Alright, let’s talk about this BizHawk shader thing. I ain’t no fancy computer person, ya know? But I figured out some stuff, and I’m gonna tell ya ’bout it.
So, you got these here games, old-timey games, from back in the day. Like, before all these fancy PlayStations and Xboxes. And they look kinda…blocky, right? Not smooth like the new stuff. Well, that’s where these shaders come in, I reckon.
Now, I heard tell that the best one is called somethin’ like “CRT-royale”. Sounds fancy, huh? It makes your game look like it’s on one of them old TVs, the big ones with the thick glass. You remember those? They had scanlines and all that. Makes the game feel…right, somehow.
There’s other shaders too. Lots of ’em. Some try to make the colors look better, some try to make it sharper, some try to add other fancy effects. I tried a few, and they all do different things. Some I liked, some I didn’t. It’s all a matter of what you like, I guess.
- Some shaders make the colors brighter.
- Some make the picture smoother.
- Some even make it look a bit 3D, like you can reach in and touch it. Crazy, right?
Now, how do you use these shaders? Well, first you gotta have this BizHawk thing. It’s like a…a box that holds all your old games, see? And inside this BizHawk, you can add shaders. It’s not too hard, even this old lady figured it out.
I heard some folks talkin’ about other programs too, like “RetroArch” and “Ares”. They got shaders too, but I ain’t tried ’em. Stuck with BizHawk, cause it seemed easy enough.
One shader I heard about was called “NewPixie”. They said it makes the game look like it has depth, like you’re lookin’ into a real world, not just a flat picture. Sounded interestin’, but I ain’t tried that one yet. Too many shaders, not enough time!
There’s shaders for different game systems too. You know, like those old Nintendo games, or the Sega ones. Each system looks a little different, so you might need different shaders to make ’em look right.
Some folks online, they talk about wanting to make their games look like they did on the real hardware. That makes sense, I guess. If you played a game on a certain machine, you want it to look the same, even if you’re playin’ it on your computer now.
And get this, some shaders are so fancy, they even need a powerful computer to run! Can you believe it? Just to make an old game look a little better, you need a fancy machine. The world’s gone crazy, I tell ya.
So, what’s the best shader? Well, I can’t tell ya that. It’s like askin’ what’s the best kind of pie. Everyone likes somethin’ different. You gotta try ’em out yourself, see what you like. But I can tell ya, these shaders, they can make those old games look a whole lot better. Makes ’em feel new again, even if they’re older than my grandbabies.
And don’t be scared to try different things. Mess around with the settings, see what happens. That’s how you learn, right? And who knows, maybe you’ll find a shader that nobody’s ever seen before, and it’ll be the best one ever!
So, go on, download some shaders and give ’em a try. You might be surprised at how good those old games can look. And that, my friends, is all I gotta say about this BizHawk shader business.
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