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I think we´ve reached a milestone. With modern Amoled HDR 4K displays we are able to emulate every aspect of real CRT´s !

I've been using these shaders since you posted this video and I am blown away. They have me experiencing a bit of an existential crisis. Over the years I have collected the whole range of original consoles going back to NES, all modded with an ODE and RGB out where possible (in addition to PixelFX HDMI mods where available). I also have a RetroTink 5x for outputting the RGB modded consoles to my LG OLED. Up until six days ago, the 5x with HDR and SlotMask turned on came the closest to a CRT as I could possibly imagine. This isn't the case anymore, now RetroArch with these shaders is absolutely the holy grail I've been looking for since getting into this hobby. And now I have to question why I have all these original consoles. Not to mention the Analogue FPGA consoles I've purchased as well. Sure as a hobbyist and collector it feels great to own these original pieces, but I can now do everything in a single MiniPC and do it better and more perfectly beautiful than all this other stuff. I'm mulling over selling off my collection, which I couldn't possibly have imagined until now.

Once again you've raised the bar for covering and conveying the news of this type of content @RetroCrisis! I know how difficult it is to show off these HDR shader presets and I must say that you did a really outstanding job!

THAT is incredible, its content is very good, I love this channel, always bringing news about shaders and retroarch, it is something we love.

I have been waiting for this all of my life.

Clear and concise instructions. Appreciate it.

Its interesting how just by looking at it in this video, the biggest complain I've had about most CRT shaders -- thick black bars in-between scanlines -- simply does not exist, as the shadow mask seemingly uniformizes the picture It would be cool to see some gameplay of different game using this filter (I'm especially biased towards seeing 16bit sonic in motion, as I know for a fact that a great shader will make his quills' curvature 100% round, and with no visible pixels whatsoever)

I never knew this was a thing until I (out of boredom) started messing around with RetroArch settings on my OLED Steam Deck, saw an HDR option, Googled about it, and found this video. After some very quick adjustments with the shader parameters for each system they all look absolutely gorgeous! Especially with SNES!

Amazing as always!! Thanks for your content

Excellent, will try tonight!

Awesome shader and as always awesome coverage 🍻

Amazing shaders. Thanks for the video!

It's great that your channel covers this type of thing. So many retro channels show retro games without CRT shaders or even the bare minimum I would say of having scanlines turned on. A lot even encourage you to turn all that stuff off, just makes the games look awful. These games were designed to take advantage of the CRT.

These are absolutely incredible. Unsure why these are giving me so much joy!

Great stuff as always! For anyone watching this who has Retroarch configured for Mega Bezel use and has a forced fullscreen image, remember to make sure you go into Settings>>Video>>>Scaling>>>Aspect Ratio and then select Core Provided instead of Full.

I just tried, it's very impressive !

Awesome, can't wait to try it on my CRT! j/k

It looked really bad for me on a 4k tv sitting fairly close above my desk until I adjusted the "Resolution" parameter in the Shader Parameters. the lowest tvl number at default was too low. Looked much better when setting that higher. was difficult to tell the difference past the 2nd number, but the first was def too low for me. i feel like the whole ui retroarch uses to apply shaders could use an easy mode with just a list of the actually useful presets without having to search through a folder heirarchy. maybe a screenshot to demonstrate what its supposed to look like. i just want to know what the newest best presets are in the app without having keep up with random forum posts for news. now i need to sit down and figure out how to use the megabezel with these presets.

Hi @RetroCrisis! Long time watcher, first time poster. I really appreciate your clear, informative and no-nonsense approach to content. Kudos! Is it possible to use these (incredible) shaders with Megabezel? I'm also curious if it's possible to use this shader and also apply a screen curve effect (which doesn't look to be one of the available shader parameters - maybe by appending/prepending another shader with this one?) One other thing, I noticed in a comment thread below that Cyberlab mentions that its NB that "users follow the readme and the Sony Megatron Color Video Monitor setup instructions" - where can these be found? Thanks in advance, and keep the great content coming 🙏

Very nice

They look gorgeous. Are they working standalone, e.g. for usage within Reshade? Or are they Retroarch exclusive? Thank you.

Crt Shaders are getting better and better! Need a upscaled, they can do it Perfectly!

amazing! Planning to buy an oled Monitor

Pretty lights.

Thank you for this video! Maybe, can you do a CRT / Retro Filter tutorial on PS2 / Gamecube and PS1?

And with the raspberry pi 5 being HDR compliant this looks like a perfect match if that thing is not too much power hungry

I like to use 1080p on a vga crt and then add a shader preset. I dont think you need hdr if your using a crt to do this. Only reason for using 1080p on a crt is to get more detail than you get at say 240p or 224p if you can do it might aswell.

I think it's great that these options exist for people who want them, but for me, it's about image quality, you can't emulate hardware quality, display IQ and performance is a physical trait, but what you can do is get a really good quality display, the best modern display for playing retro games with good IQ is Plasma, but those are not in production any more so the next best is RGB-OLED, it has to be RGB-OLED as those have the important RGB-Stripe subpixel layout like Sony/Mitsubishi Trinitron and Panasonic/JVC/etc slot-mask CRTs have, all you need then for retro games to look good is a simple scanline generator (SGL), hardware SLG units produce authentic, very accurate vertical & horizontal scanlines, on a nice RGB-OLED with an SLG, your retro games will look incredible, obviously not as good as a mid to high-end CRT, but good enough for those who don't have access to a CRT, using shaders really won't increase IQ and in fact imo only hurt IQ, you also need BFI (black-frame-generation) or ULMB 2 or other strobing tech, RGB-OLED+SLG-BFI is the next best thing (other than Plasma) to a CRT, for image quality enthusiasts, this will be a much better option than using shaders. An RGB-OLED with 240hz BFI and an SLG will look much closer to an 800-1000 TVL BVM, using a CRT shader is only useful for trying to emulate low quality CRTs, such as composite or RF low-end consumer grade CRTs, another fantastic option for a high-end BVM alternative is a CRT monitor, to get the 1000 TVL BVM image quality and look all you need is an SLG, a CRT monitor and SLG is the highest quality display you can get for retro games, CRT monitors also have perfect motion, zero input latency and zero video lag. Hopefully someday, a company, perhaps RetroTink's maker Mike will produce the perfect legacy CRT replacement monitor, a nice 21" to 25" 4:3 RGB-OLED with a curved bubble style glass front, perfect raster-scan emulation for zero input latency or close as it can be, built in SLG & BFI, HDR tone mapping emulation, support for RGB-SCART/S-Video/Component/Composite/etc, multi integer resolutions, DRC (direct-ram-control) for zero video lag, barcode scanner for scanning and loading games from the physical box instead of trunching through long lists of pirated digital ROMs, maybe even a built-in FPGA for something like MiSTer or MARS, option for optical media connection, that would be one hell of a retro display.

What should I change if I have a 1440p monitor?

Very nice video (incredible channel). @RetroCrisis there is a version for Full HD? And it is possible to easy bulk change the filters to use in different monitors/TVs?

Is there anything similar for SDR displays?

I have 2 monitors hooked up. The Alienware AW3423DW and the LG dual up. And the scanlines look good on my Alienware and super dark on my lg. both have hdr enabled. It’s very strange.

This is a great resource. CPU/GPU power isn't mentioned here, but I'd assume these are not lightweight shaders. I'm looking for some shader packs that do a good job with CRT bloom that are also lightweight enough to work on a mini PC. CRT-Royale and CRT-Guest-Advanced are too much for my mini in most cases.

Will this work on a 1440p OLED?

I wish I could make more use of Retroarch, but it is conflicting with my Switch Pro Controller key bindings, and it's more annoying than it's worth to put up with. A shame, because I REALLY want to use those CRT filter shaders.

Does it work well on 2K monitors?

How close is this to native CRT on SNES and Mega Drive games, on average? What about input lag? I own a kickass 65" S95B QD-OLED but it usually mauls retro pixel art. I can't make room for a real CRT atm, so I'm wondering how this compares to the output of a RetroTink 4k.

Fantastic CRT Effect! Saddly i was unable to pull it off because windows 10 doesn't have a calibration app from the store. I was able to enable HDR on windows and RA but the image its not as bright as your video! W10 has a calibration screen from a video but its seems that has no effect on RA.

Nice ad for HDR

Can you use this Crt Shaders on Fightcade?

Would like to see how it looks on the true HDR display zoomed out a little further as well

Why is the brightness lower than other shaders?

Works it on all platforms like xbox ect

Is there any danger to an OLED in keeping HDR enabled for too long with a filter like this?

I want also curvature and halation for my powkiddy a12…

For batocera is working?

I think this + backlight strobing just killed CRTs. I guess I need an HDR OLED now.

I tried this shader but it looks very greenish and dark with snes. Did i do something wrong?

Compatible xbox series?

Is there any way to make it work along mega bezel reflection?

Why do I have to download the shaders from the website. Is it not possible just to update the shaders in retroarch? Doesn't retroarch include these shaders?

How do I set hdr in the retroarch you see it’s too dark and washed out for me.

What Cyberlab shader is the best option for PS1, saturn, dreamcast and n64 games (3D)?

How many passes is this preset suppose to have? At first I only got 3 then I got it to 8 with Blarrg but still doesn't look they way I expected. It looks very colorless and overexposed for some reason, I'm using a LG C2 42" and Windows 11 with HDR on which looks alright on other shaders.

Realy awesome! but what about 1440p Monitors??

Does the shader loads if hdr is turned off in retroarc?

is it going to look good if my monitor peak hdr brightness is only 450 nits?

I think I did something wrong because mine look awful. The colors are all wrong and dull and washed out. I know HDR is working and I turned it on everywhere I was told to but it still looks real bad.

Imagine these on the steam deck oled...

I've noticed there's a huge jump in brightness in Retroarch when pressing the Space key (to fast forward). I have no idea why other than the bright icon in the upper right corner prohibiting the ABL on my OLED C2. Is there a way around this except turning it off in the service menu? These advanced shaders really could use all the brightness my screen can put out.

How do you use these shaders on stand alone emulators, without RetroArch?

This sucks, I'm kind of stuck between. The Calibration Tool requires Windows 11. Despite having an i7-4790k 4.0Ghz I can't upgrade to Windows 11. tf microsoft lol

Too bad I have an Android device, maybe your upcoming shader preset(s) will be an alternative?

I can't find HDR in REtroArch. I calibrated my screen so I know my TV is HDR.

hihi :) i'm use windows 10. how am i calibrate hdr in windows 10? 😅

Too bad for Windows HDR Calibration, it's only for Win11. I have Win10. Some alternative exists ?

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Anything close to this that works on normal 4k?