**Two Bug Fixes** -mGBA "Aspect Ratio: Custom" Fix 1) In the Video Scaling settings set Integer Scale to On 2) Set Aspect Ratio to Custom 3) Set Integer Scale to Off (Seems to be an odd Retroarch bug) -CRT filter screen tearing issues In Retroarch: 1) Go to Settings>Video>Output 2) Turn off Threaded Video 3) Remember to save Content Directory Overrides from the quick menu
I am very new to the retro scene and this video helped me greatly! First I set up my SP with MuOS with your help and now I repeated it on my other device with ArkOS. Works perfectly fine and looks amazing, THANK YOU!
appreciate this! I had just installed them as overlays and didn't realize they had custom shaders and pallettes included, as well as some crt overlays. More tinkering ahead!
Man you’re the only one really doing stuff like this that is actually good. I love non integer overlays so I can use the most screen possible. Can’t wait to try these out on my 405m but where would I put the file in my SD card for the 405m?
my mu O s was always limited to bland but performce was there so i rotated from the stock chip with all the overlays but now i got the best of both worlds W video
This is an amazing tutorial! Congratulations! The length of the video is perfect. Keep the great work and keep sharing more tutorials like this. I'm using the latest version of MuOS and my retroarch have different options for GBA compared with yours. Any tip? Thanks.
In the video I am using the mGBA rumble core. You might want to try the fix in the pinned comment to see if that fixes the issue if it has to do with the aspect ratio.
To be honest I like more the implementation of Retroarch and retro achievements on the stock firmware, but MuOs allows you to install any port supported Anbernic for legal reasons can't
Is that "Interframe Blending" like a "motion blur emulator" for game boy games? I'm about to get an original RG35XX, and I really wanted to know if I can get a very close representation of a game boy screen.
Yes, that is a good way to put it. Interframe blending is trying to emulate the motion blur that the original screen had and you will want to enable it.
GB Colorization is not initiating the custom setting when selected, even with perfect overlays installed in the archive manager. have any ideas? I have another device where everything worked perfectly and cannot get the setting to stick.
Do you remember changing the Retroarch setting that points to where the bios are located? That's the only thing I can think of off the top of my head. The file that the Custom setting looks for is in the bios/palletes folder.
Someone knows if it's possible to install this on retro arena build for the RG ARC? If it is, please tell me how. I know they are working in a muOS build for the ARC, but we don't know when will drop or if they will end up dropping the project.
This was a very nice relaxing video. Very informative. I have used overlays and filters myself in the past, and I probably have some devices laying around with those things enabled, but lately I've been avoiding those things, and have just been using stock for the clearest image possible. For me personally, it feels like a step backwards to go from having a crystal clear IPS or OLED screen to an inferior dot matrix screen with displeasing green shades for Game Boy. I still have my original Game Boy, bought in 1989, in perfect condition, and I always hated having to find the right light source. It's horrible and strains these old eyes. It's 2024 now, so I use today's improved technology to my advantage. Heck, even my original Game Boy Advance, bought in 2001, that I still have in perfect condition, had the same issue with trying to find the right light source. 😅
I can 100% understand your point of view and respect it. I guess for me it has something to do wanting to play the games as I remember them, and as I don't own the original hardware I jump through these hoops to get there. Thanks for checking out the video and sharing your take on it.
Anyone else have an issue where, specifically with Playstation, the perfect shader has the right half of the screen blinking black? If I turn the shader off, but keep the video filter and overlay, it's fine. Doesn't happen on the other consoles.
Thanks a lot for this guide! I love these overlays, but wish I could make a slight adjustment to them. The SP ones for GBA have a shadow that looks brown on my screen. The regular ones have a perfect shadow, but I don't like the GBA logo it has. Could I just open these up in Photoshop and copy the SP logo to the default one? Or is there some software I should use for this?
1PlayerInsertCoin is working on overlays for those too. Check his comment to this reddit post here : www.reddit.com/r/MiyooMini/comments/1c1fo7k/comment/lgh3qqd/?
Miyoo mini plus is 640 by 480 though right? Did you mean the miyoo mini V4 will not work with perfect overlays? Because it has different pixel structure?
You are right that the MMP is 640 x 480 but for some reason the MMP display is off centered by 2 pixels which messes up the grids. The original releases of these Perfect Overlays by 1PlayerInsertCoin are for the MMP, so those can be used on it. However the ones in this pack have been adjusted to correct this pixel issue to work on other devices and not the MMP.
@@PhyrexTechs Gosh I'm so glad I found you I really enjoy and appreciate your presentations. Thank you for being clear! So if I'm understanding I should download this pack for my SP and leave my Mini Plus with its initial "Perfect" overlays alone? They do look very, very good!
I did exactly what the video says. Even download the files on the link provided. But can't find 1playerinsertcoin folder on the overlay. Can someone help.
Make sure you are not using the (no frame) ones as they will not have the rounded corners. Also the generic CRT overlay rounded corners are very subtle compared to SNES ones which are very exaggerated.
Have not seen that before. Which GBA core are you using? And when you select Aspect Ratio is Custom just missing from the list or does something happen when you select it?
The major difference between overlays and shaders is the resource cost. Overlays use virtually no resources as it's just a static image being overlaid onto game image. While shaders can vary from lightweight to resource hogs as they are processing their changes on each frame. There are some nice looking shaders but I like the look of these more and it being less resource taxing is a nice bonus.
My "Core Options" are not the same as shown on yours for GBA games. It was the same for both GameBoy and GameBoy Color though. Is there something I'm missing.
Hello. When you launch nes games, the screen is not centered, but there is a stripe on the left and an offset to the right. On other systems it is normal.
I just double checked mine and do not see this issue. What device are you using? Is this on a specific CRT overlay or on all of them? Also, what core are you running?
OK, so I just tried it on my side with Robocop 3 and I see what you are talking about. This is not an issue with the overlays, but because a lot of NES games can have underscan/overscan issues. Some games have odd values that don't align with most other games but there is a way to fix it. While running Robocop 3 Open the Retroarch menu Go to Core Options Set: Crop Horizontal Left Overscan : 8 Crop Vertical Bottom Overscan: 12 Then go to Manage Core Options and select Save Game Options so it will save this for Robocop 3 only. Other games you notice with this issue might need different settings. All you have to do is increase or decrease the crop overscan settings until the picture looks correct and then save it for just that game.
All of this worked perfectly, until upon booting it up the next day and none of the overlays were visible. All the correct settings and files were selected but there was just blank screen space. Any ideas on what has gone wrong?
Have not heard of that issue before. You could try to reinstall the files again from the archive manager just to make sure nothing happened with the files.
@@PhyrexTechs all sorted! turns out it was to do with saving the core override. both GB and GBC use the same core so it's important to only save the content directory override.
Cool and all, but unfortunately these GBA shaders blur the screen, if ever so slightly, and it physically hurts my eyes... this device is close to being the perfect one, but it missed the mark with pixel imperfect resolution... I would buy v2 of 35xx sp if it came out with 3:2 screen... Fortunately 34XX is on the way to me and will have to replace it...
What device and system are you trying. You may need to go to retroarch settings > video > scaling. Change the aspect ratio to something else then back to: core provided. Or turn integer scaling on then turn it off again.
@@PhyrexTechs i use the RG35xx SP i tryed your 2 options but they did not worked. everything is filling the screen now. Its not looking bad but its not the same as yours
@@PhyrexTechs Weird my plack rg35xx SP has arrived and setit up the same way as the first one and here i have the same setup as you with the black frame...
Not for the "Perfect Overlays". There are some pretty good ones that come with muOS you may want to check out they will have "int" in the overlay title.
I think I just found a solution to this odd Retroarch bug. 1) In the Video Scaling settings set Integer Scale to On 2) Set Aspect Ratio to Custom 3) Set Integer Scale to Off Let me know if this fixes it please.
@@lemonlife4966 You can save yourself some time by backing up your Retroarch config before you upgrade. 1) In muOS go to Applications > Task Toolkit 2) Select Backup Config 3) You will find the file in the backup folder on the SD card and copy it over to your computer. 4) After you update to banana put that backup file and the Perfect overlays files into the archive folder 5) Run both of those files in the Archive Manager 6) Your settings should be restored.
**Two Bug Fixes**
-mGBA "Aspect Ratio: Custom" Fix
1) In the Video Scaling settings set Integer Scale to On
2) Set Aspect Ratio to Custom
3) Set Integer Scale to Off
(Seems to be an odd Retroarch bug)
-CRT filter screen tearing issues
In Retroarch:
1) Go to Settings>Video>Output
2) Turn off Threaded Video
3) Remember to save Content Directory Overrides from the quick menu
Worked. Thanks!
Thanks for letting me know!
These videos are unexpectedly calming
Yeah, he is the ASMR of gamers❤
Finally one RUclipsr appreciates the pixel perfect ratio and realistic filters!! Thank you!
Just wanted to say thanks for the video, I’ve now got my 35XXSP looking perfect. I love your calm and reassuring instructions!
Great to hear! Thanks!
Awesome job breaking all of this down.
MuOS should consider making these included stock.
Thanks!
True!
I am very new to the retro scene and this video helped me greatly!
First I set up my SP with MuOS with your help and now I repeated it on my other device with ArkOS.
Works perfectly fine and looks amazing, THANK YOU!
Glad it helped!
appreciate this! I had just installed them as overlays and didn't realize they had custom shaders and pallettes included, as well as some crt overlays. More tinkering ahead!
Thanks!
Thank you so much! Glad the video was useful to you!
Thank you for this. Your presentation of the process is spot on. I am slowly starting to understand the overides, core options, etc..Thanks again!!
Glad it was helpful and thanks for checking it out!
This guy does the best Anbernic and MUOS videos 100%
Agreed 100%
This video is a game changer. Thank you!
Great video. My games look better than ever. Thanks for taking your time with this amazing set.
My pleasure!
This is a great video. Educational and even calming. Much appretiated ❤
First time here and already subded
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for Subbing!
oh man, I'm so glad I saw this
Love it! quick simple informative. Good job sir.
Man you’re the only one really doing stuff like this that is actually good. I love non integer overlays so I can use the most screen possible. Can’t wait to try these out on my 405m but where would I put the file in my SD card for the 405m?
These look so awesome, thx for the video
super fire shirt bro. looking forward to taking advantage of these overlays!
Awesome! Hope you enjoy them.
You have to be in education of some sort. You're so good at this.
Would you be able to cover scaling and overlays on the RG Cube in a future video? Excellent work on this one. My SP looks amazing now!
my mu O s was always limited to bland but performce was there so i rotated from the stock chip with all the overlays but now i got the best of both worlds
W video
Worked great on Banana MuOs! Thank you :)
Great to hear!
This is an amazing tutorial! Congratulations! The length of the video is perfect. Keep the great work and keep sharing more tutorials like this.
I'm using the latest version of MuOS and my retroarch have different options for GBA compared with yours. Any tip? Thanks.
In the video I am using the mGBA rumble core. You might want to try the fix in the pinned comment to see if that fixes the issue if it has to do with the aspect ratio.
That was very helpful. Thanks!
Glad to hear it!
You have a very soothing voice
Agree.
Thanks bro. Really appreciated.
Any time!
To be honest I like more the implementation of Retroarch and retro achievements on the stock firmware, but MuOs allows you to install any port supported Anbernic for legal reasons can't
Gameboy pocket is my go-to. I had a original game boy but I love my blue game boy pocket
Great video 😊
Thanks! 😊
Nice! Thank you for that info 😊
Glad it was helpful!
very nice, would be nice to heve instructions like that for Knulli OS too
Came for a tutorial, found HIGHSCHOOL!!! Dude, you're awesome!!!
Haha thanks man! Glad to help out.
Is that "Interframe Blending" like a "motion blur emulator" for game boy games? I'm about to get an original RG35XX, and I really wanted to know if I can get a very close representation of a game boy screen.
Yes, that is a good way to put it. Interframe blending is trying to emulate the motion blur that the original screen had and you will want to enable it.
Perfect video thanks
Glad you liked it!
GB Colorization is not initiating the custom setting when selected, even with perfect overlays installed in the archive manager. have any ideas? I have another device where everything worked perfectly and cannot get the setting to stick.
Do you remember changing the Retroarch setting that points to where the bios are located? That's the only thing I can think of off the top of my head. The file that the Custom setting looks for is in the bios/palletes folder.
Someone knows if it's possible to install this on retro arena build for the RG ARC? If it is, please tell me how.
I know they are working in a muOS build for the ARC, but we don't know when will drop or if they will end up dropping the project.
Thank you very kindly!
Very welcome!
This was a very nice relaxing video. Very informative. I have used overlays and filters myself in the past, and I probably have some devices laying around with those things enabled, but lately I've been avoiding those things, and have just been using stock for the clearest image possible.
For me personally, it feels like a step backwards to go from having a crystal clear IPS or OLED screen to an inferior dot matrix screen with displeasing green shades for Game Boy. I still have my original Game Boy, bought in 1989, in perfect condition, and I always hated having to find the right light source. It's horrible and strains these old eyes. It's 2024 now, so I use today's improved technology to my advantage.
Heck, even my original Game Boy Advance, bought in 2001, that I still have in perfect condition, had the same issue with trying to find the right light source. 😅
I can 100% understand your point of view and respect it. I guess for me it has something to do wanting to play the games as I remember them, and as I don't own the original hardware I jump through these hoops to get there.
Thanks for checking out the video and sharing your take on it.
Anyone else have an issue where, specifically with Playstation, the perfect shader has the right half of the screen blinking black? If I turn the shader off, but keep the video filter and overlay, it's fine. Doesn't happen on the other consoles.
Este tema me interesa mucho buen video 👍
I hope this gets updated for the RG34XX!!
Thanks a lot for this guide! I love these overlays, but wish I could make a slight adjustment to them. The SP ones for GBA have a shadow that looks brown on my screen. The regular ones have a perfect shadow, but I don't like the GBA logo it has. Could I just open these up in Photoshop and copy the SP logo to the default one? Or is there some software I should use for this?
Do you have recommendations setting up other handheld systems nicely with overlays and shaders like Lynx, Game Gear and NGP?
It's pretty close to the look but it makes all the blacks navy blue. I don't know if it's just me.
Do you have any tips for NGPC and Atari Lynx
1PlayerInsertCoin is working on overlays for those too. Check his comment to this reddit post here :
www.reddit.com/r/MiyooMini/comments/1c1fo7k/comment/lgh3qqd/?
Love your BoF shirt
Thanks!
Miyoo mini plus is 640 by 480 though right? Did you mean the miyoo mini V4 will not work with perfect overlays? Because it has different pixel structure?
You are right that the MMP is 640 x 480 but for some reason the MMP display is off centered by 2 pixels which messes up the grids.
The original releases of these Perfect Overlays by 1PlayerInsertCoin are for the MMP, so those can be used on it. However the ones in this pack have been adjusted to correct this pixel issue to work on other devices and not the MMP.
@@PhyrexTechs Gosh I'm so glad I found you I really enjoy and appreciate your presentations. Thank you for being clear!
So if I'm understanding I should download this pack for my SP and leave my Mini Plus with its initial "Perfect" overlays alone?
They do look very, very good!
Thanks for checking out my content and I'm glad you're enjoying it!
Yeah you are correct!
I did exactly what the video says. Even download the files on the link provided. But can't find 1playerinsertcoin folder on the overlay. Can someone help.
You may have to run the file again in the Archive Manager and then restart the device.
Same here, trying to re-run the file..
i can't get my nes games looks like yours i get the scanlines with crt but not rounded at the corners
Make sure you are not using the (no frame) ones as they will not have the rounded corners. Also the generic CRT overlay rounded corners are very subtle compared to SNES ones which are very exaggerated.
@@PhyrexTechs ok thanks was indeed very subtle
Can you please tell us how to do this guide with the stock (updated to the last version) OS ?? Thanks
having difficulty with setting the aspect ratio to custom on the gba. i can select every option except custom. any idea why?
Have not seen that before. Which GBA core are you using? And when you select Aspect Ratio is Custom just missing from the list or does something happen when you select it?
@@PhyrexTechs I'm having the same issue. It is in the menu but switches to Core Provided when selected
I am having the same issue here
Trying to recreate the issue on my side. What device are you using?
What device are you using?
How do these differ from shaders? Would shaders also work on the RG35XX SP? Thank you,
The major difference between overlays and shaders is the resource cost.
Overlays use virtually no resources as it's just a static image being overlaid onto game image. While shaders can vary from lightweight to resource hogs as they are processing their changes on each frame.
There are some nice looking shaders but I like the look of these more and it being less resource taxing is a nice bonus.
THANK YOU! I
You're welcome!
Very cool Breath of Fire shirt.
Thanks! It's one of my favorite games series.
Muito obrigado!
Is there any video player app for MUOS?
My "Core Options" are not the same as shown on yours for GBA games. It was the same for both GameBoy and GameBoy Color though. Is there something I'm missing.
Do you know what GBA core you are running?
Idk why but the install didn't place the files and folders where they should be, had to do it manually.
Odd...Are you using dual SD cards with the Banana release?
Hello. When you launch nes games, the screen is not centered, but there is a stripe on the left and an offset to the right. On other systems it is normal.
I just double checked mine and do not see this issue. What device are you using? Is this on a specific CRT overlay or on all of them? Also, what core are you running?
@@PhyrexTechs This does not happen on all games. On Robocop 3, Sam Journay.
Fceux,muOS.Maybe the rum is wrong
OK, so I just tried it on my side with Robocop 3 and I see what you are talking about. This is not an issue with the overlays, but because a lot of NES games can have underscan/overscan issues. Some games have odd values that don't align with most other games but there is a way to fix it.
While running Robocop 3
Open the Retroarch menu
Go to Core Options
Set:
Crop Horizontal Left Overscan : 8
Crop Vertical Bottom Overscan: 12
Then go to Manage Core Options and select Save Game Options so it will save this for Robocop 3 only.
Other games you notice with this issue might need different settings. All you have to do is increase or decrease the crop overscan settings until the picture looks correct and then save it for just that game.
All of this worked perfectly, until upon booting it up the next day and none of the overlays were visible. All the correct settings and files were selected but there was just blank screen space. Any ideas on what has gone wrong?
Have not heard of that issue before. You could try to reinstall the files again from the archive manager just to make sure nothing happened with the files.
@@PhyrexTechs all sorted! turns out it was to do with saving the core override. both GB and GBC use the same core so it's important to only save the content directory override.
Yeah that gambatte core can cause some issues with Overrides. Glad you figured it out.
old rg35xx ?
Hi guys, how to saving in the portmaster? Saving the progress
Progress needs to be saved using the in game save mechanics. There are no save states and it will not save automatically when powered down
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Is also good for rg35xx plus?
Cool and all, but unfortunately these GBA shaders blur the screen, if ever so slightly, and it physically hurts my eyes... this device is close to being the perfect one, but it missed the mark with pixel imperfect resolution... I would buy v2 of 35xx sp if it came out with 3:2 screen...
Fortunately 34XX is on the way to me and will have to replace it...
its weird i follow exactly your instruction but my image is streched over the whole screen, you have a black frame around the overlays
What device and system are you trying.
You may need to go to retroarch settings > video > scaling. Change the aspect ratio to something else then back to: core provided. Or turn integer scaling on then turn it off again.
@@PhyrexTechs i use the RG35xx SP i tryed your 2 options but they did not worked. everything is filling the screen now. Its not looking bad but its not the same as yours
Is this happening with all game systems or which ones?
@@PhyrexTechs yup gb gbc gba snes megadrive nes
@@PhyrexTechs Weird my plack rg35xx SP has arrived and setit up the same way as the first one and here i have the same setup as you with the black frame...
How do I change the core my game is using? I'm having issues running genesis games.
If you are using muOS. Press the select button when you have a game highlighted in the game list. Then choose the system and core.
@@PhyrexTechsThank you so much! I’ve been trying to figure this out for days.
Are there any integer scaled options?
Not for the "Perfect Overlays". There are some pretty good ones that come with muOS you may want to check out they will have "int" in the overlay title.
they really didt worket, im from banana mu os
Im not finding the "perfect shaders" folder?
You may have to rerun the Perfect overlays file in the Archive manager then restart the device again.
In mgba, i cant chane the scaling to custom
I think I just found a solution to this odd Retroarch bug.
1) In the Video Scaling settings set Integer Scale to On
2) Set Aspect Ratio to Custom
3) Set Integer Scale to Off
Let me know if this fixes it please.
@@PhyrexTechs smooth!!! Thanks my dear sir
Sad i will repeat this process again when muos banana arrives 😞
@@lemonlife4966 You can save yourself some time by backing up your Retroarch config before you upgrade.
1) In muOS go to Applications > Task Toolkit
2) Select Backup Config
3) You will find the file in the backup folder on the SD card and copy it over to your computer.
4) After you update to banana put that backup file and the Perfect overlays files into the archive folder
5) Run both of those files in the Archive Manager
6) Your settings should be restored.
@@PhyrexTechs wow! Thank you so much sir!
Your mid sentence pauses are exceptionally annoying. Don't pause unless you get to a comma or full stop.
Guys , if you want fast forward on gba , sadly only the gpsp core can do so.
You can still fast forward with mGBA. The hotkey is menu button + R1 to toggle fast forward.
how can I switch from officials os fo custom os?
I have 2 sd card
Amazing job