Emulator Shaders

Pixel Respawn LLC

About this game

This is a pack of shaders for old-school video game emulators. Copyrights are held by the respective authors.

*NOTE*: This is not a standalone game or emulator. You will not even get an icon in the Android launcher after it is installed. Instead it works as an add-on to compatible emulators.

Most of the shaders are converted from the work of their original authors, in order to make them work on GLES 2.0. Shader files are based on the higan XML shader format version 1.0, with slight changes and enhancements. The format itself is quite straight-forward.

Following shaders are currently included:
• hq2x/hq4x
• 2xBR/4xBR
• LCD3x
• Quilez
• Scanlines
• Motion blur
• GBA color
• Grayscale

Source code is available at https://code.google.com/p/emulator-shaders/
Welcome contributing new shaders to the project! In the meantime, we would also like to see more compatible emulators in the future!

Ratings and reviews

It came packed in with 'My Boy!' GBA emu (even comes included with the free version as well.) Though it only includes, I think 4 or 5 shaders, you can apply them effortlessly and they look great in my opinion. I started up a game of Final Fantasy 6 which is my favorite port of it and the smoothness of and detail you get out of it make it feel pretty fresh and new and add a very clean feel to the quality of the graphics.

Most of the shaders look fantastic, the only ones I'm not quite a fan of are 2xBR and 4xBR - but that's just my opinion, and even then I give them a pass because shaders can only do so much. There's just one thing I'd like to see get added, and that's the ability to stack sharers on top of one another. Even if it ends up looking horrible, I'd love to not need to choose between the LCD3x filter and the HQ4x filter. Until then, ⭐⭐⭐⭐

It's odd that Shaders require a seperate app but the ones included are fairly solid however, in the years since this came out, mGBA has a very good suite of Shaders including an excellent recreation of the NSO GBA LCD shader which is by far the best shader to emulate GB/A screen colours. So I'd like to see custom Shaders support of possible.

What’s new

Added 'GBA color' shader that replicates the LCD dynamics of a real GBA