Opak Posted June 26, 2016 Author Share Posted June 26, 2016 Hey guys, yesterday i stumbled through steam and found the awesome free game called "You have to Win the Game". It's a 8/16-Bit game and i would categorize it under metroidvania. It is really cool, you should give it a try. But what excited me the most, is the CRT Simulation. You can turn it on/off in the menu and it just looks great. So i was wondering if there is any program out there to make your emulator games look like that? I mean, not just a simple scanline filter. Also the the curves and all that. If you have any information about that, let me know :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 RetroArch shaders can go a long long way. Some are simple, some are more severe like what you are showing off. Shaders are going to generally be your go to when it comes to something like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opak Posted June 26, 2016 Author Share Posted June 26, 2016 Wow, thank you. I knew there is something like this out there :D Found this video on youtube and it looks great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvSrrdV5VeU Now i just need to figure out how to do that. RetroArch is uncharted territory for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 We've got plenty of tutorials on our YouTube channel that I've created. Click tutorials at the top of the forum pages or in the signature below all my posts. Select your console from there. Our most recent SNES tutorial is a more basic tutorial for beginners with LaunchBox and RetroArch specifically. After that, you can pick what ever console you're having trouble with if you need help with them. There's several of them I talk about shaders, and one I talk about Overlay's, but Overlay's are a bit jumbled and not easy to deal with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 The effect from the screen shot looks good but I hate the light glow reflection thing and the TV itself, personal preference thing. The best CRT shader in RA imo is the CRT-Royale-Kurozumi one. Check a comparison of it along side an actual PVM and see just how accurate it is http://libretro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4909&page=13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opak Posted June 28, 2016 Author Share Posted June 28, 2016 Could anybody send me his config files for retroarch? This stuff drives me crazy, it doesn't load configs for the different cores or doesn't save it. RetroArchs usabilty is just bullshit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Its in the shader presets, just not under CRT, look in the CGP presets folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opak Posted June 28, 2016 Author Share Posted June 28, 2016 Oh thank you, i was wondering why i can't load .cgp files. Do you know any way to downscale the gamesize in fullscreen mode? It always scales it so that there are only borders left and right. I hope you understand what i mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Opaklopper You should probably watch the Tutorials on our channel. Most of them deal with RetroArch. The settings aren't per core but there is an easy way to do so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC4NieHGwbo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Opaklopper said Oh thank you, i was wondering why i can't load .cgp files. Do you know any way to downscale the gamesize in fullscreen mode? It always scales it so that there are only borders left and right. I hope you understand what i mean. Turn on interger scaling in the video settings. This should always be on for CRT type shaders, non integer scaling messes with spacing and screws up how the shader looks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opak Posted June 28, 2016 Author Share Posted June 28, 2016 Hey Brad, i already watched some of them. But to be honest, i hate video tutorials :D Always have to watch a 20-30 minutes video with alot of already known or repeating stuff. Don't get me wrong, you make great tutorials. But I prefer written tutorials, just couldn't find any good one for retroarch yet. My only problem now is that i can't change the size of the game. Already tried to turn on integer scaling and changed the video scale, but it just doesn't change anything... EDIT: I figured it out, i had to do it with the shaders instead of looking for a game resolution option Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beatlemaniac19 Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 This might be really off topic, but if someone is out there that knows RetroArch from A-Z, could they please do a video tutorial series? I've already asked on their forums, but they act a little snobby and tell you to just read the forums and the readme files -_-. If there was a RetroArch guru out there that taught this and someone who taught MAME/MESS the community would be a lot more united. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 I do both actually. A lot of my tutorials have a lot of info for RetroArch and I recently did a MESS tutorial and I have a thread accompying it on the forums. I wouldn't call my self a master or guru (though some have called me that), but I teach a lot of things in my tutorials. Specific tutorials on the features of RetroArch and LaunchBox are going to eventually start replacing the full "system" tutorials as I am running out of the major ones and I don't need to do updates to those video's all that often. I am gonna create a thread asking for users to help me vote on feature specific tutorials. Things related to LB or RA, or even MESS, that they need explained a bit more that is not related to any specific system tutorial so that they don't have to sift through a 10-30 min tutorial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 I created that thread asking for help on what Feature Specific tutorial you guys would want to see first. I'm gonna make a YouTube video on it as well! https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/news-updates/feature-specific-tutorials-i-need-help-from-the-community#p20982 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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