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Emulator Screenshot Thread
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snickothemule
Member
RetroArch
BSNES core
NTSC CRT shader
So comfy on a high res monitor, memories came flooding back playing this on a 32cm tv as a kid.
BSNES core
NTSC CRT shader
So comfy on a high res monitor, memories came flooding back playing this on a 32cm tv as a kid.
Primethius
Banned
I like the CRT look. It's not for everyone though. It works better in motion, honest.
It works with DX9 for me, not DX10/11.
Here's a more "authentic" look for 2097 / XL via the Mednafen PSX core in RetroArch using the CRT-Royale shader and integer scale on:
The UI fonts especially look nice and uniform compared to the ePSXe shots. Here's a bonus shot of Wipeout 3 with ingame widescreen correction enabled:
ichtyander
Member
Hagane in Retroarch with the NTSC shader and integer scale. I love me some pixel crawling.
Radius4
Member
Can't beat RetroArch with the GTU shader for smeared N64 authenticity 
Also about wipeout, yeah the widescreen hack is cool, It's not perfect of course but still
I notice you use the default CRT-Royale, don't you find it too busy? I tone it down a bit (mostly mask type 2, mask sampling 2 and I add the image adjustment shader to add some luminance)
BTW, if I'm posting too much let me know, this thread is just exciting
Also about wipeout, yeah the widescreen hack is cool, It's not perfect of course but still
I notice you use the default CRT-Royale, don't you find it too busy? I tone it down a bit (mostly mask type 2, mask sampling 2 and I add the image adjustment shader to add some luminance)
BTW, if I'm posting too much let me know, this thread is just exciting
ThatsMytrunks
Member
BTW, if I'm posting too much let me know, this thread is just exciting
Two things: The limit was 3 images per post, and you should stick quote tags around your images.
Radius4
Member
Three per post or three.. period
Ok I'll refrain from posting for a few days
Also... noone is using quote tags...
ThatsMytrunks
Member
As I said.Three per post or three.. period
Ok I'll refrain from posting for a few days
Radius4
Member
I can surely try for retrogamea
Three per post or three.. period
Ok I'll refrain from posting for a few days
Also... noone is using quote tags...
More posts the better, just keep it within the threads rules. The screenshots are still interesting regardless of who's posting them
Primethius
Banned
Primethius
Banned
DarkLordMalik
Member
I am currently playing through the HD remaster and it looks way better than the emulated version IMO. AA aside, the ground and sky has something weird going on in these screens. The UI also looks quite bad here.
This is one of the reason I never like emulating games. There is always some weird issue with the upscaling e.g the text in Dragon Quest 8 =/
ResidentDante
Member
I know the fonts and text get messed up, but I just like to set the resolution real high, the picture looks so sharp and clear then. It's like PS1 games were hiding a bunch of detail behind tons of grain. I find scanlines make the picture so dark.
Some Ridge Racer in ePSXe 1.9.0
There's a hack you can turn on in PCSX2 that fixes the text in DQ8. I don't remember the name of it off-hand.
I'm just using the ingame anamorphic widescreen in that shot, with the aspect set to 16:9 in RA. I haven't tried the widescreen hack in the beetle core yet.
I had some customizations I used to use, but didn't really know what I was doing and figured TroggleMonkey's defaults were better. Except the border, which I always turn off since I don't like things near the edges being obfuscated. Your shots look pretty nice though, I might have to try those settings. Though I've had a hard time adding on extra shaders to Royale in the past, so I'm not sure if I could get the image adjustment shader working with it.
I don't know, to me your shots look like detail is lost by smudging the pixels together, much like HQ filters on 2D games. I used to not like scanline shaders for the same reason as you, but the newer stuff like Glow and Royale add enough light back to look bright enough to me. I think the scanlines and complex glowing phosphor stuff Royale and other CRT shaders do add a lot of detail to the image. Hell, it just looks cool to me. To each his own, of course.
ResidentDante
Member
Yeah, I think it depends on the game. The smoothing of textures look a bit drastic on screens, but moving, especially in racers were the backgrounds zip past anyhow, I think it works well!
But yeah, tastes and all. I totally get your angle though!
Can't beat RetroArch with the GTU shader for smeared N64 authenticity
OMG, it looks so real! I can't believe it, that's looking exactly like it looked on TV!
Portugeezer
Member
Could someone take some screenshots of Mario 64 DS?
Curious to see how it holds up in light of the fan remake video, as some other polygonal DS games look really good in high res.
Curious to see how it holds up in light of the fan remake video, as some other polygonal DS games look really good in high res.
Anyway, I want to showcase Nestopia's NTSC filter, which I adore, because the games pretty much look the way I remember them. Maybe they didn't look as clear and clean on my TV, but the colors and the way they bleed is pretty much perfect, like the text in MM5's title screen.
Some of the filters I've seen in this thread look weird to me.
Some of the filters I've seen in this thread look weird to me.
That person of applying an oddly vertical scanline effect
The KH games look stellar emulated
TheSlySoul
Member
Yeah, this filter makes it look like a old TV without the scan lines to get in the way.
I am going to set up some tonight. I get my BT controller later this week. I will use USB to test it out.
That person of applying an oddly vertical scanline effect
The KH games look stellar emulated
KH2.5 IQ is honestly only really missing AA.
The texture resolution bump (not just UI) is very apparent.
God knows why Nintendo stopped after Wind Waker HD
Dolphin (Wii) Super Mario Galaxy 2, 4x Native Scaling (2560x2112)
Holy shit. That's amazing. I REALLY want Nintendo to bust out the HD treatment for more games like they did for WWHD.
I had no idea that the 2.5 release rendered at 1920x1080. That does look really great.
robgrab
Member
Nice shots and thank you for not using a scanline filter.
Radius4
Member
That's the thing, different shaders do different things, the nestopia filter you're using is a CPU filter intended to emulate NTSC, not just a CRT. That includes interference, degradation, etc.
For example these three shots:
This is blaarg cpu filter in nestopia libretro
this is maister's NTSC shader with the s-video preset, there is a 256px preset that has even more smearing and artifacts
This is royale, this attempts to simulate the screen only and it has lots of parameters (different masks from different kinds of monitors, etc)
Those shots are astonishing! can't wait for dolphin-libretro
roadrunn3r
Member
Couldn't find a way to remove the hud so had to take them just a bit before it appears.
I tried AndresSM's Royale settings and they are quite nice. Even the banding seen on certain blue backgrounds is much less noticable at non integer scaling.
Mask type 2 (shadow mask) and mask sample mode 1.5 (any higher than that resulted in odd colored circles) in Super Mario Bros. 2 Japan:
And a bonus Ape Escape shot with the shadow mask:
Mask type 2 (shadow mask) and mask sample mode 1.5 (any higher than that resulted in odd colored circles) in Super Mario Bros. 2 Japan:
Defaults:
And a bonus Ape Escape shot with the shadow mask:
SunBroDave
Member
Dolphin + ReShade + MasterEffect ReBorn
Wind Waker
Metroid Prime
Wind Waker
Metroid Prime
Squirrel Killer
Member
Game: Phazer v1.0
System: Commodore 128
Emulator: WinVICE 2.4 x64
Settings: 80 column mode, double size, double scan
In a thread now lost to the ether, I found an online copy of a game I wrote in the long long ago time. I wrote it inspired only by reading about Elite. Being the rightful copyright holder, I downloaded a copy of it, searched for a C-128 emu and booted that sucker up for major, major nostalgia feels. It might not look like much, certainly nothing like Elite, but this is my baby.
After I v1.0ed this one, I started work on a game inspired only by reading about an Amiga version of Larn (an early roguelike.) That one was much more involved, but instead of procedural levels, I was hand-building them and putting them in a separate file, with the intent of letting people build their own levels. I restricted it to the 40 column width so it would run on the C-64 (80 col mode is the only reason Phazer required the 128, it would actually run on the 64 side, but the text wouldn't be aligned.) The bare framework was in place, (movement, level loading, etc...) but it had a lot of polish to finish it off. I even made an ad for it that I put in my geoPublisher gamezine.
System: Commodore 128
Emulator: WinVICE 2.4 x64
Settings: 80 column mode, double size, double scan
In a thread now lost to the ether, I found an online copy of a game I wrote in the long long ago time. I wrote it inspired only by reading about Elite. Being the rightful copyright holder, I downloaded a copy of it, searched for a C-128 emu and booted that sucker up for major, major nostalgia feels. It might not look like much, certainly nothing like Elite, but this is my baby.
After I v1.0ed this one, I started work on a game inspired only by reading about an Amiga version of Larn (an early roguelike.) That one was much more involved, but instead of procedural levels, I was hand-building them and putting them in a separate file, with the intent of letting people build their own levels. I restricted it to the 40 column width so it would run on the C-64 (80 col mode is the only reason Phazer required the 128, it would actually run on the 64 side, but the text wouldn't be aligned.) The bare framework was in place, (movement, level loading, etc...) but it had a lot of polish to finish it off. I even made an ad for it that I put in my geoPublisher gamezine.
ResidentDante
Member
Ridge Racer Revolution - ePSXe 1.9.0
SunBroDave
Member
not to mention being able to add AO
LeeRoyBrown
Banned
Dolphin + ReShade + MasterEffect ReBorn
Wind Waker
Metroid Prime
How do you install Reshade and Master Effect?
It asks me for a game with Reshade do I select Dolphin?
Also do they work with Texture mods? Seems to work with custom Textures but now everything is Dark as shit, like really really fucking dark, doesnt look good at all.
Will Master Effect fix this?
SunBroDave
Member
Yeah Dolphin is the game. I installed ReShade by just copying ReShade64.dll to the Dolphin directory and renaming it to dxgi.dll for the DX11 backend (or opengl32.dll for the OGL backend). Reshade is completely independent of texture mods. In the Wind Waker shot above I'm using Hypatia's HD textures. Can't imagine why everything's dark unless you've got some effect switched on in SweetFX or MasterEffect
And now, my next project (and one of my favorite games of all time):
Majora's Mask + ReShade + MasterEffect ReBorn
LeeRoyBrown
Banned
Yeah Dolphin is the game. I installed ReShade by just copying ReShade64.dll to the Dolphin directory and renaming it to dxgi.dll for the DX11 backend (or opengl32.dll for the OGL backend). Reshade is completely independent of texture mods. In the Wind Waker shot above I'm using Hypatia's HD textures. Can't imagine why everything's dark unless you've got some effect switched on in SweetFX or MasterEffect
And now, my next project (and one of my favorite games of all time):
Majora's Mask + ReShade + MasterEffect ReBorn
I just dragged the DLL to the dolphin directory and renamed it, what thell do I do with MasterEffect, the developer is a bit of a douche bag and basically says, you figure it out in the readme....
SunBroDave
Member
I believe all of the installation instructions are in the readme for reshade, so its understandable if marty doesn't want to respond to every person asking how to install his shaders. especially because installation is as simple as dragging the contents of the mastereffect download to the application directory
LeeRoyBrown
Banned
On a side note, it's not even reasonable at all for him to no write it once, the reshade instructions are completely shit and explained it pretty poorly.
Anyway.
I did as you said, I dont have any errors, but I can't see any difference at all.
How do I know if this mod is even working?
EDIT:
I got the curtains going across at first, dragged the MasterEffect stuff into the main directory, then got an error on start up probably because I tried to use the 64bit opengl file from reshade manually.
Redropped in the 32bitopen gl version renamed it, still does nothing.
DOUBLE EDIT:
ReShade now works, I have no effects enabled and it looks super dark still.
Dr. Buni
Member
Damn, this looks great. I can't wait to play Metroid Prime in HD.Dolphin + ReShade + MasterEffect ReBorn
Metroid Prime
Anyways, I have some Nocturne shots. They are nothing impressive, but still.
I have more, but I don't want to break the rules of the thread.
KojiKnight
Member
To expand on this, yes Bleem did have higher internal resolutions. Bleem was a High Level Emulator and was thus a LOT faster than PSemu Pro. Even though PSEP came out first, it was abandoned pretty quick and was quite a bit slower. That said, PSEP led the way for future projects in fpsce, epsxe, pcsx, etc which all used the plugin spec designed for PSEP.
And yes, Bleem died to legal fees and the fact that their Bleemcast moderately bombed. Pretty crazy cause Bleemcast was absolutely amazing... but the dreamcast market wasn't exactly bustling.
Dragon1893
Member
Xenoblade on Dolphin was something else. Keep in mind that these were taken during normal gameplay and not with the settings cranked up for nicer pics, just a small showcase of the game's environments. Unfortunately my best pics are spoilerish so I wont post them.
