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@@elia0162 Vagrant Story

This video was made before the Duckstation update, but all of the settings should be exactly the same. Thanks for the heads up!

I was looking for it but sadly the shader (and others) have been removed since the october update (v0.1-7675) for license incompatibility...

@docenji you can follow what's in the video, then. No problem

​@@MVP.113 Yeah this is what i have done, working great (trying Resident Evil 1 and Parasite Eve 2 right know !). It was just to provide information.

I'm not sure exactly, but I think you've got it right. If it's giving you problems, it must be a bit heavy on the GPU. I'm not sure of any settings in duckstation that could help with that.

CRT shaders are usually heavy. There are some light ones but they are very simple.

And what settings do you recommend with it?

Duckstation's UI has been updated. The "Enhancements" tab in the video is now the "Graphics" tab.

@@ggdeku oh! thanks

i prefer res scaling 1, it look more nostalgic tbh

The systems that we associate scanlines with had scanlines because they were outputting 240p. 240p works by not alternating the position of the fields, the dark scanlines are the lines that aren't being used. Later consoles like the PS2 and Gamecube used 480i (or 480p if your TV could do it), so they didn't have any unused lines. Hope that makes sense.

@@eyeball226 - It does make sense. I just never really remember seeing any absolute scanllines, at least on a regular crt tv. Whenever I looked at a screen close I could see the scan lines alternate between fields. Of course this could be JUST on a tv signal, I don't remember. I do have a 13inch crt tv, but I don't have any old game systems so I could observe it, at the moment.

@@Uhfgood I suppose you could say that 480i has alternating scanlines, but it's masked by the fact that 60/50 times a second is much too fast to see, and the phosphor carries on glowing for a little while after the electron hits. Whatever you saw alternating wasn't a scanline. Not sure what it could have been to be honest - to be slow enough to see maybe it was some kind of interference?

@@bacontater1664 I'm curious as to what other tweaks you've done. I'd love to try them too.

@@ggdeku Nothing crazy. Literally just a couple. lol. guest-hd horizontal blur sigma .025 vertical blur sigma .025 guest-ntsc FS sharpen Deblur Strength 7 I changed a few more that deal with color, but I still can't get it right. The colors look most correct with the crt filters off. The crt still has sharper text. Not sure at what points its just never going to be exactly the same. lmao.

@@bacontater1664 I just added these settings that you had, with guest-HD over guest-ntsc, and honestly? I like the look of it even if the colors are a bit off and if text is a bit blurry. Tested it out on SotN and Silent Hill.

@@NinjaRed5000 Since I made that comment, I realized the color issues I was having were due to using any renderer other than software. Software actually makes the games look as close to possible in terms of color. The only extremely minor differences can be due to having an oled monitor vs OG hardware on a crt. Still using shaders for CRT effect, but since I care more about playing the games as they originally were, not having PGXP or any advanced features doesn't bother me.

@bacontater1664 interesting I'll try that out. Though have you figured out the sharpness?

Try Duckstation/shaders/reshade. That's where it should work.

Try CRT-Guest-HD, it's already in emulator.

on the github page, click the green "Code" button and select "Download ZIP" Then all you have to do is unzip the files, and put the two folders "Shaders" and "Textures" in your folder path: Duckstation/shaders/reshade. (you can make the folders if they aren't there already.)

@@ggdeku Thank you so much.

@@Moonwalker86 yeah, no problem! I should have described that more clearly in the video, so I've updated the description with some more detail as well.

How much in numbers that 5× value?

I don't have a Steamdeck, so I'm not sure about this problem, but does it work well for other games on Duckstation? Is it just Xenogears giving you this problem? I'm really curious if it worked well on steamdeck.

@@ggdeku I don't have any other psx games on the deck rn aside from pandemonium which seemed to run fine with limited testing(only noticed this yesterday). But i'm gonna DL Crash Bandicoot 2 tonight to test a play-through of it, so I'll get back to you after trying that. My current theory is that it might be something to do with bright flashing lights on screen, it usually sets it off when a healing spell or item is used or there was one consistent moment were a pendant flashes that seemed to cause it. Deleting the filters or turning the game on and off again(not resetting but quitting out), seemed to be the only ways i could find to fix it. I've posted in the reshade devs thread bout it too in case they have any answers, also i should note I'm not using the full settings from the vid, i only turned on the hd scanlines and set the res to 2.

Ok can confirm it happens with Crash 2, like i didn't even get past the intro cutscene lol, it seems to consistently change white whenever it goes from the transition between cortex saying an enemy and the scene cutting to Crash and coco. I'll try it on desktop as well, see if it is a problem with the deck. edit: worked fine via desktop so yeah i'm guessing it's a deck problem sadly.

last update on this but with help from the shaders creator I managed to fix it via changing Vulkan to OpenGL. Haven't had any issue since.

I've only looked into adding these .fx shaders to duckstation. I'm not sure about the the glsl files. Sorry!

Click the green Code button, then select "Download ZIP"

If it works for you it's all good. I have no idea why that would happen, but hey, if it works it works.

I avoid Retroarch as much as possible - it needs a major UI overhaul before I ever touch it again.

Lucky you, I noticed them very much, like the Tomb Raider games flickered and wobbled so much that you had to stand still for a couple seconds and wait for it to stop to actually see where you should go in some levels (the start of Tomb Raider 2 is downright ridiculous when it comes to flicker and wobble). Die Hard Trilogy was absolutely extreme in terms of wobbling and generally, none of the games - bar some 2D ones - were particularly nice to look at.

I never knew that it was a thing until I used emulsion on lcd. Maybe different TVs produced different results?

Yeah, it was the same for me. A lot of games handled the wobbling well through software, so it wasn’t really an issue. A bit of flickering was just normal back then - it made everything feel more alive.

Maybe you are using a slightly older version? Duckstation was recently updated to support .fx files. You should be able to put the files in the folder: Duckstation/shaders/reshade

@@ggdeku that folder didn't work for me, but I put them in resources/shaders instead and then it worked just fine, also had no idea you had to download the textures too, I thought that was something different

@@coolenthanks that worked for me too

@@coolen wanted to thank you too, was tearing my hair out trying to figure out what I was doing wrong until I read your comment, a thousand thanks

@@coolen mine doesn't work, it says 'failed to load preprocessed shaders' everything is in the correct folder and I tried different renders like dx11, 12, vulkan etc. same error.. I noticed the download says dx9 in the title, maybe that's why, but no DX9 option exists in duckstation

I don't know, sorry! I've linked the libretro thread in the description if you want to learn more from the creator of the CRT-Guest for reshade port. They may be able to answer your question there.

I'm not sure about Geom. Guest was ported to Reshade, which is why it works here. I'm not sure if Geom has been. I've linked the libretro thread in the description if you want to learn more.

I think it has really bad usability as a front end and overcomplicated the emulation process. I've always had a significanty better experience using the emulators directly. There are also other controversies due to the people behind RA that I find very off-putting.

Looks like I linked the wrong one! I'll update the description with the right link. Here's the version you should be using: github.com/HelelSingh/CRT-Guest-DX9

@@ggdeku thanks a lot! I have it all setup now. Makes these PS1 games look like remasters, I actually played RE2 back in 1999 butnever finished it because I felt the graphics were a little outdated since I first played RE3. But I've always regretted that as I would come to learn of it's legendary status. Finally playing it and ironically, with these settings and filter, I think the graphics are great. I have a bunch of PS1 games including this one, and a PS2to play it on, but I can't stand the way it looks on an LCD. I even bought a 27" TV so that the display would be smaller and it still looks bad. I was heavily considering buying a CRT but don't have the space for it. When I finally decided to give emuation another shot after building a PC, this video was the only place I could find a tutorial on shaders for duckstation. Anyway, it really does mean a lot. Thanks!

its not work

Something has occurred. Your settings no longer work for me even before I updated

Thanks! I actually just pinned an update comment for another setting change, so check it out if you are interested.