

[Anonymous No.8531362]

>>8525452
You'll wanna tone it down a little. That's what I do. I turn down the amplitude, up the decay strength, and reduce decay frames a little. It's definitely excessive by default, but the way I have it tuned is pretty similar to how my CRTs do it.

[Anonymous No.8531450]

>>8512719
Game on bottom left?

[Anonymous No.8531481]

>>8531450
Sexy Parodius

[Anonymous No.8531502]

>>8530670
>>8530704
They look better at native res LCDs

[Anonymous No.8531508]

>>8531502
OOOOOAAAAAGHHH

[Anonymous No.8531536]

>>8527502
WHY THE FUCK DO I WANT TO PLAY VIDEOGAMES ON A FUCKING TELEVISION YOU FUCKING POORFAG RETARD?

Play on a fucking PC with 1080p and stop being a huge faggot who smells its own farts

[Anonymous No.8531546]

>>8530670
>>8530765
>>8530847
>>8530878
you are doing it wrong

>>8531502
based

[Anonymous No.8531818]

is there a way to make retroarch only capture the game area? I use overlays and they always show up in the screenshot.

[Anonymous No.8531840]

>>8531818
>turn off overlay
>take screenshot
>profit

[Anonymous No.8532081]

>>8530765
>>8530847
catbox no longer loads for me

[Anonymous No.8532541]

>>8531536
Now THIS is grade-A cope.

[Anonymous No.8532620]

[Anonymous No.8532630]

YWNBACRT

[Anonymous No.8532720]

>>8532630
YWNHACRT [you will never have a crt]

[Anonymous No.8532760]

>>8532620
game?

[Anonymous No.8532786]

>>8532760
looks like shining in the holy ark
like a dungeon crawler golden sun

[Anonymous No.8533112]

Late DOS and early Windows games look horrendous.
https://imgur.com/a/8Q1vf

[Anonymous No.8533479]

>>8533112
The fuggis that

[Anonymous No.8533683]

>>8533112
>reddit flexing his pvmeme with the wrong system and liking it
reddit being reddit i guess.

[Anonymous No.8533718]

>>8533112
>The thick scanlines and bright phosphors brought out the image in a way that regular PC monitors can only hope for.
This has to be a joke

[Anonymous No.8533729]

>>8533718
I mean holy shit
>Meanwhile, the BVM is making Command & Conquer look excellent. The colors seem brighter, sharper, and more vibrant. The scanlines are doing their job of making the image almost pop off the screen.

[Anonymous No.8533946]

[Anonymous No.8533950]

>>8533112
>displaying DOS games in anything other than 400p

[Anonymous No.8533970]

How do you simulate a consumer tv with royale?

[Anonymous No.8534023]

>>8533946
what's the overlay? that's really cool

[Anonymous No.8534030]

>>8534023
https://duimon.github.io/Gallery-Guides/

[Anonymous No.8534049]

>>8533970
try one of the crt royale presets on the presets folder and then mess with the parameters
4k is the ideal for that one btw

[Anonymous No.8534118]

>>8533970
Change the phosphor size from 3 to 4. Switch the mask type to slot mask. Fiddle with the scan line width settings. Turn on horizontal sigma filtering

That would get you started

[Anonymous No.8534148]

>>8534030
thank you

[Anonymous No.8534403]

Christ, this game is hard. Looks better in motion too.

[Anonymous No.8534406]

Which doesn't mean I'm going to spam shot anyway.

[Anonymous No.8534420]

[Anonymous No.8534425]

>>8534406
"Not going to spam", is what I meant to type.

[Anonymous No.8534750]

>>8528490
Composite video is not blurry, at least in my experience. I can see individual pixels on my CRT and genesis.

[Anonymous No.8535115]

Why do GBA games looks so good with CRT shaders?

[Anonymous No.8535320]

>>8535115
I think it is because it is not being displayed at the "native" res.

[Anonymous No.8535329]

>>8535320
Yes, I've noticed the artefact. It's a bug in the shader and some lines get doubled. Retroarch is set to integer scaling.

[Anonymous No.8535330]

>>8535115
this>>8535320
it's the best way to make the gba look native on a high resolution screen

[Anonymous No.8535335]

It feels so comfy

[Anonymous No.8535363]

Tweaked newpixie on Dreamcast looks amazing in motion. It may not be accurate to a CRT, but I love playing with it.
https://files.catbox.moe/jlyu2f.png

[Anonymous No.8535376]

>>8535363
Why the the fuck is Newpixie so green? What is it even trying to simulate, a goddamn Nostromo computer?

[Anonymous No.8535384]

>>8535320

[Anonymous No.8535429]

[Anonymous No.8535441]

[Anonymous No.8535448]

>>8535376
>What is it even trying to simulate, a goddamn Nostromo computer?
kek

[Anonymous No.8535456]

>>8535115
>>8535329
>>8535335
>>8535384
>>8535429
>>8535441
Doesn't look like a CRT. More like a low-res LCD.

[Anonymous No.8535493]

>>8535456
Which one? Either way that's also fine

[Anonymous No.8535498]

[Anonymous No.8535502]

>>8535493
PLAY AS AMY, BIGOT!

[Anonymous No.8535581]

>>8535502
maybe next time

[Anonymous No.8535627]

[Anonymous No.8535660]

[Anonymous No.8536010]

Off it goes
SHIT

[Anonymous No.8536125]

>>8535376
I'm blind as shit. I though you were trolling, until I tweaked the tint. Now it's way better. Arigatou, anon-chi~!
https://files.catbox.moe/avsti9.png

[Anonymous No.8536140]

>>8536125
It's getting better
Too bad about the chromatic aberration though

[Anonymous No.8537034]

>>8535498
>>8535627
I'm guessing this is crt royale. What settings are these?

[Anonymous No.8537145]

>>8537034
https://a.uguu.se/mRGYMfgQ.slangp

[Anonymous No.8537154]

>>8534403
So what is this, xm29?

[Anonymous No.8537238]

>>8533112
>>8533729
Bad Visual Modifications

[Anonymous No.8537283]

>>8535115
>uneven vertical scaling
no, it doesn't with that shit.

[Anonymous No.8537526]

>>8537154
looks like it

[Anonymous No.8537529]

>>8537283
As I said, the dr venom guest crt shader has a bug. It's fixed in the other screenshots.

[Anonymous No.8537567]

Bump limit

[Anonymous No.8537643]

I love how these shader threads always survive for so long. Shaderbros, til next time!

[Anonymous No.8539542]

>>8535660
What shader is this

[Anonymous No.8539561]

>>8528217
Not bad here

[Anonymous No.8539572]

>>8525784
Another good one

[Anonymous No.8539578]

>>8525437
Because only fat bald people use the word actually?

Youre mentally challenged