Thanks, I feel the same way about the tools that allow me to make these presets as well! Really cutting edge stuff!
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!
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%.
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 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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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?
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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:
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:
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.
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
What are you trying to accomplish by using viewport zoom?
My presets are only tested with the settings that they come with. If you start adjusting settings especially things that make scale the viewport to a smaller size, all sorts of unpredictable and unpleasant anomalies may arise due to fact that you might be throwing off the alignment between the mask and your display’s subpixels as well as reducing the number of effective pixels you have available to render the mask, scanlines and graphics.
So please try to explain in a little more detail what you would like to achieve and also can you send me some zoomed in pictures/screenshots focusing on the specific anomaly that you’re experiencing so that I can more clearly identify what you’re talking about?
Something looks very wrong with those screenshots. What internal resolution are you running at in the core and which core are you using exactly?
Also, I notice you’re running at 1080p desktop resolution. 1080p might be a bit limited in terms of the mask settings that would work well with it.
Let’s say I want to use your CyberLab__RGB-Smooth__PVM-Edition__ADV.slangp with soqueroeu graphics. What would be the easiest way?
