CyberLab Death To Pixels Shader Preset Packs

[Cyber]

@Theoldnation

thx for your hard work now

You’re welcome but be sure to thank these awesome folks as well because without them, there would be no “us”.

@Cyber

If you like my shader presets, please be sure to show some appreciation to the shader creators whose hard work made all of this possible!

@HyperspaceMadness

THANKS TO THE SHADER WRITERS!

The Mega Bezel uses a number of shaders written by awesome shader writers from the community:

• guest.r (Guest-Advanced crt shader)
• EasyMode
• CGCW (LCD Grid)
• DariusG (GDV Mini)
• Dogway (Grade Color Correction)
• Hyllian (For his groundbreaking work with XBR)
• aliaspider (GTU)
• Sp00kyFox (MDAPT & ScaleFX)
• Trogglemonkey (Royale 3D Curvature)
• Flyguy (Text Shadertoy)
• A special thanks to hunterk for porting a number of these and helping me with his expertise along the way!

…and also @Nesguy, who always provides useful points of reference especially where they may not have existed before and of course the very patient and talented @HyperspaceMadness, who brought us all this joy by bringing together all of these separate tools under one umbrella which makes these beautiful works of art shine almost as well as they did on their original analogue viewing technology!

[Cyber]

Tap on image then zoom in for best viewing. Desktop users, right click then Open in New Tab, then press F11 for FullScreen. Non 4K users, zoom in until it looks correct.

CyberLab_SNES_Composite_Slot_Mask_IV_OLED_NTSC + CFRS_Mega_TV.slangp

Potential Spoiler Alert

CyberLab_Turbo_Duo_Shadow_Mask_IV_OLED_II_for_CyberLab_Blargg_Video_Filter.slangp + Blargg_NTSC_Turbo_Duo_SNES_S-Video_CyberLab_Special_Edition.filt

[Cyber]

CyberLab_Upscaled_No_Border.slangp

[DreamOnNeon]

Wow. This one is amazing. Using it at 1080p really looks great.

Compared to the Mega Bezel variation I have been using I am really impressed by the noticeable difference in the lettering.

You can see how yours, Cyber, makes the M much less like a staircase and more of a smoother diagonal line.

[Cyber]

@DreamOnNeon

Wow. This one is amazing. Using it at 1080p really looks great.

Thanks @DreamOnNeon, I’m glad you like it and thanks for confirming that it also works well at 1080p resolution! I’ll add it to the 1080p_Optimized_Presets folder as soon as I get a chance!

Feel free to simply switch ScaleFX off for all that cleanness, brightness and saturation with an even more authentic look!

[Cyber]

CyberLab_FFMPEG.slangp

CyberLab_Video_Widescreen.slangp

[Digitech]

which scale fx do you use on that image cyber? is it scale fx 9x?

[Cyber]

@Digitech

is it scale fx 9x?

It’s whichever version is integrated in Mega Bezel Reflection Shader. Maybe @HyperspaceMadness might be able to answer that one.

[HyperspaceMadness]

@Cyber

It’s whichever version is integrated in Mega Bezel Reflection Shader. Maybe @HyperspaceMadness might be able to answer that one.

It’s just the standard scalefx

[Cyber]

[Chuck]

Hi Cyber! I tried your arcade raw/sharp 1440p preset but it present a strong green tint, is there any issue in that resolution? cause i tried the 4k one and it looks color accurate

[Cyber]

@Chuck

tried your arcade raw/sharp 1440p preset but it present a strong green tint,

Hi Chuck, that could possibly due to the Mask Layout setting being incorrect for your screen. Did you try toggling it between 0 & 1 to see which looks better?

@Cyber

So users, in order to get optimum quality, you need to go into Shader Parameters (or Edit the Preset) and change the Mask Layout to the one that matches your display’s subpixel layout. Just choose whichever one looks best. Usually if you see Magenta/Green phosphors if you go close to the screen then you might need to toggle the Mask Layout so you’ll get the proper RGB or BGR phosphors.

To find the Mask Layout setting you have to go into Shader Parameters then scroll up from the top to get to it faster since its near the bottom of the shader parameters menu.

On another note, I can hardly make out what’s going on in that jpeg file you shared at the mask level. This is probably because of the high level of jpeg compression.

What you can do is post a PNG file and if it’s too large you can use an image sharing website like imgbb.com which will allow you to preserve the full quality of the original screenshot.

Alternatively, you can use an app like IrfanView which allows you to set a filesize limit when saving jpeg files so if you set it to 4096KB you can get the maximum quality jpeg file that can be uploaded in these forums every time.

[Chuck]

I tried toggle between 0-1 at mask layout parameter but it didn´t work. My monitor is an Asus VG27WQ if that matters. This is an example: https://ibb.co/Y3ZxP5p

[Cyber]

Thanks, I think I’m seeing what you’re describing when viewing the screenshot on my phone.

I’ll give it a check when I get a chance, in the meantime you can probably play around with the White Point, Hue, Change the TV system to NTSC-U or neutral 0, instead of NTSC-J and try disabling Deconvergence.

Other than that, feel free to try some of my other shader presets, especially the newer ones as those Arcade Raw/Sharp presets are a bit long in the tooth now and haven’t really been updated in a while except for maybe compatibility reasons.

[Chuck]

Gotcha!, some suggest for a good shader to try with arcade games? Btw thank you for your time

[Cyber]

Okay, I think I’ve found the issue as well as the solution.

All you need to do is turn off Deconvergence or set the Deconvergence strength to 1.

What probably happened is that originally and for a long time, I had Deconvergence set to 0 (Off) for those and probably some other presets. Then maybe sometime long after, I might have enabled Deconvergence in a mass edit/update and with the possibly experimental deconvergence settings that were there, the green tint you experienced was the result.

Or it could have even just been a typo.

So you can go ahead and set it either way and enjoy yourself. I’ll have to decide on what setting I might leave it on when I upload the fix.

@Chuck

some suggest for a good shader to try with arcade games?

Hmmm…unfortunately my latest and greatest tends to be released and remain relatively exclusive to the 4K_Optimized for a while before they trickle down to the lower resolution optimized folders but based on what’s currently available for 1440p:

Any of the presets with “Slot Mask” in their name except the ones with “Blargg” in their names.

Ones that don’t have “Composite”, “Old TV” or “Blending and Transparency” in their names.

Edit: On second thought, Composite Pure looks really great with Arcade games and so does Composite Sharp.

@Chuck

Btw thank you for your time

No problem, thanks for reporting. I think this one has been around for a while now and someone else reported it but I really couldn’t put a finger on it until now. 1080p and 1440p preset development and testing has slowed considerably, especially since more performance tiers have been included so it’s really only if users of those presets report stuff that I will be made aware of things like that.

[Cyber]

CyberLab__SNES__ADV - i444 lossless test

[Theoldnation]

can shadow mask be configured for non oled tvs?

[Cyber]

Any of my IV_OLED presets can be used on non-OLED TVs.

Depending on the subpixel layout on the TV, no mofiication may be necessary but many TVs will work better with the Mask Layout changed to 0 (RGB) instead of 1 (BGR) which is what works best for OLED TVs.

The bigger issue might actually be resolution as I haven’t tested my Shadow Mask presets on any resolution besides 4K so they may not be scalable to different resolutions. That’s something I might get to eventually but you’re safe if you’re using a 4K display.

On another note. I did some extensive investigation concerning the DREZ presets as well as some of the issues you were having when it came to PSX games which switch resolutions.

I tweaked the DREZ settings a bit as a result.

Although I can’t remember exactly how the DREZ presets looked at the time when I created them, what I can say now is that they’re designed to be used primarily with games that look better when running higher Internal Resolutions than default. This really means games that feature polygon graphics.

The DREZ presets I use are based on the 480p DREZ base preset.

This works pretty well with many 3D games for PSX as well as N64. The caveat is that you lose those pronounced scanlines that you get at lower resolutions like 224/240p.

Due to this, it’s not really well suited for 2D games like Castlevania Symphony of The Night.

Also, DREZ presets lock the resolution so when playing games that switch between high and low res, you don’t get the proper scanline effects for the low resolution parts.

So don’t use DREZ unless you need to and don’t use it for 2D/pixel art games.

By default you should use the non-DREZ presets unless you’re performing upscaling and are also experiencing crashes. You can also use presets in the MBZ__1__ADVANCE or MBZ__3__STANDARD folders as an alternative.

I got great results using Beetle PSX SW then for 3D games I tried SwanStation and that seemed to work very well.

[Theoldnation]

i would like to talk about drez and psx scaling, drez has quite some the problems with color yet which makes the video still kinda blocky on psx and over saturated, also while trying to set the proper non integer scale and viewport the mask just disappears, i have a couple of theories, but yep, i had tried a workaround for this, and a weird one, instead of using your drez presets, i had chosen to go for using your normal psx preset and prepend the ntsc adaptive preset from ntsc shaders, it looks quite interesting