Daedalus PSP WIP News

[wraggster]

StrmnNrmn posted this update in our PSP News Forum

<blockquote>Ok, brief update time! I've been working on rewriting the dynamic recompiler from scratch for the PSP. A few months ago I started writing a PSP port of the original dynarec, but I quickly realised that I'd need to take a whole new approach if I wanted it to fit in memory on the PSP. If you've not heard of dynarec before it's basically a way of speeding up the emulator by recompiling the rom's code for the target platform (i.e. the PSP) rather than interpreting instructions one by one.

I'm basically using the same approach that HP used on their Dynamo dynamic optimiser (I talk about it a bit more here: http://strmnnrmn.blogspot.com/). The cool thing about this approach compared to my original attempt is that it uses far less memory - I think I will be able to get it running in less than 1MB ram, compared to around 10MB that the PC version used.

I've still got a lot of work to do before the dynarec is actually usable, but I'm hoping to release another build sometime over the weekend with a bunch of additional graphics fixes. In the mean time I'll try to post a few more progress updates on the site above.</blockquote>

[tedou]

the link he's dead

[Shapyi]

http://strmnnrmn.blogspot.com/

There was a ")" in the actual link. But this is great news. I can't wait to see where this project goes.

[BALL_SAC]

OOO MANN!!! I cant wait for the next realease

[gtgpeople]

very nice i also can't wait for next realease

[felonyr301]

i cant wait keep up the good work mate and very soon there will be a handsome donation very soon my friend very soon

[tedou]

he's the best coder lol

[drew4237]

no he just ported it from the pc to the psp psmonkey is coding it for the psp originally. i am not saying that this is awesome that he got it to work it is just that psnomkeys emu will be better

[Sharkey]

I'm not sure about all the technical mumbo jumbo, but it sounds like you have some new tricks, it may turn out better than originally planned.
Great work, thanks for the update.

Also, could you guys drop the comparisons between the 2 emus?
We all know the details of both and we don't need to be repeatedly reminded.
Just let both guys do there own thing.

I honestly could care less who thinks what emu is better, I'll be the judge of that myself.

Now, see if we can stay on topic.

[NeoXCS]

Originally Posted by drew4237
no he just ported it from the pc to the psp psmonkey is coding it for the psp originally. i am not saying that this is awesome that he got it to work it is just that psnomkeys emu will be better

Well strmnnrmn did create the original Daedalus. He is also making a dynamic recompiler so that it will run specially for the PSP. We'll just hafta watch to see how it goes. I believe it will do good!