I feel a lot of these filters kind of miss the point and they look horribly fake. You show me something with fake scanlines and do you know what it looks like to me? Fake scanlines.
The emulating tired tubes and curvature is also bizarre, two of the least liked aspects of arcade gaming and people are trying to copy that thinking it's the genuine experience? When you're playing on a curved CRT, looking straight at it, the lines do not look curved unless the monitor chassis has fucked geometry, so there's no sense making them look obviously curved trying to fake it. Any machine correctly configured doesn't stretch the picture to cover all the edges either, so if you really want to do it properly you want a curved edge area of black around a square image.
Every time I see this stuff I just quietly say to myself "god damn you're missing the point". I have a big collection of actual arcade games, best money I ever spent was buying up some of the last remaining NOS CRTs to replace tired old ones. If you want a CRT experience, buy a CRT - there are still plenty of very serviceable Trinitrons around which will actually run the games at the right resolution with zero display lag and scanlines which are there because they're part of the (analogue) technology.
I wonder if someone has emulated screen burn yet? On second thoughts I think I'd prefer not to know.
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