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

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#2558

Started out this past year playing default 16:9 stretched pixels (yikes lol) and saw the SF2 gif on reddit of how much shaders enhance the pixel art, so I dove in over the past weeks:

Started with Cyber’s Death to Pixels, which looks really amazing, but terrible on Parsec/Stream encoding. Just doesn’t translate well. Will probably use that for single player chill stuff. Then tried ScaleFX - smoothed stuff out but looked like watercolor painting, not my thing. Went to default HSM Bezel and looked pretty good but sides felt blank.

Ended up on this thread, got it all setup and it not only does a great 4:3 while filling in the sides with all your detailed console options with the reflections going, but also does a fair default job blending the pixels, AND manages to still look good through an encoder on OBS or Parsec, I love it!

My favorites are definitely all the Custom 1 Night presets, really appreciated how the Custom 1 options maximize the screen space bringing the non-integer screen scaling to around 94%, just small enough to see the reflections top and bottom while giving the max amount of playing space possible.

Thx to you, Cyber and Hyper for all this work :slight_smile:

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#2559

I have been working feverishly on redoing all of the Potato presets. I am doing a complete set so you will have the same choices as the ADV and STD. (Just not the flexibility.)

I have finished creating all the base PSD files. There are 461, so with Night versions I will have to export 922 images. :astonished: (This of course means there are 922 presets.)

I have also created a “Lite” set of presets which uses the GDV-MINI STD base preset and should perform better on mid range GPUs.

Then I need to create the actual presets. :innocent:

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#2560

I think Skynet built you, @Duimon. You’re a machine! :laughing:

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#2561

That’s funny. :thinking: One of my nicknames back in the BBS days was “Duinator”. :wink:

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#2562

Oh gosh, BBS’s. Those were some good pre-AOL days for me.

Now I have an itch to play Legend of the Red Dragon!

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#2563

There are some BBSs still operational and you can browse them in Windows using the right software. It is a trip through the past!

Cool thing is no long distance telephone bills. :grin:

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#2564

Could you please help me with this one : what did I missed in the settings for mame curent core as wboy doesn’t fit the width of the bezel - Thanks in advance for your help

wboy
wboy1360×768 489 KB
Ans sorry maybe I abuse but what is the best shader should I use for arcade games please ? :pray:

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#2565

To get it to fill the screen just change

[Cropping Core Image]
    Crop Left %: 6.50
    Crop Right %: 6.50

wboy-220206-081703
wboy-220206-0817031920×1080 709 KB

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#2566

I was wondering if the Mega Bezel could work with video aspect ratio in Core Provide. Perhaps it would eliminate the need to use crop settings. :face_with_raised_eyebrow: @HyperspaceMadness

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#2567

So I think this information about areas which should be cropped would be in the information the core gives about overscan if it has it. In not sure if that’s something independent of aspect ratio or not…

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#2568

Thanks very much for your help ! then I save the settings just for this game, wright ?

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#2569

Yeah just save the settings just for the game.

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#2570

Thank you for the setting ; works like a sharm

for my display : [Cropping Core Image] Crop Left %: 6.10 Crop Right %: 6.10

:slight_smile:

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#2571

If you have any other problem like that always remember, it can be easily fixed by cropping the left and right of the core image.

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#2572

And/or the top and/or bottom.

Different systems and even different games on the same system, need different cropping. It needs to be done, (If it needs to done.) on a game by game basis.

In the past you just had to deal with it. With the Mega Bezel you can fix it. :grin:

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#2573

We can rebuild him…

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#2574

better, stronger, faster…

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#2575

Someone give this guy a promotion. He deserves it!

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#2576

Is this the Six Million Dollar Man.

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#2577

Does anybody actually know some real good shaders to use for Arcade games?

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