What is the Daedalus code?

[kharaboudjan]

I do agree with the fact that any emulator made for the PSP from scratch will perform better than one just ported. But to say, "i dont believe anyone can do a port equally great as a new written emu..." is not necessary true. We have seen amazing emulators like snes9xtyl achieve quality that could match just about any other snes emulator made from scratch for PSP.

Well i agree what u say besides 1 thing.. there are many people who wonders why snes9xtyl is much much slower than gpsp even though gba is a harder platform to emulate.. and besides the ppl behind snes9xtyl have said after their last release that they probably could get like 5 % more speed of the emu.. that not much indeed ^^

I mean there are too many games that need 2-4 framskips.. so im 100 % sure that a snes emu could be done better than the one we got now..

and remeber im NOT saying the snes9xtyl is bad.. i have been enjoying that emu since it was firstly released.. but it feels just old and slow nowadays

im just curius how great the SNES system (or the N64) could be done if a superb coder like Exohpase did it!

[psiko_scweek]

Strmnnrmn is doing a great job on the N64 emulator. Yes, it is a port of the PC emulator of the same name, that he was a developer for. Now, the emulator itself is basically going through a major rewrite (hence the different releases) and is not staying the original PC emulator, so you could simply just say it is being written basically FOR the PSP and is no longer just a port.

Monkey64 by PSMonkey IS a N64 emulator written from the ground up for the PSP and it shows. Compare that to the port of Nincest and you can see that there is a major difference if you design a emulator for the platform it is running on.

I agree though, an SNES emulator written for the PSP alone would run better than SNES9Xtyl. But seeing as how good that emulator runs, i doubt we will see a SNES emulator written exclusively for the PSP like we did for the GBA.

The GBA emulator is also proof enough. It was written with the PSP in mind and is not a port of VisualBoyAdvance as the other GBA emulators were and it shows, the gpSP emulator at version 1 out performed all the other GBA emulators hands down even with sound enabled. And with revisions here and there, of course the speed went up as well as the compatibility.

Im thinking we should try and get more emulators ported to the PSP of consoles that we dont have, or that are not emulated fully, such as the Jaguar.

~psiko

[throughsilver]

Well i agree what u say besides 1 thing.. there are many people who wonders why snes9xtyl is much much slower than gpsp even though gba is a harder platform to emulate..

I'm no coder, but I wonder if that is strictly true. Sure, the hardware is about a decade more recent, but the SNES had all those custom chips and 'modes' that I'm sure would make emulation an arse. That would explain why Mario Kart Advance runs far more easily than Super Mario Kart, despite the eight-year difference between the two.

The GBA emulator is also proof enough. It was written with the PSP in mind and is not a port of VisualBoyAdvance as the other GBA emulators were and it shows, the gpSP emulator at version 1 out performed all the other GBA emulators hands down even with sound enabled. And with revisions here and there, of course the speed went up as well as the compatibility.

That reminds me: do Marios Tennis and Golf work yet?

Im thinking we should try and get more emulators ported to the PSP of consoles that we dont have, or that are not emulated fully, such as the Jaguar.

Heartily agreed. I need access to Tempest 2000 on my PSP screen. Plus, the Jag can't be *that* hard to emulate... can it?

[joshisposer]

This might be a little difficult, but i would like to see maybe 32x or MegaCD from sega. I like to see systems that aren't popular cause normally they look pretty good. I loved the spider man for 32x, it looked pretty neat. I know it wouldn't be easy but it would be cool.