CRT-Guest-Advanced, HD and NTSC for ReShade!

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#252

I have an interesting issue in Chained Echoes which will be in part to do with the way the game works - but, with Guest-HD on in Reshade, the assets wobble when you move the character. I assume it’s something to do with how they have placed pixel art assets on top of their pixel art backgrounds. If you turn Guest-HD off, the assets don’t move and just look like part of the static background.

I’ve changed a bunch of settings to see if it makes a difference but so far the only thing stopping it is turning off the shader altogether.

This doesn’t occur with other shaders in Reshade like Hyllian, FakeLottes etc

#253

Hey there… Maybe try to tweak with “High Resolution Scanline” set to 1, or “Interlaced” OFF, as the wobble may be due to resolution downsizing or interlaced treshold res I guess.

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#254

Thanks - I did try those but it hasn’t seemed to had an effect.

I definitely think it’s a scaling issue somewhere - I’m noticing diagonal lines are skewed when the shader is on. I’ll add example pictures later

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#255

I guess there may be some dithering patterns in the pixel arts that could also cause some moire effects with the scanlines when they’re moved? I dont have the game so, yeah cant really help…

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#256

Increasing the width resolution to the native of the screen helps with some of the distortion; the game runs at 640x360 and multiplies itself to 1920x1080; so going 1920x360 corrects some issues.

This is raw pixels:

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This is with Guest and Reshade’s resolution set to 640x360 - notice the skewed diagonals on the top border; and the gold border on the side of the box at the bottom has been ‘overwritten’ with blue:

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Changing Reshade to 1920x360 solves the border issue but the diagonals still aren’t perfect:

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This doesn’t fix the wobbly assets but it’s not a huge issue; more a curiosity. It still looks great!

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This is Guest-HD, Mask 10/Size 1/Zoom -1/Preserve Mask and Scanlines at 0.85

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#257

Seems some pixels in the raw images are taller than squares, could indicate a native res that doesnt fit with an integer scale at 1080p. So yeah, diagonals looks already skewed in the raw image. Are you sure it’s 640x360?

#258

That’s what PCGamingWiki says; otherwise I’m not sure how else I can find out…

EDIT: Reshade’s statistics say 640x360 when you set the window scaling in game to 1x

#259

Yeah it’s weird, lots of non-square pixels in the raw image you posted.

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#260

Odd; they’re like a pixel-and-a-half in size. I think the game was made in Unity and I have heard it can produce some issues with pixel art. Oh well, nothing to be done! Applying CRT shaders/using actual CRTs for modern games is always going to be a bit of a crap shoot

#261

I mean, the added grain and texture of the shader you added still makes it nice to look at… Maybe try to tweak the “rolling scanlines” parameter to see how it interacts with the wobble?

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#262

I did update CRT-Guest-NTSC.fx to crt-guest-advanced-2025-11-30-release1 https://github.com/Jobima1st/CRT-Guest-ReShade (I also did add the Aspect Ratio changes that DevilSingh post before)

only CRT-Guest-NTSC.fx for now, maybe I will update the DX9 CRT-Guest-NTSC.fx later

to avoid wasting my efforts, I won’t update the rest. I made the update primarily for my personal use and not as a full replacement of DevilSingh port

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#263

I’m having trouble figuring out how to set the resolution correctly in Guest Advanced for PCSX2. I have 2 shaders active, Guest Advanced and NTSC_Adaptive.

these are my settings for my 1440p monitor:

pcsx2 internal resolution - 4x

guest advanced Internal Resolution Y - 4.0

guest advanced Downsampling-X - 2.0

guest advanced Downsampling-Y - 2.0

ntsc_adaptive resolution scaling - 0.25

preprocessor definition resolution: 1920x1440

is this the right setup for the PS2’s 640x480 output?

#264

if you render in native 1x then you should use that “512x448” in Resolution settings, with 4x will be “2048x1792”.

and in case of upscale (not 1x like 4x in your case) you will need to play with some CRT-Guest-Advanced parameters to get things right (and that in both retroarch and reshade, you can search about that in New CRT shader from Guest + CRT Guest Advanced updates)

you dont need to set your monitor Resolution in AspectSize if the game Aspect ratio is the same as monitor Resolution Aspect ratio, Otherwise do the Calculation based on your screen Resolution and Aspect ratio yourself or use something like https://worktoolz.com/169-to-43-crop-calculator/

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#265

has anybody had any success recording gameplay with nvidia shadowplay? the footage looks really washed out with the crt filter enabled

#266

great, thank you for the answer. also, if i wanted to use guest advanced, which does not have the AspectSize option yet, what should i set the resolution to? if i understand this correctly, I should multiply 512 by 1.33… to account for the black bars in 4:3. So I should put 682.6666666666665 instead of 512 for the x resolution, is that right?

#267

if you have 4:3 game and your screen is 16:9 then take the “Y” (vertical) resolution and multiply it by 16 and then divide it by 9

for the “512x448” resolution it will be “796.4444444444444” which you should use it as “796x448”, but anyway it’s kinda hack

or you can use Res-O-Matic

I did use OBS with my preset and it’s fine

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#268

thanks so much, all the text looks perfect now!

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#269

Building on @DevilSingh’s work and @Jobima’s update, i have ported the PAL passes from crt-guest-advanced-2025-11-30-release1 to create CRT-Guest-PAL, reorganized the settings to match the order in crt-guest-advanced-2025-11-30-release1, and created Decoupled-Guest-NTSC and Decoupled-Guest-PAL which excise the CRT portion of the shader for more granular utility (such as use with other CRT shaders, with Megatron as a primary focus).

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#270

@Jobima could you post a ReShade configuration .ini for me to learn from? Something so I don’t have to start from scratch?

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#271

here https://github.com/Jobima1st/Jobima-Presets/raw/ff40ee16a0fc7bc05bc95b4101e3adcef97c5464/Jobima%20crt%20guest%20advanced%20V8.14%20presets%20for%20reshade.rar

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