Retro games with CRT shaders especially looks nice on something like an OLED with the deep blacks and response times that get 90% of the way to what CRTs had.
It's a weird situation because a few years ago we were lamenting that the image on modern monitors was "too good" to correctly display old games. But now, the higher your resolution, the more realistic these shaders can be made (with enough CPU power of course).
@@KingKrouch unfortunately, OLEDs don't even come close to the motion clarity of CRTs because of something called persistence blur. Please read BlurBusters guide on why "OLEDs still have motion blur"
Very very nicely done, light as well and love the brightness compensation that properly simulates how actual scanlines would render. Also love the fact that there is a dedicated shader by system
@@YudaHnK wow thank you so much - more are on the way. I'm working on Master System and Mega Drive presets right now. Hopefully should be out in a few weeks
Amazing shader Retro Crisis! It's beautifull and most importantly -> it's very light! I hate shaders that take a few seconds to load. I'm now using yours on Arcade, Sega Genesis and SNES games! Congrats for the amazing channel too!
So I’ve been watching all your shader preset videos for a while, and today I finally had a chance to set them up. They are running 💯 on my Odin 2. I chose the 1080p flat and this is so cool! 🤩 🙌🏼
@@RetroCrisis No, it’s pretty much perfect. I’d recommend an Odin 2 to anyone. The shaders are on point too. I found the SMS to be a bit too harsh but the NES clean looks great on SMS. I’m also using the clean Arcade and NES shaders on other systems like TG16 and the always terrible looking Atari Lynx. Your presets worked wonders on the Lynx.
@@eurosoe oh damn that's even better than I'd hoped to hear. The master system will be updated soon (once I'm back from travelling for work) and it should be significantly better!!
Bro, you brought back "The Year is 1999" is the best way possible! I'm putting these on EVERYTHING. Also I renamed "retro crisis" to "aaa retro crisis" for probably the same reason anyone else here would. XD
@@RetroCrisis worth it!!! I don't think I have seen anyone tackling this process and trying to make it approachable in TH-cam yet. It would be great being able to make our own shaders but it feels like a pretty obscure process....
The video is very good, and I will definitely test your shader pattern. I've been following the HSM Mega Bezel project for a long time, and the team's work is truly phenomenal, I can play games on my computer with the same feel and graphics as a tube TV from the time, it's wonderful. I'm just a little sad because when I broadcast on Twitch or TH-cam, the scanline presented is very clear and disturbing those watching through the broadcast. I've already tried different ways of readjusting, but when I disable it I notice that the image becomes blurry and I don't like it, as the NTSC effect together with the scanline manages to bring me very good nostalgia and relive the good moments that these games brought me.
Thanks dude - Sadly I think CRT shaders on streaming sites isn't great. I imagine even with a high bandwidth uncontended line, there will probably still be issues. I mean even with this video, youtube's streaming compression removes quite a bit of the detail, so I imagine Twitch would be worse streaming in real-time. I hope you manage to figure it.
I'm edinting CoinOps to a CRT MVS setup, but shaders on RetroArch an MAME are simply fantastic options for anyone not willing to use a CRT. Even the bloom from old CRTs is well emulated. This is the best era to enjoy retrogames.
I wasn't talking about a which is better comparison, just a side-by-side view to make it easier for myself and others to easily see which fits their personal preference better.@@RetroCrisis
This shader is absolutely gorgeous. For me, I grabbed the latest and am using the 1080p curved "old" filter, which I like best. So far, all of my games work beautifully. The one exception is Rampage. If I run it with this shader, it runs at 60FPS and flickers like crazy. If I disable it, the game runs at 30FPS and is stable (with crappy output). If I run with HLSL, it runs at 30FPS and is also stable
You made this shader!? Crisis is your real name Neo? You live in the Matrix!! 😂 it’s as gorgeous as your soothing voice and calming elevator music 🤣 seriously this gives it that special nostalgia feeling 👏 and all the games shown are 🔥🔥especially that Demon Front! Your making want to play arcades again man, but I’d want to play on a console rather than emulate.
Can anyone help me figure out why I get a “Failed to apply shader preset” error message in Retroarch when I try to load your presets? I followed all the steps, am able to navigate to your folder of shaders, but I just get that message for every single one, while other shaders in my folder apply with no problem :(
Oh wow you've started getting into the lab and whipping up your own shader presets? That's amazing Retro and this looks nice. Get ready because this hobby will suck hours out of your life lol
Hahah I must admit, both yourself and Cyberlab inspired me to give it a try. It's a lot harder than I thought it would be. I spent WEEKS just making this one lol and every game seems to react differently to it, so it's a crazy balancing act lol
@@RetroCrisis You're already experiencing what it's like in the lab I see, welcome to the world of shader tweaking lol. Sometimes you'll reach a look that you like then tweak something else, and then something else, then end up going on and on
@@sonkunhyperspinretroarch4867 Haha dude you're absolutley correct!!! I've resorted to keeping a physical notebook, so I can track of what changes I've made lol. I've had to restart so many times because I get confused very easily with all the paremeters. Oh btw, check your Discord when you get a chance. I sent you a DM
Hi, thank you so much for your work. Could you tell me how to add your shader preset to RETROBAT???(this is a Retroarch-based system, only more convenient)
Looking good! Not too sharp mask, soft nostalgic image but not too muddy. I would say keep this identity of the shader. You see a lot that shader creators eventually overthink and totally forget their vision in the end. That is the biggest pitfall in this hobby, I think. For a shader to become legendary and have staying power, don’t keep tweaking it too much.
Haha dude this is like my 7th or 8th attempt at a CRT preset because of the exact reasons you mentioned. You're absolutely correct about overdoing it. I kept getting way too extravagant, combining it with other shaders too, only to mess it all up each and every time 😂
I think I did something terribly wrong. For context, I'm using an RP3 plus which is using android. I formatted my SD card as my internal storage. I did this so I don't have to deal with newer android policy of restricting sd card access. I followed the instructions here. But the retroarch folder on my sd card doesn't have a shaders folder. I'm afraid another retroarch folder is hidden on the device internal storage. Which I can't view since I used my sd card as internal storage...
Does your device have a file manager app on it? Maybe that can help you navigate the internal storage and potentially copy files from the SD card to the internal storage? Might be worth checking
These look great! Quick Question: what is the “Online Updater” step of installation accomplishing and is it necessary? I ask because I use the Steam version of RA and the “Online Updater” does not exist.
@@RetroCrisis thank you. Sorry if I wasn’t clear: I’m using the Steam version of Retroarch on PC. After a little research, I think the items typically managed by the Online Updater are just automatically installed/updated with this version. I was able to install your shader pack and the presets works just fine. Thanks so much for making them. I love the Genesis one!
Hi sorry about the late reply, I'd recommend using the full PC version over RetroArch over the Steam version, to get the full feature set. The Steam version seems to have it's own unusual method of updating cores and shaders etc. th-cam.com/video/5F-Fo2f_4d0/w-d-xo.html
@@RetroCrisisabsolutely! SVC Chaos, Last Blade, Metal Slug all look as good as I'm used to.. at least as close as I can tell, being that I'm watching on my phone! And you got Revenge of Death Adder in there, at precisely the moment I was hoping for, that waterfall. 😮
@@retroprojections Hahaha I'm so glad you noticed the waterfall - I was desperatly hoping someone would appreciate that!! The ultimate test would be...how do they look on the legendary projector!!
Did you ever figure out what the issue was? I've been looking through the .slangp files. I'm way out of my depth, but it looks like they are referencing the built-in shaders that would normally be stored in folder named shaders_slang. Batocera however stores its shaders in /usr/share/batocera/shaders/ - I assume this is why the downloaded shaders fails to load. Just to add to the confusion, it seems like Batocera wants you to store custom shaders in an entirely folder /userdata/shaders/ I was able to get it to work by replacing all instances of "../../../shaders_slang" with "/usr/share/batocera/shaders" in the slangp in the 4K Flat folder (all the other folders appears to reference this). I should be able to upload a working folder structure once I've finished setting it up if you're interested?
Hi! my retroarch says that it fails to load your shaders, while the standard ones can. I've already set my video driver on Vulkan but nothing changed. I also changed the core (I'm using the PC engine core) but still nothing. Can you help me?
Thank you very much for this. I really love an appreciate your work. I adore your shaders and in my opinion they are the best possible! I have one tiny problem though. The image in arcade games after applying your shaders seems to be just a little bit too much blurry for me. I'm sorry, I am new to the topic, but is there a way to adjust the blurriness of the preset by myself? If it is, could you tell me how to do it or, please, consider making some kind of a tutorial explaining this. The reason why the image appears to me as mentioned earlier may be for the fact that on daily basis I use 1440p monitor for my Retroarch and there are only presets for 1080p and 4k provided. Thank you once again for your hard work!
Thank you so much for your kind words. That means a lot to me. Give me a week. I've actually got some updated arcade shaders coming out soon. They will be a bit sharper and slightly less blurry. Hopefully you will like them.
Great work, makes sega saturn which is basically a ST-V arcade board look amazing, especially fighters and shoot em ups, my go to for playing Cotton 2 and Cotton Boomerang
I've got a 19 inch 4:3 monitor, and am running a Pi 4. Assuming the Pi 4 is powerful enough for these shaders, I wonder which one I should use, as none of them seems to match (4K, 720p, 1080p). Maybe the 720p Steam Deck ones?
Is it possible to NOT make the sides and the top/bottom of the screen curved. I want the scanlines but I also want all 4 of the sides completely straight.
@@tonyaurelio4319 Yeah that's too bad, 'cos i am really curious. In addition, i installed & tried sonkun's shader and it loaded just fine. I'm using latest Windows Retroarch.
@@RetroCrisis Something happened that i had to re-install Retroarch, and while doing that i installed Retro Crisis Shaders and it worked, i love it so much, especially PS1 Clean. I'd love to see the shaders in Duckstation, PCSX2, or Dolphin, do you have plan to do so?.
I can get Megabezel to work and I follow the guide on the homepage and the gaming screen is 4:3 but the tv/bezel is widescreen so lot of unused realestate within the emulated screen on the left and right side. What am I doing wrong? Win11, 3840x2160p, rtx 3080 ti , ryzen 5800x3d
This is really cool! Can you instruct how to intall on Retrobat? i did the same thing as u did, but in Retrobat folder and none of these show up., Only the 4 that show up are the ones u can download from Retrobat
I'm using Batocera, and it seems to work different. Putting the shaders into the network share folder for Batocera's shaders doesn't work. They don't show up. Any hints on how to use these with Batocera?
Hey Retro Crisis, I just found your shader pack. What preset would you say is the best one to use for 1440p resolutions? Or is there any way I can modify the existing presets to make them perfect for 1440p?
Saturation is Ok to Good, looks good to me in Street Fighter II, a littme dark on Ghouls n Ghosts. But personally I want it to look sharper, not that blurry and I don't see any halos. And with a screen curvature that makes the characters look bigger in the center would look perfect
At this stage probably not. I'll be making a preset per console, based on my visual tastes....but if you definetly want different cable types I recommend these 2 videos - th-cam.com/video/qhjXeo6e44Q/w-d-xo.html & th-cam.com/video/i3JZZtO_dxA/w-d-xo.html
Hello, I just installed the pack and was trying out on some Final burn Neo. But when I load I am not getting any scan line effect at all. Very heavy mask effect but no scan lines. I was using CRT geom previously which does have noticable scan lines. Is there something I may be doing wrong? It loads 18 passes
@@RetroCrisis I did try this on my launchbox PC build too but it still looks nothing like what your video shows. I have zero scanline effects. Looking forward to your Steam Deck pack and a good Saturn preset. Thanks!
Can this be used on Android? I've already set the video driver to Vulkan, but the shader still doesn't appear. It seems like Android requires special permissions to copy the shader folder to the default shader path.
Hi. I was wondering why you used such a specific crt mask type for this preset, the genesis preset and a few other presets. It doesn't look like aperture, slot mask or dot mask. What inspired you to use a mask like this?
Hi thanks for asking. I must admit, this was the first shader preset I made and I was quite inexperienced. There was a lot I didn't know, but I feel like my subsequent presets have got better. It's indeed slot mask, used for no reason other than I like the way it looks 😋
Runs good on lower end hardware. Currently testing it on a handheld that usually has trouble with CRT shaders. Props for not going overboard. Still getting 60fps. Any way to modify it to remove the curvature?
That's awesome to hear! Which handheld were you using? Yes under shader parameters turn curvitureX and curivitureY to zero. I think I'll release a flat version of the preset this week - theres been a number of request to remove the curves.
@@RetroCrisis The selling point of your shader for me, was precisely, the curvature, currently I've been using crt-royale-ntsc-composite which is located under the "Presets" category/folder inside shaders_slang and the only thing that I don't like about the shader is the fact that is, completely, flat with no curvature at all 😢
@@RetroCrisis much appreciated! Running on a retroid pocket 3+. The system can run the first Sonkun shader pack for gba, genesis, and snes stuff but it was struggling to run the Sonkun set on arcade emulation. Your setup is a nice and lightweight pack that still gets the job done
Do Shaders look worse on a 1080p monitor? When i apply them they considerably darken the image, and doesn't look anything like my two crt tvs. Even though both crts look different as well, one is sharper, but no aggressive dark scanlines or black grill effect
Does this shader also work on other platforms such as RetroArrch for Nintendo Switch and RetroArrch Nvidia Shield TV Pro, RetroArrch for Wii U and PS3 as I have attached them to my TV in the living room?
These look fantastic! I followed the instructions, but every shader I tried said "Failed To Apply" for every single one. I'm using RetroArch on an Nvidia Shield, are these shaders not compatible with Android?
Please forgive my lack of knowledge, but as I reside in Europe, I often utilize PAL ROMs. Do your shaders also work on them? I have been following your work for a long time but haven't had the chance to rebuild my retro setup until now. I believe now is the perfect moment.
@@RetroCrisis well mega bezel are there as default now (I'm pretty sure), they're great and pretty heavy. It might be worth looking into. We need Retro Crisis in RetroArch. It just makes sense.
Hey, I'm trying to use this with my Retreoid Pocket 4 (running Android), but I can't get Retroarch to detect the shaders, even after switching to Vulkan for my video driver, any ideas?
Everything on this playlist should work on on steamdeck, but because of the low resolution, you'll lose some of the shader detail. But technically they'll all work - th-cam.com/play/PL3amG1g3KoFsVGTmOB7jD4T5sJ2UOeF3A.html
I can't believe that it's the 30+ year old games that make me want a 4k monitor instead of newer releases.
Dude for real right! I play my Steam games happily at 720p or 1080p...but retro games with shaders....4K!!!!
Retro games with CRT shaders especially looks nice on something like an OLED with the deep blacks and response times that get 90% of the way to what CRTs had.
It's a weird situation because a few years ago we were lamenting that the image on modern monitors was "too good" to correctly display old games. But now, the higher your resolution, the more realistic these shaders can be made (with enough CPU power of course).
@@RetroCrisis hello, retroarch Nintendo Switch work? Please
@@KingKrouch unfortunately, OLEDs don't even come close to the motion clarity of CRTs because of something called persistence blur. Please read BlurBusters guide on why "OLEDs still have motion blur"
Very very nicely done, light as well and love the brightness compensation that properly simulates how actual scanlines would render. Also love the fact that there is a dedicated shader by system
Wow dude this is the ultimate compliment. Thank you so much!! I hope the current and future presets work well for you
Congratulaions on your inaugural Shader Preset Pack release @RetroCrisis! Looks great, especially for closer viewing distances!
Thank you sir, and thanks for the support and guidance along the way!!
Very well done. Gradients look infintely better, which gives some games so much more depth.
Thanks dude! Tried to smooth out those harsh pixels
@@RetroCrisis It's breathtaking, can't wait to see more shaders from you :)
@@YudaHnK wow thank you so much - more are on the way. I'm working on Master System and Mega Drive presets right now. Hopefully should be out in a few weeks
the saturation and scanline are perfect. thank you for sharing that with us.
Slight reducing of brightness and adding a drop of contrast, will do the trick.
Ah cool thanks for the feedback. Was there a particular part of the video where the brightness was too high? Just so I can reference it
Thanks a lot man, your shaders are incredible. You brought me right back to my childhood with these! ❤❤❤
Oh wow that's amazing to hear. Glad you like them 🍻
Amazing shader Retro Crisis! It's beautifull and most importantly -> it's very light! I hate shaders that take a few seconds to load. I'm now using yours on Arcade, Sega Genesis and SNES games! Congrats for the amazing channel too!
Thanks so much bro, I appreciate that. I tried to keep it as light as possible intentionally. If it can run on old slower devices, that would be ideal
Yes! My first thought exactly was that it wasn’t too dark and the colors still pop! I’ve been looking fir this for ages!
Just tested it out and its super, works great, thank you very much, makes a nice difference.
Awesome, I'm glad you like it 😀
Retro Crisis community has the best game recommendations 😊! Great vid, can’t wait to test it out
Honestly, the taste in games and hidden gems in this community is the BEST!!!
That's how I like my shaders, with NTSC properties. By the way, amazing showcase of games at the end!!!!
Thanks Pancho! Those NTSC effects always make me weak at the knees 🥰
this was so useful! Now I can see the games with a whole new set of eyes or something more akind to what I've remembered
Amazing work you've done on these shaders, they do so much in the way of bringing back the original feel of these games.
So I’ve been watching all your shader preset videos for a while, and today I finally had a chance to set them up. They are running 💯 on my Odin 2. I chose the 1080p flat and this is so cool! 🤩 🙌🏼
Oh wow that's so great to hear. Are you enjoying your Odin 2? No issues I hope?
@@RetroCrisis No, it’s pretty much perfect. I’d recommend an Odin 2 to anyone.
The shaders are on point too. I found the SMS to be a bit too harsh but the NES clean looks great on SMS.
I’m also using the clean Arcade and NES shaders on other systems like TG16 and the always terrible looking Atari Lynx. Your presets worked wonders on the Lynx.
@@eurosoe oh damn that's even better than I'd hoped to hear. The master system will be updated soon (once I'm back from travelling for work) and it should be significantly better!!
Good work! It looks like a very nice shader for these kind of games
Thanks a lot!
Bro, you brought back "The Year is 1999" is the best way possible! I'm putting these on EVERYTHING.
Also I renamed "retro crisis" to "aaa retro crisis" for probably the same reason anyone else here would. XD
Hahaha I didn't even think to do that lol that's a very clever idea 🤣🍻
Very nice! Good work! The V2 need to be more sharp like arcades are. I will be exited waiting for the nexts releases!
Thanks dude - I'll see what I can do...
I had no idea shaders were getting this good. Well done sir
There's loads more amazing shaders here - th-cam.com/play/PL3amG1g3KoFsVGTmOB7jD4T5sJ2UOeF3A.html
Looking gorgeous!
Looking forward to use it and to see a "How to make one of this shaders" video.
Haha that will be an 2 hour long video!!!
@@RetroCrisis worth it!!! I don't think I have seen anyone tackling this process and trying to make it approachable in TH-cam yet. It would be great being able to make our own shaders but it feels like a pretty obscure process....
The video is very good, and I will definitely test your shader pattern.
I've been following the HSM Mega Bezel project for a long time, and the team's work is truly phenomenal, I can play games on my computer with the same feel and graphics as a tube TV from the time, it's wonderful. I'm just a little sad because when I broadcast on Twitch or TH-cam, the scanline presented is very clear and disturbing those watching through the broadcast. I've already tried different ways of readjusting, but when I disable it I notice that the image becomes blurry and I don't like it, as the NTSC effect together with the scanline manages to bring me very good nostalgia and relive the good moments that these games brought me.
Thanks dude - Sadly I think CRT shaders on streaming sites isn't great. I imagine even with a high bandwidth uncontended line, there will probably still be issues. I mean even with this video, youtube's streaming compression removes quite a bit of the detail, so I imagine Twitch would be worse streaming in real-time. I hope you manage to figure it.
I'm edinting CoinOps to a CRT MVS setup, but shaders on RetroArch an MAME are simply fantastic options for anyone not willing to use a CRT. Even the bloom from old CRTs is well emulated. This is the best era to enjoy retrogames.
Its gorgeous. I love it!
Awesome - I'm glad you like it. Let me know if you have any notes
That looks fantastic! Great work!
It's been updated since - th-cam.com/video/nerQXmfpvlo/w-d-xo.html
Nice. I'd like to see a side-by-side comparison video with the this shader and the previous shaders you showed how to use.
That's an interesting idea... but everyone's presets have different purposes and use cases, which might lead to an unfair comparison
I wasn't talking about a which is better comparison, just a side-by-side view to make it easier for myself and others to easily see which fits their personal preference better.@@RetroCrisis
@@-Brunnen-G Ahhh I see what you mean. Sorry for the misunderstanding. I'll see what I can do
This shader is absolutely gorgeous. For me, I grabbed the latest and am using the 1080p curved "old" filter, which I like best. So far, all of my games work beautifully. The one exception is Rampage. If I run it with this shader, it runs at 60FPS and flickers like crazy. If I disable it, the game runs at 30FPS and is stable (with crappy output). If I run with HLSL, it runs at 30FPS and is also stable
You made this shader!? Crisis is your real name Neo? You live in the Matrix!! 😂 it’s as gorgeous as your soothing voice and calming elevator music 🤣 seriously this gives it that special nostalgia feeling 👏 and all the games shown are 🔥🔥especially that Demon Front! Your making want to play arcades again man, but I’d want to play on a console rather than emulate.
Can anyone help me figure out why I get a “Failed to apply shader preset” error message in Retroarch when I try to load your presets? I followed all the steps, am able to navigate to your folder of shaders, but I just get that message for every single one, while other shaders in my folder apply with no problem :(
Extract the whole folder structure, I left out the display type (eg. 4K Flat) and that's why it didn't work at first.
2:55 i don't see the shaders folder or update slang shaders
Hey, nice game selection, good looking shader
Looks gorgeous! Thank you ❤
I'll definitely will try (specifically with the king of dragons - that i missed in ur demonstration)
Thanks! Let me know how your testing goes. I'd love to hear your feedback
i get "error applying shader preset", using vulkan. can anyone help me?
@@rrodrigocabral I also get this error. I’m on Steam Deck.
Wow this one looks more natural!!
Ah awesome, I'm glad you think so
Sweet, a fresh new look for retro gaming. /Cheers mate!
Really awesome shaders. Ty im sure they were a ton of work.
Oh wow you've started getting into the lab and whipping up your own shader presets? That's amazing Retro and this looks nice. Get ready because this hobby will suck hours out of your life lol
Hahah I must admit, both yourself and Cyberlab inspired me to give it a try. It's a lot harder than I thought it would be. I spent WEEKS just making this one lol and every game seems to react differently to it, so it's a crazy balancing act lol
@@RetroCrisis You're already experiencing what it's like in the lab I see, welcome to the world of shader tweaking lol. Sometimes you'll reach a look that you like then tweak something else, and then something else, then end up going on and on
@@sonkunhyperspinretroarch4867 Haha dude you're absolutley correct!!! I've resorted to keeping a physical notebook, so I can track of what changes I've made lol. I've had to restart so many times because I get confused very easily with all the paremeters. Oh btw, check your Discord when you get a chance. I sent you a DM
looks real good
now to wait for a reshade port
Looks great, will add it to my Android collection! 👍🏻
Let me know how you get on, I'd love to know your performance on Android
Hi, thank you so much for your work. Could you tell me how to add your shader preset to RETROBAT???(this is a Retroarch-based system, only more convenient)
Looking good! Not too sharp mask, soft nostalgic image but not too muddy. I would say keep this identity of the shader. You see a lot that shader creators eventually overthink and totally forget their vision in the end. That is the biggest pitfall in this hobby, I think. For a shader to become legendary and have staying power, don’t keep tweaking it too much.
Haha dude this is like my 7th or 8th attempt at a CRT preset because of the exact reasons you mentioned. You're absolutely correct about overdoing it. I kept getting way too extravagant, combining it with other shaders too, only to mess it all up each and every time 😂
Wow well done 👏
I'm so used to chunky pixels but this is fantastic
I think I did something terribly wrong. For context, I'm using an RP3 plus which is using android.
I formatted my SD card as my internal storage. I did this so I don't have to deal with newer android policy of restricting sd card access. I followed the instructions here. But the retroarch folder on my sd card doesn't have a shaders folder.
I'm afraid another retroarch folder is hidden on the device internal storage. Which I can't view since I used my sd card as internal storage...
Does your device have a file manager app on it? Maybe that can help you navigate the internal storage and potentially copy files from the SD card to the internal storage? Might be worth checking
Running right now Front Mission 3 Reloaded,gonna try the shader out hehehe
@@Toninjo3 awesome - check this out when you get a chance, especially for Front Mission th-cam.com/video/cyktna9FF08/w-d-xo.html
hi, i don´t have vulkan, only opengl or direcx but i can´t see the shaders in the emulaton, what is the problem? thanks!!!
Same problem here man, did you find a solution?
_Retro Crisis_ sent me here. 👍✨📺
These look great! Quick Question: what is the “Online Updater” step of installation accomplishing and is it necessary? I ask because I use the Steam version of RA and the “Online Updater” does not exist.
This is the version of RetroArch I recommend for Steam Deck - th-cam.com/video/Bbr0a6b1qHI/w-d-xo.html
@@RetroCrisis thank you. Sorry if I wasn’t clear: I’m using the Steam version of Retroarch on PC. After a little research, I think the items typically managed by the Online Updater are just automatically installed/updated with this version. I was able to install your shader pack and the presets works just fine.
Thanks so much for making them. I love the Genesis one!
Hi sorry about the late reply, I'd recommend using the full PC version over RetroArch over the Steam version, to get the full feature set. The Steam version seems to have it's own unusual method of updating cores and shaders etc. th-cam.com/video/5F-Fo2f_4d0/w-d-xo.html
this channel is gem.
Looking great!
Cheers RP! Hopefully you approve of the Neo Geo visuals
@@RetroCrisisabsolutely! SVC Chaos, Last Blade, Metal Slug all look as good as I'm used to.. at least as close as I can tell, being that I'm watching on my phone! And you got Revenge of Death Adder in there, at precisely the moment I was hoping for, that waterfall. 😮
@@retroprojections Hahaha I'm so glad you noticed the waterfall - I was desperatly hoping someone would appreciate that!! The ultimate test would be...how do they look on the legendary projector!!
@@retroprojections on a side note, would love you on the podcast
@@RetroCrisis well, I guess we will have to figure that out. I would love to do it!
I've got an email on my page.
Integer scale is necessary for having best scanlines intervals. Do you think it's really better to inactivate this option?
Agreed. Integer scaling should be on. This guide needs updating
The dirty shaders are especially impressive
Looks sick👍🏽 going to try to set it up for batocera
Let me know if it works for you
@@RetroCrisis It was a fat fail 😂. I could not find the retro arch shader files anywhere in batocera.
@@MrRockfish01 Ah really?? Sorry about that, I've never used Batocera. Maybe in future I'll investigate
@@RetroCrisis no worries 👍🏽👍🏽
Did you ever figure out what the issue was? I've been looking through the .slangp files. I'm way out of my depth, but it looks like they are referencing the built-in shaders that would normally be stored in folder named shaders_slang. Batocera however stores its shaders in /usr/share/batocera/shaders/ - I assume this is why the downloaded shaders fails to load. Just to add to the confusion, it seems like Batocera wants you to store custom shaders in an entirely folder /userdata/shaders/
I was able to get it to work by replacing all instances of "../../../shaders_slang" with "/usr/share/batocera/shaders" in the slangp in the 4K Flat folder (all the other folders appears to reference this). I should be able to upload a working folder structure once I've finished setting it up if you're interested?
Hi! my retroarch says that it fails to load your shaders, while the standard ones can. I've already set my video driver on Vulkan but nothing changed. I also changed the core (I'm using the PC engine core) but still nothing. Can you help me?
@@Ononokii update slang shaders and double check you've installed the shader presets in the correct location. Also don't delete any of the folders
@@RetroCrisis I didn't put them in the right folder. Now it works like a charm. Thank you :)
@@Ononokii awesome. Glad to hear it 🍻
i tried to install It on android but does not recognize the files, any advice?
An awsome job on this brother. You really are a techinical guy. Microsoft or Sony should hire you mate 😊😊
Hahaha bro it's not really that technical to be totally honest 🤣
Awesome Job on shaders! Just curious is there a way to remove the curveture and have it more square looking? Again Awesome Job!
Thanks dude. In the pack, there are 'flat' variants included for all the shader presets too
Failed to apply shader preset: RC-GDV-NTSC - Arcade - Old.slangp
@@Kalel8 triple check you're using latest version of retroarch, shaders and presets and installed in correct location
Thank you very much for this. I really love an appreciate your work. I adore your shaders and in my opinion they are the best possible!
I have one tiny problem though. The image in arcade games after applying your shaders seems to be just a little bit too much blurry for me. I'm sorry, I am new to the topic, but is there a way to adjust the blurriness of the preset by myself? If it is, could you tell me how to do it or, please, consider making some kind of a tutorial explaining this.
The reason why the image appears to me as mentioned earlier may be for the fact that on daily basis I use 1440p monitor for my Retroarch and there are only presets for 1080p and 4k provided.
Thank you once again for your hard work!
Thank you so much for your kind words. That means a lot to me. Give me a week. I've actually got some updated arcade shaders coming out soon. They will be a bit sharper and slightly less blurry. Hopefully you will like them.
@@RetroCrisis Thanks a lot!!! 🤗♥️👍🏻
Great work, makes sega saturn which is basically a ST-V arcade board look amazing, especially fighters and shoot em ups, my go to for playing Cotton 2 and Cotton Boomerang
brilliant job, looks good to me side by side with my crt its better - thank you.
I'm glad you like it. I got an updated arcade preset out soon
I've got a 19 inch 4:3 monitor, and am running a Pi 4. Assuming the Pi 4 is powerful enough for these shaders, I wonder which one I should use, as none of them seems to match (4K, 720p, 1080p). Maybe the 720p Steam Deck ones?
That's quite an interesting setup. Best to try them all and see what works best. A bit of experimenting
Will any of these work with 1440p?
But what if I don’t have a 4k monitor -_-
Technically it will work on lower resolutions. It will just miss some level of detail.
Great stuff here 💪 any chance to add tv filter, in future?
Thanks - what do you mean by TV filter?
@@RetroCrisis something likes NTSC phase composite
@@FrancescoMoleti Ah I see, probably for the upcoming home console presets, but not for arcade...at this stage
Is there a possibility to use these shaders in reshade?
Great video, love your channel, this work in 1080p?
Can a 1080p monitor without HDR take any advantage of this shader ?
@@maiksonstrife yes. Absolutely 🍻
Is it possible to NOT make the sides and the top/bottom of the screen curved. I want the scanlines but I also want all 4 of the sides completely straight.
Yes in the download pack select 'flat' presets for no curves
I always gets failed apply shader everytime i load your shader, i wonder whats wrong?
same here
@@tonyaurelio4319 Yeah that's too bad, 'cos i am really curious.
In addition, i installed & tried sonkun's shader and it loaded just fine. I'm using latest Windows Retroarch.
That error message usually occurs if it's installed in the incorrect location. Double check the file paths etc match the video.
@@RetroCrisis Something happened that i had to re-install Retroarch, and while doing that i installed Retro Crisis Shaders and it worked, i love it so much, especially PS1 Clean.
I'd love to see the shaders in Duckstation, PCSX2, or Dolphin, do you have plan to do so?.
I can get Megabezel to work and I follow the guide on the homepage and the gaming screen is 4:3 but the tv/bezel is widescreen so lot of unused realestate within the emulated screen on the left and right side. What am I doing wrong?
Win11, 3840x2160p, rtx 3080 ti , ryzen 5800x3d
This is really cool! Can you instruct how to intall on Retrobat? i did the same thing as u did, but in Retrobat folder and none of these show up., Only the 4 that show up are the ones u can download from Retrobat
It's beautiful!
Thank you! 😊
I'm using Batocera, and it seems to work different. Putting the shaders into the network share folder for Batocera's shaders doesn't work. They don't show up. Any hints on how to use these with Batocera?
Muito obrigado Bro.
sempre por você irmão 👊
Cool. Installed. It is really good!
Sorry for the newbye question, does this installation guide work on Raspberry Pi4 Retroarch?Thanks
I've not personally tested it, but feel free to try it
Hey Retro Crisis, I just found your shader pack. What preset would you say is the best one to use for 1440p resolutions? Or is there any way I can modify the existing presets to make them perfect for 1440p?
Saturation is Ok to Good, looks good to me in Street Fighter II, a littme dark on Ghouls n Ghosts. But personally I want it to look sharper, not that blurry and I don't see any halos.
And with a screen curvature that makes the characters look bigger in the center would look perfect
You think you can one for consoles in different video signals like in RF, Composite, S-Vid and RGB?
At this stage probably not. I'll be making a preset per console, based on my visual tastes....but if you definetly want different cable types I recommend these 2 videos - th-cam.com/video/qhjXeo6e44Q/w-d-xo.html & th-cam.com/video/i3JZZtO_dxA/w-d-xo.html
Hello, I just installed the pack and was trying out on some Final burn Neo. But when I load I am not getting any scan line effect at all. Very heavy mask effect but no scan lines. I was using CRT geom previously which does have noticable scan lines. Is there something I may be doing wrong? It loads 18 passes
I should note this is also on the Steam Deck and using the 1080 flat
I've got a Steamdeck pack coming out soon
@@RetroCrisis I did try this on my launchbox PC build too but it still looks nothing like what your video shows. I have zero scanline effects. Looking forward to your Steam Deck pack and a good Saturn preset. Thanks!
Can this be used on Android? I've already set the video driver to Vulkan, but the shader still doesn't appear. It seems like Android requires special permissions to copy the shader folder to the default shader path.
Hi. I was wondering why you used such a specific crt mask type for this preset, the genesis preset and a few other presets. It doesn't look like aperture, slot mask or dot mask. What inspired you to use a mask like this?
I took another look at some screenshots and saw that it looks like a slot mask, but really horizontally stacked. My bad.
Hi thanks for asking. I must admit, this was the first shader preset I made and I was quite inexperienced. There was a lot I didn't know, but I feel like my subsequent presets have got better. It's indeed slot mask, used for no reason other than I like the way it looks 😋
Is there any RetroArch CRT TV Shader/Filter for 1440p (2K)?
Thank you very much for the video.
Runs good on lower end hardware. Currently testing it on a handheld that usually has trouble with CRT shaders. Props for not going overboard. Still getting 60fps. Any way to modify it to remove the curvature?
That's awesome to hear! Which handheld were you using? Yes under shader parameters turn curvitureX and curivitureY to zero. I think I'll release a flat version of the preset this week - theres been a number of request to remove the curves.
@@RetroCrisis The selling point of your shader for me, was precisely, the curvature, currently I've been using crt-royale-ntsc-composite which is located under the "Presets" category/folder inside shaders_slang and the only thing that I don't like about the shader is the fact that is, completely, flat with no curvature at all 😢
@@panchopistolas2593 yeah, I’m sure it’s split 50/50 on people that prefer flat vs curved. Nice to have the option either way
@@RetroCrisis much appreciated! Running on a retroid pocket 3+. The system can run the first Sonkun shader pack for gba, genesis, and snes stuff but it was struggling to run the Sonkun set on arcade emulation. Your setup is a nice and lightweight pack that still gets the job done
@@derekfcc Thanks dude - I'm glad it works well for you. Also, check the latest update for a non-curved version of the preset
❤❤absolutely fantastic! Love it thanxx a looot
Are you using two shaders or just one, is the old TV a shader?
Do Shaders look worse on a 1080p monitor? When i apply them they considerably darken the image, and doesn't look anything like my two crt tvs. Even though both crts look different as well, one is sharper, but no aggressive dark scanlines or black grill effect
I would love to use it with scummvm also...But most likely not possible.
If ScummVM has a RetroArch core, then it should work
Amazing! will these work for 1280 x 1024 resolution LCD displays?
Can I somehow make this shader to work on DuckStation?
Does this shader also work on other platforms such as RetroArrch for Nintendo Switch and RetroArrch Nvidia Shield TV Pro, RetroArrch for Wii U and PS3 as I have attached them to my TV in the living room?
These look fantastic! I followed the instructions, but every shader I tried said "Failed To Apply" for every single one. I'm using RetroArch on an Nvidia Shield, are these shaders not compatible with Android?
Please forgive my lack of knowledge, but as I reside in Europe, I often utilize PAL ROMs. Do your shaders also work on them? I have been following your work for a long time but haven't had the chance to rebuild my retro setup until now. I believe now is the perfect moment.
Hi, good question - the ROM region should be irrelevant. The shaders shouldn't be impacted by the region, as far as I'm aware
@@RetroCrisis thank you very much for the fast reply and for all your work 🙏🏻
pretty good, how does it works in snes games?
I've not tested it with SNES games, bit I will be making a snes preset in future
This looks amazing. Do you happen to know if this can be ported into an OpenGOAL mod to be used with PC recompilations of Jak games from PS2?
the scanlines are a bit too sharpened and don't look natural because of it
It's been updated since th-cam.com/video/nerQXmfpvlo/w-d-xo.html
Great shader. The question, when will it be added to RetroArch default shaders?
Hahahah probably never to honest. I think the main RetroArch pack should be kept lean, and to be honest, my preset is just bloatware by comparison lol
@@RetroCrisis well mega bezel are there as default now (I'm pretty sure), they're great and pretty heavy. It might be worth looking into. We need Retro Crisis in RetroArch. It just makes sense.
Great question!
Hey, I'm trying to use this with my Retreoid Pocket 4 (running Android), but I can't get Retroarch to detect the shaders, even after switching to Vulkan for my video driver, any ideas?
Beautiful! For Steam Deck, what shaders do you recommend?
Everything on this playlist should work on on steamdeck, but because of the low resolution, you'll lose some of the shader detail. But technically they'll all work - th-cam.com/play/PL3amG1g3KoFsVGTmOB7jD4T5sJ2UOeF3A.html
No retroarch do apple tv 4k não está funcionando infelizmente
Sadly not applying on my android device even though other slang shaders are working