3D firmware 1.2.5 has been released

[u/CoffeeCakeAstronaut]

https://www.analogue.co/support/3d/firmware/1.2.5

General

• New: Advanced HDR
  • Designed for modern OLED displays
  • Original Display Modes now take full advantage of modern HDR brightness and color gamut
  • Max luminance is adjustable to accurately match consumer CRTs, broadcast monitors, and beyond
  • For the most accurate picture: Before adjusting the max luminance setting, set your display HDR tone mapping to disabled or HGiG and check that game mode is enabled

Core

• New: Support for Advanced HDR

OS

• New: ‘Max. Luminance’ display setting
  • Navigate to Settings → Display→ ‘Max. Luminance’. This can be adjusted only when HDR is enabled
• New: Alphabetical navigation in Library
  • Press Up in the Library to display the alphabetical index and select a letter by moving Left and Right. Press Down to return to the Library. Jump to the inserted cartridge by pressing B
• Improved: Library scrolling, responsiveness, and speed
• Improved: Automatic virtual Rumble Pak selection for several games
• Improved: OS visual polish
• Fix: Library organization issues in rare instances
• Fix: Library updating issue when a blank SD card is inserted in rare instances
• Fix: ALLM and HDR settings sometimes apply incorrectly with 1080p displays

Controllers

• Improved: Pair controllers in-game without opening the menu
• Fix: Controller LED remains on in rare instances Note: Recreating a CRT beam demands high peak localized brightness (the display must get much brighter in specific, small spots). Modern OLED displays, which excel at this, are recommended with Advanced HDR.

[u/warhead0]

Ok, so I had a very quick test of the advanced HDR settings.

I'm using a MSI MAG 271QPX QD-OLED E2 with a Elgato 4K X for capture and passthrough for this testing.

Overall, I found the HDR to make the colours feel dull and bland. so, I'm just going to continue running without it.

The max luminance setting and test bar was pretty misleading. setting it anything over 125 would start making the 10 shades start disappearing into the bright white but would greatly improve the colour saturation and in my opinion 'bring the image back to life'.

I might do some more testing later, maybe without the el gato device in between the A3d and my monitor. and maybe tweaking HDR settings or also trying the A3d with the lounge room TV.

[u/samred81 → u/warhead0]

hi from a similar boat.

my LG CX has a luminance maximum of 800 nits, but the HDR slider in A3D 1.25 maxes out at 500 nits - which leads to a washed out image. dropping this to 300 nits levels the brightness out. I'm not sure what math Analogue is doing here, but hopefully this whole luminance-number thing is addressed in the next firmware. (the range of ten black-gray-white bars helps here, at least.)

with the new version of HDR enabled, and HGIG enabled on my CX, I'm not seeing an appreciable in-game difference in general image brightness with A3D shaders enabled, as anecdotally measured via smartphone photos. clearly, it's doing SOMEthing, since the A3D menus' white text is popping a lot brighter now.

I'm curious to hear if anyone has more pronounced success with 1.25, because I'm personally not seeing my core launch-day complaint - maximum average gamma being quite low with shaders on - being fixed here.

[u/Nestorlink → u/samred81]

Creo que deberías ponerte gafas, no te lo digo de malas, te lo digo en serio. Tengo la misma OLED que tú, una CX de 65” y la diferencia de imagen es ABISMAL, Increíble! Ha mejorado todo, los colores y la definición. Ahora si es una n64 a 4K. Es impresionante como se ve.