crt-royale-reshade VS RSRetroArch

Personally, just for the nostalgia factor, I run the game with ReShade ( https://reshade.me/ ) and the CRT Royale filter ( https://github.com/akgunter/crt-royale-reshade/releases/tag/v2.1.0 ). That might impact the requirements and performance somewhat, but I don't think it will be all that much.

Just follow the basic instructions to download and apply reshade to your dolphin.exe. Select the same API used within Dolphin, like OpenGL, DirectX or Vulkan. Download the latest version of this CRT Royale port and put it in the reshade-shaders folder inside your dolphin directory. Start up your emulator. When everything's done right, reshade should pop up as well as CRT Royale. It might take some doing to configure it to your liking, but I found the results very pleasing.

Here are some instructions for getting that to work right: https://github.com/akgunter/crt-royale-reshade/wiki/Pairing-with-ShaderGlass-and-Special-K

Note that this preset works very well with CRT-Royale in suppressing pixellation.

So I got the shader to my liking now! Just a couple things if you guys want to try it out you will need the latest reshade, crt royal reshade, and then my preset. Keep in mind that I really don't have that much experience with reshade so I just did what I thought looked good to me and on my monitor. Feel free to tweak it yourself!

I often use CRT Royale for 2D pixel art games. The default settings are pretty good, but I recommend unchecking "Interlacing" and lowering "Diffusion".

I too can't stand raw pixels on a big monitor, but those games you mentioned look amazing with crt-royale for ReShade on a 1440p monitor. That's my go-to way to play pixel games.

On the PC version you can add them with Reshade: https://github.com/Matsilagi/RSRetroArch

For CRT shaders on Linux, I'd imagine that Gamescope + vkBasalt (with these shaders) could work. I just discovered it today, but the results have been hit and miss (I've used it for MAME because I don't like its built-in shaders. Regular games like Minetest and Garry's Mod also work, but Minecraft and Freedom Planet don't)

I don't have a CRT, but I play all modern pixel-art games using CRT shaders for ReShade, especially CRT Royale (and a few others). Games like Blasphemous, Astelon, Infernax, Axiom Verge, and Chasm look absolutely fantastic with the default CRT Royale settings expect for interlacing which should be turned off for most LCDs.

To anyone wanting to play this game, do yourself a favor and install some CRT shaders for reshade for this game, the simple scanlines won't do it for this game and it's a quite a drastic change (be sure to put this on fullscreen on a monitor, not through a phone screen)

Here's some shaders for example: https://github.com/Matsilagi/RSRetroArch/