1906: Ms. Pac-Man \\ w/ ReShade VHSPro shader -- Steam ROM in MAME
1Playing the Ms. Pac-Man arcade ROM from "Arcade Game Series: Ms. Pac-Man" on Steam, extracted with Game Extraction Toolbox and running in MAME 0.262.
I installed ReShade on MAME, and the ReShade Shader I'm using is one I found today in the emulator Ares--it's a shader called "VHSPro," and I got the ReShade version from https://github.com/Bapho/reshade-shaders/tree/master/Shaders (and to install it, just copied its .fx file into the reshade-shaders folder in MAME, once I'd installed ReShade for that mame.exe).
In ReShade's VHSPro config menu--it's got loads of options accessible with the Home key once installed in MAME, unlike the no-option shaders in Ares--I turned off Fisheye, and switched Bleeding from "Three Phase" to "Old Three Phase," which is less blurry, and looks more like the version I first saw and liked today on SNES Mr. Do! in Ares.
My Pac-Man playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzP4amjUBrQ5uiObNxySb7Jd
0:00 - start
0:23 - playing
6:16 - high score run
7:00 - Horizontal & Vertical Twitch enabled (extreme distortions)
9:22 - Twitch disabled
17:50 - wrap!
Oh! I didn't set a new high score, I just exactly equaled the old one, haha! ^ _^
I definitely do better when I'm not paying attention to what I'm doing, so I can't get worried about the ghosts or zero in too hard on dots. = D
Was just playing using the arrow keys on the keyboard! Probably not what I want to do long-term since I tend to slouch into non-ergonomic positions more when doing that, I think--but I hadn't realized I could play that well on keyboard... I suppose it just goes to show my play doesn't exactly depend upon manual dexterity. ; D
Those credits in the VHSPro.fx are
" VHS Pro by Vladmir Storm
Ported by Marty McFly and Matsilagi
Updated for ReShade 4+ by Marot Satil and Bapho"
Apparently they did miss an "i" in his name; Vladimir Storm is on YouTube: @vladstorm_
The shader appears to be a copy of Storm's VHS Pro shader on the Unity AssetStore: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/fullscreen-camera-effects/vhs-pro-44925
An earlier & simpler version called VHS Shader https://reshade.me/forum/shader-presentation/1258-vhs-shader was copied from Storm's VHS Tape Noise https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MlfSWr
OH! I was babbling about moving my NES play from Mesen to Ares because I thought ReShade (and VHSPro) didn't work in Mesen...but it does! Oh! Neat. : D
Didn't work too well in the current version of Mednafen though, which I currently use for Genesis, PC Engine, and NGPC.
And it doesn't work for me in old old old versions of MAME that I use for certain old ROMs of mine (like Dig Dug and Night Slashers) in which I use GDI (software) rendering because MAME back then enforced blurry bilinear filtering on DirectX output. Hmm then again this shader does some blurring anyway so maybe I could just turn off ITS own blurring and use old MAME's blurring in DirectX. ; D Ah yeah that WORKS (have to point ReShade's install to DX9), although it's a smidge blurrier than I'd like, even after turning off VHSPro's Bleeding option, which does the shader's own blurring.
5/21/24
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