Retrofrogg Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 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: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanBriones Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 On 4/25/2019 at 5:20 PM, Retrofrogg said: 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: Wow! Looks amazing! How you did it? I've tried everything, changing all ini params and I get nothing compare with your screenshots... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted May 22, 2019 Author Share Posted May 22, 2019 Thanks @JuanBriones! It was via a lot of online research, trial and error, testing and tweaking If you like I can post my settings for you. The bezel is available from Orionsangel on YouTube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanBriones Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 (edited) @Retrofrogg Is a lot of work!, I feel bad for asking for your settings, but clearly I don't have your experience, I just finished build an Arcade machine from scratch and I think it was easiest than config this settings Edited May 22, 2019 by JuanBriones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted May 30, 2019 Author Share Posted May 30, 2019 Here's the MAME.ini - https://pastebin.com/LWrrpV0H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanBriones Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 Thanks a lot @Retrofrogg! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 i love the scanline effects of the old arcade games...brings back so many memories... im using mame ver 0.209 now hlsl is enabled and when in game i can bring up the menu and go to slider menu and go down to scanlines and turn the up and tweak them to how i like. but when i exit the game and go to load it again there are no scanlines.. i have to manually set them every time i play a game? what am i missing? cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItchyRobot Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 is your MAME.ini file read only? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 18 minutes ago, ItchyRobot said: is your MAME.ini file read only? hi, No i have already checked it as i thought that may be the reason as well.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 1 hour ago, crispy said: i can bring up the menu and go to slider menu and go down to scanlines and turn the up and tweak them to how i like. but when i exit the game and go to load it again there are no scanlines. Changing the sliders doesn't and never has saved out to the raster.ini or mame.ini file at all. You have to take note of the changes you made and like and then put those settings in the raster.ini and vector.ini files depending on which type of game it is for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 14 minutes ago, Lordmonkus said: Changing the sliders doesn't and never has saved out to the raster.ini or mame.ini file at all. You have to take note of the changes you made and like and then put those settings in the raster.ini and vector.ini files depending on which type of game it is for. Thanks for the info.. The only slider i change is scanline amount.. from 0.00 to 1.00. now both in raster and vector ini there is no scanline amount line? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Just doing some quick testing I believe it's: scanline_alpha in the raster.ini. the vector.ini will only affect the vector games like Tempest and Asteroids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Thanks for taking time to help me out. ive changed the value scanline_alpha but its not doing anything noticeable? Ive changed it from 1.0 -9.0 im scratching my head as to why i cant get this working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 The values for alpha should range form 0.0 to 1.0, mine is set to 0.50. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Mine was already set to 0.5 so i changed it to 1.0 still no change so i went 1.5 etc etc but didn't do anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 I just loaded up Mame and Altered Beast and went to the scanline amount slider in the video options and moved the slider from left (0.0_ to all the way right (1.0) and it goes from 0 scanlines to really dark ones, there is a noticeable difference. It doesn't make more scanlines, that is not something it can do. Scanline amount is set in the raster.ini using the scanline_alpha setting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Thanks... For some reason its just started working... Ive got scanlines with every game as default... cheers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Good to hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MowTin Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 I have a similar question. I change the cubic and quadratic curvature settings but they don't save. How can I setup separate settings for each game? (Also, a side question: How do I get bezels to work. I downloaded a bezel put it in my artwork folder but nothing in game. I'm using BigBox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MowTin Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 On 5/30/2019 at 2:47 PM, Retrofrogg said: Here's the MAME.ini - https://pastebin.com/LWrrpV0H Can I use those settings only for neogeo games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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