[4.2] Recommended Shaders

[Graham]

Could someone recommend some shaders for the following consoles/handhelds? I’m looking for the closest match to the actual hardware.

Atari 2600, Atari Lynx, Atari Jaguar, FBNeo, Nintendo Gameboy

[Cyber]

These might do the trick:

CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack

[CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Preset Pack Title] [Screenshot_20220408-113722_Chrome] [Screenshot_20220408-114931_Chrome] [Screenshot_20220408-114949_Chrome] [Screenshot_20220408-115001_Chrome] This is a moment some have been waiting for. By popular request, I’m moving my CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack to it’s new home in it’s own thread! In commemoration of this significant milestone, I’ve included 2 updated versions of my venerable CyberLab Mega Bezel De…

[Graham]

Thanks Cyber. I’ll give these a try.

[Cyber]

You’re gonna need my custom Blargg NTSC Filter Presets in order to get the most out of some of them though. They should be included in the latest nightly build of RetroArch.

I’ll try to see if I can re-post them at least until they’re in the stable RetroArch build.

[Graham]

I’m new to shaders and customizations in general. Do you think they will affect the peformance as I’m running on a dual core with 4GB ram. The reason I ask is because I tried the built-in Mame one which caused a bit of a slow down during gameplay.

[Cyber]

Dual-core still doesn’t say much. What CPU model? What GPU?

I have have some presets that will run on modern midrange cell phones.

If you want something really light weight and high quality, you might also want to look into stand alone GDV-MINI or Sony Megatron Color Video Monitor Shaders.

As for my presets, the lightest ones are in the MBZ__5__POTATO_GDV-MINI_No Reflections folder, followed bu the MBZ_3_STANDARD_FULL_REFLECTIONS folder, then the MBZ_2_ADVANCE_NO_REFLECTIONS.

CRT Shaders do require some processing power, mainly GPU. Some require more than others.

A new little shader i did (glsl)

Github with some old versions of shaders i tweaked Here is a little shader i did by tweaking other shaders and learning things and adding my own. I wanted something looking sharp, not so artificial, and having some beam dynamics (brightening bright areas etc), based mostly on mask manipulation as a real crt beam would do. Mostly oriented on sharp PVM look, i believe some people will like that (and me too). I tested it on 1080p. So test it yourself tell me what you think. Maybe some things cou…

Sony Megatron Colour Video Monitor

[IMG_20220310_225616_resized] The Sony Megatron Colour Video Monitor was the greatest CRT Sony never made. Story At the end of the 90’s in an underground R&D bunker located several kilometers below the Sony Tokyo HQ , Sony engineers were developing a revolutionary new screen for CRT’s that could morph its physical phosphors and thus simulate that of any screen on the market. The Sony engineers code named it the ‘Megatron’. Sadly it was so expensive it never made the light of day. Although…

Here are some nice handheld ones:

CRT shader for Steam Deck (and possibly low res display)

Hi, so as some of you probably know, the Steam Deck is out in the wild for about 3 months now and it happens to be a powerhouse for emulating. With EmuDeck, a nice script, you can even isntall RetroArch, its cores and other standalone emulators with a few clicks to get you going. I’m one of the lucky ones to own a Steam Deck and with it I’m into emulation again, reliving some of my childhood experiences. It’s fantastic but also new because my last emulation experience is Project64 (N64 for exam…

Duimon - HSM Mega Bezel Graphics and Presets - Feedback and Updates

Let me enjoy the subject … In my opinion the dmg is the most faithful shader to the GameBoy. There are some versions of it, but I am referring to what is originally located in “Retroarch \ shaders \ shaders_slang \ handheld \ console-border”: [Screenshot_2] It has variations ranging from 2x to 6x. I was thinking of changing the parameters of this shader to allow it to rotate vertically. Additionally, I can use an overlay by the common Retroarch options, or even injected into the shad…

DMG Shader

This is a mix and modification of two existing shaders: First, i took Harlequin’s excellent gameboy shader, and i modified the way it handles the palette colors (i needed to do so in order to display realistic GB colors). Then i added a border shader from Themaister as a final pass. The result is this: 2x shader: [image] 3x shader: [image] 4x shader: [image] Some images might appear downscaled in your browser. Open them in a new tab to see them in full size. Here is the download link: h…

Hgoda90 - Graphic Varieties

I have created variations of different graphic sets for RetroArch. The settings are posted in their own posts and they also can be gotten off of the GitHub page as shader files. To change the parameters content must be loaded first to access the Quick Menu. Follow Quick Menu > Shaders > Load and select the Shader you want to change values for. Select Shader Parameters and then scroll down to where the values need changing. If [Device Image Layer] values need changing scroll until it is on the s…

Duimon - HSM Mega Bezel Graphics and Presets - Feedback and Updates

The graphics can be found at my GitHub page. I have updated my repo to be compatible with the latest shader release. The shader is out of beta and available via slang shader update within Retroarch. The current version is v1.0.002 2022-07-14 Rev 1. My presets will work with older versions but a few things may not work correctly. I highly recommend updating to the current version. !! My repo has been restructured as of Mega Bezel v0.9.00 2021-04-04 !! The release of Retroarch 1.9.1 contains …

[Graham]

The CPU is AMD Brazos Dual Core E-450 1.65GHz. Thanks for the links above.

[DariusG]

I think that’s really weak CPU/GPU combination (10 years old Radeon 6320 or so?) so I would stick to gdv-mini standalone. Don’t know if it can handle that too. If it doesn’t then try something like crt-potato, crt-nes-mini.

[Cyber]

@Graham

The CPU is AMD Brazos Dual Core E-450 1.65GHz. Thanks for the links above.

Time to put that out to the pasture my friend.

Try and see if you can at least get your hands on a Ryzen 5 2200G, 3200G, 4350G or 5600G APU or even an older 2nd Gen Intel Core i5 or 1st Gen AMD Ryzen 5 or better CPU with at least an AMD RX 560 or nVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or better GPU for some real action!

[Graham]

Oh well, I’ll have to use without any shaders :(. Runs fine with default setup but thanks for your advice.

[Cyber]

@Graham

I’ll have to use without any shaders

Not at all.

There are older and less performance intensive shaders that you can use. Also Blargg NTSC Filters + Scanline Overlays.

You’ll just need something more modern to take advantage of some of the newer advances in CRT shaders.

I suggest you go through the list of shaders in the CRT folder to see what works with your setup.

I’m almost sure you can run CRT-easymode or CRT-easymode-halation. So you can combine that with Blargg NTSC Filters. I made some custom ones that work with many different cores. You can get these in my CyberLab Custom Blargg NTSC Filter Presets package or in the latest RetroArch nightly.

You can also use Blargg NTSC Filters available in different Cores’ Options Menus.

Feel free to post some screenshots of your results!