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If you play retro games, especially from the era of 2d pixels, you NEED CRT Royale. I've tried dozens of CRT shaders, and none even come close to what a CRT actually looks like. This one however, is very close.

For example, here's a screenshot with CRT Royale emulating an Apature grille (Trinitron) type display:

My favorites are usually stuff from the mega bezel suite or this:


but those are heavy. Have you tried CRT Guest? I find those to be almost the same as Royale, but faster.

ward wrote: Apr 24th, '26, 09:09 My favorites are usually stuff from the mega bezel suite or this:


but those are heavy. Have you tried CRT Guest? I find those to be almost the same as Royale, but faster.

I have not. I have a powerful machine and the games I use it on arent very demanding to begin with. That might be good for steam deck tho.

Have a look, I think they are basically just as good for the most part... maybe newer stuff too:
https://forums.libretro.com/t/crt-guest ... de/41880/2

I've tried Royale before but turned it off in RetroArch, this reminds me to fix that lol

It looks really good on Dreamcast games if you can run it.

ward wrote: Apr 24th, '26, 09:09 My favorites are usually stuff from the mega bezel suite or this:


but those are heavy. Have you tried CRT Guest? I find those to be almost the same as Royale, but faster.

I can vouch for CRT Guest. Looks great and never gives me any slowdown on any of my machines.

CRT- Guest still doesnt seem right to me. I tried it, maybe I need to tweak it but I like CRT Royale better.