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This is what i finished last year XD Entries with letter D at the end are ones i finished on Deck.
- SACKBOY A BIG ADVENTURE (09.01.)D
- MASS EFFECT 2 (19.01.)D
- GOTHAM KNIGHTS (27.01.)
- HI-FI RUSH (03.02.)D
- HITMAN 2 (05.02.)
- RAJI AN ANCIENT EPIC (02.03.)D
- SUPRALAND SIX INCHES UNDER (12.03.)D
- TREK TO YOMI (25.03.)D
- HADES (25.04.)D
- THE LAST OF US PART 1 (21.05.)
- LEFT BEHIND (24.12.)
- L.A. NOIRE (04.06.)D
- CONTROL DLCs (06.06.)
- SPIDER-MAN DLCs (11.06.)
- MASS EFFECT 3 (02.07.)D
- PRINCE OF PERSIA SANDS OF TIME (05.07)D
- PRINCE OF PERSIA WARRIOR WITHIN (30.07)D
- CRASH BANDICOOT 3 (13.08.)D
- UNCHARTED LOST LEGACY (20.08.)
- DEATH’S DOOR (27.08.)D
- JEDI SURVIVOR (10.09.)
- NIER AUTOMATA 1ST TIME (23.09.)D
- BITTRIP RERUNNER (30.09.)D
- HOGWARTS LEGACY (22.10.)
- EVIL WEST (29.10.)
- PRINCE OF PERSIA TWO THRONES (12.11.)D
- THE TALOS PRINCIPLE 2 (17.12.)
- COD BLACK OPS 3 (23.12.)D
Happy new year everyone. Finally done with Prodeus, so it's time for Judgement.
With all the games you people play, you shouldn’t have a problem voting for goty!! 
I finished 35 games and I thought it was a lot lol
I will wait until the very last moment cause I'm playing through Afterimage right now and it's absolutely going to go on my list - it's just a question of how high it will get.With all the games you people play, you shouldn’t have a problem voting for goty!!
Happy new year, to the best community on the Internet !
how did you manage that? i need the secret!
Happy new year everyone! I hope everyone has a good year!
Focus, commitment and effectiveness (lack of procrastination).
Insomnia, fiddling with Magpie in order to get scanlines on PC games. Weirdness ensues.
So yeah, bear in mind that I'm not a monitor expert, but when you tell me scanlines on a console emulator I see a neat grid, so to speak.
And here's what Magpie gives me on PC with, uh... Lottes, I think.
The fuck is this strange pixel grid ? Is it normal and perfectly emulate a PC monitor and I'm dumb ?
So yeah, bear in mind that I'm not a monitor expert, but when you tell me scanlines on a console emulator I see a neat grid, so to speak.
And here's what Magpie gives me on PC with, uh... Lottes, I think.
The fuck is this strange pixel grid ? Is it normal and perfectly emulate a PC monitor and I'm dumb ?
Happy New Year everybody! 
PS - i even managed to finish one game today, Sigil for Doom
PS - i even managed to finish one game today, Sigil for Doom
Nice ! I'm in a shooter mood, too.Happy New Year everybody!
PS - i even managed to finish one game today, Sigil for Doom
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Just, maybe without sound today ?
Happy New Year everyone!
Hope everyone has a great start to the year!!!
Hope everyone has a great start to the year!!!
Yes, that's normal for the shader.Insomnia, fiddling with Magpie in order to get scanlines on PC games. Weirdness ensues.
So yeah, bear in mind that I'm not a monitor expert, but when you tell me scanlines on a console emulator I see a neat grid, so to speak.
And here's what Magpie gives me on PC with, uh... Lottes, I think.
The fuck is this strange pixel grid ? Is it normal and perfectly emulate a PC monitor and I'm dumb ?
It's called a slot mask
Insomnia at 3 o'clock in the afternoon? I thought you lived in France!Insomnia, fiddling with Magpie in order to get scanlines on PC games. Weirdness ensues.
So yeah, bear in mind that I'm not a monitor expert, but when you tell me scanlines on a console emulator I see a neat grid, so to speak.
And here's what Magpie gives me on PC with, uh... Lottes, I think.
The fuck is this strange pixel grid ? Is it normal and perfectly emulate a PC monitor and I'm dumb ?
With that said, the shader you've picked looks like subpixels on a LCD monitor (because it looks like there are both square and rectangular subpixels... I think CRTs are uniform... I think.)... If that's supposed to be CRT, maybe it's a multipass shader and one pass is not functioning properly? Often those types of shader look kinda blurry/glowy to approximate what happens when the electron beam sweeps across the screen...
I don't know. If you give us the exact name of the shader and the settings you've used, I'm pretty sure somebody can help you out!
Happy new year!
I have a lot of work to do this January, but I still plan to play the new Momodora as soon as it releases.
I have a lot of work to do this January, but I still plan to play the new Momodora as soon as it releases.
The insomnia was yesterday
Though, well, I got up at 2pm due to that, so the day is effectively pretty nuked. I will edit / reply with more details about the shader thing. Got to put on some clothes. At 16:12
Being perpetually late I'm tempted to play Reverie
Ok, CRT shaders.
- I'm not an IQ or monitor expert.
- I don't even remember that much how monitors and TV looked back then.
- But the FF9 mage character comparison makes sense to me, I can't get my hands back on the screenshot, but a crt shader helps with contrast, his eyes looks brighter, their color set apart from the rest of the head by the scanlines.
I'm basically looking for this effect in every older game. In retroarch, using CRT-Easymode feels good enough. But in the new to me Magpie even the same easymode doesn't give me the same result, or so it feels.
AGAIN, I don't want curvature, I don't want an artificially deteriorated picture, just fucking scanlines that will help pixel separation.
But maybe I'm stupid, probably even, and maybe easymode is not a good representation of what a TV looked like, or maybe Monitors didn't look like TV at all !
So yeah, I'm snobbish with something I don't understand, but hey.
- Which CRT Shader would you advise to use for console emulation ?
- Which CRT Shader would you advise to use for old PC games ?
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About the Lottes included in Magpie, I will post a screenshot of the vanilla values.
I could do the same for Magpie Easymode, but if memory serves the effect is basically the same, less pronounced.
That screenshot uses Lottes and looks in line with what I expected.
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Happy new year MC. May 2024 be a good one for you if you're reading this! 
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Finally. Something new on this. Feels like it's been over a year since Studio BB said anything.
In 2023 I finished FFXIV Endwalker (caught up to the most recent update), Sonic Frontiers DLC 3, Sonic Colors Ultimate, and reached the end credits of Exoprimal and Street Fighter 6 World Tour, that's it... :/
Nice ! I don't hate raw but the scanlines are transformative.
now Steamboat Willie is public domain is time to play Mickey Mania ^^
Massive difference. Wow. The one on the left looks way more high-res with tons of depth.
Nice ! I don't hate raw but the scanlines are transformative.
Yeah, as I said I'm in no way knowledgeable on the topic, but this seems a little too good to be true.
What game is that
Nice ! I don't hate raw but the scanlines are transformative.
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Happy New Year
Pretty certain it's an enemy or invocation from one the 25,874 Final Fantasy on SNES.
Google tells me it's FF6, the character is 'Siren'.
10 Final Fantasy Characters Deemed Too Sexy for America
From the late-'80s to the mid-'90s, Nintendo dominated the video game market, and Nintendo of America insisted that all games released on its consoles in the states follow their PG-13 “Video Game Content Guidelines.” This meant no "sexually suggestive or explicit content," among many, many, other...
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Final Fantasy 6, looks like.
Li Kao : I downloaded Magpie and fiddled around with it.
I'm no expert and I had never used magpie before... but it seems like the post-fx shaders are applied after the image has been upscaled. So, maybe the effectiveness of the shader depends on the internal resolution? Try to set the game to windowed + something disgusting like 640x480 and then enable the upscaler+shader.
Edit: nah, that's complete nonsense. I've tried it and the shader looks the same.
I'm no expert and I had never used magpie before... but it seems like the post-fx shaders are applied after the image has been upscaled. So, maybe the effectiveness of the shader depends on the internal resolution? Try to set the game to windowed + something disgusting like 640x480 and then enable the upscaler+shader.
Edit: nah, that's complete nonsense. I've tried it and the shader looks the same.
Lol, I re-downloaded Fallout only to find out it was already 640x480
Would be cool to begin by understanding why the slot mask (?) is this way whereas it is completely different in the Momodora shot I posted earlier.
I have a suspicion I need to educate myself on the finer workings of cathodic displays. But I just wanted nice scanlines, not do a thesis on subpixel rendering or something
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Well, thankfully you don't need to understand what I said because it was a (very wrong) hypothesisLol, I re-downloaded Fallout only to find out it was already 640x480
Would be cool to begin by understanding why the slot mask (?) is this way whereas it is completely different in the Momodora shot I posted earlier.
I have a suspicion I need to educate myself on the finer workings of cathodic displays. But I just wanted nice scanlines, not do a thesis on subpixel rendering or something
As far as I understand it, the shadow mask value is how visible you want the pattern of dots/squares to be...
Other than that, I'd suggest you read the page mentioned by Knurek !
I mean yeah, the last trailer was on 31 July 2022Happy new year MC. May 2024 be a good one for you if you're reading this!
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Finally. Something new on this. Feels like it's been over a year since Studio BB said anything.
My brain turn to jelly a couple lines in, unfortunately.
That being said, looks like the shadow mask is a common thing for monitors, so I suppose, as Knurek said the CRT-Lottes shader works as intended and monitors looked that way (?).
Looks like CRT-Royale is the most faithful. Unfortunately, due to technical reasons, it's not supported by Magpie.
Not great on color accuracy though, but maybe it's the game.
Thought and prayer for the poor people that use CRT-Royale NTSC
voted, thank you for doing the workWith all the games you people play, you shouldn’t have a problem voting for goty!!
happy new year everyone
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Anyways, the remakes are great as their own thing, especially cuz they give Asuka more screentime uwu
Well then happy belated birthday.
Anyways, the remakes are great as their own thing, especially cuz they give Asuka more screentime uwu
Happy new year Metafolks Maybe I'll manage to be a bit more active here this year haha
Maybe I'll manage to be a bit more active here this year haha
Haven't bought anything during the same, none of the games in my WL have any kind of deep discount.
And by the way, happy birthday ya bunch of liars
I bought The Talos Principle 2 in the sale, and the wild thing is that I've almost completed it. I think I might be getting slightly better about actually playing the games I buy.
Also, I posted this in the prior thread, but that was shortly before the new one, so if anyone hasn't seen it, and is interested in what raytracing can do for single-screen multiplayer, here it is again:
ph3at.github.io
(and the blog comment/reaction thing works again now; the wonders of webapps)
Also, I posted this in the prior thread, but that was shortly before the new one, so if anyone hasn't seen it, and is interested in what raytracing can do for single-screen multiplayer, here it is again:
A New Approach to Local Multiplayer / Splitscreen Perspective With Raytracing
Motivation
ph3at.github.io
Happy New Year! 
I still have a full week of holiday, so I'm taking it easy.
Just bought BG3 and downloaded plenty of mods for it, so it's time to see what the fuss is all about.
I still have a full week of holiday, so I'm taking it easy.
Just bought BG3 and downloaded plenty of mods for it, so it's time to see what the fuss is all about.
With BG3 finally completed (I want to do a Dark Urge run some day but I need a break after 125+ hours), gonna dig into some Spidermans and The Man Who Erased his Name.
Hyped for Yakuza 8 too but probably next month at my speed lol
Hyped for Yakuza 8 too but probably next month at my speed lol
Is this what people call "Cyberpunk"?
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