Retrofrogg

As well as getting the emulation of a game as accurate as possible, I like the look of the game to be as true to the original as possible. I've therefore been working on getting the perfect HLSL (shader) settings in MAME to try and replicate as much as possible the look of an arcade monitor. I know that every arcade machine was a little different and that it also depends on your own monitor, though my aim is to have something looking reasonably authentic. This thread is to post screenshots of your games to show your HLSL settings, and perhaps to share your HSLS settings. I'll start with some screenshots of my Neo Geo games running in MAME. I'm trying to emulate the curvature, scanlines, and other CRT artefacts as well as the glass of the monitor itself, reflections and also the game bezels (in cropped mode so that the game screen is larger). The bezelz here are by Orionsangel. I based these HLSL settings on another person's settings, who was aiming to replicate an arcade monitor as much as possible, and then tweaked the settings to my liking. Garou: Mark of the Wolves: Blue's Journey: Art of Fighting: Aero Fighters 2:

But what about Daikatana?

This looks like another awesome collection - thanks yet again @Haggie55

Looks great. I'm currently working on a similar build but 2-player. Did you find the trackball and spinner easy to fit? Are the parts from Ultimarc?

I was looking at the Ultimarc Servostik - has anyone tried that one?

is it stored on a local drive or a network drive?

Just found an issue with the current build - though it's probably not new; there's no option to add a "tape" or cassette media image. There are cartridge and CD options, but for some reason tape/cassette is missing.

I was looking at all the developments and feature requests, and this led me to thinking; why do we engage in this hobby? Assuming that the hobby is collecting and or/playing retro games and using a frontend such as Launchbox (rather than just playing current games), please select as many of the reasons in the poll that apply to you.

If we grab your packs, are all your individual releases in there?

No it's not doing that; for example, for the Arcade platform I have the image group set to 3D boxes, but when I press the image symbol it generally opens a screenshort or something and I have to scroll back to the 3D box, which does always seem to be first in the list.

Odd behaviour I've noticed recently - if I click on the + icon at the top of a game box to open up the image viewer, the first image displayed isn't the one which should be first - I have to scroll back through the images to get there. It seems to be kind of random which image opens up first. Ideally it should be the first image I think.

Looks nice...but why the major delay in the video?

Expanding the media to show all would be great - that way we could easily see which media items we are missing. I'll check the manuals when I get home, but last I looked none of them seemed to be showing.