Added two extra color modes to slang (keep glsl minimal as is, as slang will run to faster devices anyway), US SMPTE 7500K (probably a more realistic real value) and Japan NTSC 9300K according to this.
I believe ntsc module is pretty accurate as is and quite realistic already, both in system specific artifacts and Y/C bandwidth.
@DariusG wow your âFrankensteinâ shader is coming out great. Shaping up to be the most complete fast one, isnât it? It runs pretty quick indeed, especially considering all the things it does already. Well done! Is it part of the official collection yet?
Itâs already on SLANG as âcrt-consumer-1w-ntscâ (if you mean that).
Well i learned a lot in the last 2-3 years by studying established shaders like Guest.r / crt-geom / blarggâs filter, reading about ntsc, creating my own excel documents to convert srgb->smpte (reading hell of a lot before how itâs done) etc, then writing my own shaders, pushing things more and more squeezing the last ounce out of it lol. I always aim shader to be ready to load and play without much tweaking and include the things i consider they should be there to recreate the nostalgia look. Having original hardware and a CRT helps too.
All in all itâs a great hobby and has been a blast.
I am burning some hours in this game lately heh
Yeah, thatâs exactly what I meant. You could maybe name it something more⌠personal? to reflect your journey towards creating it. Just a suggestion 
since its current name is fine of course but a tad generic.
And yes, the best thing about these shaders (besides exploring the rabbit hole of endless tweaking and experimentation) is that old games can be made to look so pretty that playing them like this is way, way more enjoyable. I donât think one can actually appreciate retro graphics without a good crt or a nice shader setup. And in most cases, that applies to modern games that use pixel graphics too. They look a thousand times better with scanlines, mask, halation, etc
They will always look better on CRT or a shader, because they drop the digital square pixel shape and replace it with analogue look rounded one (light is round not square, and phosphors emit light), then projecting 240p on a 480p panel (which is what a CRT does) makes it look like higher resolution (pixels are smaller than raw squares). Add some extra analogue imperfections that actually help it look better like color bleed etc.
just look at that beautiful 90s experience thanks to @DariusG
An unexperienced guy would have no idea if this is real console or not
This is why Iâve had my doubts about these guys that talk so many wonders about expensive hardware like MiSTer FPGA
Who need hardware when you got real geniuses like DariusG ? This is the type of content makes me believe since more than a half decade already that RetroArch is the ultimate Retro experience.
Thank you so much !
Really great work. I had made an account and I guess it disappeared since I hadnât posted anything and just left likes. Thank you for making this ntsc shader + consumer crt shader.
I have only tweaked it a little and just with NES, and really seems like what my TV back in the day looked like!
Yep, and donât forget the lovely pointillistic effect that the mask provides. Man I need augmented reality CRT glassesâŚ
(and btw, BoF 2 is awesome, as is 3!)
Not sure if this is intended or not but this is a little difference I found in Rainbow effect.
Is there some way to get a similar effect on pipes like its does for crt guest ntsc preset ?
First image is your preset, and second is from CRT guest.
Guestâs version is something Iâve truly seen way more times in real console recordings from Youtube and my own experience as well.
Thank you again.
Depends if you want to recreate a messy composite. Perhaps lower comb filter strength and reduce chroma resolution even more?
e.g. here is same game, on same TV on composite on Sega CDX (almost invisible rainbow) and Genesis model 1 which had the worst composite available at the time. Itâs not they wanted it to be there, it was a side effect of using a cheap/junk composite encoder, probably leaving tons of cross talk between Y and C or even (most definitely) in-between C.
