CyberLab Death To Pixels Shader Preset Packs

[Cyber]

@hgoda90

Yeah Computer-Monitor-Smooth is looking good now.

Excellent! For educational purposes you can try increasing the Mask Size to 2 or even try the 4K Optimized version @ 1080p.

Although the preset is usable now, it’s still not quite finished as I still have to fine tune the brightness and gamma settings and do some more testing. I didn’t bother to revert because I changed those settings (which broke the presets) for good reason.

Before I was doing a lot of manual “hacking” in order to get the colours to look right and that led to many inconsistencies and possible clipping of the colours.

My computer monitor presets are my original Dreamcast presets that looked good so I was surprised when you said you had a problem with the colours and that my Ultimate Virtual Slot Mask was the best, because while it could be better or even the best, that’s the new kid on the block and Dreamcast had been “solved” a long time ago by my older presets.

[Tathan]

Do you know that in the HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Examples/Variations folder, there’s a specific preset just for Dreamcast - SegaDC-MVC2__STD__DREZ-480p.slangp ?

Oh my. I never saw that folder in your settings! They seem to look just wonderful, thank you very much for everything Cyber! I presume I’ll have to make at least 2 different settings, one for 2D games like HnK, and another for 3D games. Can’t wait to test them!

And thank you Hgoda for helping too!

By the way, if you are a Virtua Tennis 2 fan (like me) I’d have another question.

Yeah Computer-Monitor-Smooth is looking good now.

First of all, what’s your internal resolution then? Have you able to upscale it a bit? And second, have you found a workaround to avoid lag during replays? Since an update in january, I haven’t been able to make Virtua Tennis 2 run smooths during replay with RTT activated, only RTT off seems to solve the issue (on Vulkan at least, using an RTX3080).

[hgoda90]

I use the native resolution of 640x480. I have tried to go higher but it gets kind of laggy. The only workaround I found was to turn RTT off.

[Cyber]

@Tathan

Oh my. I never saw that folder in your settings!

This one isn’t in my preset pack it comes with the HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader and was made by @HyperspaceMadness.

The recommendations I were referring to were in a post that I shared in a reply to you and also in the first post in this thread.

@Tathan

They seem to look just wonderful, thank you very much for everything Cyber!

I’m not sure if you’re referring to my Computer Monitor and Ultimate Virtual Slot Mask presets here but those are what I tested and recommend for Dreamcast.

@Tathan

I presume I’ll have to make at least 2 different settings, one for 2D games like HnK, and another for 3D games.

I would just use either one at 1x Internal Resolution for both 2D and 3D games but that’s just me. Have you seen what the mask pattern does to those polygons?

@Tathan

First of all, what’s your internal resolution then?

Long ago before I discovered HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader and also when using standalone emulators, I used to upscale IR as high as possible. Well up to 4K or thereabouts when possible.

Since I started making presets I’m a 1x kinda guy.

@Tathan

Have you able to upscale it a bit? And second, have you found a workaround to avoid lag during replays? Since an update in january, I haven’t been able to make Virtua Tennis 2 run smooths during replay with RTT activated, only RTT off seems to solve the issue (on Vulkan at least, using an RTX3080).

I don’t know what RTT is. I’ve been able to set IR pretty high in my testing of MVSC2 on Dreamcast however but not without some soft crashes if I try to change the IR then resume the game sometimes. However, when I exit the emulator and start it back the game starts in whatever new IR I had set before it soft crashed.

I’m on dual GeForce GTX 1070s with 8GB VRAM. RetroArch only uses 1 GPU though.

By the way in my retesting of my Computer Monitor presets, so far they seem to go well with any system I threw at them even NES, where I prefer things to be relatively sharp and they work beautifully with Blargg NTSC Filters!

[hgoda90]

@Cyber

I don’t know what RTT is.

That is a setting in Flycast’s Options.

[hgoda90]

@Cyber how do I turn Blarrg RGB On?

[Cyber]

That depends on if you want to use the Blargg Filter that comes with many cores or the Blargg Filter Presets which are in the RetroArch/Filters/Video folder.

If you want to use the core provided Blargg NTSC Filters you’ll access those from the Quick Menu> Options>Video

If you want to use the RetroArch Filter Presets (including my custom presets) you have to go to Settings> Video> Video Filter.

I have detailed step by step instructions in my first post as well as inside my Console Specific Presets for Blargg as comments.

I doubt I’ll be including any custom RGB filters in my preset pack anytime soon though but you can still use the generic Blargg SNES RGB Filter included in RetroArch or the Core Provided Blargg RGB Filter.

After you load a filter you can save a Core Override.

You don’t have to manually save anything for the Core Provided filters to be saved though.

Exhibit A:

@Cyber

Update 20/04/22:

Note: To use the following new Console Specific Presets , please follow the steps below to load the corresponding Blargg Video Filters .

The other Console (or Game) Specific Presets will look fine (and as intended) without any additional video filters.

CyberLab_NES_for_Core_Blargg_S-Video_Filter.slangp

Quick Menu-->Options-->Video-->Blargg NTSC Filter - S-Video

CyberLab_Genesis_for_CyberLab_or_Core_Blargg_Composite_Filter.slangp

(Blending and Transparency, No Rainbow Effect, No Shimmering Artifacts)

Quick Menu-->Options-->Video-->Blargg NTSC Filter - OFF

Settings-->Video-->Video Filter-->Blargg_NTSC_Genesis_Composite_CyberLab_Special_Edition.filt

Quick Menu-->Overrides-->Save Core Override

Or

(Blending and Transparency, Rainbow Effect, Shimmering Artifacts)

Quick Menu-->Options-->Video-->Blargg NTSC Filter - Composite

CyberLab_Turbo_Duo_for_CyberLab_Blargg_Composite_or_S-Video_Filter.slangp

Settings-->Video-->Video Filter-->Blargg_NTSC_Turbo_Duo_SNES_PSX_Composite_CyberLab_Special_Edition.filt

Quick Menu-->Overrides-->Save Core Override

Or

Settings-->Video-->Video Filter-->Blargg_NTSC_Turbo_Duo_SNES_PSX_S-Video_CyberLab_Special_Edition.filt

Quick Menu-->Overrides-->Save Core Override

Exhibit B:

@Cyber

Leave your GPU to do the heavy Mega Bezel work, while offloading some stuff and applying some finesse to the final output using the oft untapped power of your CPU!

There are now two custom Blargg NTSC video filters included in my preset pack!

These need to be copied to the “ RetroArch/Filters/Video ” folder.

To load them you need to go to:

Settings ----->

Video ----->

Filters ---->

After loading your video filter, you can save your settings as a Core Override in the Quick Menu so it will automatically load that video filter everytime you use that core.

[Cyber]

Some more inspiration. Without CRT TVs there’d be no CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack.

Gaming on Old Retro TVs

[lfan]

Sony Wega Trinitron 21"

CRT & RGB | Central Extended | Análise imagem CRT Sony Wega 21"

Atualizando o Setup | Substituição da TV CRT Sony 21" Wega Trinitron

[hgoda90]

I had a 32" Sony Trinitron, kv-32fs120 myself. That thing was to heavy and bulky for me so I just sold it, 200lbs.

[c9f5fdda06]

I can’t believe I left mine on the curb when I bought a Panasonic Plasma in 2007. Those large Wegas were awesome

[hgoda90]

@c9f5fdda06

Those large Wegas were awesome

They were and super heavy at that.

[B-Nerd]

can we use your shader on batocera.linux?

[Duimon]

I believe the Batocera wiki has info on creating a custom YML. You just need to put them in the community folder with the others so the paths are correct…

The Batocera Discord shaders channel would be a good place to ask about it.

[Cyber]

PSA 16-07-22: Users might want to hold off on updating their HSM Mega Bezel installations past Version 0.9.107 2022-04-17 Rev 1 if they want my presets to continue looking like they should until the following issue is resolved.

HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader! - Feedback and Updates

[Cyber]

r/crtgaming - D-series vs Trinitron

[Cyber]

Why Do Some OLEDs Have Motion Blur?

[retrorevive92]

@Cyber

Using your 4K composite sharp preset on bsnes mercury accuracy core. Any reason why the bezels aren’t stretching to near the bottom of the screen like your screenshots? Also, are your presets inaccurate when using HDR through the RetroArch settings? I was having trouble taking screenshots with it turned on.

[Cyber]

@retrorevive92

Using your 4K composite sharp preset on bsnes mercury accuracy core. Any reason why the bezels aren’t stretching to near the bottom of the screen like your screenshots?

Greetings @retrorevive92,

You’re using a 4K_Optimized preset at 1440p resolution. Perhaps you should be using presets that are optimized for 1440p?

I don’t use BSNES Mercury, I use Higan (Accuracy).

Most of my presets use Integer Scale so the vertical size would snap to the nearest integer. If that’s too small for you, you try increasing the Base Integer Scale Height % or the Integer Scale Multiple Offset.

You can also go brave and try disabling Integer Scale, then you can set the viewport size anyway you wish (Non-integer Scale %), however this is not recommended as it can lead to moire patterns, uneven scanlines and other unwanted artifacts.

@retrorevive92

Also, are your presets inaccurate when using HDR through the RetroArch settings? I was having trouble taking screenshots with it turned on.

My presets are not designed for nor tested in HDR mode so they should be used in SDR mode. I have no clue how they would look in HDR mode. My guess is that any content that’s designed for and intended to be viewed in SDR mode would not look “accurate” in HDR mode.

What trouble are you having when trying to take screenshots? I either press the F8 key or press Alt+F2 to use Nvidia GeForce Experience.

[Cyber]

Update 29/07/22:

OLED TV users rejoice!! Finally we can enjoy RGB, (well RBG) triads with proper sizes and alignment with my new CyberLab Slot Mask IV OLED presets!

New CRT shader from Guest + CRT Guest Advanced updates

I think the real advantage is that the triads simply look more like triads using Mask 12 on an OLED TV. Besides the seemingly unavoidable extra black vertical line, what really kills the effect for me is the almost overlapping appearance between the rightmost blue subpixel stripe and the leftmost red subpixel stripe. It makes the blue subpixel appear a bit undernourished compared to the red and green ones. The improved separation created by Mask 12 allows the Blue subpixel to finally flex its …

Note: These should also work fine on 4K LCD TV’s with RGB subpixel layouts. If your TV has a BGR layout, you have to flip the Mask Layout to 0 (RGB)