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Message: [QUOTE="Leifang, post: 41749, member: 5746"] [B]Absolutely not required[/B], and if you play retro handheld games, they [I]wouldn't have been seen on a CRT[/I] in the first place. Gameboy Zeldas or Castlevanias weren't designed for TVs or to be played on them (even if you could emulate them on one.) Also, PC games didn't have visible scanlines since they used double scan (plus PC monitors had sharper pixels than a TV), people adding emulator lines to Doom or Fallout are... unusual. [I]DOS games would be always more authentic with visible pixels than with scanlines.[/I] So CRT filters, technically, only apply to arcade games and home consoles linked to TV, and even those often used games that had PC ports, and looked normal back then... Sorry, I didn't see no scanlines when playing DOS version of Golden Axe as kid. Ditto with Final Fantasy VII/VIII on PC. CRT filters [I]can [/I]help smooth out details and dithering, but I feel it's usually better off using dedither shaders with a scaler on top instead. Alternatively, you can ignore shaders and use BLARGG NTSC filter for slightly noisy look and composite for fixed transparencies. But it looks kinda meh, and again, wouldn't be authentic on how games played on Pal/SECAM TV (no good filters for those). And of course, VGA ports never had TV artifacts. [I]Yes, you can absolutely play with sharp pixel-perfect graphics[/I], and it will look great on a phone screen, but on a modern TV or large monitor, it might be hard to make up outlines or read the text with sharp scaling. That's where shaders help: Personally, I like ScaleFX (hybrid is even sharper), or some softer CRT filters like modified sh1nra358 or RetroCrisis presets based on Guest CRT (you can remove the black lines and/or add more realistic mask too, importantly it adds glow, afterimage and smoothing). CRT-Royale looks nothing like I remember games used to look IMO. Kawase-glow is great for vector games, and Antialiasing/FSR (or nothing) for 3D on MAME (for 3D console emulators, just set internal resolution higher and decided on texture filter, scalers are mostly designed for 2D images). For games that use crosshatch dot pattern for gradients or transparency, Prepend a dedithering shader like mdapt or sgenpt. If you're on Retroarch, go to shaders_slang/presets folder and experiment, see what works for you and your setup, even older scalers like Super 2XSai or Super Eagle, HQ3X or xBR/XBRZ can look pretty good. You can save your own presets per-game or in general. Good luck! [/QUOTE]

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