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#3125

Nope not yet :), it’s not forgotten, just on the very long TODO list :wink:

It might be tricky to figure out because again Royale works a bit differently than most shaders and does things in a bunch of different passes, then does the curvature at the end.

This is one of the reasons why it can be a bit slower than some other shaders as well as it has a number of passes at the final viewport res.

Basically any issue that I need to fix with Royale takes me maybe 4X as long figure out how to fix as with any other CRT shader because of the complexity of all the multiple passes.

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#3126

What shader is that? Is it available through Retroarch?

#3127

It’s a collection of shaders for ReShade. I’m still tweaking some things and will post a link to it here in a few days. Some more screenshots :

PrinceOfPersia 2021-01-04 15-45-33
PrinceOfPersia 2021-01-04 15-45-331440×1080 1.11 MB

SuperMetroid 2021-01-09 14-35-52
SuperMetroid 2021-01-09 14-35-521280×1080 1.1 MB

SuperMetroid 2021-01-09 14-36-34
SuperMetroid 2021-01-09 14-36-341280×1080 1.03 MB

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#3128

Made some changes to my VHS shader. (Also didn’t realise it was too bright in some games) :

DarkSouls2 2021-01-14 22-55-10
DarkSouls2 2021-01-14 22-55-101920×1080 3.08 MB

DarkSouls2 2021-01-14 22-55-25
DarkSouls2 2021-01-14 22-55-251920×1080 2.85 MB

An alternate clean version I’m currently working on :

DarkSouls2 2021-01-14 22-56-00
DarkSouls2 2021-01-14 22-56-001920×1080 3.5 MB

DarkSouls2 2021-01-14 22-56-15
DarkSouls2 2021-01-14 22-56-151920×1080 3.05 MB

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#3129

Great! I’m looking forward to it.

#3130

An update to crt-super-xbr. It now uses crt-hyllian-multipass and became much faster. Other than that, there’s a glow version (first release). I’ve managed to fix some weird artifacts from old versions, it’s now much lighter (it uses linear gamma since first pass now).

crt-super-xbr and glow + crt-hyllian-multipass (slang)

Some screens from crt-super-xbr-glow:

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#3131

Hi Hyllian,Thanks for the efforts. Link isn’t working for me , would you please upload on another site?

#3132

Sure! --> alternative link

#3133

Someone that goes by ‘WolfWings’ submitted a nice new mask in a comment on my blog:

 {green, magenta, green, magenta},
 {black, blue, green, red},
 {green, magenta, green, magenta},
 {green, red, black, blue}

it ends up with slotmask triads that are taller than they are wide, which threw me at first, until I realized that it makes a perfect simulation of TATE mode :slight_smile:

1366×712

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New CRT shader from Guest + CRT Guest Advanced updates
#3134

Oooh, this one looks really cool! @guest.r any interest in trying this one out? :wink:

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#3135

Small fix to crt-super-xbr that was causing some tiny artifacts when scaling at nPOT scale factors:

crt-super-xbr - 21-01-22 (slang)

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#3136

Yeah I loaded this up on my 4K monitor and it is pretty convincing. :grinning:

It might end up needing a bit of boost of the brightness because of the black pixel.

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#3137

It would be really nice if Hyllian’s updated shaders could be uploaded to the official shaders repo !

#3138

they have been, about at week ago.

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#3139

Looks like now I know why I shouldn’t forget to enable the preset param ‘srgb_framebuffer’ when making precise computations and saving it to framebuffer to be used among passes. (LOL).

This fix will preserve some subtle color transitions from becoming harsh transitions.

Thanks to @Tatsuya79 I found it was necessary to use that param in crt-super-xbr. So, here’s a new release with that fix:

crt-super-xbr (slang) (21-01-22)

Screenshots of crt-super-xbr-glow:

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#3140

Do you know exactly what using the srgb_framebuffer does? It seems like the gamma function used to get srgb to linear is not a straight gamma application.

#3141

I know that using it, the colors don’t loose precision. And the results of using gamma in and gamma out in different passes now are identical to using both in only one pass.

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#3142

It is kinda hard to show how a preset look on a certain tv, but I habe tried with this image. Still not correct, but close.

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#3143

Been a while since I posted, thought I’d give the new guest shader a spin.

And here’s a few shots with just the slot mask:

shaders = "11"
shader0 = "shaders_slang/stock.slang"
filter_linear0 = "false"
wrap_mode0 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input0 = "false"
alias0 = "StockPass"
float_framebuffer0 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer0 = "false"
scale_type_x0 = "source"
scale_x0 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y0 = "source"
scale_y0 = "1.000000"
shader1 = "shaders_slang/reshade/shaders/FilmGrain.slang"
filter_linear1 = "false"
wrap_mode1 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input1 = "false"
alias1 = "AfterglowPass"
float_framebuffer1 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer1 = "false"
scale_type_x1 = "source"
scale_x1 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y1 = "source"
scale_y1 = "1.000000"
shader2 = "shaders_slang/misc/grade.slang"
filter_linear2 = "false"
wrap_mode2 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input2 = "false"
alias2 = "PrePass"
float_framebuffer2 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer2 = "false"
scale_type_x2 = "source"
scale_x2 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y2 = "source"
scale_y2 = "1.000000"
shader3 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/avg-lum.slang"
filter_linear3 = "true"
wrap_mode3 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input3 = "true"
alias3 = "AvgLumPass"
float_framebuffer3 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer3 = "false"
scale_type_x3 = "source"
scale_x3 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y3 = "source"
scale_y3 = "1.000000"
shader4 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/linearize.slang"
filter_linear4 = "true"
wrap_mode4 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input4 = "false"
alias4 = "LinearizePass"
float_framebuffer4 = "true"
srgb_framebuffer4 = "false"
scale_type_x4 = "source"
scale_x4 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y4 = "source"
scale_y4 = "1.000000"
shader5 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/gaussian_horizontal.slang"
filter_linear5 = "true"
wrap_mode5 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input5 = "false"
alias5 = ""
float_framebuffer5 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer5 = "false"
scale_type_x5 = "viewport"
scale_x5 = "0.500000"
scale_type_y5 = "source"
scale_y5 = "1.000000"
shader6 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/gaussian_vertical.slang"
filter_linear6 = "true"
wrap_mode6 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input6 = "false"
alias6 = "GlowPass"
float_framebuffer6 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer6 = "false"
scale_type_x6 = "viewport"
scale_x6 = "0.500000"
scale_type_y6 = "viewport"
scale_y6 = "0.500000"
shader7 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/bloom_horizontal.slang"
filter_linear7 = "true"
wrap_mode7 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input7 = "false"
alias7 = ""
float_framebuffer7 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer7 = "false"
scale_type_x7 = "source"
scale_x7 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y7 = "source"
scale_y7 = "1.000000"
shader8 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/bloom_vertical.slang"
filter_linear8 = "true"
wrap_mode8 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input8 = "false"
alias8 = "BloomPass"
float_framebuffer8 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer8 = "false"
scale_type_x8 = "source"
scale_x8 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y8 = "source"
scale_y8 = "1.000000"
shader9 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/crt-guest-dr-venom2.slang"
filter_linear9 = "true"
wrap_mode9 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input9 = "false"
alias9 = ""
float_framebuffer9 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer9 = "false"
scale_type_x9 = "viewport"
scale_x9 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y9 = "viewport"
scale_y9 = "1.000000"
shader10 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/deconvergence.slang"
filter_linear10 = "true"
wrap_mode10 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input10 = "false"
alias10 = ""
float_framebuffer10 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer10 = "false"
scale_type_x10 = "viewport"
scale_x10 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y10 = "viewport"
scale_y10 = "1.000000"
Intensity = "0.250000"
g_vignette = "0.000000"
wp_temperature = "8004.000000"
g_sat = "0.400000"
GAMMA_INPUT = "3.499999"
interm = "5.000000"
bloom = "0.900000"
halation = "0.075000"
gamma_c = "1.500000"
brightboost = "2.000000"
brightboost1 = "3.000000"
scanline1 = "15.000000"
scanline2 = "5.000000"
beam_min = "2.499999"
beam_size = "0.700000"
s_sharp = "1.000000"
BLOOM = "1.000000"
csize = "0.010000"
warpX = "0.030000"
warpY = "0.040000"
shadowMask = "7.000000"
maskstr = "1.000000"
mask_gamma = "3.499999"
gamma_out = "3.499999"
deconr = "-1.000000"
decons = "1.000000"
textures = "SamplerLUT1;SamplerLUT2;SamplerLUT3;SamplerLUT4"
SamplerLUT1 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/lut/sony_trinitron1.png"
SamplerLUT1_linear = "true"
SamplerLUT1_wrap_mode = "clamp_to_border"
SamplerLUT1_mipmap = "false"
SamplerLUT2 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/lut/sony_trinitron2.png"
SamplerLUT2_linear = "true"
SamplerLUT2_wrap_mode = "clamp_to_border"
SamplerLUT2_mipmap = "false"
SamplerLUT3 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/lut/other1.png"
SamplerLUT3_linear = "true"
SamplerLUT3_wrap_mode = "clamp_to_border"
SamplerLUT3_mipmap = "false"
SamplerLUT4 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/lut/custom_lut.png"
SamplerLUT4_linear = "true"
SamplerLUT4_wrap_mode = "clamp_to_border"
SamplerLUT4_mipmap = "false"

Slot Mask settings

shaders = "11"
shader0 = "shaders_slang/stock.slang"
filter_linear0 = "false"
wrap_mode0 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input0 = "false"
alias0 = "StockPass"
float_framebuffer0 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer0 = "false"
scale_type_x0 = "source"
scale_x0 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y0 = "source"
scale_y0 = "1.000000"
shader1 = "shaders_slang/reshade/shaders/FilmGrain.slang"
filter_linear1 = "false"
wrap_mode1 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input1 = "false"
alias1 = "AfterglowPass"
float_framebuffer1 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer1 = "false"
scale_type_x1 = "source"
scale_x1 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y1 = "source"
scale_y1 = "1.000000"
shader2 = "shaders_slang/misc/grade.slang"
filter_linear2 = "false"
wrap_mode2 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input2 = "false"
alias2 = "PrePass"
float_framebuffer2 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer2 = "false"
scale_type_x2 = "source"
scale_x2 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y2 = "source"
scale_y2 = "1.000000"
shader3 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/avg-lum.slang"
filter_linear3 = "true"
wrap_mode3 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input3 = "true"
alias3 = "AvgLumPass"
float_framebuffer3 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer3 = "false"
scale_type_x3 = "source"
scale_x3 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y3 = "source"
scale_y3 = "1.000000"
shader4 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/linearize.slang"
filter_linear4 = "true"
wrap_mode4 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input4 = "false"
alias4 = "LinearizePass"
float_framebuffer4 = "true"
srgb_framebuffer4 = "false"
scale_type_x4 = "source"
scale_x4 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y4 = "source"
scale_y4 = "1.000000"
shader5 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/gaussian_horizontal.slang"
filter_linear5 = "true"
wrap_mode5 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input5 = "false"
alias5 = ""
float_framebuffer5 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer5 = "false"
scale_type_x5 = "viewport"
scale_x5 = "0.500000"
scale_type_y5 = "source"
scale_y5 = "1.000000"
shader6 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/gaussian_vertical.slang"
filter_linear6 = "true"
wrap_mode6 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input6 = "false"
alias6 = "GlowPass"
float_framebuffer6 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer6 = "false"
scale_type_x6 = "viewport"
scale_x6 = "0.500000"
scale_type_y6 = "viewport"
scale_y6 = "0.500000"
shader7 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/bloom_horizontal.slang"
filter_linear7 = "true"
wrap_mode7 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input7 = "false"
alias7 = ""
float_framebuffer7 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer7 = "false"
scale_type_x7 = "source"
scale_x7 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y7 = "source"
scale_y7 = "1.000000"
shader8 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/bloom_vertical.slang"
filter_linear8 = "true"
wrap_mode8 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input8 = "false"
alias8 = "BloomPass"
float_framebuffer8 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer8 = "false"
scale_type_x8 = "source"
scale_x8 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y8 = "source"
scale_y8 = "1.000000"
shader9 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/crt-guest-dr-venom2.slang"
filter_linear9 = "true"
wrap_mode9 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input9 = "false"
alias9 = ""
float_framebuffer9 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer9 = "false"
scale_type_x9 = "viewport"
scale_x9 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y9 = "viewport"
scale_y9 = "1.000000"
shader10 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/crt-gdv-new/deconvergence.slang"
filter_linear10 = "true"
wrap_mode10 = "clamp_to_border"
mipmap_input10 = "false"
alias10 = ""
float_framebuffer10 = "false"
srgb_framebuffer10 = "false"
scale_type_x10 = "viewport"
scale_x10 = "1.000000"
scale_type_y10 = "viewport"
scale_y10 = "1.000000"
Intensity = "0.250000"
g_vignette = "0.000000"
wp_temperature = "8004.000000"
g_sat = "0.400000"
GAMMA_INPUT = "3.499999"
interm = "5.000000"
bloom = "0.900000"
halation = "0.075000"
gamma_c = "1.500000"
brightboost = "2.000000"
brightboost1 = "3.000000"
scanline1 = "15.000000"
scanline2 = "5.000000"
beam_min = "2.499999"
beam_size = "0.700000"
s_sharp = "1.000000"
BLOOM = "1.000000"
csize = "0.010000"
warpX = "0.030000"
warpY = "0.040000"
shadowMask = "-1.000000"
maskstr = "1.000000"
slotmask = "1.000000"
mask_gamma = "3.499999"
gamma_out = "3.499999"
deconr = "-1.000000"
decons = "1.000000"
textures = "SamplerLUT1;SamplerLUT2;SamplerLUT3;SamplerLUT4"
SamplerLUT1 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/lut/sony_trinitron1.png"
SamplerLUT1_linear = "true"
SamplerLUT1_wrap_mode = "clamp_to_border"
SamplerLUT1_mipmap = "false"
SamplerLUT2 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/lut/sony_trinitron2.png"
SamplerLUT2_linear = "true"
SamplerLUT2_wrap_mode = "clamp_to_border"
SamplerLUT2_mipmap = "false"
SamplerLUT3 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/lut/other1.png"
SamplerLUT3_linear = "true"
SamplerLUT3_wrap_mode = "clamp_to_border"
SamplerLUT3_mipmap = "false"
SamplerLUT4 = "shaders_slang/crt/shaders/guest/lut/custom_lut.png"
SamplerLUT4_linear = "true"
SamplerLUT4_wrap_mode = "clamp_to_border"
SamplerLUT4_mipmap = "false"
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#3144

Finally posting here a link to my ReShade VHS setup. It contains both the Blurry/LowRes and the Clean version in 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratios (labeled as 1920 and 1440 respectively).

Some screenshots (LowRes version) :

ChronoCross 2021-01-21 14-46-42
ChronoCross 2021-01-21 14-46-421440×1080 2.55 MB
CrashTeamRacing 2021-01-22 14-46-05
CrashTeamRacing 2021-01-22 14-46-051440×1080 2.47 MB
FinalFantasy7 2021-01-21 22-51-04
FinalFantasy7 2021-01-21 22-51-041440×1080 2.33 MB
FinalFantasy7 2021-01-21 22-55-06
FinalFantasy7 2021-01-21 22-55-061440×1080 2.41 MB
FinalFantasy7 2021-01-21 22-56-18
FinalFantasy7 2021-01-21 22-56-181440×1080 2.36 MB
FinalFantasy9 2021-01-21 22-57-13
FinalFantasy9 2021-01-21 22-57-131440×1080 2.33 MB

Clean version :

HokutoNoKen-SeikimatsuKyuuseishuDensetsu 2021-01-18 15-08-30
HokutoNoKen-SeikimatsuKyuuseishuDensetsu 2021-01-18 15-08-301440×1080 2.49 MB
HokutoNoKen-SeikimatsuKyuuseishuDensetsu 2021-01-18 15-08-44
HokutoNoKen-SeikimatsuKyuuseishuDensetsu 2021-01-18 15-08-441440×1080 2.62 MB
MonsterHunterTri 2021-01-13 20-50-40
MonsterHunterTri 2021-01-13 20-50-401440×1080 2.19 MB
MonsterHunterTri 2021-01-13 20-53-25
MonsterHunterTri 2021-01-13 20-53-251440×1080 2.42 MB

You’ll have to use Res-o-matic to get 4:3 in emulators like RetroArch or Dolphin on widescreen displays!

Without Res-o-matic :

Tekken3 2021-01-24 12-30-20
Tekken3 2021-01-24 12-30-201920×1080 3.11 MB

With Res-o-matic :

Tekken3 2021-01-24 12-30-58
Tekken3 2021-01-24 12-30-581440×1080 2.48 MB

This was made on a 1920x1080 monitor. So it may not work as expected on other resolutions! DM me if you need help with this (or anything else related to this shader).

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