Ahah this really caught me by surprise! Fortunately I had quite a lot of things done.
Today I’ll do some extra icing on both assets and presets. It will be a long night!
I decided to enable all of the newest Mega Bezel marvels for you to enhance your retrogaming, like B-SPLINE filtered DREZ, new Hyllian de-dithering filter and super-xbr smoothing.
As we prepare our escape from the COMMODORE safe zone, we have to prepare for some serious CRT GAMING!
Heya bezellers! Finally after months of hard working (and waiting for the new RetroArch version coming out) the Mega Bezel Commodore RC4 is out!
Download it while it’s still hot on the Official DevBlog
Introducing a shiny new logo.
I’ll post some insight articles on the official devblog as there’s really A LOT under the hood this time.
Also welcome final Amiga CDTV. 
This one is specially dedicated to @HyperspaceMadness: last months we pulled out really cool new tricks, the framework is growing faster than expected!
Here comes the changelog:
New release for public testing, complete overhaul of pixel shader chain based off the new MEGAREFERENCE SYSTEM. This enables for complex modular shaders mixing CRT masking, color correction, cables/signal, aspect ratios and my own variations called NMC SPICED FLAVOURS.
Minimum software requirements:
Content:
COMMODORE AMIGA CDTV sceneRETROWALLS DARKSTUCCO sceneRETROWALLS NEONSMOKE sceneNMC SPICED FLAVOURS SHARP presets: RGB, S-VIDEO, SMOOTH SCALEFXNMC SPICED FLAVOURS SOFT presets: COMPOSITE, RGB, RGB SMOOTH, SMOOTH SUPER-XBR, UPSCALE DREZ 480p, MONOCHROME, VECTOR, WORN-OUTMBZ VANILLA FLAVOURS SHARP presets: ADVANCED, LCD-GRID, POTATO, SMOOTH ADV, STANDARDMBZ VANILLA FLAVOURS SOFT presets: NTSC ADVANCED, NTSC POTATO, NTSC SMOOTH ADV, NTSC STANDARDPHILIPS 21PT3326-V7 with “fake flat” cabinet glass reflectionREADME with tech insights, quick start procedures and customization guidesFeatures:
MEGAREFERENCE SYSTEM to enable advanced visual customizationSHADER CONNECTORS to base vanilla Mega Bezel shadersFLUIDVISION for responsive textured displaysCRT-MASK VISUAL LAYER to mimic original displays visual behaviorSIGNAL/CONNECTION VISUAL LAYER to influence visual clarity with special effectsCOLOR-CORRECTION VISUAL LAYER to simulate real life CRTs colorsSCENE LIGHTNING VISUAL LAYER for advanced and vanilla day/night ambient lightningDEVICE LIGHTNING VISUAL LAYER for advanced cabinet glass, tube diffuse, tube reflection static and tube shadow effectsGLOBAL OVERRIDE SETTINGS for users to toggle modular shaders (at their own peril!)Enhancements:
CRT-ASPECT-RATIO AUTO for automatic aspect ratio detectionCRT-ASPECT-RATIO EXPLICIT 1.33 for forced 4:3 aspect ratioCRT-ASPECT-RATIO PIXEL ASPECT RATIO for core based pixel aspect ratioCRT-CABLES COMPONENT/RGB/SCART for best quality connection, sharp and crisp imageCRT-CABLES S-VIDEO for top quality connection, clean imageCRT-CABLES COMPOSITE for standard quality connection, some noiseCRT-CABLES RF-MODULATOR for bad quality connection, hum-bar and noiseCRT-COLOR-CORRECTION TEMPERATURE with cold (9300k) and warm (6800k) presetsCRT-COLOR-CORRECTION MONOCHROME with amber, aqua, black&white, blood and green presetsCRT-MASK APERTURE-GRILLE BASE for “-tron” family displaysCRT-MASK PLASMA for monochrome display visualsCRT-MASK SHADOW-MASK PRO for generic dot-triad professional displays visualsCRT-MASK SLOT-MASK CONSUMER for generic consumer TV visualsCURVED FAUX bezel presets for curved bezels on a flat screenFixes:
MEGA BEZEL REFLECTION SHADER presets parameters to latest public MBR shader versionFILENAME CASING CONVENTION for Linux usersNORMAL SCALING to FULL DEVICE SCALING
Wow, this is quite the accomplishment @TheNamec!
I think all these permutations of different CRT Flavours will be a really great fun for people to try out all the different looks.
Awesome Stuff!
As impressive as the release post is, I expect it pales in comparison to the actual presets.
I also expect to learn a lot from the example you set. 
Great work @TheNamec. Congratulations!
The Amiga CDTV!!! 
Holy shizz, this was a WONDERFUL thing to wake up to this morning. I’ve been gleefully digging into the new presets and marvelling at each one; thank you so much for the hard work you’ve put into this, Namec. I’m seeing all my favourite 'miggy games in whole new lights and in ways now that I haven’t really seen since I actually owned one and played on a little Hinari TV. I really appreciate the soft composite preset you’ve included as that feels very nostalgic, and the CDTV overlay is absolutely gorgeous. The whole suite of options you’ve been able to implement is dizzying. I’ve included some screenies of some of those favourite games and how lovely they’re looking.
Cheers too to HSM and everyone involved in this amazing community project, cause yeah, y’all absolute stars for enabling all this for us.
I really appreciate that, I tryed to build this “Amiga experience” to capture that very specific visual with lots of variations. Tnx for the enthusiasm, that really makes things move on.
What happened in the second screenshot? Looks like a giant 16:9 black box 
Ah, I think that is auto-crop borders weirdness with EOB II and the Bezel Integer Faux preset. I’ve just fired it up again and the bezel widens back and forth during the intro a couple of times as P-UAE adjusts the cropping on the fly.
Ahhh that’s a specific bug happening between PUAE auto-crop plus Amiga dynamic resolutions and Mega Bezel adaptive aspect ratio.
You can fix it locally via overrides.param setting ‘force 1.33’ instead of ‘auto’. But this will squash/stretch aspect ratio by a little. Tnx for reporting!
@HyperspaceMadness I definally have to do my homework with that resolution table and intercept wacky Amiga resolutions once and for all!
Great Job @TheNamec! This looks to be a mammoth undertaking and your attention to detail and diligence are impeccable. It reminds me of another awesome and highly regarded Mega Bezel Graphics Developer, just can’t seem to pick his name at the moment, if anyone can help me, it will be greatly appreciated. 
What I would describe this as is a sort of fantasy turned into reality. The only thing missing is the ability to be young and innocent once again in order to experience these things the way we did when we were children.
This brings us much closer though.
I was a C64 —> NES —> Sega Genesis —> SNES —> DOS/PC —> TurboGrafx-16 —> Turbo Duo —> Windows PC kid so I missed out on some of those awesome Amiga experiences you’ve been teasing in your screenshots.
Hopefully I’ll get to experience some of those awesome gems the way they were meant to be played by using your graphics and presets. Just send me a list of top 10 or 20 must plays and I’ll see if I could get started. Lol
As we all know none of this would be possible without the likes of @HyperspaceMadness and @guest.r, @Hyllian, @Dogway, aliaspider, Sp00kyFox and all other contributors just to mention the foundation and backbone of this aspect of RetroArch which has now evolved into a way of life and a labour of love for some of us.
They both must be feeling very proud looking at their babies growing up!
Perhaps “fake integer scale” might have a role to play in these multi-res situations as it allows the content to remain conformed to the Bezel dimensions you specify as opposed to jumping/snapping to the nearest integer size when the resolution and possibly aspect ratio changes?
We got the same problem with some PSX games like Tekken, Ridge Racer4, Silent Bomber etc. and a quick’n’dirty way to globally fix the problem in Mega Bezel Shader itself.
Problem is not (yet) being able to access core DAR (Display Aspect Ratio). So we have to made some case-by-case assumptions, managed by the internal reference table @HyperspaceMadness cleverly hardcoded into the ASPECT-RATIO: AUTO feature, and correct AR on the fly. Say 1:1 NES games being corrected into 4:3 like real life TVs used to do.
Amiga has many peculiar resolution modes that rely on this mechanism to dramatically enhance image quality in low-performance scenarios, like menu and loading screens, i.e. by doubling horizontal resolution. This, coupled with P-UAE core (heuristic?) detection and auto-cropping of padding/overscan, may pose some challenges: we want to respect native AR while also having nice textured bezels.
As I said, that was my fault not doing my homework of integrating Amiga profiles into the holy Mega Bezel reference table. We have the specs, it simply was not funny enough respect to crazy things like FLUIDvision and Hyllian super-xbr and de-dither wizardry and general shader pimping. I’ll do my best to catch up.
Consider I had to surrender playing Return to Monkey Island to put out RC4. After 30 years of waiting to finally know THE SECRET.
You’re in good hands with two sites indexing the huge Amiga 6000+
games collection:
LEMONAMIGA: https://www.lemonamiga.com/games/votes_list.php
HALL OF LIGHT: https://hol.abime.net/hol_search.php
And don’t forget @Hyllian for his gentle yet astonishing contribute into DREZ filtering, new DE-DITHER, and SUPER-XBR. These have been really breathing lots of life in our visuals lately! God bless our shaders wizards.
Congratulations my dear!
Thanks for sharing your great and beautiful passion with us. I am an admirer of your work.
Much success to you
Ohhhhh c’mon! Ahahaha tnx mate, hope to see your updated pack soon, feel free to experiment with my megarefence framework, I’d be glad to have your feedback 
Fine, I’ll check this weekend and hopefully came out with a fix release! TNX for your potato feedback 
Doing a quick check, scenes/RetroWalls folders are missing the overlay_flat_day and overlay_curved_day folders.
Hi TheNamec,
Love your work as mentioned earlier. Was going through all my platforms and checking they were using the correct presets. When I apply the Amiga CD32 presets, and I tried several…they all show the CDTV bezel/artwork. When I check the slangp files they also show to reference the CDTV images
For instance \RetroArch\shaders\Mega_Bezel_Packs\TheNamec-Commodore\presets\Commodore_AmigaCD32\Bezel_Black\MBZ_SHARP_ADV\FULLDEVICE_CURVED_NIGHT.slangp
// SCENE :: BASE #reference “…/…/…/…/res/thenamec/scenes/Commodore_AmigaCDTV/base/preset.params” // Basic setup (background and device artworks are separate) //#reference “…/…/…/…/res/thenamec/scenes/Commodore_AmigaCDTV/overlay_curved_day/preset.params” // Overlay for fast/potato presets (merges background and device artworks) //#reference “…/…/…/…/res/thenamec/scenes/Commodore_AmigaCDTV/overlay_flat_day/preset.params” // Overlay fast/potato presets (merges background and device artworks)
I can fix it myself by changing Commodore_AmigaCDTV to Commodore_AmigaCD32 in these files.
But just thought I’d mention it so you can make changes so other users can also benefit from it
Pretty easy to fix, expect a RC4.1 fix soon!
Can anybody with Linux test the filename fix? I noticed gihub not updating folder casing, now I’m in doubt it’s working 
Yeah this is tricky If Github is still showing the wrong case I think it will still be wrong.
You may have to delete the files, commit and push, then add them back and commit and push again, I had to do this just recently.
Heya bezellers! Here we go with the hotfixes, faster than light.
Download TheNamec Mega Bezel : Commodore Release Candidate 4.1 from Official DevBlog
New release for public testing, mainly hotfixes for point RC4 release. Tnx to the community for reporting!
Minimum software requirements:
Enhancements:
RETROWALL DARKSTUCCO lightning and texturesRETROWALL NEONSMOKE lightning and texturesFixes:
COMMODORE AMIGA CD32 presets linked to AMIGA CDTV by mistakeCOMMODORE AMIGA CDTV missing OVERLAY assetsRETROWALL DARKSTUCCO missing OVERLAY assetsRETROWALL NEONSMOKE missing OVERLAY assetsFILENAME CASING CONVENTION for Linux users by GitHub Repo resetPOTATO PRESETS now listed as device variationsI cleaned up the RetroWalls scenes for incoming TheNamec Mega Bezel: CRTGAMING.
