Retroized · Setup
macOS 12.5+
Setup on Mac
Laptop plus virtual display is the supported setup. Mirror often works. Extended multi-monitor is unreliable — do not plan on casting to a TV yet.
How it sits
- Virtual display Put the emulator on Virtual display 2 and capture that screen. This is the supported path for play. Virtual display needs macOS 13 or later.
- Click-through Cover the laptop. Clicks and keys go through the shader on the primary display. On Monterey 12.5–12.7 this is the whole product: those Macs cannot create Virtual display 2.
- Preview A normal window, for lining up the look before you play.
Click-through does not apply on the virtual display — that overlay is a viewer. OpenEmu CRT overlay is the emulator path.
Requirements
- macOS 12.5 or later. Older versions cannot run this app. The download will not be blocked — check System Settings → General → About before buying.
- One zip for Apple Silicon and Intel.
- First launch: grant Screen Recording to Retroized.
- Keep one copy of Retroized.app (Applications or a single folder). Unzipping a new folder next to the old one looks like a new app to macOS.
- Virtual display 2 needs macOS 13+. Photosensitive flicker, scanlines, and bloom — start mild.
Record the CRT view
Record what you see to MP4 or a loopable GIF, with named takes and an optional before-FX file. ⌘⌥R starts, ⌘⌥T stops. The recording is the live overlay, not a separate file transcoder.
Thirty-five factory mains to start from — Retro Arcade '88, PVM Arcade Night, Sweaty Cabinet, Trinitron Living Room among them. Save your own. Curvature, phosphor mask and pitch, persistence, bloom, scanlines, chromatic aberration, and glass are live sliders. Color grades and noise/signal stacks (RF snow, tape, cable fuzz) are optional. You do not need them to play.