Duimon - HSM Mega Bezel Graphics and Presets - Feedback and Updates

RetroArch Additions Overlays
#4026

So I have spent the most of today diving into the potato presets. I found a few monitor presets that still needed to be rendered. Including this one.

SM124
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The VGA Monochrome SM124 that I created but never released. :grin:

Also, I have been going through presets that don’t use a 1.33 aspect and defining an explicit aspect. I did this for all my new handhelds but never went back and did the old ones. Forcing the aspect will keep things from breaking in some situations. (And cause me a lot less pain overall.)

While I was at it I fired up the Vectrex Potato.

Vectrex
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Vectrex_Night
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I would like to thank @HyperspaceMadness for the recent Potato enhancements. The Vectrex potato have never looked better. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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#4027

OK then… the Potato presets are done. :partying_face:

While I was digging I discovered that my ambient clipping fixes for the Mega Duck and Supervision were insufficient.

I have updated the legacy presets and pushed the changes to the repo. I will do a release tomorrow.

I will also post a list of guides I plan on doing to get some user feedback.

Most of the guides will involve my new presets but I plan on doing some basic Mega Bezel guides as well.

Now is the time for some final feedback on bugs in the legacy presets. I will fix any bugs found while I work on the guides but after the new presets are released the legacy will no longer be updated in any way.

This is starting to get exciting! :grin:

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#4028

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The Duimon-Mega-Bezel repo and release are updated to v1.0.0.8.

The Potato repo is unchanged.

Changes:

  • Added 21x9 overlays to the _Backgrounds folder
  • Fixed the Watara Supervision and Mega Duck ambient clipping. (Again.)

The link to the current releases are in the first post. Installation/Update instructions are near the end of the second.

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#4029

Is the ambient clipping a horizontal white line that goes through the background?

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#4030

Nope, the ambient layer was cropping the device.

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Why? Is there a line going through the background?

Can I see a screenshot?

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#4031

No… it was an issue I have had with other presets and was curious as to whether that clipping was the same thing. I posted about it, here… the screenshot is not good… harder to see the line than it is on my screen.

White Lines Outside Screen Area with Shader? - RetroArch Additions / Shaders - Libretro Forums

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#4032

I posted a comment in the linked thread by mistake… :grin:

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#4033

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#4034

Beautiful work @Duimon :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: you guys have a great new year!! :partying_face::partying_face::partying_face:

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#4035

Here is a potential list of guides.

  • Mega Bezel - Beginners Guide: Installing Retroarch, the Mega Bezel, the Duimon pack, loading a preset, and saving a content directory preset.

  • Mega Bezel - Basic: Mega Bezel Image layers - Introduction.

  • Mega Bezel - Intermediate: Mega Bezel Image layers - HSV, Blending modes, and follow parameters.

  • Mega Bezel - Advanced: Mega Bezel Image layers - Gel, Diffuse, and Screen reflection.

  • Mega Bezel - Advanced: Generating Potato backgrounds using shader tools. Converting to overlays using an image editor.

  • Duimon presets: Introduction and folder layout.

  • Duimon presets: Local and global overrides.

  • Presets: Converting standalone Guest derivatives to reference params.

  • Presets: Consolidating multiple reference presets for use as reference params.

  • Overlays - Duimon presets: Using the global “screen only” override with overlays for performance.

  • Overlays: Using Photo editors to get accurate coordinates. Manually creating override configs.

  • MAME Core - Biginners Guide: Using the standard Software List method to run non-arcade machines.

  • MAME Core - Inermediate: Using the command line and advanced core settings. Using a *.cmd as content.

  • MAME Core - Advanced: Using Lua scripts.

I would like to get some feedback, since these guides are for you.

What would you like to see?

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#4036

This looks great. I’m sure this would fall under one of those categories, but a breakdown of what each parameter does, specifically, I think would really help people.

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#4037

That is a pretty good idea, but the number of parameters is huge. (527 for just the Mega Bezel specific parameters, not including Guest ADV etc.)

A lot of them are redundant and will be incidentally covered by these guides.

@HyperspaceMadness has a fairly comprehensive description in his Mega Bezel Readme.md. Converting that to an online guide format is doable. (It may need to be brought up to speed with the current release.)

Thanks for the suggestion!

I plan on adding these to the guide section of my GitHub Pages site.

Hopefully the Mega Bezel team can also make them available “Elsewhere”. :wink:

Additionally, YouTube video guides are on the future table.

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#4038

I think a guide for Ambient Lighting would be a good help.

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#4039

I’ll add that into the advance image layer guide. Thanks!

We’ll see how cumbersome the guide starts to get. I may split the advanced guides into individual layers. (Gel, Diffuse, Screen Reflection, Ambient Lighting etc.)

Another option would be to use my TV6 Alternate and/or Vectrex preset and walk through reverse engineering it/them.

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#4040

Nice list. I’m super interested in all of the MAME Core guides. Using Lua scripts for some of the more obscure systems would be cool to learn.

Happy New Year!

#4041

Hiya, happy new year! :star_struck:

Does anyone use Duimons’ presets on their SteamDeck?

I’m having a scaling issue with the Gameboy presets, my viewport looks vertically ‘smushed’, a little wider than what it is supposed to be:

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(Gameboy-[STD]-[Guest]-[Bezel].slangp)

Also, there are noticeable scanline ‘bands’ in the presets:

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(Gamecube-[STD]-[Guest]-[TM20].slangp)

I’m assuming this is unavoidable when using scanlines on a small screen? In the shader parameters, is it possible to disable the scanlines? Are there preferred shader settings for the steamdecks 1280x800 resolution?

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#4042

For the Game Boy, I am using “Auto” aspect ratio. You can change it to explicit and use 1.11 as the explicit aspect.

HSM_ASPECT_RATIO_MODE = "1.000000"
HSM_ASPECT_RATIO_EXPLICIT = "1.110000"

For the Gamecube, and other CRT, presets you can change the CRT Curvature Scale Multiplier to 0. (At the expense of some cropping in the corners.

CRT_Curvature
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You can try some other setting here too, like 50. Anything smaller that 100 will have less moire.

I think I may go through the handheld presets and define explicit parameters for everything. I have done that in my soon to be released boilerplate presets but the legacy are still using “auto” and “PAR” in some cases.

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#4043

Good night. Do you have this image in 8k so I can try to adapt it to vertical?

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#4044

Awesome, thanks for the help @Duimon !

Just to clarify, i can add these parameters to the slang config file, correct?

HSM_ASPECT_RATIO_MODE = “1.000000” HSM_ASPECT_RATIO_EXPLICIT = “1.110000”

RATIO_MODE 1 = explicit, correct?

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#4045

Yep… and 1.11 is the real world aspect of the GB and GBC screens.

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