Enhancements on 2d games

[Yoyoman]

Which enhancements work on just 2d games?

[pauldacheez]

Only the OpenGL backend's post-processing shaders can really do anything for these games, AFAIK. There aren't any 2D upscaling or NTSC emulation shaders, though.

[Yoyoman]

Does anybody else have anything or is that all?

[Sonicadvance1]

Maybe someone should write a XBR filter for 2D games and see how well it turns out.
If I exposed scene depth it would be fairly easy to ignore HUD items that way ;p

[Yoyoman]

Only the OpenGL backend's post-processing shaders can really do anything for these games, AFAIK. There aren't any 2D upscaling or NTSC emulation shaders, though.

Okay thanks.

[CarlKenner]

Which enhancements work on just 2d games?

In my VR version, you can make some 2D games 3D, and for all the 2D games you can change the screen size, angle, and position to make them life-like.
2D emulated games don't have any depth information though, so I can't make them 3D. But games like Wii Chess or Four Swords Adventure can get some 3D.

[JMC47]

I know Four Swords uses depth shenanigans for layering from the problems it had in Dolphin forever.

[Yeshuroon]

Maybe someone should write a XBR filter for 2D games and see how well it turns out.
If I exposed scene depth it would be fairly easy to ignore HUD items that way ;p

[Yoyoman]

But just to make sure, no 2d games can use enhancements right?

[pauldacheez]

The enhancements we have currently do little-to-nothing for 2D games. We have shitty shaders (bad_bloom, anyone?) and we have stereoscopic/anaglyph/SBS/Nvidia 3D Vision/many-types-of-3D-support that's currently hidden from users (it's waiting for D3D support, which is coming very soon, e.g. within a week or two), and that's pretty much all we have for now that can affect a 2D game.

We oughtta hire someone to write an xBR shader. mudlord and Asmodean come to mind, as they've both contributed shaders to Dolphin (mudlord's FXAA shader, Asmodean's DolphinFX thing).