I saw this effect being done via a setting on a MiSTer core for Game Boy, and the result was exactly what I’ve felt was missing from my handheld shaders. Basically just puts a drop shadow on all the pixels for game boy games.
Was wondering if there’s any shader that actually does this. I didn’t see anything with a similar name, but I’m having trouble finding out more about it on MiSTer as well.
Do you mean like the gameboy dmg shader in RetroArch\shaders\shaders_slang\handheld\gameboy.slangp
It looks like this
And if you tweak the shadow it looks like this:
Hadn’t thought to look in the actual Game Boy style shader paramaters lol. Can’t stand the DMG green, but the one next to it “gameboy-pocket.slangp” has the same settings from what I can tell.
Pretty much perfection, except for whatever this border is? I don’t see this on your shot. I get the same border with the shader you showed me too.
Looks like it was because I had integer scale turned off. Never seen that behavior on a shader before with that off, but it makes sense.
Thanks for your help man! I’m pretty excited about this.
It’s not because of integer scaling. It’s because GB shaders in general handle aspect ratio themselves. So you should configure the RA aspect ratio to 16:9 (or whatever your display’s AR is.)
I have a core override for this that sets AR to 16:9 just for that core. The core override is a file named the same as the core with a .cfg file extension. It’s in the <retroarch folder>/config/<core name> folder. For example config/SameBoy/SameBoy.cfg.
See:
https://forums.libretro.com/t/handheld-border-shaders/2551/175
for more info.
I think it’s def Integer Scaling in this case, as turning that on fixed the issue.
By comparison, this is what I get when setting the Aspect Ratio to 16:9 (with similar results on anything outside of “Core Provided”)
Oh, you’re not using a border shader. Never mind.
(Try handheld/console-border/gb-pocket-6x.slangp though with 16:9.)
