Shantae Risky’s Revenge - Director’s Cut @1024x768’(running in 4K display)
ShaderGlass: Input pixel size x8, Output Scale 100%
Shader: Mega Bezel Tube-Efects_Nights_ADV
Shantae Risky’s Revenge - Director’s Cut @720x576 (running in 1080 display)
Shader Glass: Pixel Size Input 3px, Output 200%
Shader: CyberLab Composite IV OLED 1080p PVM-Edition ADV
Cyber Shadow (running in 4K Display)
Game Config:
ShaderGlass Config:
Shader:
Shadow of the Ninja Reborn, window mode 1280x720 (running in 4K Display)
ShaderGlass input pixel size 1x, Output scale 200% Shader Guest SlotMask1 (tube effects disable):
Some of these indie games blend highly pixelated sprites with smooth backgrounds and fonts. Because of this, a good mix of elements isn’t always achieved when applying a shader.
Shadow of the Ninja Reborn is an example. In the image below, you can see the character is better defined than the original model, but the elements in the backgrounds appear flattened.
Finally got a 4k OLED! Trying out Katana ZERO again.
No Shader
Newpixie-Clone__SMOOTH-ADV__GDV ShaderI’ve been trying to find the best way to share HDR screenshots here. JXR files don’t work in Chrome, but AVIF does.
Shovel Knight:
Also, here are the other two screenshots I posted before, but in their original HDR form:
Hey there,
Finally got to beat that old Baldur’s Gate 1 and I imported my character in the second game. Started playing on DOSBox Pure with a Win98 VM but wanted to try some mods that wouldn’t be compatible with the old Windows. So here I am with the old collection version installed in Lutris with compatibility mode for Win98. Widescreen mod was working with a custom resolution of 864x486 which was the closest allowed to native 480p and maintaining the sprites big, as I like.
Great game, great atmosphere, awesome mods, and IMO the pixel art really benefits from the reshade port of CRT-Guest-HD, with FSR prepended to upscale 480p to 4K. I run it via gamescope and vkbasalt. You can test and tweak it yourself if you want, here’s the fx file.
https://mega.nz/file/TcwkhQ7Z#SxibM1FAuYN2frFh16hJqCey_ElZ9LnGDNE_R7ho7KY
Here’s a portrait with and without filter for comparison.
hi, where can i download these please, looks sick
That looks fantastic! If it’s not too much trouble; could you provide more information how you got this to work? Since I moved to linux it has been a struggle to get reshade to work at all. I did finally get vkbasalt to launch with reshade shaders like CRT-Guest, but when I try the file you provided here, it does not. I assume this has to do with pre-upscaling your doing with FSR? Though gamescope seems able to resize as well, are you using launch arguments for that?
Some more images from CyberLab Guest Legendary Death To Pixels 4K HDR Shader Preset Pack!
Photos of the LCD screen:
Screenshots:
I am finally satisfied with my Ps1 preset. Hope some will find it useful. Here are some screens and the preset itself (just put it in shaders folder, don’t forget to update Retroarch shaders).
https://mega.nz/folder/2fQlwCIB#6O0WrV9NSeP0PyGPSw1JCw!
Enjoy!!
It is amazing how much more brighter your display can get compared to mine. HDR 600 is not enough I suppose.
I’m wondering, how can you tell how bright my display is relative to yours from watching the photos/screenshots. Remember those screenshots need to be either zoomed in or viewed fullscreen in order to get their true brightness.
That depends on how sensitive you are to motion clarity artifacts and how much you’re willing to compromise on the “purity” aka accuracy of your CRT Mask and Scanline Emulation.
Take a look at the following posts, including the embedded ones:
I concur with @Nesguy at least when it comes to monitors:
Guest-Advanced 4k HDR1000 experiments
You can find out some more about the display I use in this post:
It is just that games look very dark on my screen compared to photos you uploaded, even after I increase HDR brightness to 1000.
I will certainly check the posts you mentioned.
Thanks
Using which presets? In my preset packs there are both presets which look good on dim screens and there are presets which need bright screens.
If you’re talking about your own presets, unless you’re using Sony Megatron Colour Video Monitor there are many settings which you can adjust which can increase the brightness for example Mask Strength, GSL Scanline Type, Bloom, Halation, Glow, Bright Boost, Gamma_C, Contrast.
You can adjust the scanline dynamics so that the beam is thicker and the gaps are thinner. You can use higher TVL mask layouts.
Ultimately, there’s no substitute for raw brightness performance though.
You can increase the HDR Brightness setting but if your screen doesn’t have the nits, it just doesn’t have the nits.
Most Guest-Advanced presets in your HDR pack look like they have very low gamma and brightness, increasing luminance does not solve the problem. I thought they were designed for a display with higher HDR spec, mine does not even allow color adjustments in HDR mode.
You don’t have to stick to those but they are easily adjustable using the shader parameters I mentioned.
My previous pack contains PVM/PRO Edition presets for designed for higher brightness output on dimmer displays.
The HDR400 presets I referred to are in my Mega Bezel preset pack but they seem to be broken currently. I fixed most of them but haven’t uploaded yet.
My CRT-Royale preset pack should contain some bright (by my standards) presets.
You’ll also find some bright ones scattered across my Mega Bezel preset pack.
Gamma has been left mostly at default in my latest preset pack. Of course they were designed with my 4K miniLED TV in mind which is much brighter than most monitors, LCD/LED TVs and mid-range OLED TVs.
