Emulator Shaders

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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!
Video effects (a.k.a shaders) for video game emulators.
Updated on
23 Oct 2025

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Ratings and reviews

20.2K reviews
Mick Kelley
28 July 2025
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, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Diogi_17
18 September 2020
There's not really much to say. It's a simple app that does a simple thing. And it does is virtually well. I was sent to it by clicking a link in the settings on my "My Old Boy" emu. when I was just screwing around and its actually kinda cool. The filters are simple, easy to apply, and dont affect the gameplay at all. Very nice indeed. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Arhum
11 October 2025
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.
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