[QUOTE=John.Merrit;29823]solid12345, thanks. Looks ok with your 2.5 shaders.
Tried to do a Space Invaders Arcade Machine, but 1080p is just too restrictive for screen real estate. [/QUOTE]
This is why i love 16:10 monitors which I use, you get that extra vertical height which is critical for 4:3 emulation.
Just a quick bump, if anyone’s interested. I have made some arcade machine tests. These are a bit extreme, in that, I have made the machines to look worn, with scratches, smudges, glass reflection from room lighting.
http://www.filefactory.com/file/3w89cy4hojdb/Retroarch_GnG1.png http://www.filefactory.com/file/2nnskysnsid1/Retroarch_GnG2.png http://www.filefactory.com/file/2an7q5thqbm3/Retroarch_Pacman1.png http://www.filefactory.com/file/4z6p2rjqltur/Retroarch_Pacman2.png http://www.filefactory.com/file/6gp4yprt60mh/Retroarch_Invaders1.png http://www.filefactory.com/file/3i0qq6j6bjah/Retroarch_Invaders2.png http://www.filefactory.com/file/7ho2mgq2g80b/Retroarch_sfa3.png http://www.filefactory.com/file/2wj4b16x5y8v/Retroarch_AOF3.png
It’s definitely a strong effect, but I gotta say: it looks quite realistic.
Thanks, hunterk.
Completely redone Space Invaders, working from a good quality arcade machine close-up.
http://www.filefactory.com/file/3bdsjmo7rty9/retroarch%202015-11-10%2000-10-49-52.png http://www.filefactory.com/file/4b7knt8dzbkz/retroarch%202015-11-10%2000-11-04-41.png http://www.filefactory.com/file/5jihkci02hkx/retroarch%202015-11-10%2000-10-34-07.png http://www.filefactory.com/file/7aevdh5fd8s5/retroarch%202015-11-10%2000-11-00-12.png
Again, due to the real hardware being over 35 years old, I tried to mimic the ageing in the overlay. As soon as I have both ageing-look and non ageing look finished, I will upload them.
Made a brief video. No sound, due to Retroarch already hogging my CPU and GPU, so Fraps was already struggling. Video quality is poor, time was not on my side so had to use a simple quick encoder + Youtube’s encoders then butcher it anyway.
Quick bump. Reworked many arcade machines to look more like the real thing. Multi-layered overlays layered up with hd res layers of wells gardner monitor with correct aspect, monitor mounted bezel, glass screen, glass reflection and scratches effect, vignette effects, glass bezel artwork, cab sides, etc… Some test shots from Bomb Jack, Asteroids, Starwars Stand-up machine.
http://www.filefactory.com/file/1ajvok6jx2jh/retroarch%202015-12-01%2003-24-58-54.png http://www.filefactory.com/file/1isy1wip6nir/retroarch%202015-12-01%2003-25-01-73.png http://www.filefactory.com/file/2n8ci472sr6t/retroarch%202015-11-26%2001-37-07-89.png http://www.filefactory.com/file/3as4eog3wja3/retroarch%202015-12-01%2003-24-18-33.png http://www.filefactory.com/file/4kg62ypixz35/retroarch%202015-11-28%2000-29-01-37.png http://www.filefactory.com/file/50jmmqgy156p/retroarch%202015-11-28%2000-28-00-53.png http://www.filefactory.com/file/5iwtlr28g4mr/retroarch%202015-12-01%2003-24-08-84.png http://www.filefactory.com/file/5pg8vtruqwmz/retroarch%202015-11-26%2001-36-33-74.png http://www.filefactory.com/file/6h3mc2vshbtn/retroarch%202015-12-01%2003-24-33-08.png
Any chance you could do a glare-less version of your JVC TV border (and/or perhaps brighten up the screen a little on the spotlight version? That’s by far my favorite one in terms of environment, but it makes the game screen way too dark for my taste)? Also, if you could use something other than FileFactory to host your stuff I’d be very grateful. That hourly limit takes more than just one hour to go away on my end for some reason.
Loving your stuff, man. You’re doing the work of God.
DuoDynamo, thanks, will do. Would you test a TV overlay for me ? I have been trying to get a overlay thats almost pixel-perfect for 4:3 resolutions, (SNES, NES,Megadrive,etc…) it’s 1080p only, at leastuntil I go 1440p next year.
Sorry about Filefactory. I personally hate it, ghastly interface and occasionally slow, but I stupidly paid for a year’s membership so I wanted to get my money’s worth.
How about mediafire ?
I will do a glare-less version and upload that later today. Included are a few configs (just remember to change the location of your roms), and some shaders - not required, but made for glare/reflection overlay.
Link for JVC TV No Glare. Don’t use any of those shaders above or you will have a very dark image for those systems.
I am new to Retroarch and I must say i Love what you’ve done.
Nice to get that retro nostalgic feel when playing instead of weird enhanced and fullscreen stuff.
Question, does anyone run PSX and if so do you also use a setup for it? I am used to playing in ePSXe but trying to get Mednafen set up looking nice has been harder than setting up SNES/NES etc. Can’t decide if I should go fullscreenor use a border/overlay for it also. Thanks in advance!
Lastly, I can’t seem to get my aspect ratio right, it is always much smaller than the TV. I am on 1920x1080 and I put 4:3 which was too small, then I tried custom integer 4:3 and that was even smaller! I can’t figure out what I am doing wrong. See pics:
Custom Integer 4:3 http://i573.photobucket.com/albums/ss171/NewYears1978/43custom_zps7uicis8d.jpg Regular 4:3 http://i573.photobucket.com/albums/ss171/NewYears1978/43_zpsprfqt5k0.jpg
(There’s a little extra black on the bottom because Crono Trigger has that by default…but you can see how its not filling the overlay)
NewYears1978, Try this config.
I have included my own PSOne config, should just drop in your current setup - provided you’re on one of the newer nightly. Just change this line in the file “Sony Playstation.cfg” to your own ISO location.
Line 108 - rgui_browser_directory = “D:\ISOs\Playstation”
I’ve included a few overlays, and my own shader config I use for PSOne. Feel free to test them to see if that helps. You should get every PSOne game filling the entire screen.
Thanks for that, looks great 
Maybe you can help me figure out HOW TO get configs to auto load? I have had SO much trouble setting up the per core config stuff…any changes I make while a core is loaded seems to always mess up my main config…I have really started to get annoyed.
I tried using overrides but I guess I Don’t understand. I put a folder in my config folder “Nestopia UE” and then "Nestopia UE.cfg in there but it doesn’t load. I tried using the default cfg names but someone told me to use the actual name…but I can’t get either to work…not sure what I am doing wrong.
Edit: Okay I finally got the override to working naming it “Nestopia” so that brings a next question, how do I know the proper name of the folder to use for overrides when it doesn’t match any of the listed names (in retroarch it’s called Nestopia UE for instance"
I can only go by my own MAME configs, but I’m sure they’re not much different.
Setup your main core config, I will use MAME as a example. In my MAME config I have the following set
core_specific_config = “false” auto_overrides_enable = “true”
I then make a specific config for a type of MAME game, for example - Vertical games, and Horizontal games. I will, for a vertical game, load in centipede, make sure it lines up with the tv overlay, make other adjustments to suit that game(Aspect, scaling, etc…), then finally write a new config in the main menu. This will give me, for example, a config called mame_libretro1.cfg. There is already my mame_libretro.cfg, so a1 is added to the name. I then rename that config, mame_libretro1.cfg, to the name of the rom I’ve just used - centipede - the rom is centiped, the config is now centiped.cfg. Now when I load centipede into MAME all my custom settings are now loaded, along with the correct overlay.
I can also edit the line
video_shader =
to
video_shader = “:\shaders\centiped.cgp”
so I can have custom shader settings as well. Just name the shader the same, centiped.cgp.
With the Playstation, just make sure your ISOs are not really long named and with weird characters in, and do the same thing. Again, for example, I have all 3 crash bandicoot games on my HD, named crash1.iso, crash2.iso, crash3.iso. I just name my custom playstation config to crash1.cfg, and any shaders to crash1.cgp.
Hope that helps in any way.
Really enjoying using the overlay in the original post; Thanks John
Hi, looks awesome however I have a 16:10 monitor. Is it possible to resize the overlay to fit 1920:1200 resolution?
Love the overlay! What settings should I use so the game fills the CRT screen? Here is a screenshot. It looks great but isn’t filling the entire TV screen.
Pyramid_Head, you can try using “Custom” in Video settings, Aspect. Then you can resize X and Y to your own needs, just make sure Integer is off and the X/Y res is as close to a 4:3 aspect as you can so you retain fairly even scanlines.
calle81, you can resize any them to your own resolution and aspect ratio, BUT, you will have to re-do the alpha channel.
Thanks! I think I got it as perfect as I can get it
Any chance you can please re-up the overlays zip? It’s gone from filefactory. Thanks!
Yes, all the overlays are gone
Up ! It would be nice if someone could reupload them.
Please reupload the file. thank you.
