CyberLab Death To Pixels Shader Preset Packs

[Cyber]

@Theoldnation

Is this shader gonna be updated to 1.8.0?

Please see the above post:

CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack

These don’t work with BSNES. There are SNES console specific presets that use NTSC Shaders in my pack, they just don’t use Blargg NTSC Filter. Have you tried my latest CyberLab SNES Composite Slot Mask IV OLED Presets in my 4K_Optimized Folder as well as the Le’Sarsh 4K_Optimized versions? I can’t remember if you’re a 4K user or not but there are other options to try and if you see them in the 4K_Optimized folders they might end up in the other folders eventually if it makes sense and when I…

@Theoldnation

or with the last version is perfectly compatible as it is?

Please see the above post with regards to compatibility:

@Cyber

These presets REQUIRE THE LATEST matching HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader version in order to work.

@Cyber

Update 07/09/22

I’ve now updated my CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack versioning system to semi-sync with HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader versioning based on compatibility.

So if a user is using V1.1.0_xx-xx-xx of my Shader Preset Pack, they know that it’s been updated and tested to be compatible (and look right) with V1.1.0_xx-xx-xx of HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader.

If there’s a new update or feature in HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader that needs the presets to be updated before they will look right again, the versioning of the Shader Preset Pack will also reflect that.

I actually did this to assist users by the way. With that said if you look at my track record, you’ll see that I’ve tried to keep my preset pack up to date with the latest versions of HSM Mega Bezel Reflection, even if it doesn’t benefit any of my presets or even when performance decreases with no meaningful gain in image quality.

Remember HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader was not created for CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack. It is the other way around and I am not the only user and usage scenario that HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader caters for.

So we’ll have to take a look at the changes and see how they affect CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack and then see what can be done. I’m truly grateful that @HyperspaceMadness provides older versions in the HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader Repository.

So don’t look at a previous version as “old” or “outdated” just because a shiny new update has come along. Instead you might want to look at them as more stable versions which have been tried and tested and sometimes run better on older/weaker hardware.

None of the screenshots or videos you’ve seen in this thread were created with the current latest version of HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader.

[Cyber]

@DreamOnNeon

I’m just constantly in awe of how your presets can make these games look so incredibly good.

Thanks, I feel the same way about the tools that allow me to make these presets as well! Really cutting edge stuff!

@DreamOnNeon

This screen alone should be enough to convince people to at least try shaders. I know there are pixel purists out there and all, but I just can’t pass up an oppourtunity to have my games look this good.

Well you know what they say…every bread has its cheese!

I enjoy the challenge of trying to make games look just as great as they might have looked on original hardware and CRT displays. It’s probably not perfect but to me it’s more than good enough considering how different the hardware that we’re running them on is.

When I get things to looks the way I want, it usually evokes similar feelings as listening to my favourite music or looking at beautiful art that I enjoy.

I’m glad you’re enjoying this journey as much as I am. Thanks again to the shader developers who make this possible!

Don’t forget to adjust the Mask Layout in Shader Parameters to match the subpixel layout of your display!

[Cyber]

CyberLab_SNES_S-Video_Slot_Mask_IV_OLED_NTSC_II + CFRS_Mega_TV.slangp

CyberLab_NES_Composite_Slot_Mask_IV_OLED_NTSC + CFRS_Mega_TV.slangp

[arcadebites]

Hi. What an amazing preset this is! I am blown away by the effect.

We briefly spoke earlier and I will try to describe my question as best as I can. Since my account is new I am only allowed to post a single image, so I made a Imgur page which is linked below.

Hopefully you have a suggestion for me to try and if you have any questions please let me know.

Cheers, and thank you for your amazing work.

Preparations

• Mega Bezel and CyberLab MBDtP are installed and operational.
• All instructions for MB and CyberLab MBDtP have been followed.
• Core: FinalBurn Neo

Goal

The goal is to have video output only, without the bezel and scaled to 100%.

Shader Preset Config

To achieve this I have followed this: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroArch/comments/ryaae9/comment/hsys965/?context=1

Summary:

• Global Graphics Brightness to 0.
• Int. Scale Mode to 0.
• Non-Integer Scale % to 100.

Saved as an easy preset.

Issue Description

When running horizontal oriented content the goal is achieved perfectly. The bezel is gone and the video is scaled to 100% with the proper aspect.

When running vertical content, the bezel is gone but the output is not scaled.

Examples: https://imgur.com/a/LcBPDha

[Cyber]

@arcadebites

Hopefully you have a suggestion for me to try and if you have any questions please let me know.

Graphics Brightness - 0

Rotate CRT Tube - 1

Integer Scale Mode - 0

Non-Integer Scale % - 100

If you would like to use Integer Scale instead:

Integer Scale Mode - 1

Integer Scale Multiple Offset - 1

You can also leave the Integer Scale Offset at 0 and set the Base Integer Scale Max Height % to whatever percentage gives you the screen size you’re looking for.

If using Non-Integer Scale % and 100% is still not large enough for you, you can go all the way up to 200%.

If this doesn’t work for you, you might have to recheck your settings somewhere.

This example uses my CyberLab__Arcade-Sharp__PVM-Edition__ADV.slangp shader preset. Other presets should work the same.

This is on a 4K screen, if using a different resolution you might have to use different offsets or percentages.

@arcadebites

What an amazing preset this is! I am blown away by the effect.

Thanks very much, I’m glad you like it! Couldn’t have done it without the great magic behind the HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader by @HyperspaceMadness which is powered by a host of shaders from @guest.r and several other shader developers though!

[Cyber]

@ynnad4

I’m only aware there was just one shader that was capable to make an accurate effect of the Rainbow colorful lines (at least for Sega Genesis Games)

Things have evolved quite a bit since then @ynnad4.

CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack

Right click on the image, click Open in New Tab then press F11 for Fullscreen for 4K users. Zoom in until it looks right for 1440p or 1080p users. Some of these NTSC effects can’t be captured properly using regular screenshots so what you see here is not necessarily what you will encounter while playing. CyberLab_Genesis_Composite_Slot_Mask_IV_OLED_NTSC.slangp [SONIC2-221230-232620] [SONIC2-221230-232636] [Streets of Rage 2 (Magical hack 2) (U) (X)-221231-024751] CyberLab_Genesis_S-Vide…

CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack

For those who can’t stand playing SNES games without an NTSC Shader (or one that uses GTU), I present to you… CyberLab_SNES_Composite_Slot_Mask_IV_OLED_NTSC.slangp As you can clearly tell from the filename, it doesn’t require any additional video filters and it also doesn’t require BSNES Blur emulation to be turned on. So without further ado… Right click on the image, click Open in New Tab then press F11 for Fullscreen for 4K users. Zoom in until it looks right for 1440p or 1080p users. [K…

CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack

Coming soon… CyberLab_Turbo_Duo_S-Video_Slot_Mask_IV_OLED_NTSC.slangp Right click on the image, click Open in New Tab then press F11 for Fullscreen for 4K users. Zoom in until it looks right for 1440p or 1080p users. [Aero Blasters (USA)-221229-005102] [Aero Blasters (USA)-221229-005441] [Aero Blasters (USA)-221229-005729] [Aero Blasters (USA)-221229-012926] [Aero Blasters (USA)-221229-012937]

[Cyber]

Adventure Island (NES) - CyberLab Soqueroeu TV Special Edition Shaders

Batman (NES) - CyberLab Soqueroeu TV Special Edition Shaders

Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers (NES) - CyberLab Soqueroeu TV Special Edition Shaders

[ynnad4]

i’m very glad that you’re still around buddy. I appreciate all the references you have made to me. I will try to get up to date with the content. Always awesome to see you updating your presets.

[Cyber]

@ynnad4

i’m very glad that you’re still around buddy.

Thanks.

I remember you made this statement some time ago.

@ynnad4

I really hope at some point somebody can manage to mix my rainbow effect for composite-sega genesis within your Composite looking presets, that would be the ultimate perfect looking for Composite gameplays.

Well, with my new NTSC Shader Presets, this has been accomplished.

The tools to do it were already in existence for quite some time, it just took some time and experimentation in order to understand them well enough to find the right settings.

[e2zippo]

That TV frame is really clean, is it Dumions work?!

[Cyber]

This is the incredible work of @soqueroeu! I made some custom CRT Shader presets which point to some of his excellent TV Backgrounds. So once both of our Mega Bezel Packs are installed anyone can enjoy the combination that you see in those videos!

@e2zippo

That TV frame is really clean

Yes it definitely is!

Here’s the link:

SOQUEROEU – Mega Bezel TV Backgrounds

This thread is about my original TV backgrounds for use in conjuction with @HyperspaceMadness Mega Bezel Reflection Shader. I think lots of people would be pleased to play old games using an actual CRT TV, so I created my own project as a nice way to have a simulated TV… INSIDE your actual TV or monitor. Believe me, this works pretty well! Download latest release Soqueroeu-TV-Backgrounds_V2.0 - GitHub Repository I consider my work with this project as complete. New backgrounds may or may not…

[e2zippo]

Sweet, a lot of good stuff there for sure! Thanks

[e2zippo]

Ok, now I’m confused again. Let’s say I want to use your CyberLab__RGB-Smooth__PVM-Edition__ADV.slangp with soqueroeu graphics. What would be the easiest way?

[Cyber]

@e2zippo

What would be the easiest way?

This method should work fine:

CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack

Exactly. This looks like a path issue. What you have there would only load if the preset you saved is located in the “/RetroArch/Shaders” folder. Try creating the following preset in the same folder with CyberLab__RGB-Smooth__PVM-Edition__ADV.slangp: CyberLab__RGB-Smooth__PVM20.slangp #reference "/CyberLab__RGB-Smooth__PVM-Edition__ADV.slangp" #reference "../../../../Duimon-Mega-Bezel/Presets/Advanced/PVM_PVM20/PVM20_02-[ADV]-[Guest]-[Night].params" Or you can simply add the following r…

Do note that you don’t have to rename any presets to .params. So leave the filenames as they are.

For any secondary presets that you want to use as a params file, you would have to delete or comment out the reference line. In this case you would be using the presets containing graphics as the secondary presets/params files.

The only thing you might want to add is a line below the second reference line that says

HSM_INT_SCALE_MODE = "0.000000"

…as well as this for non-flat presets.

HSM_CURVATURE_MODE = "1.000000"

CyberLab_NES_Composite_Slot_Mask_IV_OLED_NTSC + Nintendo_NES.slangp

#reference "../../../MBZ__1__Advance_Full_Reflections/1080p_Optimized_Presets/Console_Specific_Presets/CyberLab_NES_Composite_Slot_Mask_IV_OLED_NTSC.slangp"

#reference "../../../../Soqueroeu-TV-Backgrounds_V2.0/presets/TV-Console/Nintendo_NES.slangp"

HSM_INT_SCALE_MODE = "0.000000"
HSM_CURVATURE_MODE = "1.000000"
HSM_CRT_CURVATURE_SCALE = "10.000000"
HSM_TUBE_DIFFUSE_MODE = "0.000000"

For all of this to work, I only needed to convert @soqueroeu’s preset to a params file by commenting out the reference line by adding // in front of it.

// #reference "../../../../shaders_slang/bezel/Mega_Bezel/Presets/MBZ__3__STD.slangp"

The most important part and probably the most difficult for those who aren’t advanced users might be to get the paths correct.

As of this time of writing, this method can be used to combine any of my CRT presets (without modification) with any of Soqueroeu-TV-Backgrounds’ graphics presets.

[Cyber]

This clip was a refreshing blast into the past.

Video Game Heaven DOES EXIST

[Theoldnation]

Hello sorry to bother with this but i would like to check again just to be sure, hsm 1.9.0 is already out, should i use that version of hsm or should i use 1.7.0 to not have problems with death pixel shader?

[Cyber]

@Theoldnation

1.7.0

CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack 1.7.0 goes with HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader 1.7.0.

If you use CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack 1.7.0 on HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader 1.9.0 it won’t look as intended.

If you read through posts on the HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader thread over the past few weeks since 1.8.0 was released, you’ll eventually see some posts talking about differences in output between versions as well as reports and evidence of bugs in the reflection implementation when bezel independent scale is used.

Even 1.7.0 has that reflection bug. I know HyperSpaceMadness has been hard at work ironing out some stuff but based on my last checks the reflection bug still exists even in 1.9.0. So I’m allowing some time for things to settle and be resolved before moving onto adjusting presets just so that they’ll look as good as they already looked.

At some point I will try to take a look back and see where the reflection bug came into the equation. If it’s post version 1.5.0 then from an overall perspective I’d have to say that 1.5.0 would have to have been one of the best releases of HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader at least for my usage scenario since it offers improved performance over any release following it.

I might even return to that one until the bugs are ironed out once it still works on my updated RetroArch setup.

See here:

Mega Bezel Reflection Shader! - Feedback and Updates

Greetings @HyperspaceMadness is this a bug? Version V1.8.1_2023-01-11 MBZ__1__ADV__GDV-NTSC.slangp Default settings [Contra III - The Alien Wars (U) !-230117-012313] Bezel Independent Scale Enabled, Independent Scale percentage reduced from default. [Contra III - The Alien Wars (U) !-230117-012438] Reflection Blur turned off to show the issue more clearly. [Contra III - The Alien Wars (U) !-230117-012628] I’m seeing parts of the viewport which (I think) should be occluded by the beze…

[Theoldnation]

Ok thank you for the information, i’ll use 1.7.0 combo for now then, i’ll check more the forum to see if there is any updates in this reflection research.

[Cyber]

@Theoldnation

1.7.0 combo for now then

If you need or prefer to use CyberLab Mega Bezel Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack 1.7.0 with HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader 1.9.0 you might have to play around with the various Horizontal Sharpness and Subtractive Sharpness settings until you get an equivalent looking image.

It’s not that I haven’t started working on updating my pack or testing it but to do all that testing and updating needs some worthwhile benefit.

For me that means:

1. A settling of the NTSC presets and their Filtering Controls since after I tweaked the existing versions and worked around any peculiarities to achieve my desired look, me and my big mouth pointed out some discrepancies and that led to HyperSpaceMadness fixing things so I will definitely have to do over some of my preset tweaks and:

2. A fixing of the reflection bug when Bezel Independent Scale is used because I need Bezel Independent Scale for my SNES presets to look as intended.

All of those issues were discussed in posts subsequent to the one I just shared with you.

[Theoldnation]

i think there is a weird colour in the middle idk if it is intended to look like that ! or the other way in the second image as i’m already looking there is a magenta clue on the middle of the screen it changes position and size depending on viewport zoom, this thing only happens on drez for psx, as it doesn’t happen with any other shading on other consoles also i’m trying in the first one a viewport of 90