MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: xBRZ shaders in BGFX

> > I converted the GLSL xBRZ shaders to BGFX. The 6xBRZ shader does not compile under
> > DX9 because its too complicated. I had to fiddle with the make file to get the
> 6xBRZ
> > shader to compile with the other backends.
> >
> > The files in bgfx directory of the attachment go in the bgfx directory next to your
> > mame executable.
> >
> > The files in source directory of the attachment go in
> > /mame/src/osd/modules/render/bgfx/shaders/chains/xbrz.
>
> It's a year late, but thanks for this. I had a support request come in today about
> xBRZ and needed something to point them to.
>
> Discussion with the MAME team today on IRC indicated some (certainly reasonable)
> refusal to absorb GPLv3 code into the MAME source code, and xBRZ, as it turns out, is
> GPLv3. I'm not certain that rewriting as MAME BGFX shaders is enough of a rewrite, so
> this likely remains under GPLv3. So this will likely need to remain external as an
> optional download, unless some other licensing arrangement is come to with the
> original developer of xBRZ, which isn't a priority.
>
> Dunno if it will continue working with MAME 0.193 since we've updated to current
> BGFX, but I'm not enough of an expert on BGFX to theorize reasons why not.
>
> - Stiletto

I just updated today from MAME 0.190 to 0.193 and this xbrz pack for BGFX doesn´t work anymore :S do you know if there are plans to re-add support in MAME for this pack? I love 6xbrz and it´s a shame that we can´t use it with 0.193...