Realistic Composite NES CRT Shader - RetroArch

[@RetroCrisis]

This one is for filthy depraved composite lovers. Enjoy. Need to find a replacement RF cable to recreate that too

[@Hoytehablode]

You have got it to 100% perfection, however is not for me hahahaha, If you release this same preset "clean" without the color bleed and shimmering and I am all in :D

[@RetroCrisis]

@@Hoytehablode Haha hang tight, I'll cook up an RGB version at some point soon

[@_oBSOLEte_]

Just my kind of stuff, thanks a lot! I'm gonna play me some Isolated Warriors just like in the good ol ugly days tonight... XD

[@XxXTMillzXxX]

I would also love a clean version. Love your work, keep it up!

[@isayasbashiri5371]

This LOOKS GOOD

[@tatecheddar]

Those constantly jittering fringes and the occasional random green, red or blue phosphor popping out on edges are what really sells it. This is probably the most authentic recreation of what gaming on an old TV looked like.

[@sanny8716]

This looks SOOOO much better than those "smooth ultra HD" filters

[@dnn86]

As someone who regularly plays on a NES via composite on a CRT, this looks absolutely fantastic.

[@noobishmacgaming]

I love the transition you’ve made from covering these type of shaders to making them yourself. Keep up the good work!

[@RetroCrisis]

Thanks dude! This shader world a bit of a black hole - once you fall in, there's no coming back!!

[@feelingwonder8698]

You need to do one inspired by regular old cheap TVs we had back in the day. Nobody had a Triniton back then

[@RetroCrisis]

I'm hoping to have an RF one out too

[@johndough8115]

@@RetroCrisis A lot of people had Composite tvs, at a certain point... However, I believe the Trinitron shadow-masks may have had thinner division lines. This would cause less Light-Bleed from hopping over the mask-lines. It would be interesting if you could get hold of an average "Standard Definition" tv... and show us a direct comparison between the actual TV photo, and the resulting Filter. Also, for showing final result, maybe do a half screen.. where as the before and after. Where as the left side of the screen... would show a left side cut of Before. And the right side would show a Right Side half cut of the After results. The game wouldnt have to be synced.. just similar in timeframe. Anyway... your results look much better than standard filters. Thank you for your hard work. *more notes: - Later model CRT tvs, like the panasonic I owned... were capable of higher resolutions. As such, the shadow-mask were higher density, as well - I used to own a Sega "Turbo" arcade machine. I believe it still had the Original arcade monitor... rather than a later revision version. It appears to look different from other 19" monitors... and thus I suspect it had a different shadow mask pitch. Also.. I believe each monitor has a specific color profile... where as, its values had specific limits, saturation levels, and these all based on a specific curve. As such... the same image shown on my Turbo machine... may have had slightly different colors, when displayed on something like a Broadcast monitor. I dont know if this is accounted for... such as having individual monitor "Presets", based on the actual monitors specs.

[@maximilian3544]

Seconding this. The image clarity in a lot of later trinitron is fixing a lot of the analog "post processing" already.

[@PhoticSneezeOne]

Hail to the king of realistic TV shaders !

[@DavidPereiraLima123]

This is SO REAL. I'm perplexed, it's the first video I see on composite direct capture where KZbin on 1080p quality on my 1080p screen just looks straight up like a CRT being filmed properly. You're a freaking wizard, Harry, I mean, Retro Crisis! My only barely related nitpick is it being an Aperture Grille mask, not shadow or slot mask, it lacks a bit of the more popular masks blending effect, it's too orderly by the nature of the very mask. Wow, if you can do this composite effect and feel inclined to do so on another type of mask, please do. To give you an idea of how great I think your achievement is, I can easily show this video for people outside the CRT hobby and they too can be surprised of the faithful recreation, your sorcery.

[@retropulse03]

The nice thing about the shader this preset is build on is you can swap the CRT Mask to a different style. I'm much more partial to Slot-Mask myself

[@1Gyruss]

damn, these's shaders of yours are truly amazing

[@RetroCrisis]

I hope they look good when you're using them

[@MINI_91]

Realistic shaders and accuracy is what I appreciate, especially composite where dithering gets proper blending for the transparency effects etc. Good stuff here.

[@the1ucidone]

I can just look at this all day long. It's a work of freaking art!

[@diogoepronto]

I didn't own a NES when I was a kid, I was more of a Sega kid, but somehow this shader made all of those games super nostalgic to me. That's really weird lol

[@GrindingMadness]

I was too a SEGA kid, we knew that it was better than NES by spec comparison. But NES caught the world by storm with their crap called "Mario". Till the 90's we got "Sonic"

[@vintagegamer695]

I did a comparison on my TV with Kirby's Adventure and Super Mario Brothers with both RF and composite plugged in for maximum brightness on video 2... In Super Mario Brothers, the orange bricks are very very close. The yellow shade on the item block is a little darker. The green bushes are more yellow green. And lastly, while the sky is roughly the same brightness, it is a little more in between light purple and light blue. As for Kirby's Adventure, on the same stage that you showcased, almost every color was darker except for the darker two of the shades of green used for the hills in the back. And using just RF, the colors were pretty dark and saturated. The TV I use is JVC.

[@ryo-kai8587]

Looks great! Seems like it would be perfect for SNES too

[@Sketchcraft]

Honestly, I'm using this preset for everything I can. This is perfect.

[@Alex-q3g]

thanks for your hard work. your shaders are always my go-to when i feel the itch to play a retro game

[@RetroCrisis]

Wow that's an honour - if you get a chance, check out Sonkun (kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHbGhoJ7gJ2dacU) and CyberLab (kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5nNiZila8pnarM) - both my influences!

[@Carnivius_Prime]

Excellent CRT settings there. The Mega Man 2 clip in particular took me right back. :)

[@TheRampageTulk]

Holy Crisis!!!! This is perfection!!! I watched this on my 4K TV, felt like I was playing the OG👏👏👏👏

[@neozyth]

very impressive , i hope we can have something near this shader in the ossc in the future. i am going to install it asap.

[@brayoungful]

It's been a very, very long time since I've played an analog console on a CRT, but I feel like this is absolutely perfect

[@danpatrick7176]

I just downloaded your pack. It now stands toe to toe with crt royale. Excellent

[@curryking1]

appreciate your work and guest's work as well, just tried this today, really like the grid appearance versus other shaders with scanlines which i like but sometimes are a bit too pronounced, this gives a nice dithered appearance that is smooth on gradations in any direction, especially for logos which can be solid colours which i dont feel have "tracks" running through them as scanlines with this, they look smoothed in a perfectly CRT way, thanks for all your work again, appreciate you, cheers !! 😎😎💎💎

[@RetroVillager]

This is beautiful, cant wait to try it on my CRT Monitor.

[@AquaticMammalOnBicycle]

That doesn't look like composite. That looks like a better clearer output than composite.

[@RetroCrisis]

@@AquaticMammalOnBicycle believe me it's really not that far off

[@PhantomHarlock78]

@@AquaticMammalOnBicycle Maybe is close to composite on Triniton while regular crt show a more fuzzy image.

[@ClosestNearUtopia]

Also, very good video cables will help as well.

[@pokepress]

I’ve been working on an NES composite to RGB AI model lately, so I’ve been looking at a fair bit lately. You might get something like what you see here if the TV has a really good comb filter, but having used some of the same games as this video, I would expect to see more color fringing, shimmer, and also there are some differences (positional jitter?) between the even and odd fields. Admittedly, this is based on my digital captures, so the appearance might be different on an actual CRT.

[@overwatch761]

@@AquaticMammalOnBicycle You'd be surprised, I had a 21" Grundig and 14" Matsui CRTs back in the day, composite actually looked superb on both - zero fuzz with a really clean, natural, picture, RF signal was insanely good. Early 2000s CRTs dropped alot in quality as manufacturers started cutting corners to reduce costs.

[@user-ep5sd9br3s]

Got it and using it now on my Retroid Pocket, it's gorgeous. Was wanting a shader like this for a hot minute, just looking at it reminds me of how it looked when i was a kid playing NES at night. Thank you for your work 🔥

[@Facelessify1]

Disgusting? Disgustingly beautiful.

[@RetroCrisis]

Haha I'm guessing you're also from the ancient times?

[@gabrielpadilha8193]

@@RetroCrisis I'am a 2000's man, i grew up with at least 460p to higher resolutions, and i think these visuals from Crt's are just the right thing for old games!

[@nolejd50]

It needs some more ntsc dithering, the colours are not blending with one another enough

[@RetroCrisis]

Thanks for the feedback. Let me know which bit it's most noticeable and I'll cross reference it against my CRT to see where it can be improved

[@nolejd50]

​@@RetroCrisis I'm gonna have to test it out for myself, maybe I was too quick to judge simply based on watching this video. I'll get back to you with my "findings" but simply based on the video, I'd say it's the reds like in the Batman game with the bricks.

[@elmorePOW]

@@nolejd50 If you increased saturation on your CRT, it would blend the colors together.

[@Asterra2]

I have to tip my hat whenever I see the unique artifacts of the NES accurately recreated. I only wish the capture device had been able to secure a flat temporal 60fps. The dynamic components of the filter are kind of broken when the framerate isn't reliable. I do get that this is probably a PAL-vs.-NTSC concern and I shouldn't get hung up on it if I know that much.

[@brendanstone3073]

Looks fantastic. Although I don't remember having a 'horizontal bars / bands' effect on the sky in Mario like that. Maybe it's just my monitor.

[@WT83]

I didn't like the Genesis one but this one looks like the images were plucked straight from my memories.

[@raza_is_retro]

Really fantastic work mate, your doing great stuff for the retro community keep it up legend 😊😊

[@9a3eedi]

In my opinion, the next step for these impressive CRT shader is to be able to simulate the flicker and phosphor beam, just needs 240hz and 240fps rendering

[@MoonDoes]

Your videos are ASMR for me.

[@feelingwonder8698]

It looks a lot better great job

[@terrybogard916]

Great work. I absolutely love your shaders. Do you think that you will be making a GameBoy shader at some time? :D

[@clairearan505]

All it needs is a high pitched sound you aren't sure anyone else can hear.

[@RetroCrisis]

Haha that buzzing interference that makes the dog star howling Here's how you can get the sound - kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIvYhqKIqLCoaKs

[@itaialter]

I'm loving your shaders, especially the Mega Drive Clean, but I assume that they will look much better on 4K due to having more pixels to use for the pixel calculations. Could you please do a side-by-side comparison with closeups between the 1080p versions and the 4K versions? I'm thinking about buying a 4K portable monitor if those shaders really do look a lot better on 4K. Thanks!

[@justanotherlikeyou]

This looks amazing

[@nealgillis]

Beautiful work!

[@DinJerr]

Aren't there any CRT filters that replicate honeycomb-style shadow masks that TV use that use larger cells instead of the ones PC monitors have? Anything pre-Playstation era assumes people aren't playing on pristine Trinitron TV sets, so the graphics we catered on how the visuals would look on those cheaper tellies.

[@retroman--]

For me I like to mimic the RF modulator connection. So flicker, noise, artifacts, color bleed, blur, bloom, etc. I love that you are trying to create authentic art look. But for me. This is too good looking for an NES. Plus I like more saturation. But man you did a good job!

[@SonicTheFantastic]

Really good! I'll test this out on my Android tablet and tell you how it looks!

[@RetroCrisis]

Awesome - which tablet you running?

[@SonicTheFantastic]

@RetroCrisis Samsung Galaxy Tab A. It's running Android 14. This version is outdated as of this year, as I've heard that Android 15 has been made. The tablet I'm currently using is still good for another couple of years, so I'm good for now.

[@RetroCrisis]

@@SonicTheFantastic Should be totally fine. Luckily RetroArch will run on virtually anything

[@SonicTheFantastic]

@RetroCrisis Yeah. Most high-powered Android devices can run powerful, realistically accurate shaders like this.

[@SonicTheFantastic]

@RetroCrisis testing the shader now. I've noticed it looks just like the video.

[@SporekArt]

It looks exactly how i remembered it!

[@walmartcartpusher]

So, I know you made this for NES Composite, but does it also properly handle Sega Genesis/Megadrive composite and the tricks used by developers to create transparency FX? Either way, it looks fantastic. I look forward to trying your preset out.

[@retropulse03]

Best way to check is throw a SEGA game at it and take a look. I'll be doing that here in a minute myself.

[@DenLeonRX]

This IS incredible!

[@RetroCrisis]

Thanks Den 🍻

[@Rubbe87]

Pretty good. Never had Composite though only RGB .

[@KATFYR]

Your shaders are seriously the closest thing to a Trinitron, and I have 5!

[@imothy]

I get it, and I do understand turning on a filter like this to see how it used to look for fun, and yes I grew up in the 80's, I was 8 years old when the original NES was released, so it really shaped my childhood. But one of the great things about modern LCD and OLED screens is I can finally get my games to look the way they did in NINTENDO POWER magazine. I always wanted whatever screen they used to make those crispy images for the magazine! Now I have that, plus I can stretch it out to 16:9 and have a HUUUUGE mario experience like I always wanted as a kid!

[@CyberLabStudio]

I can appreciate the realistic application of curvature. Just a dash where it's needed and horizontal and vertical lines still very much look straight. Great job instead of that disgraceful fishbowl effect that says "look at me I'm playing on a CRT because the graphics are all bendy"😂

[@RetroCrisis]

@@CyberLabStudio haha I finally got around to taking your advice. I must admit you were totally right!! 🤣 Went back and adjusted the curvature of all my previous presets to match

[@retropulse03]

@@RetroCrisis Well now I gotta go take a look at these. I love curve, but every time I try it I get extreme Moire effect lol.

[@jsr734]

But this doesn´t look like composite video. Where is the dot crawl?, what happend to the jagged/fuzzy lines? It looks more like component or rgb on a crt but not composite.

[@RetroCrisis]

@@jsr734 as all CRTs aren't made the same, results may vary. But this preset is made to mimic my personal Trinitron composite setup. Jaggies and fuzzies all match up.

[@jsr734]

@@RetroCrisis I understand. I take your word then. I myself have seen some great looking Trinitrons and i know Trinitrons can make composite to look as good as component or rgb on a cheaper tv.

[@RetroCrisis]

​@@jsr734try this with Ninja Gaiden and Castlevania is you get a chance. Those 2 especially show a lot of crawl and fuzzies. I should have included them in the demo.

[@RT81775]

Someone needs to add something similar to this to a Doom source port with some tweaks to simulate what VGA actually looked like on a CRT monitor.

[@shaolinsnake9650]

Way better thanthe other ones who claims to be realistic

[@youareacoward8459]

Ow, now I understand why I got headache after 2 hours of gameplay before.

[@macgameshistory]

Is it only now in 2024 that I can play NES games again, the way they were meant to be seen?

[@Berutoron]

You pushed the authenticity angle so far you played the PAL versions of those games at PAL speeds haha. Some things you don't miss about that time, yet they're still weirdly nostalgic, eh?

[@NeoAF10]

Have you noticed a flickering grid pattern in the shader? Close to the size of a regular tile. Not very obvious but is there..

[@JBEEUD]

Why are the speeds all over the place? Megaman and Metroid were running obviously slow, but Mario seemed like it was running at 1.5x???

[@andywolan]

I think Donkey Kong actually looks better with this filter enabled. Also, is it me or are the games running a tad slower than the originals?

[@nolejd50]

Please tell me this is available for 720 and/or 1080p and not only 4k

[@RetroCrisis]

Yup 720 and 1080 are also in the download pack

[@blakegriplingph]

Might want to put up an epilepsy disclaimer at the beginning tho 💀

[@retropulse03]

Yes yes yes yes yes YES YES YESYESYESYESYSEYSYESYESEYSYE!!!!!!!!!!!11111oneoneonetwo Dude this is what I am talking aboooooout. This looks amazing, you always outdo yourself I swear to god.

[@silentzorah]

Needs more diagonal skewing.

[@Yore0]

What’s the title of the game shown right after battletoads? I’m not familiar with it, and am interested in trying it out.

[@Real_The_Goof]

I can tell you're playing pal versions of some of the ROMs because the music and gameplay will run way slower in some games i've played. Like MegaMan 2.. that under water stage should have been running a bit faster... the music should have a higher tempo. Same thing with Ninja Turtles, the music and gameplay was very off. Also the height of the image is longer than NTSC is... also.. Probotector lol

[@wgjcthb]

I would like to use this shader if there was a variant without the curvature, just flat

[@RetroCrisis]

@@wgjcthb in the download pack there is a flat variant too

[@aflah706]

Hi new friend,awseome game play,i watched full❤

[@ZZFilm]

Question: Is there anyway to make RetroArch update your shaders the same way it updates the shaders that are pre installed?

[@atul1991ful]

Can you add more zoomed in parts, I'm not sure how well the full view will come across on lower res displays

[@dreamaster9000]

Have you ever heard of RetroBat? It uses Retroarch as a base I think, but I can't get your shaders to work in it... can you check that out and maybe make a howto video for it?

[@dreamaster9000]

I got this figured out!

[@laurenalexander4438]

Your Ninja Turtles is running so slow, it's hurting my brain.

[@sergiendipia]

Do you guys know any way of converting these shaders from slang to glslp? I have a switch and doesn't support slang hehe... thanks in advance!

[@the-NightStar]

Why was TMNT running ridiculously slow?

[@RetroCrisis]

PAL 50hz 🤣 - my apologies

[@Digiflower5]

Very cool!

[@user-fq6sr9kh5c]

would you make a SNES Composite 100 next? That seems like something logical to do.

[@odysseusanime629]

Hello, do you also have some settings for realistic RGB render ?

[@rarenintendo]

I just put the Scanline2x filter on all emulators at once and that's enough for me, I don't like retroarch shaders, especially since they need to be configured several times for different emulators and I haven't found any good shaders.

[@mugiwara8166]

How do you do filters i cant figure none of this shit out

[@rarenintendo]

Settings>Video>Video Filter>Scanline2x

[@NekoMMDGTS]

Know of any good GB/GBC shaders that make it look close to the real thing, or SNES composite?

[@ef1265]

Doesn't look right as there are no CRT scanlines, if it had the scanlines it would be good

[@AbominusRules]

needs a shorter name bud. that said: this is awesome!

[@nocomplyyy]

what would be a good shader for watching old anime on 1080p?

[@nathanimes4041]

holy damn, thats almost completely indistinguishable from the real thing... just a liiiiitle more accuracy and if theres no latency, this would severely diminish the need for crts. i could get my house back....

[@almeidachannel7121]

Nice Video ! Sub & Big Like ! And Love Retro Nes Games !

[@locked01]

Wwwwwwooow!! Amazing!!!!

[@shaolinsnake9650]

Where to download your preset plz?

[@RetroCrisis]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWWVmGVphLOMqas follow this guide

[@joeberentsen]

What kind of PC specs do you need to run some of the 4k HDR CRT shaders with max performance?

[@RetroCrisis]

I don't think you need anything too powerful. Ideally a GPU that supports the latest version of Vulkan, I personally use an RTX2060 and a Ryzen 4400 - but that's probably overkill to be honest.

[@joeberentsen]

@@RetroCrisis I wonder if I could get away with a mini PC...

[@Kaztrofy]

Depends on how accurate you want things to be. One big part, for me at least, that requires some extra horsepower is being able to run the games in 120hz to enable Black Frame Insertion to combat the poor motion resolution of digital displays at 60hz.

[@nikitawineberger8973]

Would that filter work well for SNES and Master System games?

[@RetroCrisis]

I've not tried it yet. Feel free to give it a go

[@jeromepoggi9126]

I'm stupid but how do we install crt-guest-advanced so that your shader works. Thank you for your video.

[@RetroCrisis]

Haha you're not stupid - have you watched this video - kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWWVmGVphLOMqas ? Watch it and it should give you all you need. Let me know if you get stuck any point.

[@jeromepoggi9126]

thank you for the answer

[@lowchaomain4535]

CRT shaders for people who have no idea what CRTs look like

[@JB2X-Z]

Ah yes, the 50Hz curse

[@realjohnhammond]

Will it work on the NES classic?

[@LIAGWP]

👍

[@sa3270]

0:59 It's a zoomer watching a CRT.

[@rinaldus4512]

HOW DO I GET THIS ON MY RETROARCH?

[@RetroCrisis]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWWVmGVphLOMqas

[@karlaflores5428]

It works for Android??

[@Gitrist1]

Pal version games?😂 And pallete no for NES

[@retropulse03]

Oh this is actually a GREAT question @RetroCrisis what pallete option do you use in RetroArch for NES?

[@RetroCrisis]

Great question!!! I use Mesen core with the default palette.

[@zxGHOSTr]

Where's the code?

[@nolejd50]

What is the game at 2:52 ?

[@RetroCrisis]

Blue Shadow / Shadow of the Ninja

[@Visita-u5h]

Prefiro o sem filtro

[@gaminghistoryfr6614]

Even if the result is good, it's far from a real CRT experience.

[@gregordeissler2094]

Probotector