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Champion (484)

03-06-2021, 10:16

"GLSL/HLSL shaders" is a very generic term. Technically openMSX is already using GLSL shaders.
But I guess your question was: "are there any plans to port the Mame shaders to openMSX?"

Personally I have no plans to work on that (I'm also not familiar with these Mame shaders). But I can support/help anyone who's wants to give it a try.

By ren

Paragon (1928)

03-06-2021, 13:23

Have a look at ReShade, worked quite well for me when I played with it a little while ago

Not sure about (possible) latency issues though, haven't tested it with a (fast) shmup, but KV2 played fine :)

Otherwise your/our best bet is a Libretro port (then you get all that stuff for free).

Some discussion on this & other stuff: openMSX wish list

By animator75

Resident (38)

03-06-2021, 13:28

Thanks! I tested ReShade in the past but the load on my arcade PC was to high and the latency was terrible.

By animator75

Resident (38)

03-06-2021, 13:28

wouter_ wrote:

"GLSL/HLSL shaders" is a very generic term. Technically openMSX is already using GLSL shaders.
But I guess your question was: "are there any plans to port the Mame shaders to openMSX?"

Personally I have no plans to work on that (I'm also not familiar with these Mame shaders). But I can support/help anyone who's wants to give it a try.

Yes, I meant the Mame shaders, I should have been more precise.

By ren

Paragon (1928)

03-06-2021, 13:40

You tried it with openMSX as well? Not sure how long ago it was that you tried it, but things might have improved. (And my own PC is far from a 'beast' so to say (ah well it's my personal 'little beast' ))

By animator75

Resident (38)

03-06-2021, 15:02

ren wrote:

You tried it with openMSX as well? Not sure how long ago it was that you tried it, but things might have improved. (And my own PC is far from a 'beast' so to say (ah well it's my personal 'little beast' ))

Yes I have tried it with OpenMSX but my arcade PC is a pretty weak miniPC with only intel HD graphics. It runs all my emulators including mame ( I have filtered out all newer games) just fine but adding reshade on top really slows things down.

By ren

Paragon (1928)

03-06-2021, 15:07

Ah yes, intel HD gfx isn't optimal probably.. Have you tried RetroArch + blueMSX core as well?

By animator75

Resident (38)

03-06-2021, 17:52

ren wrote:

Ah yes, intel HD gfx isn't optimal probably.. Have you tried RetroArch + blueMSX core as well?

No I haven't and I dont want to go down that road mainly because my arcade is already setup with a frontend and several emulators. I have spent many many hours tweaking everything to get it just the way I want.