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Everyone is hopefully aware of my "love" for reshade, but well, there are always people who adore placebo so it's normal some console buyers would want it for themselves.
As consoles are constructed from outdated junk that barely runs 30FPS, of course it's not possible to apply reshade on top of games, even if consoles allowed any kind of mods like PC does.
So someone thought how about slap it as a HDMI dongle you plug into anything and it does the job:
https://www.pcgamer.com/can-an-dollar80-hdmi-dongle-actually-do-post-processing-for-your-gpu/
Well there. If disastrous ports force PC audience to waste money on console junkware (mushrooms), all I can say is that $100 is definetly an acceptable price here.
Does the thing work? Who cares. Mushrooms never worked on me either, the point is you waste the money on the trash.
As consoles are constructed from outdated junk that barely runs 30FPS, of course it's not possible to apply reshade on top of games, even if consoles allowed any kind of mods like PC does.
So someone thought how about slap it as a HDMI dongle you plug into anything and it does the job:
https://www.pcgamer.com/can-an-dollar80-hdmi-dongle-actually-do-post-processing-for-your-gpu/
The company that built a $119 HDMI cable with a built-in processing chip to make games look better is at it again, this time with a $99 mClassic dongle. It's headed to Kickstarter with some very big (and interesting) claims.
"PC gamers are able to upgrade their graphics card, while console gamers have been limited by locked hardware. Not anymore! The mClassic is here to be the world's first add-on graphics processor for videogame consoles. Yes, you read that right, the mClassic is like having a new 'graphics card', without the hassle of modifying your game console," Marseille says.
Marseille's landing page for the mClassic is full of hype and sample shots that attempt to show what kind of difference the dongle can make. The heart of the dongle is Marseille's VTV-1224 chip and a 4K chroma 4:4:4 scaler processor.
Beyond the hardware, the mClassic relies on "real-time algorithms" to balance naturalness and sharpness. There is also the claim that the "graphics post-processor analyzes and improves every single pixel for the most beautiful image with no-lag."
"mClassic’s powerful video processor analyzes each pixel in its immediate and global contexts to determine the most suitable processing per pixel with Marseille’s propriety technology called Contextual Processing. mClassic’s patented technology redraws every single pixel on the fly at 120 fps with near-zero latency and eliminates jagged edges that are smoothed over by our advanced anti-aliasing algorithm," the company explains.
Well there. If disastrous ports force PC audience to waste money on console junkware (mushrooms), all I can say is that $100 is definetly an acceptable price here.
Does the thing work? Who cares. Mushrooms never worked on me either, the point is you waste the money on the trash.
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