Please show off what crt shaders can do!

[Nesguy]

If I’m being brutally honest both screenshots are a bit washed out. Are you targeting the raw colors in the emulator? Or do have a CRT for reference…? I think there’s a misconception floating around that CRTs were dim/washed out, which couldn’t be further from the truth. Of course, tastes vary, so maybe you’re just going for a more “vintage” look.

[HereticZero]

The screenshots are both NTSC. I use the NTSC preset by default. Aside from that I target raw. A non NTSC preset is included.

crt-guest-advanced-hereticzero-opus.slangp

crt-guest-advanced-hereticzero-opus-rev1.slangp

[HereticZero]

What do you do when you’re satisfied with your universal general purpose shader preset? Make console or game specific presets? No! You try to make the most obnoxiously terrible garbage preset possible.

Which is easier said than done. Some bad Ideas nurf other bad ideas. Some good ideas sneak their way in. You start seeing things you didn’t realize the shader was capable of before. And ultimately you sacrifice a bit “bad” in the name of “interesting”, but still manage to make something absolutely cursed.

TheCursedSpost

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[Nesguy]

Megatron NTSC, SDR mode, 300(?) TVL.

[Cyber]

Looks really nice and NTSCish! Don’t forget to remind viewers to increase the brightness of their displays for proper viewing. That’s really easy to do when viewing on a cellphone.

[e2zippo]

CyberLab__RGB-Smooth__PVM-Edition__ADV.slangp paired with Duimons work. Bsnes Core.

Here another taken with my phone to maybe show how it looks in Auto HDR in Windows 11 (HDR is hard to showcase, screenshot doesn’t do it justice, it looks really good)

[Cyber]

Just “showing off” some of my latest and greatest preset variations in action!

Right click on the image, click Open in New Tab then press F11 for Fullscreen for 4K users. Zoom in until it looks right for 1440p or 1080p users.

CyberLab_NES_Composite_Slot_Mask_IV_OLED_for_Core_Blargg_S-Video_Filter.slangp + Core Blargg S-Video Filter

CyberLab_Turbo_Duo_Composite_Slot_Mask_IV_OLED_for_CyberLab_Blargg_Video_Filter.slangp + Blargg_NTSC_Turbo_Duo_SNES_PSX_Composite_CyberLab_Special_Edition.filt

CyberLab__Ultimate_Virtual_Slot_Mask_IV_OLED_CRT-NP2RTA__ADV.slangp

On another note IrfanView 64 is a real gem of a tool for quickly and easily reducing 4K PNGs to forum size, while disabling chroma subsampling for preserving even more mask quality!

[ChromeConsole]

Wow. That’s a big difference!

[jeffersonomsi]

Does anyone have a working link, or similar with the same quality?

[Hyllian]

You just need to load preset crt-hyllian-sinc-glow (or any other crt-hyllian variant) and set these two parameters:

PHOSPHOR_LAYOT = 22.00
MASK_INTENSITY = 1.0

[MajorPainTheCactus]

Follow my Samsung QD-OLED investigation over on the Sony Megatron thread:

Sony Megatron Colour Video Monitor

So what better way to make the cost of living crisis really hit home than to buy a bloody expensive new TV! Yes I’ve told the bailiffs to go f*#k themselves whilst I get pictures for you all of my new Samsung 65" S95B QD-OLED TV (temporarily mine at least until my wife comes home at which point she’ll be divorcing me for spending the children’s shoe money on new AV equipment). Anyway here are the first few pictures (and yes I need to update all my presets now as the values are radically differe…

[MajorPainTheCactus]

Virtua Racing slot mask preset, more here:

Sony Megatron Colour Video Monitor

Here’s some pics of slot mask VR racing on the S95B. When you zoom right in you can see the ‘bobble’ on the horizontal wires but when you zoom out it vanishes which is how it works in person. Do zoom in on the third close up picture to see both the slot mask and pixels making up the phosphors in detail and in HDR. Apart from the bobble even the slightly larger gap between the blue and red pixels (vertical wires) work well as they seem to match the height of the horizontal wires [Screenshot_20…

[Cyber]

Right click on the image, click Open in New Tab then press F11 for Fullscreen for 4K users. Zoom in until it looks right for 1440p or 1080p users.

CyberLab__PSX_Composite__ADV.slangp with Mask size changed to 1.

[crtJoe]

(crt-guest-advanced-fastest)

[Cyber]

Right click on the image, click Open in New Tab then press F11 for Fullscreen for 4K users. Zoom in until it looks right for 1440p or 1080p users.

CyberLab Le’Sarsh Composite Presets

CyberLab_Genesis_Composite_Slot_Mask_IV_OLED_for_CyberLab_Blargg_Video_Filter.slangp + Blargg_NTSC_Genesis_Composite_CyberLab_Special_Edition.filt

CyberLab_SNES_Composite_Slot_Mask_IV_OLED_for_BSNES_Blur_Emulation.slangp

CyberLab Le’Sarsh Presets:

CyberLab__Ultimate_Virtual_Slot_Mask_IV_OLED_CRT-NP2RTA__ADV.slangp

CyberLab Le’Sarsh S-Video Presets:

CyberLab_Turbo_Duo_S-Video_Slot_Mask_IV_OLED_for_CyberLab_Blargg_Video_Filter.slangp + Blargg_NTSC_Turbo_Duo_SNES_PSX_S-Video_CyberLab_Special_Edition.filt

Just wanted to say thanks to @guest.r, @HyperspaceMadness, @Dogway, @aliaspider, @Hyllian and all other shader developers who contributed to HSM Mega Bezel Reflection Shader and made this all possible.

[HackeMate]

Very happy with this settings:

[Nesguy]

Generic Megatron presets - RGB and NTSC, ~500 TVL. I’ve been using some photos at RetroRGB for reference.

GitHub - Patrickdroid/Retroarch-Shaders

[HereticZero]

https://mega.nz/file/VLETjKjS#EWWdYAuqWSok09yh7M0PLESVaA41MEuk4WRjfTHyNlg

This is the only screenshot for now. I need to get some sleep while I still can.

EDIT: More screenshots. Also I will use this opportunity to admit that “Piece” was configured in no small degree around Alisia Deena Rain’s thighs.

Unfortunately I’m noticing some inconsistencies in the new “Piece” presets I wouldn’t be able to forgive myself for… if not for the fact that I worked on them late between work days. The NTSC presets lack my afterglow settings it’s disgraceful.

[Nesguy]

Sometimes I get tired of all the endless tweaking and then I just use Guest-advanced and guest-ntsc sans masks.

[Cyber]

Just showing off what CRT shaders can do!

Right click on the image, click Open in New Tab then press F11 for Fullscreen for 4K users. Zoom in until it looks right for 1440p or 1080p users.

Here’s a look at some of my NES Shader Presets (not Shaders)

Super Mario Bros - Cyberlab Mega Bezel Death to Pixels NES Shaders