Retroized · OpenEmu CRT
OpenEmu · macOS
OpenEmu CRT overlay
OpenEmu stays sharp. Retroized is a CRT layer on the display. You click through it and keep playing.
OpenEmu ships a CRT option in the game HUD. It only shades that window. Extra slang shaders (CRT-Royale, Guest, Super CRT, and the rest) also live inside OpenEmu. Fine if you want a filter in the emulator. Retroized is not that. It is a desktop overlay: capture the screen, draw a tube on top of OpenEmu — or RetroArch, or Steam. That is the CRT emulator search on Mac: the tube, not another emulator. CRT emulator on Mac.
Setup
- Virtual display 2 (macOS 13+) Move OpenEmu to Virtual display 2. Capture that screen. This is the supported play path.
- Click-through Cover the laptop. Clicks go through the overlay to OpenEmu on the primary display. Monterey 12.5–12.7 lives here — those Macs cannot create Virtual display 2.
Turn off OpenEmu’s own CRT or scanline filter. Nearest-neighbor (or integer scale) in, tube on top. Two CRTs stacked looks worse than either one.
What you get that the HUD filter does not
Nine looks named for real glass: arcade, living-room TV, Trinitron, Sony PVM, vintage, portable, broadcast, BVM, flat. Thirty-five factory mains. Curvature, phosphor mask, persistence, bloom, scanlines, chromatic aberration. Optional RF/tape/cable noise — off if you just want to play.
Same overlay on a video window or an editor if you want it. Gaming is the job.