Setting up an entertainment system can be a lot of work, regardless of any automation. It is worth doing well, and you can be comforted by the fact that it only needs to be done once.
I have hundreds of hours into my HTPC. Once I have it where I want it I just never update anything.
Yeahhhhhh… I honestly have 1000’s of hours of work into my media library.
Maintaining your own library is one of the largest timesinks I’ve ever encountered 
Thanks for making presets for my bezels. I just don’t have the time. So I appreciate everyone who’s helping out.
Hello guys,
I’m trying to fix the game orientation inside the Tv. I have already searched inside the shaders parameters ( flip and rotate section) without success…
thanks in advance for any help
Instead, try the orientation parameter. Although it might look strange on this preset.
3 parameters have to be changed for this game.
[Flip & Rotate]
Flip Core Image Vertical: 1
Flip Core Image Horizontal: 1
Rotate CRT Tube: 1
Thanks for the tips and thanks a lot for the great preset ! 
Thanks a lot ! it works 
hello, I’m using the “MBZ__0__SMOOTH-ADV” shader, I use it on all consoles, but for example, when I use it on the ds it’s a bit weird to see the curved screen, is there a way to configure that same shader but without the curved screen, or download that same shader but without the curved screen, I would really like to know if it could be done. thanks.
Hi, welcome to the forum
You can do this by setting the curvature mode to 0 in the shader parameters, you can find it here
[ CURVATURE ]: > Curvature Mode
I just did it and it worked, really thank you very much, it has helped me a lot, you are the best.
This is the best stuff not just for gaming, but watching old animes too! I’m enjoying so much, it’s a time machine back to my childhood, where I play my oldschool games and watch animes! Anything equal or higher than 1280x720p I use VLC player, anything below that now I use Retroarch, and looks great!
I agree with you 100% and I think RetroArch devs should pay a bit more attention too. I wish FFMPEG core was compatible with a wider range of video formats or maybe they could make it compatible with system installed codecs.
I recently learned that there was another media player core called MPV or something like that.
@HyperspaceMadness will there be a way to have the bezel set behind the background image in the future?
You can do that now by adjusting the layer order. You can also use any image layer as the “Background” layer. i.e. Cabinet, Decal, Top Extra etc.
Thanks Duimon. Yeah all I had to do is change the CRT Screen Layer order.
I have updated Nvidia drivers to the latest 512.77 version, clean Retroarch download, latest 05212022 build, latest update for mega bezel in the correct folder, .retroarch\shaders\slang_shaders\bezel\mega_bezel, for some reason, any presets are failing to load, the log returns this:
“R:\Emulators\Retroarch\shaders\shaders_slang\bezel\Mega_Bezel\shaders\HyperspaceMadness\hsm\hsm-post-crt-prep-potato.slang”. [ERROR] [Vulkan]: Failed to create preset: “R:\Emulators\Retroarch\shaders\shaders_slang\bezel\Mega_Bezel\Presets\MBZ__5__POTATO.slangp”. [ERROR] [Vulkan]: Failed to create filter chain: “R:\Emulators\Retroarch\shaders\shaders_slang\bezel\Mega_Bezel\Presets\MBZ__5__POTATO.slangp”. Falling back to stock. [INFO] [Config]: Saved new config to “R:\Emulators\Retroarch\retroarch.cfg”
Driver is Vulkan, integer scale off, scaling full, loading other crt shaders from dr.guest, lottes, etc work fine. What does Failed to create filter chain mean, any ideas?
If I remember properly it is caused by a shader file looking for a file in the wrong directory.
That is the proper folder structure. The MBZ__5__POTATO file references MBZ_5__POTATO__GDV-MINI which than has shader9 pointing to “…/…/shaders/HyperspaceMadness/hsm/hsm-post-crt-prep-potato.slang”.
I would say just make sure the file exists in that exact directory.
Edit: Looking at it more I think it is stating that MBZ__5__POTATO can’t load because it can’t find hsm-post-crt-prep-potato.slang in the directory that the shader is pointing to.
Hi all,
Are there any concerns with OLED burn-in using these static borders? For example, the default bezel with square pattern?
My understanding is OLED burn in is caused by pixel brightness, therefore black is set at 0 pixel brightness (off), however, I’m not sure what effect the grey portion would have. I figure a white pixel will have a higher brightness value vs grey, but what about red, for instance?
I guess most play sessions wouldn’t last long enough to cause burn-in anyway.
Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!
