Most Realistic RetroArch CRT Shaders Ever! 🤯 - CyberLab Cybertron 4K HDR - Retro TV Filter

0:00 - Introduction to CyberLab MegaTron Death To Pixels
0:15 - HDR Warning
0:40 - Enable HDR in Windows 11
1:05 - Calibrate HDR in Windows 11
2:03 - Download CyberLab CyberTron Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack
3:12 - Configure HDR in RetroArch
4:39 - Install CyberLab CyberTron Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack
5:45 - Using CyberLab CyberTron Death To Pixels Shader Preset Pack

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[PhoticSneezeOne]

I think we´ve reached a milestone. With modern Amoled HDR 4K displays we are able to emulate every aspect of real CRT´s !

[CyberLabStudio]

Once again you've raised the bar for covering and conveying the news of this type of content @RetroCrisis!

I know how difficult it is to show off these HDR shader presets and I must say that you did a really outstanding job!

[TheDecn]

I've been using these shaders since you posted this video and I am blown away. They have me experiencing a bit of an existential crisis. Over the years I have collected the whole range of original consoles going back to NES, all modded with an ODE and RGB out where possible (in addition to PixelFX HDMI mods where available). I also have a RetroTink 5x for outputting the RGB modded consoles to my LG OLED. Up until six days ago, the 5x with HDR and SlotMask turned on came the closest to a CRT as I could possibly imagine. This isn't the case anymore, now RetroArch with these shaders is absolutely the holy grail I've been looking for since getting into this hobby. And now I have to question why I have all these original consoles. Not to mention the Analogue FPGA consoles I've purchased as well. Sure as a hobbyist and collector it feels great to own these original pieces, but I can now do everything in a single MiniPC and do it better and more perfectly beautiful than all this other stuff. I'm mulling over selling off my collection, which I couldn't possibly have imagined until now.

[AmpliFreQuency]

I never knew this was a thing until I (out of boredom) started messing around with RetroArch settings on my OLED Steam Deck, saw an HDR option, Googled about it, and found this video. After some very quick adjustments with the shader parameters for each system they all look absolutely gorgeous! Especially with SNES!

[gorofujita]

Its interesting how just by looking at it in this video, the biggest complain I've had about most CRT shaders -- thick black bars in-between scanlines -- simply does not exist, as the shadow mask seemingly uniformizes the picture

It would be cool to see some gameplay of different game using this filter (I'm especially biased towards seeing 16bit sonic in motion, as I know for a fact that a great shader will make his quills' curvature 100% round, and with no visible pixels whatsoever)

[KliptrechRg]

THAT is incredible, its content is very good, I love this channel, always bringing news about shaders and retroarch, it is something we love.

[mrtiff]

It's great that your channel covers this type of thing. So many retro channels show retro games without CRT shaders or even the bare minimum I would say of having scanlines turned on. A lot even encourage you to turn all that stuff off, just makes the games look awful. These games were designed to take advantage of the CRT.

[Dronetothetop]

I have been waiting for this all of my life.

[stevenwarner]

Great stuff as always! For anyone watching this who has Retroarch configured for Mega Bezel use and has a forced fullscreen image, remember to make sure you go into Ratio and then select Core Provided instead of Full.

[PaulaBraden]

These are absolutely incredible. Unsure why these are giving me so much joy!

[vyadhis]

I got it to work on my hdr400 monitor. I'm sure it would look even better on one with proper HDR but the results really impressed me/

[BeatemupMaster]

Crt Shaders are getting better and better!
Need a upscaled, they can do it Perfectly!

[vedderista]

Amazing as always!! Thanks for your content

[ShakyVertex]

It looked really bad for me on a 4k tv sitting fairly close above my desk until I adjusted the "Resolution" parameter in the Shader Parameters. the lowest tvl number at default was too low. Looked much better when setting that higher. was difficult to tell the difference past the 2nd number, but the first was def too low for me. i feel like the whole ui retroarch uses to apply shaders could use an easy mode with just a list of the actually useful presets without having to search through a folder heirarchy. maybe a screenshot to demonstrate what its supposed to look like. i just want to know what the newest best presets are in the app without having keep up with random forum posts for news. now i need to sit down and figure out how to use the megabezel with these presets.

[highlyparanormal]

Clear and concise instructions. Appreciate it.

[SP]

And with the raspberry pi 5 being HDR compliant this looks like a perfect match if that thing is not too much power hungry

[Boz-vfmy]

Awesome shader and as always awesome coverage 🍻

[gregorybolivar]

Amazing shaders. Thanks for the video!

[Wobble]

I think it's great that these options exist for people who want them, but for me, it's about image quality, you can't emulate hardware quality, display IQ and performance is a physical trait, but what you can do is get a really good quality display, the best modern display for playing retro games with good IQ is Plasma, but those are not in production any more so the next best is RGB-OLED, it has to be RGB-OLED as those have the important RGB-Stripe subpixel layout like Sony/Mitsubishi Trinitron and Panasonic/JVC/etc slot-mask CRTs have, all you need then for retro games to look good is a simple scanline generator (SGL), hardware SLG units produce authentic, very accurate vertical & horizontal scanlines, on a nice RGB-OLED with an SLG, your retro games will look incredible, obviously not as good as a mid to high-end CRT, but good enough for those who don't have access to a CRT, using shaders really won't increase IQ and in fact imo only hurt IQ, you also need BFI (black-frame-generation) or ULMB 2 or other strobing tech, RGB-OLED+SLG-BFI is the next best thing (other than Plasma) to a CRT, for image quality enthusiasts, this will be a much better option than using shaders.

An RGB-OLED with 240hz BFI and an SLG will look much closer to an 800-1000 TVL BVM, using a CRT shader is only useful for trying to emulate low quality CRTs, such as composite or RF low-end consumer grade CRTs, another fantastic option for a high-end BVM alternative is a CRT monitor, to get the 1000 TVL BVM image quality and look all you need is an SLG, a CRT monitor and SLG is the highest quality display you can get for retro games, CRT monitors also have perfect motion, zero input latency and zero video lag. Hopefully someday, a company, perhaps RetroTink's maker Mike will produce the perfect legacy CRT replacement monitor, a nice 21" to 25" 4:3 RGB-OLED with a curved bubble style glass front, perfect raster-scan emulation for zero input latency or close as it can be, built in SLG & BFI, HDR tone mapping emulation, support for RGB-SCART/S-Video/Component/Composite/etc, multi integer resolutions, DRC (direct-ram-control) for zero video lag, barcode scanner for scanning and loading games from the physical box instead of trunching through long lists of pirated digital ROMs, maybe even a built-in FPGA for something like MiSTer or MARS, option for optical media connection, that would be one hell of a retro display.

[AntonVeeDee]

Hi @RetroCrisis! Long time watcher, first time poster. I really appreciate your clear, informative and no-nonsense approach to content. Kudos!

Is it possible to use these (incredible) shaders with Megabezel? I'm also curious if it's possible to use this shader and also apply a screen curve effect (which doesn't look to be one of the available shader parameters - maybe by appending/prepending another shader with this one?)

One other thing, I noticed in a comment thread below that Cyberlab mentions that its NB that "users follow the readme and the Sony Megatron Color Video Monitor setup instructions" - where can these be found?

Thanks in advance, and keep the great content coming 🙏