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Tag: retroarch

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Showcase for RetroArch Shaders 2024

19 Oct 202412 Apr 2025
Retro games and consoles are pretty accurately emulated nowadays. Output from emulators is crisp and sharp. However those pixels look different on CRT monitors. Shaders in RetroArch is a way…
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Discovering Sonkun’s crt-guest-advanced-ntsc Slot Mask presets

4 Oct 20229 Nov 2023
RetroArch gifted us a feature we emulation enthusiasts love to use: The general support for Shaders to change the look of emulated games. I want to spotlight a non standard…
tutorial

RPG Maker Games in RetroArch

3 Aug 202213 Aug 2022
I am familiar with RPG Maker since roughly 20 years. A friend told me about it in early 2000s and gave me a copy of the installer. At that time,…
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State of my RetroArch Cores setup

18 Jun 202210 Jul 2022
RetroArch supports so many systems on so many platforms, with a wide variety of options and features. It is amazing! Here is a little showcase of what I am using.…
debate

CRT Shader Showcase for RetroArch

8 Mar 202210 Jul 2022
In the early days of Emulation, simulating CRT characteristics was achieved by filters that manipulated the produced game image before showing on the screen. However, the result was not very…
debate

RetroArch Shader Comparison for SNES at 1440p

17 Jul 202110 Jul 2022
I recently started playing around with the shader in RetroArch on PC and I’m blown away. In this post I want to show off a few comparison shots using SNES…

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SNES Mods and Romhacks Collection 2025
CRT Shader Showcase for RetroArch
NES Mods and Romhacks Collection
Showcase for RetroArch Shaders 2024
SNES Fan Translations Collection
RetroArch Shader Comparison for SNES at 1440p
Genesis Mods and Romhacks Collection
State of my RetroArch Cores setup

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