- Re-worked render target handling to align pixels better, reducing unintentional blurring
- Made major fixes to CVBS simulation, significantly increasing color saturation
- The defocus pass is now switched off when defocus_x and defocus_y are zero, allowing finer-grained performance tuning.
- Removed YIQ convolution from the main color-convolution shader and replaced it with a full composite encode/decode pass. This is slower, but looks amazing(ly like a terrible TV) and can be turned off.
- More authentic NTSC dot crawl and bandwidth limiting.
- Potential fix for some crashing reported by John IV
- Split color convolution and deconvergence into separate shaders for potential GPU savings down the line
- Added light and heavy variants of the color convolution shader, the former with YIQ colorspace removed
- Re-worked defocus to occur prior to shadow mask application, as it would be on a real monitor.
- Removed Edge Detection, as it was just for fun and can easily be added in by users if desired.
- Split "pincushion" into "Pincushion" and "Screen Curvature", the former affecting the only the displayed image and the latter only affecting the shadow mask.
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Amidar (Konami/1982) [Patrik Styrnell]
Comment: Since this was a newer set than the current Amidar Konami set, I made this the parent instead - naming the other one as amidar1. If this needs correction, please do so.
- 5-pass post-processing: Upscale, Post-Process, Store Last Frame, Defocus 1, Defocus 2
- Many tunable effects including: Scanlines, defocus, linear deconvergence, radial deconvergence, pincushion, RGB colorspace convolution, YIQ colorspace convolution, saturation, simulated dot crawl, simulated chroma subsampling, aperture masking, and more.
- Requires a GPU that supports Shader Model 3.0 to be enabled and a powerful GPU, the entire pipeline consists of approximately 30 texel fetches and approximately 230 arthimetic ops.
- Will supersample the framebuffer up to 9x in both X and Y, but this requires an enormously powerful GPU that has not been invented; users with Radeon 5000-class cards should limit themselves to 3x, Radeon 4000 to 1.5x.
- The default configuration will NOT appear to do anything; it requires tuning to the user's liking.
- Should nicely fall back in all cases except missing shaders, and it might fall back correctly in that case as well. Report any anomalies.
- For obvious reasons, the Direct3D8 renderer cannont support this.
Part II: Artwork.
aperture.png: Based on Aaron's aperture_4x6 mask but with more prominent notching to bring out the "brick" pattern that was used on many period colour monitors, including the Commodore 1702 - which was, admittedly, not an arcade monitor, but it looks believable and can be changed.
white.png: Default 8x8 255,255,255,255 texture.
