1.9.50

• NEW: Add Horizontal "Mask helper" function to Halo section to exploit full mask brightness

• NEW: Add "RGXB" mask Presets

• NEW: Add an option to show simple test patterns

• NEW: Convergence: allow to offset it more and blurring more near borders

• NEW: Allow the choice betweeb FXAA and ddt-xbr-lv1

• NEW: Add dot crawl emulation

• NEW: Allow to zoom/shift fg/bg image when Rotate/flip is set to auto

• NEW: RF noise: add a more sparkling "Snow noise" option, old one renamed to "Uniform noise"

• NEW: RF noise: allow to move it before or after "blur/glow" stage.

• CHANGE: Presets tuning

• CHANGE: Slightly improved Halo blur quality

• CHANGE: Global zoom is auto disabled when integer scaling is enabled

• CHANGE: Better looking spot function

• CHANGE: Removed bezel "Inner Zoom" parameter, "Frame Zoom" parameter renamed as "Frame Alignment"

• FIX: Do not consider flipped titles as "rotated"

• FIX: Fixed common "blurs" aspect ratio

• FIX: Fix override content aspect options when neither ambient light nor bg/fg images are used

• FIX: Spot: corrected spot placament for 90 and 270 rotated titles

• FIX: Correct reflection area shade placements for 270 deg. rotated titles

• PERF: Refactored shader passes to gain speed, previously saved full presets need to be remade, sorry.

• PERF: Big speedup to FXAA code by just removing unused search loop.

Performance went up by almost 4% on my haswell with my standard tests.

1.9.50-rc1

• NEW: Add Horizontal "Mask helper" function to Halo section to exploit full mask brightness

• NEW: Add "RGXB" mask Presets

• NEW: Add an option to show simple test patterns

• NEW: Convergence: allow to offset it more and blurring more near borders

• NEW: Allow the choice betweeb FXAA and ddt-xbr-lv1

• NEW: Add dot crawl emulation

• NEW: Allow to zoom/shift fg/bg image when Rotate/flip is set to auto

• NEW: RF noise: add a more sparkling "Snow noise" option, old one renamed to "Uniform noise"

• NEW: RF noise: allow to move it before or after "blur/glow" stage.

• CHANGE: Presets tuning

• CHANGE: Slightly improved Halo blur quality

• CHANGE: Global zoom is auto disabled when integer scaling is enabled

• CHANGE: Better looking spot function

• CHANGE: Removed bezel "Inner Zoom" parameter, "Frame Zoom" parameter renamed as "Frame Alignment"

• FIX: Do not consider flipped titles as "rotated"

• FIX: Fixed common "blurs" aspect ratio

• FIX: Fix override content aspect options when neither ambient light nor bg/fg images are used

• FIX: Spot: corrected spot placament for 90 and 270 rotated titles

• FIX: Correct reflection area shade placements for 270 deg. rotated titles

• PERF: Refactored shader passes to gain speed, previously saved full presets need to be remade, sorry.

• PERF: Big speedup to FXAA code by just removing unused search loop.

Performance went up by almost 4% on my haswell with my standard tests.

1.9.30

• REMOVED: Removed support for Retroarch versions prior to to 1.16 due to the use of the rotation uniform.

• REMOVED: Removed dot matrix debug parameter

• REMOVED: Y-Tilt FOV option gone.

• NEW: Adjust content/bezel size by also taking width into account

• NEW: Add presets for PSP

• NEW: New parameter: "Interlaced scanlines brighness push" used to lower input gamma
  When emulating interlaced screens: Useless for fast response screens such as OLeds

• NEW: Scanline inflation turned into a generic Warped glow setting which can be applied to x axis too.

• NEW: Add a new subfolder "Presets_HiresGames_Fast" containing speedy presets

• NEW: VGA Dobulescan monochrome green and amber presets

• CHANGE: Corners now have a 4:3 aspect

• CHANGE: Y-Tilt does not require you to tweak Bezel tilting

• CHANGE: Lowered default flicker power across the presets (but the flicker one).

• CHANGE: General Presets tuning

• CHANGE: Docs update

• FIX: Keep Deconvergenge constant across input resolutions

• FIX: CVBS color bleed: keep the size constant across input resolutions
  intended for Hi resolution content (640x480+) that don't use 2x internal processing

• FIX: Back/Foreground image: correctly scale offset so that it is in "sync" with content position

• FIX: Fully commented config-user.txt, sync'd with config.inc

• FIX: Usual work to enable specific workarounds for D3D11,12

• FIX: Lowered RESSWITCH_SAMPLING_POINT because too near to the screen border

• OPTIMIZED: Slightly optimized fn_border

• OPTIMIZED: Optimized halo vs scanlines blending

• OPTIMIZED: Skip unneded alpha channel assigningments to FragColor

• OPTIMIZED: Debanding: spare useless calls to scale_to_range()

• Overall performance vs previous release lowered from 111 to 108 fps measured by my standard benchmark on Haswell.
  this is mainly due to new warped glow feature.

NG-1.9.20-hotfix4

• Inflation was broken when used with tate mode.

NG-1.9.20-hotfix3

• Fix Ntsc Artifacts

NG-1.9.20-hotfix2

• Workaround for glitches reported under AMD gpu + Batocera when using phosphors persistence
• Deltarender: less glitches

NG-1.9.20-hotfix1

2 not critical fixes.

1. Deltarender, is a bit heavier now, but much less prone to false positives -> less glitchy.
2. scanline dilation size depend on Core size instead of a subsequent pass size.
   This, in turn, allow to change (lower to 1x for performance reasons in hires content) the shader pass size without affecting it.

NG-1.9.20

NEW:
* Allow to set glow light sharpness.
* Allow to modulate reflected and diffused light fadeout.
* New Monitor-Screen_Hmask-Screen_SlotMask-Chameleon preset.
* New Monitor-Screen_Hmask-Screen_SlotMask_Taller_Brighter preset.
* Real-time autocrop.
* Add Gameboy Color Presets.
* Scanlines inflation (rounder image)

FIX:
* Tate: Fake scanline size compuration was using the wrong dimension.
* Little border between the bezel and the content will be visible even
when using geometry overrides or luminosity tied zoom.
* Keep ambient leds in place when using bezel and geometry override zoom.
* Adapt ambientlight sampling point to geometry override zoom/aspect.
* Keep ambient leds in place when using bezel and geometry override zoom.
* Fixed Deltarender (not sure when it broke).

CHANGED:
* Better bezel reflections.
* Tuned ambientlight stretcing for vertical games.
* Auto fake integer scanlines will kick in with lower screen resolutions.

MISC:
* Code cleanup.
* Several performance improvements, we're almost back to 4.1 levels.
* Several presets updates.

NG-1.9.13

• Several Micro-optimizations (moderate speedup: 2%..3% on my Haswell)
• Working again on d3d (Xbox) via #define D3D_WORKAROUND
• Drasstically improved compilation times and ntsc color bleed performance on Xbox Series S
• Allow to configure dynamic zoom (raster bloom) again.
• Add an Adaptive black level function (deeped blacks on brighter content)
• Lowered spot strength in presets
• Do not nightify bezel when not using bg image
• Use a sharper tight halo in presets
• Fix black lines on the sides when using dot matrix shadow function
• Slightly offset x coords too to avoid geometry glitches
• Avglum functions needs to activate when resolution switch glitch is needed
• less bloomy tv-pal-myold preset
• Allow to specify the ambientlight sampling point

NG-1.9.1

This is the same as 1.9 - hotfix2, but slimmed down in size by removing not essential stuff like screenshots and the misc folder (moved to another support repo); There is just a new tv-flickering preset.

Presets

• New Monitor-FXAA_sharp-Screen_SlotMask.slangp
• New Monitor-New_aperturegrille_gm.slangp
• New Monitor-VGA-DoubleScan.slangp
• New Monitor-Screen_Hmask-ShadowMask.slangp
• New Monitor-Screen_Hmask-Screen_SlotMask_Taller.slangp
• Halved spot power
• Set almost all presets temperatures to 7200K
• Switch to "fake" integer scanline instead of faker on interlaced content by default
• Hard cut artifacts under treshold on NTSC-2 preset
• Set Automatic integer scanline switching on by default

New/Removed Features

• Dedithering
• Phosphor persistence
• Added lcd antighosting static feature
• Permit integer over-scale
• Removed tilt along y axis, no performance increase, but one param less.
• Removed alternate blanking feature (was already made static)
• Improved NTSC emulation for "anything but rainbows"
• Allow optional Double-scan low input resolutions
• Fake integer scanlines: use -1 to let the shader choose when to activate them.
• Shadowmask
• Add a vibrance parameter to compress chroma dynamic range
• Shake the screen for a while when the resolution changes

Fixes

• Corrected fake integer scanlines period
• Add a new workaround for D3D/XBOX
• Fix a possible division by 0.0
• Cut shader compile time from minutes to seconds on XBOX
• Back/Foreground image rotation/mirroring: support all possible permutations
• Make fake integer scanlines work with rotated and/or tated games too
• Integer scaling now works with tate mode on rotated games
• Bloom: identifying bright areas was broken when overriding content geometry
• Smarter Auto vertical mask alignment

Changes

• Denoise vignette again
• NTSC color bleed is controlled by just 1 parameter now
• Improved dedot function
• Allow to turn on flickering even when not emulating masks or scanlines
• Split spot position parameter in two, (X,Y)
• Don't draw ambientlight over the content when using foreground image
• Foreground image, do not "void" transparent areas which are not on top of the game content

Performance

• Overral unchanged
• Removed some dead code that unexpectedly used to slowdown execution
• Slightly faster basal grid computation
• CVBS bleed: 2..4% speedup by joining side loops