Arcade CRT Shader Presets - RetroArch

[@glowinTHX]

Than you so much, sir. I just recently got back into retro gaming after being obsessed with crt tvs, monitors and shader customization in retroarch. So i decided to take out one of the big boys to refresh my memory and modified one of the HDR Cyberlab presets you showed in one of your videos. i just did some tweaks to the mask here and there but modified the color to match my NTSC crt. I now have the most true to life (IMO) looking shaders, as I was looking at them side by side CRT to OLED.In terms of brightness and detail, OLED can look great when sitting from an optimal distance, Motion clarity is still a little behind though, but we're getting there. I didn't know HDR was a thing in retroarch, it did help a lot to compensate for brightness. All of this I learned, thanks to your channel. 🎉

[@ToxicToucan]

@@glowinTHX Any way I could see your presets to mess around with? I've also been using HDR Cyberlabs with my OLED and I'm curious to see how yours compares to my tweaks.

[@glowinTHX]

@ToxicToucan sure. Actually, I have a real CRT next to my OLED, I found the sweetspot for the paper white value to be around 200, you need to make sure that you're not losing any detail in the bright spots. The maximum peak brightness needs to be accurate to your actual peak brightness. Your tv gets way better results when set to dynamic tone mapping instead of HGIG. HGIG is better in most cases, but it looks too dim when using these shaders, DTM makes up for the loss in brightness and it works perfectly IMO. I have a Sony Trinitron wega connected via Component next to my setup, and the accuracy is quite good. Another tip, is to set presets to color accurate, instead of mask accurate. Prepending a plain tvtweaks shader before these presets, gets you closer to the gamma settings of a perfectly calibrated CRT. I won't lie, the real deal looks better, but not by much, OLED is way more convenient to use though, and you won't be missing much compared to a real CRT. Just leave all other settings as they are, once you find the mask that you like. I hope it helps.

[@ToxicToucan]

@ Thanks! I appreciate the tips! My wife told me under no circumstances am I allowed to bring a Wega home lol. At least not the bigger ones. The 4k Oled is the closest I've gotten to that CRT benefits I had growing up. I'll have to check my tone mapping.

[@glowinTHX]

@ToxicToucan duuude, I took it out because she's not at home lol. I had it stored in our closet. Feel free to message me if you need to, I'm passionate about shaders too lol

[@msd5808]

Hope to see shader presets of this quality in commercials releases of old games one day

[@soundspark]

Recently Doom on Steam updated with DOSBox-Staging for its DOS versions, so it looks like it's running on a 90s Pentium PC.

[@DanTheHitman]

Man I love this shader! I use it all the time now! 👍👍👍

[@testtube173]

It looks so amazing. Really great work

[@FLStudioTutorialz]

I love your work so much. I wish you a wonderful christmastime you deserved it.

[@BlockABoots]

Shouldn't Donkey Kong be using Vertical scanlines as it's a vertical game?

[@RetroCrisis]

@@BlockABoots good observation. Those aren't scanlines. That's an aperture grille. So the lines will be the opposite way around to what's expected. Great question though 🍻

[@maris4137]

This is beautiful.

[@RetroCrisis]

Thanks dude 🍻

[@AndreaRGH80]

​@@RetroCrisisplease work retroarch Nintendo Switch? Shaders? 😢

[@ScottOmatic]

It looks like the dirty shader works well with large sprites, as well as sprites that consist of more basic shapes and color with less variation. The clean shader works well on games with smaller sprites that are still trying to pack a lot of detail in.

[@SonicTheFantastic]

Nice thing to wake up to early in the morning.

[@SonicTheFantastic]

These look awesome, dude!😊

[@RetroCrisis]

Thanks dude - hopefully it'll make those Sonic arcade ROMs look good for you

[@jakdex2210]

I love your work, wish you took a shot at PS2 with the new LRPS2 core, your PS1 RGB 480i shader actually works with it when i deactivate ever deinterlace option it's really impressive.

[@TheMediaIsTheEnemyOfHumanity]

I use a bunch of actual CRTs but with shaders looking so fine it's kinda making me question why.

[@sonkunhyperspinretroarch4867]

I have a crt literally just a few feet away from me with a bunch of 5th and 6th generation consoles and I still find myself using shaders instead. Guess it's just a ease of use thing at this point.

[@RetroCrisis]

Dude same here!!! It's insane right. You're 100% spot on, it's the convenience factor

[@sonkunhyperspinretroarch4867]

@@RetroCrisis Don't know if it's cause I'm getting older or what, but the thought of having to get up and switch out connect cables, plugs, changing discs etc to play a different system doesn't sound as appealing these days when I can now switch to a new system and game with the push of a button lol

[@dm.3145]

​@@sonkunhyperspinretroarch4867 You also start having less and less free time for gaming so you wanna maximize the time actually gaming instead of setting things up

[@overwatch761]

These shaders are next level.

[@lolonie]

Hello, thank you for this great work. Do you have to use the latest Guest advanced shader pack for this update of your shaders?

[@RetroCrisis]

A quick slang-shader update via 'online updater' and you should be fine

[@lolonie]

Thanks !

[@SonicCDspeedrunArchives]

The forever battle of "please no cyclops eyes" vs. "please blend all the dithering" : (

[@Boz-vf5my]

Awesome stuff ❤

[@SavedByZero]

I likely missed this in the series but is there a suggested minimum CPU spec for running these shaders?

[@TheRealAncientCarthage]

I would love to use the shaders in 4k but every time I try to load a 4K Shader retroarch refuses to display anything. It's kind of hard to explain, it seems like retroarch is running in the background but the image on the screen is static. Does anybody else have any experience with this issue and know how to fix it?

[@Dronetothetop]

Fantastic!

[@oldnewpixel]

Not sure what it is, but with these crt presets, the picture resembles more to a very high quality, time-corrected tape recording rather than a live picture on a crt monitor. Not sure if that makes any sense

[@RetroCrisis]

That totally makes sense....and now I can't unsee it 🤣 - I think I have an idea of what I need to change to make it less broadcast tape

[@oldnewpixel]

@RetroCrisis deinterlacing maybe?

[@dieglhix]

I use royale for my batocera arcade :P Especially the fighters look awesome.. Killer instinct 1 Arcade, UMK3 arcade... MK2 Arcade... great stuff

[@sonkunhyperspinretroarch4867]

Nice. Is this with the new edge color setting applied?

[@RetroCrisis]

I'm not 100% sure to be honest...but something definitely feels different. I can't quite put my finger on it...

[@sonkunhyperspinretroarch4867]

@RetroCrisis You'll know right away once you crank that setting all the way up lol. It "fills" in pixel edges that for some reason get dulled out and cut off by default. It also brings out the colors more making the overall image more vibrant and a bit sharper while still being able to blend dithering patterns.

[@kullenberg]

Exquisite selection of games

[@1Gyruss]

Will your shaders work on the pocket dmg? The oled screen is small but it has quite a high resolution

[@locked01]

I love your 4k flat arcade clean. The only thing that puzzles me is when the screen is fully or almost totally white. In those rare instances, it looks like there is "dancing sand" on the monitor 😂 I use a 4ķ screen with HDR. (Asus XG43UQ).

[@appoxx]

Lovely presents but can you maybe reduce the deconvergence / chromatic aberration on resolutions lower than 4k, on the Steam deck with the 720p preset it looks like something you'd put on the red and blue tinted 3D glasses to view. I just turn it off myself for now in the shader parameters.

[@RetroCrisis]

Thanks for the feedback. I’ll be sure to correct that in the next update

[@appoxx]

@@RetroCrisis for 720p I found a deconvergence of just 1 notch which I think is 0.10 worked fine. Then maybe 1 or 2 steps more for 1080/1440. My eyes are fairly sensitive to it though.

[@SMGJohn]

I wonder if RetroTINK 4k produces better CRT emulation than these shaders.

[@RetroCrisis]

Possibly. I'm not 100% sure as I've not used one.

[@MrSkinnedpuppy]

Any chance of getting these added to the official build? I only ask as with permission settings its near impossible to add these to an android device

[@bundjohn]

So what you’re saying is this isn’t a “one size fits all” and some playing around is required to see what people prefer?

[@RetroCrisis]

Yup it seems to be the case. I've not even mentioned that 3D arcade games also come with their own set of issues that's I've not even started covering yet 🤣

[@Antonio_NetoH]

Amazing!!!!!

[@King_Midas]

This one looks really good. Would you happen to have a curved variant?

[@MASHDAT]

Nice! I had to make separate presets for some Konami releases (Contra, Aliens, Haunted Castle etc) because those games were very clearly made with bottom of the barrel CRTs in mind.

[@RetroCrisis]

There are so many variations between arcade hardware that it's almost impossible to have one preset for all of them. I can easily imagine each arcade board family having its own shader preset

[@HoangDgNguyen]

what a time to live, now u can record the CRT screen hahaha

[@Hpalhazred]

I wish we could have this for Marvel vs Capcom collection and Capcom Fighting Collection 2.

[@Jackfromshack]

Just emulate em

[@RetroCrisis]

Haha well...there's FBNeo 😇

[@Mohammed1000real]

Linn in thumbnail baby!!

[@cemsengul16]

Is there a Google drive link or something for an emulator with roms and these presets? Would these shaders look good on my FO32U2P OLED monitor?

[@alexmorpheus6762]

I prefer using CRT shaders ❤

[@nikongmer]

Will these filters work with ReShade or only with RetroArch?

[@hooankee]

CRT es maravilloso para bajas resoluciones.

Is this intended for SDR or HDR?

[@asdasdasdsassad]

can you make crt shader for ps2

[@DrNoBrazil]

When will we see the merge with the crt beam simulator and believe in the Jesus of CRT again???

[@NeoRetro_X]

👍🇫🇷

[@cronoesify]

I am once again here to tell you bros that i absolutely hate raw pixels.

[@arcticridge]

4k owners only :( actually the shader looks great when I set the video to 1440p

[@RetroCrisis]

@@arcticridge 720, 1080 and 1440 is also supported

[@arcticridge]

@@RetroCrisis thank you! 1440p peasants unite!

[@Mag1cJ4ck]

@RetroCrisis Which one suits the best on ipad pro M4 please? Great job.

[@SomethingToLookAtYT]

I have a question what if that background has flickering lights on and off in the background is there a way to cover or prevent that from flashing in the Background when I play certain games and I so don't want to get a seizure cause of the flickering I just want the background to be all black

[@vijaytamta-9251]

How to play games in retroarch with keyboard in pc , I am unable to key mapping 😢

[@locked01]

I love your 4k flat arcade clean. The only thing that puzzles me is when the screen is fully or almost totally white. In those rare instances, it looks like there is "dancing sand" on the monitor 😂 I use a 4ķ screen with HDR. (Asus XG43UQ).