crt-royale-reshade VS slang-shaders

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.

It's basically scalenx lv2 (that is, with a pixel detection radius of 2) but with a bunch of additional rules for pixels that should *not* be smoothed. If you care to get into the technical details of how it works, the authors wrote a whole academic paper on it, and I annotated the source code for our port of it with the appropriate sections from the paper. https://github.com/libretro/slang-shaders/blob/master/scalenx/shaders/mmpx.slang

shaders_slang/motion-interpolation/motion_interpolation.slang

Yeah, there's another guy on this thread who's having the same issue. I suggested he try just downloading them from github (https://github.com/libretro/slang-shaders) and putting them in place manually.

For PAL+royale, you can use the pre-made preset from the 'presets' directory that comes with RetroArch: https://github.com/libretro/slang-shaders/blob/master/presets/crt-royale-pal-r57shell.slangp

If there's something keeping you from downloading the shaders from the online updater, you can manually download them here: https://github.com/libretro/slang-shaders

In the off chance this still isn't latest you can download the .zip directly from GitHub: https://github.com/libretro/slang-shaders/archive/refs/heads/master.zip That should definitely be up to date!

z-fast is already in RetroArch, why do you want to download it again? Anyway you will need to download the zfast-crt.slangp file and also the files that are in the shaders/zfast_crt/ folder. The easiest way is to download the entire repository as a ZIP file, extract and then use the necessary files (go to the repository, click on Code button and then Download ZIP).

I also like zfast-crt which is even lighter than fakelottes and makes games look good in a variety of emulated devices, from the NES to the SNES, N64 and even GameCube and Wii. However, it is currently having an issue that makes the image too dark when a setting is changed, so I switched to fakelottes.