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Playing the Panzer Dragoon Series in 3D/VR:
With the emulators mentioned above you can split the screen and play the games in 3D with your VR headset of choice. RetroArch has a built in split screen mode but the other standalone emulators like Mednafen will require a program called ReShade to split the screen. More information below:
RetroArch: Split Screen Shader setup
RetroArch has a split screen shader that is built in to the emulator itself and when set up will split the screen. Here are some instructions to set up the Side by Side shader: Note: make sure first in RetroArch settings go to: Video/Scaling/Aspect Ratio/and set the aspect ratio to 16:9. When a game is running press F1 and scroll down to Shaders. Next go to Load and select shaders_slang/stereoscopic-3d/and select the side-by-side-simple shader. This shader will split the screen. Go back and then select Shader Parameters. In these options set each one to: Eye Separation: -0.50 or -0.55 (-0.52 is preferred: see how to manually alter this number below) Vertical Placement: 0.42 Horizonal Placement: 0.99 Zoom: 0.70 If the Shader fails to load you might have to fix the file manually. Might be fixed and updated later but in case it isn't, here is how to fix it: Go into RetroArch installation folder. Go into the shaders folder. Next, go into shaders_slang folder. Go into stereoscopic-3d folder. right click side-by-side-simple and open it up in notepad++. Change this line:
shaders0 = shaders/side-by-side-simple.slang To: shader0 = shaders/side-by-side-simple.slang Then go to file and save.
You can also manually increase the number count of the Eye Separation by editing that file as well. So you will get an even more precise 3D effect. Here is what you have to do: Go to: [retroarch dir]\shaders\shaders_slang\stereoscopic-3d\shaders\side-by-side-simple.slang Right click on side-by-side-simple.slang and open it up in notepad or notepad++. Edit this line near the top: #pragma parameter eye_sep "Eye Separation" 0.30 -1.0 5.0 0.05 Change the 0.05 to 0.01 This will allow the eye separation to increase in increments of 1 instead of 5. Make sure to go to file and save your changes. With these new changes in place I suggest a starting number of -0.52 for the Eye Separation. Next all you have to do is merge the screen with a free program like desktop+ or bigscreen. But I suggest the paid version of Virtual Desktop as it has more options as far as merging the screens go. Note: If you are having trouble with this I've already gone to the trouble of doing this for you just get the Shaders and put them in the main RetroArch installation folder: https://mega.nz/folder/mYFGxSZI#yXnlxNUULvLZsePeK6gq2Q
Mednafen and
Yabause 0.9.15 installed with ReSade:
(A program that will split the screen) Installing ReShade
Now, to play these games in 3D you will need a program called ReShade; a program that will split the screen. Go to the site and download it. Next install ReShade on mednafen.exe, and Yabause 0.9.15.exe, found in the main directory where you installed the emulators. When installing ReShade Select OpenGL When you open up the emulator and load a game, you will see the ReShade interface overlaid on the emulator screen when you start a game. Hit the home button to bring up the tutorial and hit continue to bring up the shaders. From the list select Depth3D to split the screen. You can then play around with the Divergence and Convergence, which will set how strong the 3D is. Note/troubleshooting: You might have to use the Vulkan installation option if OpenGL doesn't work. And if you have a message saying: "Unable to save current preset" in the upper left corner and it won't go away, you can run the emulator as administrator or find reshade.ini in the folder of the game you installed reShade for. Right click properties, security tab click edit, and add full rights for everyone. you can also set ownership to everyone here, which will remove the message. Important Startup information: If for any reason the emulators stop opening go into your nvidia or graphics card settings and restore everything to default settings: For Nvidia Go into my nvidia control panel/manage 3D settings/and restore everything to default settings. As it seems changing or turning off Antialiasing settings can mess up OpenGL settings in ReShade. If you start the emulator and the screen is split but not just two screens but 4 screens, this is a glitch. To get rid of it go into full screen with the emulator you are using, press the home button to go into the ReShade menu and turn off depth3D or whatever you have on that is splitting the screen. Now, get out of fullscreen and go back into full screen again. This time go into the home reShade menu and turn on Depth 3D and hopefully the screen will only split once. Now you can merge the screens with Virtual desktop. If merging the screen isn't working just hit the windows button on your keyboard until your windows task bar shows up, then proceed to merge the screen and click back into the emulator window. Also,
here is a Shader called Perfect Perspective that adds more depth to
your image. Be sure to turn it on along with Depth3D if you wish: https://mega.nz/folder/2osFkQRL#F7GMNBjFv7Cjl8nI4K1ZHQ
Install Virtual Desktop from the Oculus Store: (This program allows you to merge the two screens.)
Note: you can use free programs like desktop+ or bigscreen but I suggest the paid version of Virtual Desktop as it has more options as far as merging the screens. Next, you will need to buy a program from the Oculus or Steam Store called Virtual Desktop. Once inside this program you can bring up the emulator from your desktop into full screen. You can then, either from the Virtual Desktop menu or by pressing F6, split the screen to go into VR along with the ReShade split screen. You can also curve the sides of the screen and zoom in or zoom out to your liking.
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