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Homebrew dev hoopla with StrmnNrmn: a Daedalus R9 FAQ

Posted Feb 11, 2007 at 11:54AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Homebrew Development, Homebrew Emulators, Emulators Tags: Daedalus, psp homebrews, StrmnNrmn

Daedalus R9... coming before Feb 25? - Image 1

Ever since StrmnNrmn pulled a mighty comeback and revealed an agonizingly teaser of a changelog for the R9 version of his homebrew N64 emulator Daedalus, everyone in the homebrew scene has been talking about it. You gotta hand it to the guy: he has achieved audio support for the next version. And to top it off, he followed it up with a chart showing the speed boost framerates of certain N64 games.

He's gotten a lot of feedback from people (including the usual "first postz!!1onezyeah"), and it goes without saying that some people have been asking questions about its development. For example, most have been asking about the possibility of moving the audio processing over to the ME, however he says he's not too familiar with the ME structure yet, so he's yet to look more into it.

He's also answered a couple of questions about an in-game menu, viewport scaling, and screen size ratios. To these, he answers with:

I'm currently working on the in game menu - this is the last main thing I want to squeeze into R9. With this you'll be able to change the screen size while the rom is running, as well as a few other things (toggle audio on/off, swap controls etc). I doubt that knocking the screen size down will help the framerate all that much, as the framerate is still largely limited by the cost of CPU emulation rather than rendering.

When asked about the possibility of incorporating frame skipping into the emulator, he says that with audio support functional, frame skipping makes that much more sense and that he might be able to pack it into R9. As for running Daedalus on 300mhz, it won't really matter since the numbers in the previous charts already show it running at maximum clock frequency.

With technical jargon and homebrew dev hoopla, we now introduce... the Q&A portion:

Are the rom files you are using zipped or unzipped? Will the extensions of the rom files even matter anymore?

I was using unzipped rom files. The extension shouldn't matter, provided it's recognised (.v64, .z64, .rom etc) Daedalus should always figure out the correct thing to do with a given rom. I suggest you use a tool like RomCenter to manage the naming of all your roms, and extract them to the roms directory on your PSP as required.

Will expansion pack be implemented in your blessed R9?

The expansion pack should already be supported: 'Expansion Pak: Yes' in the Rom Settings screen (just before the rom launches). If it's not working, it's a bug, and it'll be easy to fix.

Have you always been able to add audio support? Or did you hold it back because of the slow framerate?

I've been holding off because of the framerate - I just thought it would sound horrible. The framerate is still a limiting factor with audio support, I'll talk a bit more about this soon.

Is there any official way to support your work? Either through paypal donations or whatever?

No, not currently. To be honest, I'm a bit uncomfortable about accepting money for this. Financial reward has never been a motivating factor for me, I do this because it's an interesting project with lots of juicy technical problems to solve. If I was to ever accept donations, it would be for a specific goal (e.g. if I broke my development psp and it needed replacing, or to pay for hosting/bandwidth etc).

The best update possible for R9 is an icon for the PSP menu.

Yes, I know :) I do like the Pochi Style icons. I emailed him asking for permission to use them with Daedalus, if I get the go ahead I'll bundle them with R9 by default.

Thanks to StrmnNrmn for shedding some light on what we can expect for R9 (and some possible peek into an R10, even). But while that's all and good, the biggest question on everyone's mind right now is its release date. He's answered this with a note that he's going on a week-long skiing trip on the 25th, and he'd hope to release R9 before then.

Time to notch those calendars, folks. Christmas happens on the month of hearts.

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# erm.... — DevilGun 2007-02-12 04:00

...first..w00t?!...blaaaa

# huuuu — Guest 2007-02-12 04:58

DUde, are you on crack or something! what the hell are you talking about

# OMG — Guest 2007-02-12 05:12

FERST REPLY TO SECOND POST OMG OMG I BET EVERYONE LOVES ME NOW

# Wyxasy — Guest 2007-02-12 09:27

WTF

# Stupid — god0fgod 2007-02-12 10:07

These comments come together as one big argument lol. Yay not too long now. unless he goes on that ski trip before then.

# Amazing — Guest 2007-02-12 10:11

I'm wondering if some games will work on R9 that didn't on R8 like Worms Armagedden.

P.S. Has anyone notice tha almost every post has no stars on it. I smell a star spammer. I guessing I'll be a 1star soon too, WEE~~

# Amazing — Guest 2007-02-12 10:12

# 1st — Guest 2007-02-12 10:16

first post! ya!

# nice work — nitro0oxxx 2007-02-12 10:53

keep it up soon it will be perfect

# 1st post, *****es! — Gam3Guy 2007-02-12 11:08

When are they gonna release the damn good looking emu?

# kigsd — Guest 2007-02-12 11:13

I havent owned a PSP game in so long. In fact I never have to thanks to BitTorrent. So whose being dupped now? Oh yeah thats right, Im also playing homebrew on it for FREE! Excuses while I go play Metroid Zero Mission on my PSP. ;)

# FIRST — Guest 2007-02-12 11:16

FIRST TO AWNSER FIRST POST. BOOYA ***** YOU AMERICA.

# ahhhhhh!!! — Guest 2007-02-12 11:26

nth!!!!11!1!!111oneoneelven

zomg!!! w00t jou n00bs

# loser — Guest 2007-02-12 11:56

lol.. so did i

# this one better be good...... or else! — Guest 2007-02-12 12:00

this one better be good its about time this lazy hobo did some god damn work on his *****ing project. I mean, for christs sake hurry it up ass hole.... ur taking like 2 years just to get it up 1 fps.

# FIRST NO — Guest 2007-02-12 12:02

NO NO NO

IT GOES LIKE THIS:

OH WELL IT SEEMS I HAVE BEEN FIRED

WELL YOU KNOW WHAT AMERICA

FUUCKKK YOOOUUU!

# hellz ya! — Guest 2007-02-12 12:33

1st post!!!!!!!!!!! 11111111111!!!!!!!!!!! lolrz!!!111!!!!

# LOL...... — Guest 2007-02-12 13:14

Whats funny is this guy can almost get N64 Playable at a reasonable framerate Sony Got Playstation working at a almost perfect framerate yet the geniuses cant even make a SNES emulator that plays games like Bahamut Lagoon,Star Ocean,Tales of Phantasia and Yoshi's Island at a reasonable playable FPS i just think its kind of sad on the dev's behalf

# upgrade — Guest 2007-02-12 13:26

theres a 100% chance hes going to make it 1.5 enabled but seriously update to 3.10 oe a its easy if you really wanted to brick it you have to be mental unless you mess with the prx files of dont follow the read me text

# about R9 — Guest 2007-02-12 13:33

this is great news for me my friends have been saying that mario 64 is slow on the psp but i respond with what does the ds have.......NOTHING on the other hand we can play psp games psone games and all of ds games and alot of homebrew and noe we get audio and better framerate support so now i really gonna rub it in there face!!!!KEEP THE GOOD WORK UP StrmnNrmn you rock

# what the **** — Guest 2007-02-12 13:38

you neeed help man if you wanna talk down on homebrew and Dark_Alex then dont come to this website with it

# eh — Guest 2007-02-12 14:29

he should release the source code so that people who are familiar with the ME can help out with it, 2 heads are better than 1 after all

# 47!!!!! — Guest 2007-02-12 15:22

47!!!!!!!!!!!!

# BORED — Guest 2007-02-12 15:42

MY NAME IS BORED

# Hmmm — Guest 2007-02-12 16:18

Eucharius is a conspiracy theorist crying Wolf or that the Sky is falling, although his rantings do make sence. I wouldn't discount the concept however.

"The Art of War" engages in much of the same strategicle tactics. Creating non existent enemies to proliferate ones own base.

# Correction — Guest 2007-02-12 16:24

PSP Cannot Emulate DS but i think u meant GBA anyways which yes almost all GBA games can be played full speed on PSP

# hmmm — Guest 2007-02-12 16:28

quote: "we can play psp games psone games and all ds games". DS games on PSP? Since when? I want some of what "Who" is smoking.

# Source Code — Guest 2007-02-12 17:29

Ummm... He kinda already released the src. Daedalus is a Windows emulator, he just ported it. He was forced to release it.

# omg — Guest 2007-02-12 17:38

*****ing xmas before we have this n64 emu its gonna be 40 years old!

# idiots — Guest 2007-02-12 20:02

these guys probably have their mum as theyre best friend or dont have any social life but pissing others off

# ooops — Guest 2007-02-12 20:07

i got my grammer wrong (i probably spelt grammer wrong) with theyre should be their.

i dont wan't to be one of those dumbass's who spl lik dis u stupd 5hits

# to bad — Guest 2007-02-12 21:54

its to bad that you cannot run the roms on full speed.

But it is cool that you finally achieved audio support!

# custom firmware — Guest 2007-02-13 00:59

hey joe you should upgrade there is a forum topic about upgrading to 3.03 OE-C but the concept for upgrading to 3.10 OE-A is exactly the same

# kool — Guest 2007-02-18 09:54

this is going to be awsome. keep up the great work!

# FIRST!!!!! — Guest 2007-02-21 07:57

FIRST COMMENT!!!! WHAT NOW!?!?!?

# get it — Guest 2007-02-25 14:44

this is definetly a must. get it now!!!

# where to place src files on psp — Guest 2007-03-01 10:57

where do i place my src files on my psp please help :(

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