It’s for any console you want to use it for. I’d personally use composite for everything up to the Dreamcast/PS2/,Gamecube era, RGB for arcade and pc games, everything after that is just native wide-screen upscaled.
The S20 should be more than fast enough to handle my presets.
sdm865 should be able to run these shaders just fine. Just make sure you set the video driver to Vulkan.
Nice to see you around these parts. Welcome to the forum.
From the same crt folder go inside the “shaders” folder at the top and then look for a “guest” folder, delete that then replace it with the one from the downloaded pack that’s also in the “shaders” folder and that’s it, you’re done. You’ve now successfully updated guest.r shaders.
In the pack there is not any guest shaders folder. Only sonkun with 3 subfolders. Do you mean to rename it to guest?
No, that is from guest.r’s downloaded shader pack, that’s a whole different download that you have to get separately, the link for it is also there.
So out of curiosity I searched to see if there ever was a OLED tv made with standard traditional RGB subpixels and to my surprise there actually was one made back in 2013:
https://www.blvdhome.com/product/samsung-s9c-series-55-1080p-oled-smart-tv-black-kn55s9cafxza-60614
Only thing is that it’s only 1080p and it’s out of stock and probably cost a fortune to find on the market these days. Still a Interesting find.
This is from a 4K OLED, an LG CX I believe.
LG CX has WRGB subpixels?
Edit:
This?
Yep, do note that WOLED, W-OLED, WRGB and RWBG are all used interchangeably to refer to LG Display’s OLED panels which include an additional White Subpixel.
I see. Forgot there were other acronyms used, all of those are the exact tvs I’m avoiding. If the tv I posted did 4k instead of just 1080p I would hunt that tv down regardless of price. From the little research I did that seems to be the only OLED literally in existence that does standard old traditional jail bar type RGB subpixels without any white subpixels in it.
Although it’s only 1080p that S9C OLED is rare to me, wouldn’t mind trying that out simply for testing purposes.
You might like this TV:
It’s got an RGB Subpixel Layout plus MiniLED, it’s 4K and it’s really bright.
There are also models from other manufacturers which fit this bill but they’re mainly available in larger sizes.
Q90C looks like it might have potential, I’d have to do more research on it though. Didn’t think there were any recent tvs that uses traditional RBG subpixels. The next question would then be are the RGB subpixels displayed like classic jailbars or is it some new modern pattern that it’s displayed as.
All of those TVs are miniLED TVs with IPS or ADS Pro LCD Panels. They’re the same “classic jailbars”. Nothing new. You can see all of the subpixel layouts if you scroll down in the reviews.
New Version Release (09-22-2024)
Changes Made
Uses guest.r shader version 2024-09-21-r2.
Uses brand new “NTSC Sharpness” implementation (blends dithering effects while preserving more pixel details).
‘NTSC Taps’ and NTSC Chroma Scaling/Bleeding settings rearranged making all games especially 3-phase games (nes, snes, master system) look overall sharper and cleaner.
Brand new ‘rainbow’ implementation for both ‘RF’ and ‘composite rainbow’ presets. ‘Fringing’ setting lowered and ‘artifacting’ setting raised on composite presets (less screen shaking and stronger looking rainbows).
‘FSharpen’ and ‘Subtractive Sharpness’ settings rearranged on all RF and composite presets (smooths out pixel edges while still remaining clean and sharp).
Added ‘CRT Mask Zoom Sharpen’ setting to all Shadow Mask presets (helps saturate colors a bit and bring out more darker background pixel details in games making them look more like Slot Mask and Aperture Grille presets color wise).
Edit as of 9/30/2024: I set the “fringing” setting on the “composite rainbow” presets back to default. Didn’t want to make a new post just for one little thing so you can re-download the new pack under the name “09-22-2024-release 2”.
Edit 2 as of 10/11/2024: Changed 4k Shadow Mask “crt mask zoom” from 1.00 to 2.00. You can grab the pack with that change under “release 3”.
Edit 3 as of 10/23/2024: Switched up crt mask settings once again in the 4k Shadow Mask presets only. New pack can be found under “release 4”.
Couple of composite screenies:
Download this update in the first post.
This update brings me one step closer to achieving one of the cleanest sharpest looking composite images I can produce which has been a goal of mines since I started making presets. I hope you all enjoy the new changes.
Hey sonkun, I am trying to use your shader on my Android phone (S24 Ultra)… Is it normal that the colors are so different with or without shader? I’m not talking about the CRT effects (which are all very nice), I’m talking about the colors themselves that seem washed out and totally different compared to the “native” image without shader (for example, the blue seems more like a light blue and so on…). Am I doing something wrong?
If it looks washed out then you’re definitely not seeing the right image. In fact I’ve gone out of my way to saturate the colors up on purpose this time around. Have you updated to the very latest guest.r shader manually? For my latest update you cannot simply just update slang shaders from within RetroArch, you have to manually install guest.r’s latest shader release as I’ve taken advantage of new features and settings that can only be found in his latest offering.
Also you’re using Android, have you learned how to change the shaders folder directory so that you can assess it?
Yes of course, I configured everything perfectly.
Strange. Mind showing me a screenshot of what you’re seeing? Also to be sure which guest.r update did you install?
Which game is that? Also colors on my presets most likely won’t be 1 for 1 with the raw image, I’ve played around with and raised a bunch of color tint and brightness/glow settings.
