Daedalus R7 Released (Nintendo 64 emulator for the PSP)

[wraggster]

http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/sd00046rw.JPG

StrmnNrmn (http://www.strmnnrmn.blogspot.com/) has just released the newest version of Daedalus the Nintendo 64 Emulator for the PSP:

Heres the Changes


R7 - 13 August 2006
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[^] Avoid checking for interrupts in dynarec code in most situations.
[^] Optimise dynarec Load/Store instructions to avoid checking for interrupts directly.
[^] Implemented the remaining 32-bit integer instructions in the dynarec.
[^] Implemented the remaining commong load/store instructions in the dynarec.
[^] Implemented JAL/JR in dynarec.
[^] Optimised various texture cache related features.
[^] Added various known value optimisations to the dynarec engine.
[^] Link together blocks even when they exit with branch likely instructions.
[+] Added option to allow frequency of texture update checks to be reduced.
[+] Added the ability to configure buttons
[!] Fixed a couple of compatibility issues caused by the dynarec.
[!] Fixed a couple of issues related to self-modifying code and the dynarec.
[!] Fixed issues with the framerate counter flickering.

Heres more news of this release


The main emphasis has been on improving the framerate of as many roms as possible, but I've also made some significant fixes to the dynarec engine which should improve compatibility for a few roms where this was causing problems before.

There are two settings you should be aware of if you're looking at getting the fastest possible framerate. The first is on the global settings page (that's the one you see on the main menu as soon as you boot up). You'll want to set 'Tesselate Large Triangles' to No here. The next option that helps boost the framerate is set 'Texture Update Check' to Disabled on the Rom Settings screen. A combination of these two options give a significant speedup in various roms.

In R7 I've also added the ability to define your own custom controller configurations. You can define a new controller mapping by adding a new .ini file to the Daedalus/ControllerConfigs directory. There are a few examples in there already, and I'll look at posting a brief tutorial up here sometime soon. If you come up with a new mapping you think would be useful then email me (my address is in the readme.txt) and I'll post it up here and add it to a later release.

I think R8 is going to continue to focus on improving the framerate. I still have a lot of optimisations I want to get in, and I think these will help improve the framerate even further. I also want to spend a little time improving the front end, as it's getting harder for me to add new settings and options in there. I also want to add an option for changing some of the settings while a rom is running (i.e. I think it's time we had an in-game menu.) Another thing I'll look at for R8 is saving settings between runs of the emulator - this way Daedalus will remember which controller setup you prefer for each rom. Finally I want to add an option to quit back to the main menu without having to restart Daedalus.

Phew! That's quite a big list. I can't guarantee I'll be able to add all that for the next release, but that's what I'm currently aiming for. I think it's more important to try and release regularly (i.e. every 3-4 weeks) rather than try and cram everything into one go, so some of these features might move back to R9 if I slip behind.

My first job though is to move my development environment over from my old PC to the new 'beast'. I've had to put this release together through a Remote Desktop Connection to the old PC and I can't bear to do that any longer. It'll probably take a few days to get everything set up on the new PC, but it should be a lot less painful in the long run :)

-StrmnNrmn.

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Hehe we are that fast we even beat the author to posting news :) and easily beat the competition

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[BL4Z3D247]

woohoo :D

[Gizmo356]

yay!:D

[oafan]

damn my laptop screen broken and i only can ge on the internet right now with a work computer, ill have to wait but i hope theres a big improvment

[Uruz 6]

Finally it's out!! GREAT!!
I'm testing it right now and I must say it's A LOT more fast!!!

[jwilds73]

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/daedalus-n64/daedalus_psp_R7_v150.zip?download

[SSaxdude]

I'm going to try it now. This is awesome.

[Baboon]

Ideal!

I'm going to crack on with some game testing. :)

[NoQuarter]

Yeah!It's on!

[Basil Zero]

awesome, man, i got dial up, gonna have to wait to download this emulator and the fact that i'll have to download the Super Mario 64 rom again..man i shouldnt of deleted it 2 days ago lol

to everyone: Whats the best running rom?

[slayer2psp]

its still to slow to play mario kart but it is up to 10fps so about half way there with the speed. im just amazed you could get a n64 emu even to work at all great work

[Basil Zero]

whats the best rom to play, as the highest FPS

also, has anyone tried banjo kazooie, man i wish i had high speed internet.

[felonyr301]

ohh yes its out im gonna try out zelda both zelda's and banjo kazooie be right back oh and keep up the great work man.

[JD/]

OMD thank you StrmnNrmn your n64 emu owns :)

[ninja9393]

YEA!!!
this rocks:D

[NoQuarter]

Dude!Mario is playable,well mostly. But this rocks!I love you man!

[cartmandude14]

I Was Just Playing Mario Kart At Almost 20 Fps!!!

[V3N0M]

Well before the thread blows up to 20 pages, I'd like to thank StrmnNrmn! For this amazing emu and this awsome release.

[felonyr301]

that sounds good to hear man for the next release looking to improve speed still thats good well good luck and let me return to testing out games later.

[felonyr301]

ohh yea one more thing is it better to just leave the roms zipped or unzipped like does it matter in terms of speed would really like to hear from you guys if possible.

[NoQuarter]

Hah!Ijust took out the big bob-omb.This is awesome.
The readme says something about having to decompress zipped roms but I don't know if this affects the speed as it decompresses it first then runs that.I've gotten up to 20 FPS on mario 64.

[Accordion]

wow
wow
wow
wow
wow

[ryan2006]

I Was Just Playing Mario Kart At Almost 20 Fps!!!
how i can only get it to go 10

[Basil Zero]

how many frames does Super Mario 64 run on?

[ninja9393]

heh every refresh u can see a new reply

[hackercrackermonkey]

I just tried super mario. Its running @ an average of 15fps+. BTW guys, dont forget to run ur psps @ 333 not the default 222 (i dunno, it may make a difference). There is no sound though and there are a lot of graphical errors @ the expense of speed. Does anybody know how to reenable sound?

[cartmandude14]

how i can only get it to go 10
On settings where it says tesselate large tris change it to no and disable texture update check

ps. im doing time trials

[John Vattic]

I found a picture of StrmnNrmn!......







ha ha ! Jus' Playin'

just give the dude the friggn' props!!!!!!!!

[Basil Zero]

are the textures the same for Super Mario 64?

[m0dm0use]

yay nice release one up for the london kid against yal well what do we have here a pic then please tell us whier

[ExcruciationX]

Good job, StrmnNrmn! How is Mario Kart???

[Kvonx]

finally dis weekend took forever

[NeoXCS]

Yay another release! :D This is comming along better then I ever expected! :p Thank you so much for your hard work! Good luck on the next release! :)

[Basil Zero]

How about Banjo Kazooie and Quest 64(which seemed like the best emulated rom in the last version)

[NoQuarter]

In the vast deep forest of Hyrule.....
Average 3-5 fps so far
gonna try shadows of the empire next

[SteveV2]

I just tried super mario. Its running @ an average of 15fps+. BTW guys, dont forget to run ur psps @ 333 not the default 222 (i dunno, it may make a difference). There is no sound though and there are a lot of graphical errors @ the expense of speed. Does anybody know how to reenable sound?

Pretty much what i'm getting this end with that texture thingy disabled.

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The roms take an age to load (zip). Will try an unzipped rom in a mo to see if there's any difference.

Thanks all the same, it's really coming along now :D

[mr_nick666]

Another staggering release and yet he still says there more to be had! :D Nuts to all those who said it couldnt be done! :p When this is done Im confident its going to be a fully playable (including the pickiest of you!) emulator! ;)

[Basil Zero]

man this is taking forever to download...lol

[Mattamore]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT !!!!!!!
Thank you !

[jinqui242]

I don't see an option to change the clockspeed. Is there one?

[Basil Zero]

there should be one

is the speed that everyone is saying that is resulting from 222 mhz or 333 mhz?

[Accordion]

upto 30 fps in the courtyard in mario 64

[Basil Zero]

30 FPS?!!! are u using the emu on 333 mhz or 222 mhz?

[Accordion]

i assume the emu runs at 333 by default.

i only get up to 30fps in the courtyard with the fountain, in super mario 64

[BL4Z3D247]

i assume the emu runs at 333 by default.

i only get up to 30fps in the courtyard with the fountain, in super mario 64
i can confirm, 30fps in the courtyard...amazing release :D

also does anyone else have green floors and things that are green that shouldn't be?(actually it looks like grass but on the inside of the castle?....weird)

[irishdoody]

Stunning improvement so far, so firstly my thanks.

Selected Game List Part One - (these were tested on the 1.50 version with the recommended setup from the release notes for maximum speed):

"Super Mario 64" is playable, with 15-20 frames per second on average. Quite a number of texture problems though, and either my PSP or this new release seems to want to send Mario right quite a bit without any controller input. Let me know if this is a problem common to everybody else.

"Nightmare Creatures" wouldn't work at all.

"Goldeneye" refuses to go past the Daedalus menu with the Start button pressed. It booted in R6 with the most amazing texture corruption. If somebody else could check this I'd be grateful.

"Harvest Moon 64 " runs with an almost bearable in-game framerate of seven per second (given that it is fairly slow anyway).

^Doody

[Raekwik11]

Oh Man this emulator has had the best improvements than the other w.i.p. emulators.
I know you can get full speed with a little work.

[Video_freak]

Wow. I can see major speed improvments from the replys. I can't wait to get my PSP shipped in to try this :)
Awesome work StrmnNrmn!

[felonyr301]

tryed zelda its a little faster well i little more bearable but lets talk about mario 64 i mean thats really playable most of the time on average im hitting 15 fps and more damn wish zelda was like that for this release ohh well better luck next time hmm let me try banjo kazooie been hooked on that game on my pc trying to beat it brb with the results.

[Video_freak]

One question to people with PSP's out there: does savegame work now :confused:

[felonyr301]

ohh zelda is like running about 5 or 6 fps most of time to me at the beginning and yes mario 64 has alot more texture weird stuff happening this time like the grass in the castle but hell look at the speed its running its amazing lol ohh and you should try to unzip the roms it loads faster dont know about the speed of the game though.

[felonyr301]

dont know i tryed to save on mario and checked my psp memory stick and it didnt put nothing in the save game folder but maybe it does havent tryed to play that game again.

[Man]

One question to people with PSP's out there: does savegame work now :confused:

I had save games working in R6, a least in mario64.
Ill check later, this is an awsome release.

[Video_freak]

thanks Man for for the reply ;)

[itaintmefoo]

I Love U Monkey I Want Ure Children

[Video_freak]

this is StrmnNrmn's work...

[irishdoody]

Selected Game List Part Two - (these were tested on the 1.50 version with the recommended setup from the release notes for maximum speed):

"Airboarders 64" - framerate of three to five per second. Something still satisfying about playing it though - textures problematic at the beginning, but you can still see what is going on mostly.

"Bomberman 64" - white border flickering at the side during opening menus. Game looked as if it had crashed at first...and then ended up really crashing with a Blue Screen of Death. Arrgghh - etc. etc.

"Bust-a-Move 2 - Arcade Edition" - figured this would be worth checking to see the strength of the 2-d emulation. UP TO 30 FRAMES PER SECOND AVERAGE and completely playable, bar an issue with the direction arrow for shooting. Really impressive. Do check it out.

^Doody

[Gene]

great release we're rootin for ya

[Kaiser]

All right R7. :D

I suppose its a good day to release my StrmnNrmn interview to the world.

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=32108

[salomon st]

rampage is at 30 fps ingame!!!!!

[delt31]

wow this is much faster - mario is playable

any way to put sound on?

[Baboon]

A fantastic release! :)

Mario Kart is quite a bit faster now. Super mario 64 is very playable. All star tennis runs well... but for some reason Spiderman doesnt work now (compared to R6), it loads the game but when you start the screen goes white and you cant see anything?

I'm loving this N64 on psp. Thank you soooo much.

[Zion]

Yes!! Great Work :D

[felonyr301]

banjo on the intro runs at like 2-3 fps but at least it looks ok the game well great release cant wait to see what else would be improved on the next one.

[Briggzy11]

Well its officially announced by me that Mario 64 is officially playable finally hehe and Resident Evil 2 does load up finally :)

[Video_freak]

Thanks for the info Briggzy ;). What's the average FPS while your playing in game?

[siulmagic]

great release srtm keep up the good work man wohoo time to test roms =D

[jOeBrO]

in mario 64 i'm getting an average of 13fps ingame and 30 fps max which is during the selection screen

i'm also usingthe PAL verison which makes things even more playable :D

great work!!

KEEP IT UP StrmnNrmn!!

[Video_freak]

PAL works faster? I'll keep that in mind... ;)

[DrNicket]

Forgive my ignorance, but how are we to achieve 333mHz clock speed? Through iRShell perhaps? How?
Can anyone come up with a guide to getting setup or a link to an already existing one?

[Video_freak]

I think it automatically uses 333 mhz and the media engine :confused:

[tophead420]

o snap its out lol looks likre imma need to clean sumtin of my mem stick l0l

[DrNicket]

PAL works faster? I'll keep that in mind... ;)

PAL is 24fps
NTSC is 29.97(30) fps

[NoQuarter]

I turned my clock speed up with IRSHELL and I believe the difference is very noticable.Try it yourself!
I repeat TURN YOUR CLOCK SPEED UP WITH IRSHELL!

[mike03$$$]

Does wwe no mecy work or wrestlemania 2000 or wcw vs. Nwo work

[jOeBrO]

PAL is 24fps
NTSC is 29.97(30) fps

drnicket are you talking about ingame?

cause deadalus emulates both at the same speed
the only reason that PAL runs faster is because the PAL version of games runs at 50fps max instead 60 fps
meaning that deadalus has -10fps to emulate when running a PAL game

[remansano]

I used Irshell clocked to 333 and made no difference... Mario Kart is going about 10-13fps

[Video_freak]

PAL is 24fps
NTSC is 29.97(30) fps
so NTSC is faster than :confused:

[NoQuarter]

Compare it with every clock speed from IRSHELL
333 definitly runs faster than 222

[jOeBrO]

so NTSC is faster than :confused:

no PAL is faster(read my above post)

[Video_freak]

one guy said NTSC was faster, and your saying PAL is gaster :confused:

[NoQuarter]

Mario64 100mhz:avg 5.5 fps
222 8.5
266 10.5
333 12.5
these are on the bob-omb level


Bear in mind this varies depending on the amount of action onscreen
I tested this from a standstill

[The_Ultimate_Eggman]

Great work still gonna wait for decnt fps cant be arsed wit hit stammering and juddering along.once again GREAT !!!!!

[jOeBrO]

the PAL version is faster than the NTSC because of the fact that deadalus only has to emulate 50 frames per second instead of 60(NTSC).

So if you were running mario 64 at 10fps on an NTSC version it would be running at 1/6 of fullspeed because it has to mantain a constant 60 frames per second to run fullspeed.

However, if you run a PAL version mario 64 at 10fps, it runs at 1/5 of fullspeed because a PAL version only needs a constant of 50 frames per second to maintain fullspeed. ;)

if you still dont understand there is a noticable difference when comparing them :)

[Video_freak]

i understand. i'll try them both anyways lol :)

[FrozenIpaq]

I'm dissappointed in you wrag, why are you bringing up the "competition" so much in your posts? I wrote the QJ/PSPU article and had it all written for when he did release it - You weren't the only one on Sourceforge looking for the download.

I took the time to make a video for our users to show two games on the emulator, so even if you beat the "competition", you had to sacrafice something - quality...

[NoQuarter]

Shadows of the empire crashed psp at lucas arts screen
I'll try changing some settings
nogo definite crash
We really do not need any site war crap on this thread please!

[jOeBrO]

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a50/jOeBrO/N64/sd0001.png

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a50/jOeBrO/N64/sd0000.png

here are some screens from how far i've gotten in mario 64 on the new version :D

[luis_05]

men!!! i jsut woke up and look what i missed!! ive been waiting for this for a long time!!! thanks dude

[Video_freak]

Thanks for the screenshots jOeBrO :)

[jOeBrO]

no problem i'm thinking about doing some ocarina of time screens if deadalus is able to run it

[NoQuarter]

Nice pics bro!

[jOeBrO]

well deadalus is running zelda ocarina of time at a max of 5fps but hey thats good enough for me :D

i'll be posting my most ingame screenshots when i dont feel like playing ti anymore ;) (or when it crashs lol)

[zaiser]

Thank you

[CalvinDu]

Check out the video released by PSPupdates

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBzTuhSJESM

Awesome stuff.

[Video_freak]

nice video CalvinDU ;)
We can clearly see R7 kicks ass :)

[Kvonx]

yes......yes it does

[NoQuarter]

Just think video freak this may be the emu that busts your new psp's cherry!

[wolfpack]

this is getting better and better... keep up the good work, we will enjoy this very very VERY VERY much

[PsychoSync]

Everybody is talking about using IrShell to change clockspeed to 333Mhz, isn't Daedalus already set to 333?

[Video_freak]

Just think video freak this may be the emu that busts your new psp's cherry!
may be? it WILL BE :D
(btw, it will be 48 hours since i ordered in like 5 hours and it still hasnt started shipping. the site says they usually ship within 24 hours :()

[NoQuarter]

I feel for ya bro.

[**1_Man_Matrix**]

I haven't tested this yet, but theoretically, wouldn't it be easier to boot Devhook and restart in 1.50 (Even if you already have it), except use 333 MHz instead?

[salomon st]

i cant get oot past the name screen...wat r ur settings??

[jOeBrO]

mine? i think i have dyna recompiler on but i'm not sure as it is only running at a max of 5fps and also i have all the setting off or disabled that slow the framerate down

[salomon st]

i turned off dyna rec and it now works

[pkmusicmaker]

It's funny how the best news of the day has the most boring posts. If all you can contribute is "awesome! yay! N64!" then why even post? If anything just thank him for making it. Uh oh, I'm being bitter :rolleyes:

[jOeBrO]

saloman what fps do you have? the same as me? around 5fps?

[the one and only]

lol, has any1 tried kirby 64, smash bros and majoras mask?
i'll probs try em l8r

[Kvonx]

For all those who luv soccer...........Superstar International Soccer runs at 30 frames alittle graphs problems but hey dats great!!!!!!!!!

[Kvonx]

lol, has any1 tried kirby 64, smash bros and majoras mask?
smash crashes..........not playable 4 me even though it was in earlier versions

[yobusta]

can somebody help me. i cant get the roms to run. They are still in zip format. I try to load them and it stalls at the black screen after pressing start at game settings screen. I am using roms already approved by others like banjo, super mario, and harvest moon.

help would be much appreciated

[Malksta]

Un-Zip it, .zip's dont work anymore

[SnoopKatt]

Woot :)

[yobusta]

Un-Zip it, .zip's dont work anymore

Thanx its working now.

Could someone make a new list of playable games

[felonyr301]

zip works but it takes long to load it and you need to have enough memory on your memory stick because it just unzips it by it self to your memory stick so if you dont have enough memory then it wont work so just unzip it and your better off.

[On The Rise]

the textures are messed up in super smash but it crashes when loading for battle.

[cartmandude14]

lol, has any1 tried kirby 64, smash bros and majoras mask?
i'll probs try em l8r
I tried smash and it wont load the main menu. Plus the intro has a lot of graphical errors

[dublas1980]

yyyyyyuuuuuuuuuuupppppppppiiiiiiii thank you so much for this R7 :D

[jOeBrO]

ok guys i got a little crazy with the screenshots :D
anyway mods plz forgive as there are a lot of them, 29 to be exact, i'm not posting all 29 though lol (unless someone says so)

here are the best of the screenshots i took:

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a50/jOeBrO/N64/sd0005.png
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a50/jOeBrO/N64/sd0007.png
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a50/jOeBrO/N64/sd0001-1.png
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a50/jOeBrO/N64/sd0010.png
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a50/jOeBrO/N64/sd0013.png
lol thats a purple rupee:p

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a50/jOeBrO/N64/sd0012.png
i really have 3 hearts... :o

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a50/jOeBrO/N64/sd0016.png
SLASH!!

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a50/jOeBrO/N64/sd0020.png
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a50/jOeBrO/N64/sd0023.png
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a50/jOeBrO/N64/sd0025.png
SLASH!!(again)

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a50/jOeBrO/N64/sd0028.png
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a50/jOeBrO/N64/sd0029.png

that last one was the most recent one i took. i was going to get a screenshot of slingshot view but it crashed on me as i was about to reach the slingshot chest... :eek: :confused: :(

anyway have fun looking at the pics i posted... i have all of them uploaded to photobucket if anyone wants to see the rest of them :D

EDIT: on a different note.... 100 POSTS YES!!!!!!!

[mike03$$$]

does the wwf no mercy work
wrestlemania 2000 wcw vs. nwo revenge works just send a message or reply

[wolfpack]

Best inprogress Emulator EVER!

[Cho Aniki]

I tried Sin and Punishment: Successor of the Earth (Tsumi to Batsu - Chikyuu no Keishousha (J) [!]) and it took about 10 minutes trying to beat the first level in the blind since not much had textures more than the enemies and the main character but on level 2 it was much more fun since the game had alot more textures , heres some pictures i took.

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5656/sd0000vu8.png
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/9881/sd0001tg4.png
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/1980/sd0002en2.png
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5382/sd0003oc5.png

This is one of the few n64 games that had a real arcade edge pity it came too late in n64 life.

[gr42178]

I had save games working in R6, a least in mario64.
Ill check later, this is an awsome release.

I can get it to save, but when I power down the save disappears. Anyone else having this problem?

[yobusta]

i have been hearing things about 222 and 333 which is better? and how do you switch between them.

[Video_freak]

I can get it to save, but when I power down the save disappears. Anyone else having this problem?
Me too :(

[stotheamuel]

wow im late.. just got it DAMN just in time for school tommarow :(

[yobusta]

has anybody played star fox 64. its actually playable.

[gsmumbo]

OMFG!!!!! wow. star fox is workin! it says like 7 or 8 fps but it seems almost perfect full speed. its totally playable. once u get past the cutscene(which on the regular n64 was long and annoying too), the game truley shines!

[BL4Z3D247]

I can get it to save, but when I power down the save disappears. Anyone else having this problem?
well i know in mario 64 when the save option pops up i hit save&continue, then after it saves press "select" and u'll see ur MS light blink a bit then ur done...hope this helped u out, u too Video Freak :D

[gsmumbo]

yeah, i didnt see ur post before i put that up. lol. sorry bout the excitement. thats my fav game

[Video_freak]

well i know in mario 64 when the save option pops up i hit save&continue, then after it saves press "select" and u'll see ur MS light blink a bit then ur done...hope this helped u out, u too Video Freak :D
thanks man it does ;)

[CalvinDu]

ok guys i got a little crazy with the screenshots :D
anyway mods plz forgive as there are a lot of them, 29 to be exact, i'm not posting all 29 though lol (unless someone says so)

here are the best of the screenshots i took:
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EDIT: on a different note.... 100 POSTS YES!!!!!!!

Nice screens dude! And congrats.

[Video_freak]

happy 100th post. i remember that day. (it was like three months ago believe it or not)
Daedalus rocks! WOOT! :D

[nyrtrublue]

tip my cap to strmn

btw nice shot joe bro that musta taken a while

[salomon st]

yeah serously i only got like 2.5 fps in oot cause i had to turn dynarec off and didnt get past cutscenes in the begining but that is my all time fav game EVER

[BL4Z3D247]

thanks man it does ;)
no problem dude, anytime :D...hey just to let everyone know i just got 13 stars in mario 64 with NO crashing, anyone else's mario 64 not crashing in R7?

[ACID]

Oh my god man i guess people where realy waiting for this turn my PC on and theres 14 pages already. Great work StrmnNrmn

[jOeBrO]

happy 100th post. i remember that day. (it was like three months ago believe it or not)
Daedalus rocks! WOOT! :D
Nice screens dude! And congrats.

thanks guys


tip my cap to strmn

btw nice shot joe bro that musta taken a while

oh yea it took me about 2 hours but it was worth it for those screenshots

[ACID]

yeah nice screens

[jOeBrO]

thanks acidburn :)

[ACID]

thanks acidburn :)
Hey since you have tested it now for houers witch games you found to play at better speed

[jOeBrO]

well.. this is just my speculation... but roms that are larger seem to run slower, my guess is because more of the RAM is used to store the rom.. i think this because:

Zelda: OoT - 32mb rom 5fps max
Mario 64 - 8mb rom 30fps max

but StrmnNrmn will have to tell you for sure

[ACID]

I notice that with larger games i was hopping to be able to play Zelda on the go

[jOeBrO]

yea but knowing StrmnNrmn he'll find a way to make it run at fullspeed,
plus if what i speculated is true.. then its probably just a matter of keeping the RAM free by streaming the larger roms into smaller pieces

[ACID]

I agree he should try to do what NJ does thats what he does with hes emus and they work great

[jOeBrO]

oh thats why his emus are faster than i expected....
hmm good to know

[kayhanbakid]

I tried Star Wars Episode I Racer and after 5 minutes of waiting something purple popped up for 1 second and I got excited but then it crashed. That's the game I most want to work.

I also tried WCW Nitro and got ingame somehow. The menus are not visible so they are almost impossible to navigate but this is what the game looked like.

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m239/yugioh12/sd0003.png

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m239/yugioh12/sd0002.png

I'm not a big wrestling fan anymore btw.

[Shilo]

Just tested R7, and I am really happy :D Keep up the good work StrmnNrmn!!!!!!!!!

[Festizzio]

I have a question: is there any way to return to the Daedalus menu from a game?

[BL4Z3D247]

I have a question: is there any way to return to the Daedalus menu from a game?
not yet he said it would probably be in the R8 release though

[Gazz021]

excellent update,keep up the good work.

[razorak]

oh boy!! i come back home and i see this piece of good news! gonna test it out now...

[teh21337]

nice emulator!!! =D thank for everypart of this emulater

[mat_dizzy]

you.. you are my god :P

Mario kart 64 is playable in my account, just came 1st on the first race, so give it a try! theres no memory leaking... yet!

[Addictedd]

awesome!

[Sharkey]

I got quite a few games to work. The only ones that seemed playable were Extreme g and the San Francisco Rush games. They were still slow with alot of graphical errors though.

Mortal Kombat Mythologies was also playable but for some reason the screen was upside down.

Good job Norman, can't wait for the next version. :)

[Jurgen]

Where can i get the roms ??

[grebn]

Here. (http://google.co.uk)

[mr_nick666]

Here. (http://google.co.uk)

/\ /\ LOL! :D You had me worried there! ;) This is the place to find everything! :p

[SmashinGit]

Great update, thanks alot.

[dejkirkby]

you can also find some here (http://www.yahoo.co.uk)

[rip_la]

i need a pal version of mario 64. can someone hook me up

[Panini]

this emulator is great.

Mario is now very playable.

Thank Q. :)

[jOeBrO]

i need a pal version of mario 64. can someone hook me up

just search google man

[QueadlunnRau]

My Jaw again has dropped ... I sit in awe at what happened this weekend

[mastersho]

I just want to sat to the coder of Daedalus Thank You so very much!! If not for you and other coders i would have tossed my PSP in the Trash. So thanks again for all your hard work and to making one the coolest emulatiors .

[brainpan]

Yeah, props to the homebrew scene. If it were not for PSP homebrew I'd probaly quit gaming. Honestly. I'm not even excited about the Wii anymore....

[kcajblue]

Oh Man this emulator has had the best improvements than the other w.i.p. emulators.
I know you can get full speed with a little work.

yeah. this emulator and the pspvba have been improving so much lately. i have to give props to StrmnNrmn & zx-81

[Video_freak]

me too. StrmnNrmn and ZX-81, you RULE the scene. :)

[Vega]

sweet enough

[ACID]

me too. StrmnNrmn and ZX-81, you RULE the scene. :)
Dont forget about our good man NJ:D

[Video_freak]

oh, thats right. i am SOOO sorry. i completly forgot about NJ! :o
i see you got a new avatar Acidburn :)

[ACID]

Yeah by crimson but it wont let me load the other pic

[Video_freak]

sure...go to crimson, not me :p lol

[jak66]

anyone tried zelda games, i have
couldn't get MM working
as for OOT, im inside deku tree ATM, will post screenshot when i get bored an switch off =P

[Xiro]

anyone tried zelda games, i have
couldn't get MM working
as for OOT, im inside deku tree ATM, will post screenshot when i get bored an switch off =P

well MM won't work because games that require the expansion pack dont work yet... and how is the speed in OOT? I have it on my psp but i figured that it wasnt even worth trying.

[jak66]

pretty much unplayable, like 3fps if your lucky, i just wanna say i got the 1st spiritual stone on a psp though
i thought the expansion pak thing was fixed this release? o well maybe in R8

[mcvader]

Link's house has no texture (just green poly's) when inside but walk outside and press start and it's there in the background of the pause menu, wierd...

[Mr. Shizzy]

I'm most impressed with the level of improvement, over the period of just 1 release! For the past month, every thing the nay-sayers said was was impossible seems to be happening. (2.6>>>1.5, CPS2, GBA, N64, and maybe even PSX) I'm just blown away. Much thanks to all who are making all these wonderful things happen!!! When I get home from work at night and scroll through PSP-NEWS to see what's new; it almost makes me feel like a kid getting ready to open Christmas presents again. CHEERS!

[cartmandude14]

Sony 1gb Ms with Nacho Libre mp4, My Super Ex-Girlfriend Mp4 and V for Vendetta Mp4
I dont like your piracy dejkirkby. Nacho Libre And My super ex Girlfreind are still in theaters!

[jak66]

Link's house has no texture (just green poly's) when inside but walk outside and press start and it's there in the background of the pause menu, wierd...

same as the shop, except shops yellow, not green

progress check: got the boomerang, gonna edit this post to show the screens, but as my pc only has 1 usb slot it means disconnecting the web :(

NOTE:the FPS in the screens are lying, it was about 2-3fps, not 0.6fps, its cause it gives you the exact fps when you leave the pause mode type thing (when you press select) which makes it lower as no screens pass after you press select reducing the FPS,
although i guess 2-3fps is still slow
anyway good work strmnnrmn

[Zion]

Nice screens :p

[Xiro]

i can't believe you made it that far. I booted up and to be honest i didnt even make it through the opening cutscene.

i also notice the .6 fps average in those screens, which must be god awful because i had 3 in the cutscene and i couldnt even stand that.

[ninja9393]

i can't believe you made it that far. I booted up and to be honest i didnt even make it through the opening cutscene.

i also notice the .6 fps average in those screens, which must be god awful because i had 3 in the cutscene and i couldnt even stand that.

ok i cant imagine how hard making a n64 emu is
and StrmmNrmm is working his ass off i bet


so give him some credit man

and like someone said on this thread(i dont remember who:p ) he is one of the main people who own the psp hombrew scene

[Festizzio]

I think I'll stick with OOT on my Gamecube for now.;) Still, love this emulator!

[Video_freak]

You have to admit that this is an AWESOME emulator that has come a long way. Thank you StrmmNrmm! :)

[Festizzio]

You have to admit that this is an AWESOME emulator that has come a long way. Thank you StrmmNrmm! :)
Yayuhz! Also you know what I was thinking earlier, how Zx-81 (awesome coder) keeps saying that full speed gba on psp is not possible, and yet here we are with StrmnNrmn who says he plans to get N64 to full speed with sound. it probably has something to do with the gba's hardware specs; i respect Zx-81 a lot, and I use PSPVBA all the time, but it seems like the attitudes in the homebrew scene aren't consistent...i don't think i actually have a point, but it was just something i was thinking about.:)

[Video_freak]

ZX-81 said he could get close to full speed GBA emulation. :D

[Festizzio]

ZX-81 said he could get close to full speed GBA emulation. :D
Ahh, very good then

[Video_freak]

Way good enough for me. And if Daedalus somehow get's close to full speed, that will make my PSP homebrew dreams come true :D

[BL4Z3D247]

Yayuhz! Also you know what I was thinking earlier, how Zx-81 (awesome coder) keeps saying that full speed gba on psp is not possible, and yet here we are with StrmnNrmn who says he plans to get N64 to full speed with sound. it probably has something to do with the gba's hardware specs; i respect Zx-81 a lot, and I use PSPVBA all the time, but it seems like the attitudes in the homebrew scene aren't consistent...i don't think i actually have a point, but it was just something i was wondering.:)
yeh it has to do with the specs, N64's specs are more similar to the PSP's specs than GBA is, it's like trying to shove clothes in a suitcase, N64's "clothes" fit in the suitcase(the PSP), but there are twice the amount of "clothes" for GBA, so it's harder to pack :D...i know that i probably could have explained it better but i'm not a coder :p

[Festizzio]

Way good enough for me. And if Daedalus somehow get's close to full speed, that will make my PSP homebrew dreams come true :D
I know what you mean :D Also:


I want to get to the point where the most popular dozen or so roms are running at full speed with sound and no compatibility problems. I'd also like to see much higher compatibility across all roms in general (including
graphical issues and save game support) There's a lot of work to do before I get to that point, but Daedalus will get closer to that goal with every incremental release.

That made my day :D

[chronicfuture12]

I know what you mean :D Also:



That made my day :D
Multiply that by 2

[QueadlunnRau]

i can't believe you made it that far. I booted up and to be honest i didnt even make it through the opening cutscene.

i also notice the .6 fps average in those screens, which must be god awful because i had 3 in the cutscene and i couldnt even stand that.

Yo I don't mind the speed, I know he will keep working on it and it will get faster ... even if he has games only working at 25fps, dat's something to CHEER about!!! I mean seriously we are lucky to have talented people working hard on these ports.

Plus if you are glass half full kinda guy, think of the low fps as a cheat, as you can fight faster and react better to action games!

[gr42178]

How can you tell if your rom is the PAL version or the NTSC version?

[devilmob]

use GoodN64, it renames the roms so you can know the region, if it is a overdump, a baddump, etc.

[felonyr301]

whats the big deal with pal or ntsc to me it doesnt make a difference just cause one is made to run in 50 fps and the other 60 fps doesnt necessarily mean it will be noticeably better especially at this stage of the emulator. correct me if im wrong guys if only the person can provide proof.

[Kramer]

Hey everyone here are some saves for zelda that were posted by sroon a while back. They will let you skip the intro and you will be able to play with the dynarec on. :D

To use them just put them in the savegames folder inside Daedalus plus you will have to rename your rom to Zelda64.rom

[ACID]

Nice will have to try them.

[SpacemanSpiff]

I didn't have any problems getting through the intro to Zelda with dynarec on :confused:. Although after the intro finished it paused for about 20 seconds but after that I was able to play.

[ACID]

Is Zelda playable at a good speed

[Kramer]

nah zelda is too slow it plays at a max of 6fps for me

[817CH]

Omg i have the daedalus download thing but I keep getting a currupt error

[Video_freak]

if your using 1.5, you put Daedalus and Daedalus% in GAME (which is supposed to be in PSP). this only works for 1.5.

[ACID]

Omg i have the daedalus download thing but I keep getting a currupt error
Do you have 2.0 or 1.50

[felonyr301]

i had that before i just reformatted my memory stick but remember it erases everything so make a back up of whatever you have thats valuable if its not also corrupted and just install it again after formatting the memory stick well if you put the right file for the right firmware.

[felonyr301]

ohh yea just reminder cause i see 1 post as in newbie if you have 2.71 or higher firmware psp than you cant run it.

[salomon st]

i cant get that savegame to work

[Kramer]

did you rename your rom to Zelda64.rom

[salomon st]

and i cant even get to the intro on oot i have dynarec enabled that frame check thing disabled and the large tris off and i am displaying framerate

[salomon st]

nvm i got it to work and i just renamed it to .rom but it doesnt see the savegame

[BL4Z3D247]

nvm i got it to work and i just renamed it to .rom but it doesnt see the savegame
rename the saved game to what u renamed ur rom to

[salomon st]

o ok_________________

[Video_freak]

thanks for helping newbs out Blazed247 :)

[salomon st]

yes thank you

[BL4Z3D247]

no problem it's my nature :), plus we're all newbs at something sometime or another

[salomon st]

http://www.pj64.net/main/download/func,fileinfo/id,89/


check this out 100% complete :)

[Video_freak]

Nice. Thanks for the link salomon st ;)

[salomon st]

sure thing i havent tried it yet but it should work

[salomon st]

damn it didnt work

[817CH]

yea but the problom is that every time i copy the the daedalus and daedalus% it from V1.5 and send it to GAME, it always says that it still currupted? That i dont understand. Oh, by the way i kan see the logo but i kant play the game.

[salomon st]

i renamed my savegame to .rom and it didnt work

[817CH]

Hey u guys, what version do u have for the psp?

[salomon st]

r7 my psp is 1.5 :)

[Mr.Denny]

Fantastic release!!



But Body Harvest doesn`t work :(

[Baboon]

Super Man the animated series looks pretty good now, iits not that fast, but it is playable. :)

It may not be the best game, but the most playable game I've tried so far is Rampage (I think someone else posted this to be running at 30fps too). Apart from the lack of sound this game looks and plays pretty much spot on. :)

[D0N]

Excellent work StrmnNrmn! Keep it up!

[Video_freak]

Daedalus is getting so good. I hope StrmnNrmn realizes his dream and get's it to work full speed for a couple of ROMs :)

[817CH]

How do u downgrade PSP from 2.8 to 1.5? Seriously need help!!!!!

[mastersho]

Can't donwgrade to 1.5 from 2.8 yet man. Sorry man!

[Video_freak]

There just aren't any 2.8 downgraders yet. Stay on the lowest possible firmware and maybe you'll get lucky one day. :)

[mastersho]

you know it. i did the upgrade/ downgrade for 1.52 to 2.00 and back to 1.5 all for the ability to plat snes games. I love nintendo and i like sony. Nintendo forever!

[Video_freak]

you know it. i did the upgrade/ downgrade for 1.52 to 2.00 and back to 1.5 all for the ability to plat snes games. I love nintendo and i like sony. Nintendo forever!
lol, i'm glad you like the emulators for PSP :)

[CheeseSlayer]

I'm only getting 8 FPS average on SM64. And it won't save. O_o

[Video_freak]

I finally tried it this afternoon, and I must say that it's MUCH better than when I was playing with Daedalus in June. Keep up the amazing work StrmnNrmn :)

[BL4Z3D247]

go to settings and turn off the "tesselate tris" and the go to rom selection the select SM64 and make sure the following is correct on ur psp...Save type u can't change but its at "Eeprom4k", Expansion Pak "No", Dynamic Recomplilation "Enabled", Texture update check "Disabled" if everything is on these settings u should get about 12-20 fps(depending on where u are)

[Cho Aniki]

I tried Wonder Project J 2 (Jap) and its possibly one of the best working games in Daedalus , maybe cause its 2d.

http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/8211/sd0000vh5.png
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/1632/sd0001yt1.png
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/1500/sd0002ms6.png
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/9611/sd0003zh0.png
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/9373/sd0004qd9.png
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/7338/sd0005zx7.png
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/7484/sd0006bv7.png

[Video_freak]

How do you take screenshots in Daedalus and Devhook?
Also, i just tried Mario 64 with the "tesselate tris" setting off, and it's amazing. :eek:

[BL4Z3D247]

How do you take screenshots in Daedalus and Devhook?
Also, i just tried Mario 64 with the "tesselate tris" setting off, and it's amazing. :eek:
that's why i have been playing it for 2 going on 3 days :D, and as far as screenys go for Daedalus u press "select" and hit "square" and devhook i think it's the "note button" or that could be the custom fw...i forgot lol

[m0dm0use]

Dexteniod 15fps
mario kart 1st race psp crashed duringmid-air jump over a smallisland over water top fps 13.25
forumlar 1 Pol-Position froze b 4 getting into the gameat 8.01fps
blast corps (v1.1)
n64 logo appears slow framerate crash shows final fps at 0.64
All star tennis menu 19.9998 max ingame 26 min 12fps

all star baseball fails to load any setting combo used psp crashes
astriod hyper 642fps
ataxx 3.34fpsmax
automobile lambogenuimenu flickers 6.78fps ingame same problem 5.63 max 6.35fps

banjo kazo N logo 8-9fps 6.48-8fps intro video speed 2nd video after intro video 6-13.35fps
flying broom fps 10.81
2.881t ingame video
batman beyond logo appears but doesnt reach menu memory stick flashes then psp crashes 27.22
transformers beast wars in menu 7-9fps
got in game want playable psp crashesas soo as it got to a plable stage
bio freaks psp shuts down imiadiatly
body harvest 6.27 psp froze
bomberman 65 intor videos gets no further than the bomomber man name logo intro inside shows 15, snow 11, brick 9, space 18-25
bomberman hero 28-30 l8r part of the viddeo 16-20 30.28 menu gets no futher
callifornai speed freezes at menu no ingame
castlevania froe straght brown box purple inside no futher than 3 secinds
carmilion twist contoler error message gets no futher
chopper attack 8-14fps draw distance issue but lot of detail shown for close up objects

clayfighers ingame 7fps
crusin errotica txt flickers gets no in game or pre ingame menus
usa crash at 0.78fps mini yellow text of 1st page in game
world gets into the menu then crashes
cyber tyger 1st page then freezes
destruction derby stuck at saves choice otpion then
disy kong in game 10fps purle blue
purple whier item place holders are

tarzan 29.97 in menu 15.87fps top speed iname 10.95 lowest ingame average and main;ly 11.99

dr mario menu all purple 12-14fps
duck dodgers text loads then crahses
duke nuken 4.88 fps tops pic of fire on box 4.44 actual in gae spedd

excite bike 64
no game load
extreem G 8.15 tops in game average 7.18

bio freaks psp shuts down
body harvest 6.27 psp froze

[calebg]

SOMEBODY ON PSP UPDATES PUT IN THE CODE AND MADE HIS PRE R8 IT DOES RUN FASTER AND IN MARIO IN THE STAR SELECT SCREEN IT GOES TO 70 FPS


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eboot of daedalus recompiled with sceCtrlPeekBufferPositive.

OBS.: no zip support, no png support since zlib and lib png is missing in my environment.

frameskip = 1
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[JD/]

hmm does anyone know how to save zelda i downloaded a save from here but i dont know how to make my own :( can anyone help?

[New007]

how do you change the framerate to 333 from 222 in mario 64

[New007]

and one more thing, has anybody gotten goldeneye to get to the menu screen, i can't get it to load? sorry if this has already been talked about... i've been on vacation

[Voorhees]

wtf this thing is awsome, ;I anyone tried super smash bros ? if, how did it run? when this thing is done it will really ultra rule. n64 in the palm of your hand!

[ICE]

can someone either pm me a link to a web page to get the mario 64 rom or just email it to me?? everywhere i go says "esa protected" or its not even on the list of roms. stupid nintendo protecting its games............

[mandeep22]

Hello well first of all eloader for my TA082 itself was relief because someone was atleast making something for this UNHACKABLE psp.

Daedalus r7 is good i got zelda map quest working at fps 15
octrina of time to 10 fps
castlevania 2 wont work
mario smash bros wont work
star wars rougue sqaudron wont work


but overall the change has begun what a magnificiant effort from the daedalus guy

[tsurumaru]

Hello well first of all eloader for my TA082 itself was relief because someone was atleast making something for this UNHACKABLE psp.

Daedalus r7 is good i got zelda map quest working at fps 15
octrina of time to 10 fps
castlevania 2 wont work
mario smash bros wont work
star wars rougue sqaudron wont work


but overall the change has begun what a magnificiant effort from the daedalus guy

Hi Mandeep22,

Just so you are aware the latest version to be released is R8 so check it out (search the forums for the download). There won't be sound for a few releases yet, R9 (the next one due) will have more graphical fixes, a little more speed, and a proper menu/GUI.

Regards.