Please show off what crt shaders can do!

Syh · 18 June 2020 08:08

Planning on it when everything comes in, probably will start it in the off-topic part of the forums.

Was just excited as this is the most money I’ve ever spent on myself for one item, and the majority of people that I talk with on here are in this thread, lol.

EDIT: My shipping tracking says my main order should be here Saturday. (So should be able to do my initial build this weekend, if it actually gets here Saturday.) There’s two other cosmetic-ish orders, that I haven’t gotten tracking info for yet, but one of them should be shipping today. The other I may not see for months because it’s coming from Japan, .

Syh · 19 June 2020 18:14

Guys! My main package came in a day early!!

Probably build it tomorrow. The rest of the parts besides the Japan purchase, are supposed to be here Monday.

Here’s some pictures of parts, lol. (Please ignore the tape on the stick case, lol.) Probably going to order a Plexi panel for the top, don’t like how the aluminum feels.

Monday my replacement battop should be here, I’m not planning on using the clear one.

Syh · 20 June 2020 21:18

Sorry about the off-topic pictures. I’m going to make a new thread for this when the rest of my parts get here.

I still have to wire everything up, but here’s how it looks so far. The buttons aren’t as pale as they look in the screenshot.

EDIT: Got everything wired up, I really need to make my own wiring harness. It looks like caca inside, lol. This thing weighs a metric ton, I feel like I could bludgeon someone to death with it and then go back to playing games with it. (It feels like it weighs more than a gallon of milk. Not sure exactly how much it weighs, that’s just how it feels.)

I’ll post a link to my forum thread for this when I make the thread, it’ll include a list for what parts the I used for this.

Nesguy · 20 June 2020 21:40

Very nice. I want all the info when you’re done because this is something I’m definitely interested in doing.

Playing fighting games with a D-pad starts to really suck once you get to be my age, lol.

Syh · 20 June 2020 22:01

It’s close to being done, tbh.

I’m waiting on a fancy USB cable from Japan (Which I’m super hyped about). Waiting on a replacement battop, which is supposedly going to be here Monday, but the tracking hasn’t moved from Cali since Friday so I’m slightly skeptical lol. Getting some replacement parts for the buttons Monday, which will definitely be here Monday, at least from looking at the tracking info.

IDK, when I’m going to make the replacement wiring harness though, as I need the wiring, quick disconnects, heat shrink, rubber cap things, wire stripper, wire crimper, heatgun (could use a lighter instead but I’d rather not, lol), and some sleeving for the cables.

That being said, I’m going to make the thread after my battop and button parts come in. I’m not waiting on making the wiring harness before making the thread.

Also this is basically a Korean fightstick. (As the buttons and stick are Korean parts, whereas most fightsticks unless they are custom usually use Japanese parts, primarily Sanwa parts from what I’ve gathered. Hori sticks make there own arcade parts though. There are some pre-built options for Korean sticks, just not nearly as many as Sanwa sticks.)

Edit: Just got an update on my tracking app for my battop, telling me it hasn’t moved (it’s only supposed to let me know when it’s moved somewhere, lol).

Here’s some wiring porn, lol. This is sorta what I’m planning on doing for the wiring harness, except instead of 4 cables for the face buttons I want to use two.

Syh · 20 June 2020 23:45

Are Soul Salibur VI or Tekken 7 any good?

They’re both on sale for under $20 on steam and was wondering if it was worth spending the money?

Arviel · 21 June 2020 02:43

Tekken 7 is one of the best in the series. Definitely recommend it. You can also get KOF 13 for cheap as well.

Syh · 21 June 2020 03:32

I think Tekken 7 is currently $10. I may go ahead and get it Monday.

Syh · 22 June 2020 21:14

New battop and shaft came in today.

I lose a couple mm of height with the new shaft, but I can still hit all directions and it’s not lower then the top of my hand so I’m good.

I’m using phreakmods link groove shaft, with a Crown Violet Clear Battop. I’m going to look into some washers or something to make back up part of the height loss. Might end up getting a Sanwa bat when they have the one I want in stock again.

EDIT: This is basically the same width as the stock crown quick release shaft. I have pictures if anyone is interested.

DariusG · 22 June 2020 21:27

some experimenting a sharp one without any mask

and one with a mask to try to replicate a Trinitron TV

Syh · 22 June 2020 21:30

I think you’re Trinitron mask is too big. @Nesguy am I right?

DariusG · 22 June 2020 21:55

Maybe because i use 1280*1024 monitor, so to emulate a 640 pixels mask you can only use 2 lines and this mask uses 3 so you would need 1920 horizontal resolution. Just made the math now So what mask uses 2 lines on guest.r shader? I think 0 only?

Syh · 22 June 2020 21:59

I honestly have no idea, I just could visually tell the mask was wrong from all of Nesguy books.

You’ll have to wait for him to get on.

DariusG · 23 June 2020 07:25

ok it’s 0 and 5 masks that are 2 lines only (good for monitors like 1366/1280 horizontal resolution). I think this is proper now with mask 5

Syh · 23 June 2020 07:29

I was kinda thinking it was 5, but didn’t want to give you the wrong info, lol.

Looks alot better now, imo.

DariusG · 23 June 2020 08:36

0 is for 1280 horiz. res. (2 lines aperture grille), 1 a strange 3x2 “shadow mask” pattern? probably good for 1920x1080, 2 is for 1920x1080 (3 lines aperture grille), 3 another strange 6x2 “shadow mask” pattern, 4 a strange 6x4 “shadow mask” pattern , 5 is for 1280 horiz. res. (2 lines aperture grille) almost identical to 0, 6 is almost identical to 2 (3 lines aperture grille), 7 is a 2 line pattern (aperture grille) black and white (?!)

so 0, 5 aperture grille 1280x960 monitor 2,6 aperture grille 1920x1080 monitor 1 shadow mask 1920x1080 monitor

Nesguy · 24 June 2020 02:22

You shouldn’t use the three stripe RGB Trinitron masks anyway IMO because they don’t account for the LCD subpixel structure and cause chromatic aberration.

Mask 0 is the best aperture grille mask but it’s too fine to replicate a Trinitron at any resolution higher than 720p. It’s good if you want to emulate a PVM, though.

Mask 5 should be avoided IMO because it does some kind of brightness compensation that messes with gamma.

I could provide more info but I’m in an exceedingly lazy mood right now.

There’s a lot of incorrect info here. I’ll post corrections later.

Syh · 24 June 2020 02:34

There you are, I was worried you died lol. I’ve never seen you away that long.

Thinking about making a discord server/channel, would anyone be interested in using it?

hunterk · 24 June 2020 03:42

While you are, of course, free to do such a thing, we also have a ‘shaders’ channel on the libretro server that’s pretty sleepy.

Syh · 24 June 2020 22:16

I figured there was, I was just wanting to be able to a little more off-topic then that without making people salty.

I was thinking of having sections for hardware, arcadesticks, modern games, retro-games, and shaders. It would probably be pretty empty though hence why I was trying to gauge interest.